The decrease of federal and state support threatens long-term sustainability of research in publicly supported academic health centers. In weathering these financial threats, research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has undergone 3 substantial changes: institutional salary support goes preferentially to senior faculty, whereas the young increasingly depend on grants; priv...

Psychiatrists commonly encounter deception in the emergency department. This article presents the case of a patient who presents to the emergency department with an unusual and elaborate web of deceptions along multiple themes including feigning medical illness, multiple losses, and grandiose academic and athletic achievements. We review the clinical characteristics of pseudologia fantastica an...

Science and technology have significant impact in human life. As a basic science, physics has important contributions to the development of science and technology. To follow and understand everyday life and technological developments, physics should be learned well by all students. As Hewitt (1998) states, physics should be educational mainstream for all students. There exist too many factors a...

This is a follow-up study of the 20 junior students admitted into an occupational therapy educational program under a selection process described in a previous article in AJOT in 1974. It reports the outcome resulting from the use of the selection process and t test findings between the upper ten ranked students and the remaining lower ranked students. Academic achievements and employment patte...

BACKGROUND Researchers have categorized the learning styles in many ways. Kolb proposed a classification of learner's styles as convergers, divergers, assimilators and accommodators. Honey and Mumford simplified learning styles as activists, reflectors, theorists and pragmatists. Neil Fleming's VARK model (Visual, Auditory, Read/write and Kinesthetic) is also popular. This study was carried out...

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of argumentation-based instruction on academic achievements, scientific process skills primary school 4th grade students and their attitudes towards science course. was designed as a quasi-experimental research, group included 47 during 2016-2017 year. Academic achievement test, test course scale were used pre-tests post-tests in collect data. I...

This paper, which builds of the work of Hay, Kennedy, and Levin (1999), examines the puzzling aspectual behavior of so-called degree achievements. Drawing evidence from Mandarin Chinese, I argue that degree achievements without difference values denote punctual events, i.e., they are true achievements. I present an analysis that is consistent with facts from both English and Mandarin; to explai...

In the last twenty years, many studies have tested the SelfDetermination Theory and the possibility to generalize the obtained results in case of academic population. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation considering the degree of autonomous motivation, academic achievement and mental health. The study was conducted on a sample of 350 second and third year students (169 male an...

Academic capacity planning is a knowledge-intensive process that has to be based upon predicted course demand. Planners have to take into account students' current course achievements, prospective future course selections, time constraints as well as a wide range of different rules for graduation. The research project proposes a refined case-based reasoning (CBR) approach for anticipating stude...

R ecently, there have been several media reports on advanced multifunction upper limb prostheses, often hyped as “the mind-controlled artificial hands” [1]. Advanced signal processing of the electromyogram (EMG) signal and innovative surgical procedures, such as the targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) and targeted sensory reinnervation (TSR), are the driving forces behind these achievements. No...