purpose: the aim of the current study was to predict the high school students' academic burnout based on social adjustment, academic procrastination and academic hope. materials and method: current research method was descriptive and correlational. the study population included all high school students of the state female high schools of bojnourd. 350 students were selected as a sample emp...

introduction: users of medical record information in accordance to relying on data and health information, they demand quality. proper storage, maintenance, and archiving of old medical records forms for different purposes has led to lack of enough storage space and retention problems for health services organizations. the objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of medical record...

The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic listening self-concept to the academic listening comprehension of Iranian Engineering students. The participants of this study were 147 undergraduate students at the Iran University of Science and Technology. A revised version of the academic self-concept questionnaire developed by Liu and ...

The UK has an excellent record of producing physician scientists who have become international leaders and achieved major breakthroughs in both the clinical and scientific arenas. Indeed, it is the very combination of training in both the clinical and scientific disciplines that has been the core strength of academic medicine in the UK, and which has enabled UK universities to maintain their le...

BACKGROUND Academic achievement of school age children can be affected by several factors such as nutritional status, demographics, and socioeconomic factors. Though evidence about the magnitude of malnutrition is well established in Ethiopia, there is a paucity of evidence about the association of nutritional status with academic performance among the nation's school age children. Hence, this ...

We submit that the central managerial messages of transaction cost economics (TCE) have been lost ormisconstrued in academic debates thatmiss the underpinning logic of the theory. Critiques of TCE are often based on narrow and selective interpretations, indeed caricatures. Our goal is to set the record straight by examining TCE’s fundamentally constructive aims, logic, and its applicability in ...

Six tests of nonverbal communication skills were investigated in an attempt to improve prediction of success for psychologists and counselors. The subjects were graduate students at two different schools; the criterion variables were faculty members' judgments of the students' academic work, interpersonal rela tions, personal characteristics, and "predicted effectiveness" in the profession. Fac...

Given the concerns expressed by members of the academic and legal community about whether (and how) to handle anonymous and pseudonymous allegations of scientific misconduct, this paper summaries the experiences of the Office of Research Integrity and its predecessor from 1989 through 1997. Although the record shows that research institutions and the ORI have treated such allegations seriously,...