OBJECTIVE Cultural integration is the healthiest outcome for young people living in multicultural societies. This paper investigates the influence of different cultural identities on the risk of common mental disorders among Bangladeshi and white British pupils. DESIGN The cultural identity of 11-14-year-old school pupils was assessed by their preferences for friends and clothes of their own ...

Introduction: Dental caries is the most prevalent chronic disease among schoolchildren. We aimed to investigate the association between dental caries index and socio-demographic status in schoolchildren by using a multilevel hurdle model. Materials and Methods: A crosssectional epidemiological study was carried out on 906 primary school pupils in Kerman, Iran in 2012. The subjects were selected...

Abstract—The study of school pupils’ daily habits is of importance for diverse fields such as sociology and education. Previous related work mainly focused on some specific attribute or habit of students, which ignored many important factors and failed to exploit the correlation among habit-related factors. In this paper, we conduct a comparative analysis of school pupils’ daily habits in Germa...

Based on self-determination theory, the present study developed and evaluated the utility a school-based intervention to change pupils' physical activity intentions and self-reported leisure-time physical activity behaviour. The study evaluated utility of the intervention to promote physical activity participation over a 5-week interval of time. A cluster randomised design targeting 215 pupils ...

In this paper we provide an overview of the international CensusAtSchool project, designed, written and implemented first in the UK from October 2000 April 2001 for pupils aged 7 -16 in primary and secondary schools. It has been adapted for similar aged school children in South Africa and Australia and was implemented in those countries in July and October 2001, respectively. We present our mot...

Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set and graded tests. This effect is driven by pupils ...

The development a standard-based curriculum in History can be related to the school reforms where ‘performance’ are crucial principles. The aim is to analyse pupils’ perspectives on the relation between their views on historical knowledge and the national test in History and grading. When the pupils in this study – directly after taking a national test in History – were asked to reason about wh...

Past research suggests that men perceive women with large pupils as especially attractive. We employed an innovative methodology to examine whether this effect influences consumer decision-making. A popular psychology book was published with two slightly different front covers. Both covers contained the same photograph of a woman; however, the woman's pupils on one cover were digitally enlarged...

Stimulation of the amygdala produces pupil dilation in animal and human subjects. The present study examined whether the amygdala is sensitive to variations in the pupil size of others. Male subjects underwent event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging while passively viewing unfamiliar female faces whose pupils were either unaltered (natural variations in large and small pupils) or al...

AIM To investigate the effects of emergency burr hole drainage for acute subdural hematoma (ASDH) with bilateral non-reactive pupils. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study was conducted by reviewing medical records from 1998 to 2007. Patients meeting the following criteria were included: 1) head injury with unconsciousness (Glasgow Coma Scale score 8); 2) bilateral non-reactive pupils on...