Data mining has become an essential component in various fields of human life including business, education, medical and scientific. Cluster analysis is an important data mining technique used to find data segmentation and pattern recognition. This paper proposes the application of Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering (FSC) technique as an approach to define Big Five Patterns (B5P) using psychometric t...

The decline in new entrants to IT professions coincides with the burgeoning use of new information and communications technologies among adolescent users. Teenage girls embrace a wide range of new technologies, yet are less interested in ITrelated careers or college majors than their counterparts in earlier years. In order to forestall further declines in IT college majors, educators in middle ...

introduction: several factors affect the academic performance of college students and parenting style is one significant factor. the current study has been done with the purpose of investigating the relationship between parenting styles, academic achievement and career path of students at shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: this is a correlation study carried out at shiraz universit...

Objectives: The current study aimed at investigating the relationship between identity status and career maturity among adolescents with visual disorders, as compared to normal adolescents. Methods: The study had two populations: all normal high school students in Tehran city (including boys and girls) and all visually-disabled high school students in Tehran (including boys and girls). The s...

The purpose of this article is to report the development and implementation a STEM teacher attraction intervention based on person-environment (and person-vocation) fit theory. Study 1 reports administration an 'realistic job preview' (RJP) requiring participant responses, followed by experienced feedback tailored message 111 university students in STEM-related fields. Results showed significan...

BACKGROUND Workforce planning is a central issue for service provision and has consequences for medical education. Much work has been examined the career intentions, career preferences and career destinations of UK medical graduates but there is little published about medical students career intentions. How soon do medical students formulate careers intentions? How much do these intentions and ...

BACKGROUND The education and training of early career biomedical translational researchers often involves formal mentoring by more experienced colleagues. PURPOSES This study investigated the nature of these mentoring relationships from the perspective of mentees. The objective was to understand the challenges and issues encountered by mentees in forming and maintaining productive mentoring r...

HYPOTHESIS Despite successful efforts in California to increase the number of graduating medical students entering primary care residencies, general surgery remains a popular career choice. DESIGN Retrospective survey of annual graduating medical student residency selections from allopathic medical schools in California between 1993 and 1998. METHODS Each medical school in California was se...