Aims: To determine the relationship between locus of control and academic achievement in English language, interest Mathematics, Mathematics.
 Study Design: The study adopted correlational survey design
 Place Duration Study: Secondary schools Anambra state, Nigeria.
 Methodology: Disproportionate stratified sampling technique was used to select a sample size 2,160 students from ...

BACKGROUND Media coverage of medical research influences the views and behaviours of clinicians, scientists and members of the public. We examined how frequently commenters in news stories about medical research have relevant expertise and have academic and financial conflicts, how often such conflicts are reported and whether there are associations between the conflicts and the disposition of ...

Medical informatics, as scientific discipline, has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care. While the field of Medical informatics shares the general scope of these interests with some other health care specialities and disciplines, Medical (Health) informatics has developed its own areas of em...

While this volume has been structured around three key themes, reflecting key research interests of Colin’s over the years, what has clearly emerged is the enormous influence Colin has had, at a range of levels and degrees of pervasiveness, on the thinking of many people. Our title, Taxonomic Tapestries, evokes Colin’s legacy in a number of ways with Kelley and Sussman’s (2007) paper on academi...

Social interest: the new challenge of health sector and academic achievement Undoubtedly the most valuable asset of any society is its manpower. Among the most critical factors for success in all areas, institutions and organizations, including industrial, office, service and training is that healthy relationships are based on cooperation and solidarity among community members. Mental health o...

The common law of England has consistently affirmed a doctrine of bodily integrity which makes no distinction between degrees of violence and prohibits unauthorised touchings. The evolution of the laws of assault and battery into a coherent legal doctrine affirming and protecting patient autonomy in medical treatment is nonetheless of relatively recent origin and remains flawed in its detail. T...

Due to the existence of information overload in social networks, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to find useful information according to their interests. This paper takes Twitter-like social networks into account and proposes models to characterize the process of information diffusion under information overload. Users are classified into different types according to their in-degrees...

The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for health correctly concluded that: 'with globalization, health inequity increasingly results from transnational activities that involve actors with different interests and degrees of power'. At the same time, taking up that Commission's focus on political determinants of health and 'power asymmetries' requires recognizing the inter...

INTRODUCTION The education of medical students should be based on the best clinical information available, rather than on commercial interests. Previous research looking at university-wide conflict of interest (COI) policies used in Canadian medical schools has shown very poor regulation. An analysis of COI policies was undertaken to document the current policy environment in all 17 Canadian me...