One of the goals of introducing computers to the classroom is to support students who are more reluctant to the use of technology or who do not have a computer at home in acquiring computer literacy. Studies have shown that these students are often girls. The goal of the present study is to find out if the difference between boys and girls in computer literacy can be leveled out in a laptop pro...

An observational study of all children with intractable epilepsy at the Paediatric Institute prescribed Lamotrigine as an add-on therapy between January 1994 and November 1998 was conducted. A total of 30 children were recruited. Three had adverse effects to the drug and it was withdrawn. Of the remaining 27, there were 20 boys and 7 girls, ranging from 2 to 17 years. Fifteen children had gener...

Patients' risks from medication errors are widely acknowledged. Yet not all errors, if they occur, have the same risks for severe consequences. Facing resource constraints, policy makers could prioritize factors having the greatest severe-outcome risks. This study assists such prioritization by identifying work-related risk factors most clearly associated with more severe consequences. Data fro...

BACKGROUND The main aim of the study was to examine the cross-sectional associations between objectively measured physical activity (PA) and body fatness in 7-12-year-old children. METHODS We performed an analysis of 365 children (209 girls). Participant recruitment was performed in eight randomly selected elementary schools in cities and towns with various numbers of inhabitants. The body co...

BACKGROUND Self-awareness of speech impairment according to the following extralinguistic variables: gender and age. AIM To examine the influence of gender and age on the self-awareness of speech impairment. METHOD Participants were 24 children with the diagnosis of phonological disorder, 15 boys and 9 girls, with ages ranging between 5:0 and 7:7 years. For this group the assessment of self...

The goal of this study was to look into the effects gender and age on students’ ICT self-efficacy ( ICT-SE), self-directed learning (SDL) e-learning readiness (ELR) ,engagement (SE) among middle late teens. Using an easy sample technique, data obtained from students at various schools, colleges, universities in Rawalpindi Islamabad. total size 300 students, with 144 boys (n=144) 156 girls (n=15...

BACKGROUND Reliability of Reading and Writing Assessment Instruments. AIM To investigate the reliability of two scales created to evaluate both reading and writing of children with ages between 8:0 and 11:11 years. METHOD Two scales were created: a reading scale, composed of 12 testing items organized into four competency fields (letter knowledge and phonographemic relation, decoding of iso...