background and purpose: the office of educational services at universities is a very important division and it is necessary for employees to strive towards providing suitable services to students. the quality of educational services has always been a major concern for higher education managers. interviewing stakeholders and experts increases our understanding of different aspects of the subject...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to contrast the cognitive phenotypes in boys with 47,XYY (XYY) karyotype and boys with 47,XXY karyotype [Klinefelter syndrome, (KS)], who share an extra copy of the X-Y pseudoautosomal region but differ in their dosage of strictly sex-linked genes. METHODS Neuropsychological evaluation of general cognitive ability, language, memory, attention, visual-spati...

This paper focuses on pedagogical planning and illustrates the on-line system IAMEL aimed at supporting teachers in the process of designing, structuring and planning educational activities for their students. Pedagogical planning is meant as the description, at different level of granularity, of the playing out of a learning situation or a unit of learning aimed at the acquisition of a precise...

Many studies have examined the effects of neighbourhoods on educational outcomes. The results of these studies are often conflicting, even if the same independent variables (such as poverty, educational climate, social disorganisation, or ethnic composition) are used. A systematic meta-analysis may help to resolve this lack of external validity. We identified 5516 articles from which we selecte...

objective: oral hygiene must start at a young age. childhood is the perfect time to start the conversion of knowledge into creative thinking and subsequent health care activity. this study aimed to assess the efficacy of oral hygiene instruction via an educational film for oral health promotion of elementary students. methods: in this experimental, interventional, before and after study, data w...

Abstract This paper proposes an approach to find an optimum structure for educational levels of human forces. To this end, a Linear Programming (LP) Model integrated with a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) was employed. The integrated model was employed using the SAM of Golestan Province of Iran. It was demonstrated that when unemployment is the result of inconsistency between supply and demand...

formaldehyde is a common indoor pollutant with irritant properties. the present case control study was undertaken among 37 exposed staff with formaldehyde and 19 non exposed (referent) ones to study the acute and chronic effects of it in two educational hospitals. all subjects were tested for respiratory function by a portable alpha vitalograph-uk. in addition using a respiratory questionnaire,...

objective: memory and concentration may be affected by hemodialysis in end-stage renal disease. in this study, changes in cognitive function parameters such as attention, impulsiveness, and reaction time were measured and evaluated in the iranian hemodialysing patients. methods: in this analytic observational study, cognitive function of 38 hemodialysis patients was measured before and after he...

The first edition of this volume, published in 1997, was titled Managing People in Education. The addition of ‘leading’ to the title in the second and third editions illustrates the growing significance of this concept, notably in England, where a National College for School Leadership (our emphasis) was opened in November 2000. The inclusion of both terms in the title of this third edition sig...