objective: university students account for human resource of each society and will make the future of their country. psychological disturbances such as depression and hopelessness can affect daily life and scholastic process of university students. the authors intended to determine the prevalence of depression amongst students of shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran. metho...

Tuncay Ergene, Ph.D., is supported by NIMH, ICORTHA Fogarty International Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MH/DD) Research Training Program (D43TW05807) at Children’s Hospital Boston; Principle Investigator (PI): Kerim M. Munir, MD, MPH, DSc. Introduction The purpose of the present study is to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms among senior high school students prepari...

ROC Curves (Receiver Operating Characteristic) are remarkably useful in medical decision-making. Given a common measurable characteristic, with a continuous output in all the beings of a group, ROC curves determine a threshold on the values of the characteristic, which tries to predict the classification of beings into discrete classes. In the Facultad de Informática of Valencia (Spain), we hav...

Abstract In Germany, the Abitur is highest qualification granted at end of secondary education after 12 or 13 years schooling; it provides a general university entrance qualification. Traditionally, written and oral examinations are required to obtain Abitur. Until 1990, there were mainly decentralized in mathematics West Germany (Federal Republic [FRG]), which taken school years, centralized e...

Background: English language writing is important in university entrance examinations in Japan and influences what learners and teachers do in English classes. This is especially noticeable in secondary education in Japan. While much research on university entrance examinations in Japan has been conducted, little attention has been paid to the types of writing required in these examinations. Me...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to identify predictors of self-reported academic performance in undergraduate medical students at Hawassa University. METHODS An analytical cross-sectional study involving 592 undergraduate medical students was conducted in November 2012. The academic performance of the study subjects was measured by self-reported cumulative grade point average (GPA) using ...

Purpose. This cross-sectional, observational study used Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) to examine the position, patency, and the interior entrance site of anterior chamber (AC) aqueous tube shunts. Methods. The OCT, slitlamp biomicroscopy, and gonioscopy findings of 23 eyes of 18 patients with AC shunts were collected and compared. Results. OCT images demonstrated the shunt p...

The knowledge of the radiation dose received by the patient during the radiological examination is essential to prevent risks of exposures. The aim of this work is to study patient doses for common diagnostic radiographic examinations in hospitals affiliated to Kashan University of Medical sciences, Iran. The results of this survey are compared with those published by some national and internat...