computer anxiety as a kind of state anxiety that refer to “the negative emotional and cognitive reactions in some people that occur during work with the computer” and maybe considered as a challenge to their capabilities. in the present study, computer anxiety and positive and negative attitudes to it were examinated among undergraduate students of kangavar payam-e-noor university. this descrip...

I have participated in many conversations about achievement gaps and retention in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education over the years. Within these conversations, a common observation is that biology is a more equitable STEM discipline because we have an abundance of women in the field. While the presence of women is certainly a prerequisite step toward gender equi...

Leading voices in the biological sciences have called for a transformation in graduate education leading to the PhD degree. One area commonly singled out for growth and innovation is cross-training in computational science. In 1998, the University of Tennessee (UT) founded an intercollegiate graduate program called the UT-ORNL Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology in partnership with...

AIM To determine whether the medical school grades of today's professors at the Zagreb University School of Medicine could serve as the predictors of their subsequent academic success. METHODS We performed a retrospective descriptive study of medical school grades of professors and/or assistant professors at the Zagreb University School of Medicine from 1990 to 2003. The professors were divid...

For the past three decades, much attention has been focused on developing diversity programs designed to improve the academic success of underrepresented minorities, primarily in mathematics, science, and engineering. However, ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in science majors and careers. Over the last 10 years, the Biology Scholars Program (BSP), a diversity program at the University...

Professor, Behavioral Sciences Dept., Rush University Medical Center, Chicago Director, Biological Rhythms Research Laboratory, Rush University Medical Center Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences Dept., Rush University Medical Center, Chicago Associate Director, Biological Rhythms Research Laboratory, Rush University Medical Center Corresponding author for proofs and reprints: Charmane I. E...

this study explored nominalized expression types in an applied linguistics book and a biology book as 2 distinct disciplines. the books were carefully read, the nominalized expression types were identified, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually chi-square was administered. results revealed no significant difference in using nominalization. furthermore, the den...