in this study we have described our varicocele cases in terms of associated symptoms/signs. in addition, we have tested the correlation between semen parameters and varicocele grades and compared the relative frequencies of associated symptoms/signs in different varicocele grades. 1 19 referred cases of varicocele were categorized based on clinical criteria into 3 grades by one examiner. the re...

UNLABELLED Inner-city youth must overcome many environmental challenges as they strive for success. Their outcome is influenced by the interplay of protective forces and risk factors. OBJECTIVE To learn directly from youth what solutions they believe would most influence their likelihood of achieving a positive future. DESIGN In-school 8th-, 9th-, and 12th-graders in north Philadelphia gene...

______________ This research was conducted to study the effects of field-based clinical tutoring on struggling readers. Struggling readers from two grade levels, 3 and 5 were randomly divided into two groups. One group received individualized tutoring in reading for a semester from apprentice reading clinicians (graduate students in Reading Program) and the other group did not. There were 13 se...

BACKGROUND Evidence is growing that sleep problems in adolescents are significant impediments to learning and negatively affect behaviour, attainment of social competence and quality of life. The objectives of the study were to determine the level of sleepiness among students in high school, to identify factors to explain it, and to determine the association between sleepiness and performance i...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether A level grades (achievement) and intelligence (ability) predict doctors' careers. DESIGN Prospective cohort study with follow up after 20 years by postal questionnaire. SETTING A UK medical school in London. PARTICIPANTS 511 doctors who had entered Westminster Medical School as clinical students between 1975 and 1982 were followed up in January 2002. MAIN OUT...

OBJECTIVE Returning children to their biological families after placement in foster care (ie, reunification) has been prioritized with legislation. Comprehensive studies of child behavioral health functioning after reunification, however, have not been conducted. This study examined outcomes for youth who were reunified after placement in foster care as compared with youth who did not reunify. ...

INTRODUCTION The dropout level from the Danish medical schools is high, but we have only little insight into this problem. The purpose of this study was to qualify the ongoing discussions concerning dropout. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, relevant variables were extracted from the established database of Aarhus University for the 639 students initiating medicine stud...

We derive the analytical mean and variance of the score test statistic in gene-dropping simulations and approximate the null distribution of the test statistic by a normal distribution. We provide insights into the gene-dropping test by decomposing the test statistic into two components: the first component provides information about linkage, and the second component provides information about ...

The controversial English Composition Exam once again came under fire this year as Exam Administrator Linda Driskill was forced to change the exam's scale after the exams were graded. The professor /graduate student teams originally graded the exams on the same scale as last year, but the number of f reshmen who failed underlast year ' s s t andards and would have been forced to take English 10...

The emerging field of Information Technology is one of several fields that require students to learn computer programming. A large proportion of the students were having difficulty getting through the programming sequence and ultimately changed majors or dropped out of college. To deal with this problem, curricular reforms were implemented and active learning techniques were added to the classr...