Background: Infertility with the prevalence of 15% is one of the main problems of the society. Preventing job injuries is one of the priorities of public health. Approximately 50% of total cases of infertility and subfertility is related to male. Some of the factors that affect male infertility are environmental. It is very difficult to ascertain the precise cause, but it seems that apart from ...

Learners are often reported not to be motivated enough to attend to teacher feedback. Teachers also  tend  to  grade  learners’  writing  samples  when  providing  them  with  corrective  feedback though  they  know  it  may  divert  their  attention  away  from  teacher  feedback.  However,  not grading learner writings does not seem to be an option due to both learners’ demands for it and ins...

Unhealthy eating behavior is a major contributing factor to the onset of several diseases and health conditions (e.g., obesity, type 2 diabetes). It is therefore not surprising that health interventions aimed at modifying dietary behavior have been identified as the cornerstone treatment for many health conditions. Interventions that use persuasive technology can be effective for motivating hea...

      The purpose of the present research is to determine whether there are sexual taboos among young people age from 15 to 30 residing in Tehran and to investigate the factors affecting this social issue. This research attempts to answer three questions and to obtain the empirical support for 8 main hypotheses. In this study, the target population is all the young people residing in Tehran age...

BACKGROUND Community health workers (CHWs) in Mozambique (known as Agentes Polivalentes Elementares (APEs)) are key actors in providing health services in rural communities. Supervision of CHWs has been shown to improve their work, although details of how it is implemented are scarce. In Mozambique, APE supervision structures and scope of work are clearly outlined in policy and rely on supervis...

In computer-based assessments, immediate performance feedback on incorrect responses may have major cognitive and metacognitive benefits but it also be demotivating for students by mirroring task-related failure. This experiment investigated the impact of three different error clarification types. We systematically varied presence complexity messages (1 × 4 between-subjects design) analyzed eff...

Over the past 15 years the countries of central and eastern Europe have been discarding the Soviet system of health care. A key element of many of the reforms is the replacement of the old model, based on narrow specialties located in policlinics, with one of integrated primary care, centred on general practitioners (GPs). Despite a formal commitment to primary care, in reality this sector had ...

This research examines effective social and family factors toward delinquent behavior. It is a survey research and uses structured questionnaire for gathering the data. A representative sample is 350 students. The result shows that there is a reverse and significant relation among religiousness, the level of parents control of children, family engagement, socio-economic status and school engage...