background: mental disorders have an important relationship with work conditions. excessive workload, laborers needs and expectations ignorance, harmful physical agents, noise, poor lightning and bad work atmosphere result increasing stress and job dissatisfaction in workers . methods: this descriptive-analytical survey implemented in order to investigate stress and job satisfaction rate of one...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of two respiratory therapy self-assessment examinations: the written registry examination (WR), and the clinical simulation examination (CSE). We then used reliability coefficients to test the true correlation between the WR and CSE by employing the Spearman-Brown formula to attenuate for unreliability. DESIGN This wa...

Asentiment I have expressed before and will undoubtedly continue to express is how ordinary people can make such an extraordinary impact on those around them, as well the profession a whole. The subject of this quarter's Completed Careers Column one person. His brilliance, matched by very memorable personality, makes Cees Keyer fascinating ‘character’ in EMC community. He missed who knew him, b...

PhD Completed

This paper reports results from a study on using electronic testing tool for assessment of student knowledge in few university courses for CS education. The study was basically concerned with the effectiveness of using electronic testing tool for assessment purposes. The effectiveness was analyzed through cost savings and improvement of quality of the assessment process, viewed from both perspe...