abstract background and purpose: attendance of nursing students in clinical settings is an inherent element of nursing education. this study aimed to evaluate the attitudes of nurses toward the attendance of nursing students in clinical settings in shahrekord, iran. methods: this descriptive study was conducted in hajar teaching hospital of shahrekord city, iran in 2015. using convenience sampl...

OBJECTIVES To examine the pattern of attendance at sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in Britain. To compare the demographic characteristics, behaviours and attitudes of STD clinic attenders with those of non-attenders, and to assess the extent to which STD clinics are used by those with high-risk sexual lifestyles. DESIGN Random sample general population survey of sexual attitudes an...

This paper introduces an empirical strategy to estimate dynamic treatment effects in randomized trials that provide treatment in multiple stages and in which various noncompliance problems including attrition and selective transitions between treatment and control groups arise. Our approach is applied to the highly influential four year randomized class size study, Project STAR. We find benefit...

Human face detection has a wide application in biometric and security fields. It finds its application in photography, video surveillance and in many other areas. This paper proposes a face detection approach using Viola Jones algorithm with a Haar features converted to integral image to decrease the computational complexity. AdaBoost algorithm is used for feature selection and attentional casc...

3. Suppose attendance a¤ects student scorse on exam and propose to divide your students into two groups: those with high attendance, and those with low attendance. An unmeasured variable, diligence, may a¤ect both attendance and exam scorse. Higher values of diligence lead to higher attendance, and so students in the high attendance category are likely to have higher values of diligence than st...

This study was conducted to quantify views of the students’ regarding role of University Teachers in prompting the students and attracting them towards the classes to enhance their classroom attendance. A structured questionnaire built on the pattern of Likert scale was employed for the data collection. Teaching method employed by the teachers, their dealing with the students and their way of c...