Students are Students

Winning Students Are Employable Students

Executive Summary Skills and employability have a direct impact on life opportunities. Understanding how skills are learned, developed, applied, maintained and adapted over time can facilitate improving the employability of individuals. Sports scholars are a unique population for investigation as they need to maintain a wide range of skills and acquire new ones in order to perform in two domain...

Are Students Able to Transfer Mathematical Knowledge?

The ability to use mathematics in other disciplines is generally expected of all science and engineering students. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many students lack this ability. While there is a substantial body of research dealing with the transfer of training, and the transfer of mathematical skills to problem solving in everyday life, there is very little relating to the transfer of mathe...

Choline: are our university students eating enough?

Choline is an essential nutrient; dietary deficiency of choline is associated with impaired liver function, elevated blood concentrations of alanine aminotransferase, creatinine phosphokinase and homocysteine. There is also depletion of acetylcholine concentration in the brain, leading to deficit in memory function. The authors examined the dietary intake of choline in groups of students at the...

Hypovitaminosis D: Are Medical Students at Risk?

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency is a pandemic problem mostly diagnosed in elderly. Few studies are available exclusively done on the topic among young adults. Specific professions such as medical students may have higher risk for developing hypovitaminosis D. We aimed to assess the vitamin D status in medical students of Iran University of Medical Sciences; and to define a cut-off point for 25-...

Why are students keeping away from wards?