This study investigated the relationship between reading motivation, reading self-concept, reading attitude and reading fluency in the fourth and fifth grade years. The sample consisted of 375 students (N = 187 males and N= 188 female) were administered the Test of Motivation to Read, Reading Self-Concept, Reading Attitude and Reading Fluency. The specific question addressed was: what is the as...

background: the education system requires extensive manpower training of researchers.     moreover, importance of research in developing countries to achieve growth in all fields is irrefutable     . in this study, the attitude, knowledge, and performance of medical and dental students of rafsanjan university of medical sciences on research were assessed. methods: in this descriptive study, 400...

INTRODUCTION Treatment team charged to help patients and their family making decision about donate organs in the final stage of life. Hence, their knowledge and attitude is important to plan of increasing the rate of organ donation. MATERIALS AND METHODS About 150 nurses recruited in this cross-sectional study randomly. After taking informed consent, questionnaires were filled. The data colle...

When technological change takes place, employees with positive attitude not only accept new ways of doing work but also become a motivational force to other staff members. Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) intends to make the best use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in administration, servicing and academic departments. Since it is partially launched but before implementatio...

Modern miniaturization technologies enable the realization of very small satellites at masses below 1kg, nevertheless limited attitude determination and actuator performances raise challenging control problems. Specific attitude determination aspects discussed at the example of UWE (University of Wuerzburg Experimental satellite), a standardized pico-satellite platform related to technology dem...

Death is beyond one's personal control, generates great concern and anxiety, among human beings. Studies exploring the association between religious attitudes and death attitudes in adolescents and young adults in postmodern society are scarce. This study examines the relationship between five dimensions of attitude toward death (fear of death, death avoidance, neutral acceptance, approach acce...

background: despite the success of developed countries in preventing the spread of hiv/aids, the disease is expanding in developing countries where an unfavorable attitude exists among people, health professionals and employees. this study aimed to assess the stigmatized attitude among health care providers toward people living with hiv (plwha). methods: the study is a cross-sectional survey. t...

The attitude towards computer-related tasks, computer anxiety, and spatial visualization ability (SVA) of a group of first-year computer science students were measured just before their study commenced. The results were analyzed empirically based on two independent variables, i.e., culture and computer experience. It was found that African and European users generally have the same attitude tow...

Superstitions can be understood as a way of fixing beliefs – in the face of an ongoing lack of control – by involving effectively untestable explanations. The explanations are untestable only in part due to their content: related social attitudes and available empirical capabilities also play a vital role. Importantly, untestability does not entail the lack of meaning but, rather, frees the mea...