BACKGROUND Parent education is an integral component to promoting judicious antibiotic use. Opportunities to educate parents directly are limited. Child care providers are in a position to relay information to parents. METHODS A group-randomized trial assessed the impact of a child care center staff intervention on parental knowledge and attitudes regarding appropriate antibiotic use. A 9-poi...

With the acceleration of popularization higher education in China and intensification employment difficulties for college graduates, field has gradually widened, number entrepreneurs increased, regional differences are obvious. The difficulty graduates aroused wide-spread concern society. Therefore, convolution neural network (CNN) is used to establish a prediction evaluation model development ...

This paper examines the effects of taking more high school math and science classes on wages, the likelihood of entering a technical job or a job traditional for one's sex, and the likelihood of choosing a technical college major or a major traditional for one's sex. Results from two data sets show that taking more high school math increases wages and increases the likelihood of entering techni...

In recent decades, American workers have faced a rising college premium, a narrowing gender gap, and increasing wage volatility. This paper explores the quantitative and welfare implications of these changes. The framework is an incomplete-markets life cycle model in which individuals choose education, intrafamily time allocation, and savings. Given the observed history of the U.S. wage structu...

Increasing women’s participation in Computer Science (CS) is a critical workforce and equity concern. The technology industry has committed to reversing negative trends for women in CS, engineering, and related fields. Building on previous research, we surveyed 1,739 high school students and recent college graduates to understand factors influencing decisions to pursue CS-related college degree...

Ensuring an adequate and safe food supply for a rapidly expanding world population, succeeding in a global economy, and maintaining our planet’s natural resources and biodiversity are some of the challenges that are being met by graduates from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Our students apply knowledge to solve problems as scientists, business leaders, engineers, educators, physi...

The Association of College and Research Libraries recommends incorporating information literacy (IL) skills across university and college curricula, for the goal of developing information literate graduates. Congruent with this goal, the Departments of Biological Sciences and Information Science developed an integrated IL and scientific literacy (SL) exercise for use in a first-year biology cou...

Visualize cars loaded down with the trappings for a college dorm, the student seeing their college housing complexes, parents carrying all those boxes in, and the newly minted freshmen surveying the landscape nervously but with happy anticipation. A student sees possibilities at every turn, but the parent is conflicted about the “launch.” Sons and daughters convince moms and dads that it is tim...

With the continuous deepening of reform China's higher education, number college graduates has shown a rising trend year by year. Contemporary also have growing degree career expectations, still maintaining many characteristics era elite education. The employment concept and attitude are often divorced from reality, to great extent reality situation. This further leads deviation between satisfa...