BACKGROUND Students' view is an important factor in assessing the quality of universities. Servqual pattern is regarded as the most prominent for services quality measurement. This study aimed to review systematically studies that investigated the quality of educational services. METHODS A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies evaluating students' viewpoint about quality of education...

These are lecture notes not in final form and will be continuously edited and/or corrected (as I am sure it contains many typos). Please let me know if you find any typo/mistake. Also, I am posting short descriptions of these notes (together with the open problems) on my Blog, see [Ban15a]. Concentration and large deviations inequalities are among the most useful tools when understanding the pe...

This doubly inequality is known in the literature as Hermite-Hadamard integral inequality for convex mapping.We note that Hadamard’s inequality may be regarded as a refinement of the concept of convexity and it follows easily from Jensen’s inequality. For several recent results concerning the inequality (1) we refer the interested reader to [3,5,6,8,9,11,18,21,22] and the references cited there...

Insomnia in children is a common disorder, yet only few child-specific treatment modalities exist so far. The goal of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention program for children with insomnia at 5-10 years of age and their parents. The program was a structured six-session behavioral and hypnotherapeutic group treatment with three sessions for the childr...

The concern here is to analyse the effect of economic growth on the distribution of income in EU Member States. The paper reviews relevant empirical studies which have been carried out into this relationship over recent years and examines the experience across the European Union over the first half of the present decade, investigating in particular the different channels by which growth can aff...

Preliminary evidence suggests that pain catastrophizing in children may be important in understanding how parents respond to their child's pain. However, no study has investigated whether parental responses, in turn, moderate the impact of child's catastrophizing upon pain outcomes. The present study was designed to address this, and investigated the association of the child's catastrophizing w...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of abuse and neglect among a population of children identified as a function of an existing disability, relate specific types of disabilities to specific types of abuse, and to determine the effect of abuse and neglect on academic achievement and attendance rates for children with and without disabilities. METHOD An electronic merger of school records with ...

This article examines a source of the growth in the SSI children's program: a relatively minor and little-noticed change in the financial eligibility rules. The way parental earnings were counted as income, or "deemed" to children (to use SSA language) was changed. The new, more generous financial eligibility rules added a small but significant number of recipients to the rolls after 1992 and a...

Disability is a complex, influential, dynamic, multidimensional challenge, and it can substantially limit major life activities of human beings and their ability to integrate/reintegrate into society. According to the World Health Organization reports almost 15% of the world's population lives with certain types of disability, of whom 2-4% experience substantial difficulties in functioning. In ...

Conductive education, an educational approach devised by Andras Petö in Hungary after the second world war, has attracted considerable media attention. Eight Northern Ireland families who recently had treatment for their disabled child at the Petö Institute in Budapest were identified. Six families returned postal questionnaires designed to look at parental experience of conductive education. A...