In table 1 I report mean values of selected student characteristics that are determined prior to university attendance, separately by tracking/random assignment period and by dormitory/non-dormitory status. I report p-values from testing if these means are equal across dormitory students in the tracking and random assignment periods (column 4) and across non-dormitory students in the tracking a...

BACKGROUND National media reported a febrile illness among dormitory residents of a boys' religious school. We investigated the outbreak to identify cause. METHODS Individuals with fever (>100°F) and cough or sore throat between 1 and 13 August 2011 were influenza-like-illness (ILI) case-patients. We collected histories and specimens from hospitalized case-patients and visited campus to explo...

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about the peer influence in health behaviors within university dormitory rooms. Moreover, in China, the problem of unhealthy behaviors among university students has not yet been sufficiently recognized. We thus investigated health behavior peer influence in Peking University dormitories utilizing a randomized cluster-assignment design. METHODS STUDY DE...

Constitutionally, apartheid divided South Africa into “white” and “black” South Africa. White South Africa consisted mainly of the urban areas, while black South Africa was mainly rural. Black South Africa was largely comprised of the homeland areas. However, urban areas have subsequently developed in most of the former homelands. At the same time, a number of dormitory towns were developed, ei...

the evening of the 17th December, he took his food and made no complaint of any illness or pain. At about 5-15 a.m. next day, before unlock, he went to the urinal, passed urine walked back to his place in the dormitory and lay down. The convict night watchman accompanied him to the urinal and back. He says the man made no complaint of illness, walked quite steady and did not appear to be at all...

Sixty-four female college students attempted to study for a Tests and Measurements examination in a simulated dormitory. During the 30 minute study period, five environmental conditions were cxeated via pre-recorded audio cassettes: actual dormitory noise, rock and roll music, television audio, birds chirping, and silence. Subjects in the dorm noise condition were significantly more negative in...

Crystal Dormitory is a dormitory in Universitas Klabat that accommodates some male students. This study aims for monitoring and minimize the entry of foreigners into which affects comfort safety boarding Using prototyping model, systems can observe faces students who live dormitory, as well enter dormitory. The system performed face recognition to recognize person’s when data has been stored da...