BACKGROUND A previous study found marked differences in smoking between employees in various university faculties in Tartu, Estonia, soon after the disruption of communism. The present study was conducted to see whether such differences still exist and how the patterns had changed during the country's first transitional decade. METHODS All employees at the University of Tartu (UT) were survey...

Objective: After passing of the National Competency-based Learning Objectives Catalogue in Medicine (Nationaler Kompetenzbasierter Lernzielkatalog Medizin, [NKLM, retrieved on 22.03.2016]), the German medical faculties must take inventory and develop their curricula. NKLM contents are expected to be present, but not linked well or sensibly enough in locally grown curricula. Learning and examina...

BACKGROUND University students are especially vulnerable towards substance abuse AIM To describe and compare drug consumption in students of a Chilean university who attended first and fourth year of studies, according to gender and faculty. MATERIAL AND METHODS A representative, stratified and proportional sample of 305 students was randomly chosen by faculty, career, grade and gender duri...

During the Middle Ages it was widely believed that the various mental faculties-sensation, cognition, memory, and so forth-were each located in a specific part of the three ventricles that were thought to be housed in the brain. The origin of this scheme was commonly attributed to the ancient scholars, but it was rare for a specific individual to be identified as the originator. Modern research...

Article History: Received 12.05.2011 Received in revised form 04.08.2012 Accepted Tarih girmek için burayı tıklatın. Available online 02.04.2012 The purpose this study was to investigate academic self-concept and academic achievement among university students. The academic self-concept information among university students was collected using the Liu and Wang (2005) academic self-concept scale ...

Aims: It is necessary to design some comprehensive questionnaires with generable questions explaining the main variables of the test in order to use students' views efficiently for the evaluation of academic staffs' performance. So, the aim of the present study was to examine the reliability and validity of the academic staffs' evaluation by students' questionnaire. Methods: This survey researc...

This cross-sectional study addresses 130 nursing faculty members in federal universities from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It investigated the psychological demands and decision latitude (the Demand-Control Model by Karasek) and their association with Minor Psychological Disorders (MPDs). The Brazilian versions of the Self-Report-Questionnaire-20 and the Job Stress Scale were used. MPDs were prev...

comparison of mula sadra’s epistemology theory and virtual epistemology theories of zagzebski and platinga infers that the former’s theory can be categorized as a virtual epistemology. platinga believes in virtue of forming faculties and zagzebski believes in function of intellectual power in forming episteme. in fact, both of them believe is some aspects of the elements effective in formation ...

This study tested for differences between instructors in three college faculties in the frequency with which they exhibited various classroom teaching behaviors, and in the correlation of these behaviors with perceived teaching effectiveness. Trained observers assessed the frequency of 95 classroom teaching behaviors shown by 124 teachers in the arts and humanities, the social science, and the ...