"The rise of digital culture has created both tremendous human possibilities as well challenges and problems. Powerful corporate commercial interests compete for our attention, which become a valuable commodity in the online world. Living organized distractions, awareness is fragmented, causing us to lose touch with ourselves, neighbors, world around us, God. This paper explores traditional asc...

OBJECTIVES Although persons who inject drugs have high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, few receive treatment mostly because of lack of knowledge about the infection and its treatment. We assessed the level of HCV-related knowledge and willingness to participate in HCV treatment among methadone-maintained patients. METHODS A 30-item survey covering HCV-related knowledge and wi...

This study investigated first year university students' willingness and anxiety levels in speaking English EAP classrooms. UCS FLCAS were employed to create a questionnaire collect 31 participants' responses. The major findings are as follows: a) participants demonstrated higher than average WTC broad sense; b) only one third of them reported feeling anxious about classes; c) the fear being neg...

the proposition that natural areas need protection from the destructive actions of people iswidely accepted. this paper examines iran’s e-society attitudes and capital towards biodiversity conservationand evaluates economically iran’s national parks (nps). 2,121 respondents answered an online questionnaire conducted in summer 2012. the majority of respondents had visited one of iran’s nps. almo...

This paper analyzes data on 11,600 students and their teachers who were randomly assigned to different size classes from kindergarten through third grade. Statistical methods are used to adjust for nonrandom attrition and transitions between classes. The main conclusions are (1) on average, performance on standardized tests increases by four percentile points the Žrst year students attend small...