Using digital technology to deliver content, connect learners, and enable anytime, anywhere learning is increasing, but keeping students engaged in technology-mediated learning is challenging. Instructional practices that encourage greater engagement are essential if we are to effectively use digital instructional technologies. To determine the impact of innovative instructional practices on le...

Maps are used to track diseases and illustrate the social context of health problems. However, commercial mapping software requires special training. This article illustrates how nonspecialists used Google Earth, a free program, to create community maps. The Bronx, New York, is characterized by high levels of obesity and diabetes. Residents and medical students measured the variety and quality ...

Since the early 1970s, ballot initiatives and court rulings have sought to equalize funding across California schools. Yet 30 years later, variations in funding remain both across and within school districts. Moreover, although “funding per pupil” provides a readily available and understandable measure of school resources within a district, it provides little insight into how individual schools...

Are regulations on the payday loan effective? Do people switch to other forms of expensive credit such as pawnshop loans because of such regulations? In this study, we aim to find the answers to these two questions through exploring state-level variations in regulations on payday loans and other alternative financial services. Using FDIC’s panel survey data and Google Trends data, we find that ...

sydenham’s chorea is a delayed complication of group aßhaemolytic streptococcal infections and forms one of the majorcriteria of acute rheumatic fever.it is characterised bychorea, muscular weakness, and a number of neuropsychiatricsymptoms. it is considered to be an autoantibody mediated disorderwith the evidence suggesting that patients with sydenham’schorea produce antibodies that cross reac...

abstract background: one of important factor in research activity of student is their credence to ability in this area. in addition, professors and lecturers acquaintance about research self-efficacy in student can play important role in researcher students. therefore, the aim at this study is to determinate rate of research self-efficacy among students of isfahan university of medical sciences...