Syväoja, Heidi Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in association with academic performance and cognitive functions in school-aged children LIKES – Research Reports on Sport and Health 292 Jyväskylä: LIKES – Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences, 2014. In addition to physical health benefits, physical activity may enhance children’s cognitive and academic performance. Excessive se...

Selection processes for medical schools need to be unbiased, valid, and psychometrically reliable, as well as evidence-based and transparent to all stakeholders. A range of academic and non-academic criteria are used for selection, including matriculation scores, aptitude tests and interviews. Research into selection is fraught with methodological difficulties; however, it shows positive benefi...

BACKGROUND The aim of present study was to investigate the learning and memorization rate of English based on authentic and traditional assessment approaches in Sari secondary schools. METHODS It was performed in semi- experimental method. The sample included 60 first year high school male students, selected randomly. Then it has been divided in two groups as experimental and control groups. ...

as the most common male sexual disorder premature ejaculation (pe), also referred to as early ejaculation (ee) or rapid ejaculation (re), affects 30%-40% of sexually active men. despite the limited number of available studies comparing the efficacy of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (ssri) they have been thought to have beneficial effects for the treatment of patients with pe. in the p...

The present study provides a new account of how fluid intelligence influences academic performance. In this account a complex learning component of fluid intelligence tests is proposed to play a major role in predicting academic performance. A sample of 2, 277 secondary school students completed two reasoning tests that were assumed to represent fluid intelligence and standardized math and verb...

12 3 Historically, teacher assigned grades have been seen as unreliable subjective measures of academic knowledge, since grades and standardized tests have traditionally correlated at about the 0.5 to 0.6 level, and thus explain about 25-35% of each other. However, emerging literature indicates that grades may be a multidimensional assessment of both student academic knowledge and a student’s a...

Sexual function and the sexual quality of life an individual could be influenced by several factors. dysfunction affect and, possibly, have impact on their partners. Treatments that improve among individuals tend to This study explored mechanism which individual’s mediates relationship between factors, such as age, dysfunction, perception IELT, partner’s life. Path analysis was used determine i...

We use the molecular techniques of PCR and PFGE to identify MRSA from clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus causing infections among hospitalized patients in Benin-City, Nigeria. A total of 36 isolates were obtained from the University of Benin Teaching Hospital between July-September, 2007. The MRSA strains were selected according to their phenotypic characteristics (antibiotic resistant ...