How many students complete tertiary education?

Alcohol consumption in tertiary education students

BACKGROUND Heavy alcohol consumption among adolescents and young adults is an issue of significant public concern. With approximately 50% of young people aged 18-24 attending tertiary education, there is an opportunity within these settings to implement programs that target risky drinking. The aim of the current study was to survey students and staff within a tertiary education institution to i...

Perceptions of Health Risks amongst Tertiary Education Students in Mauritius

A personal estimate of a health risk may not correspond to a scientific assessment of the health risk. Hence, there is a need to investigate perceived health risks in the public. In this study, a young, educated and healthy group of people from a tertiary institute were questioned about their health concerns. Ethics clearance was obtained and data was collected by means of a questionnaire. 362 ...

How Can Tertiary Education Deliver Better Value to the Economy?

How many patients? How many doctors?

O ne of the fastest growing fields in medicine is the care of adults with congenital heart disease (adult CHD or ACHD). This is mainly a consequence of much longer survival due to advances in pediatric cardiology, interven-tional catheterization, cardiac surgery, and intensive care. Fifty years ago we could diagnose most forms of moderate and severe CHD, but some anomalies were untreatable and ...

How Many Needles Are in a Haystack, or How to Solve #P-Complete Counting Problems Fast

We present two randomized entropy-based algorithms for approximating quite general #P-complete counting problems, like the number of Hamiltonian cycles in a graph, the permanent, the number of self-avoiding walks and the satisfiability problem. In our algorithms we first cast the underlying counting problem into an associate rare-event probability estimation, and then apply dynamic importance s...