On behalf of all the authors I would like to thank Sarah Holden for her comments on our recently published article. When designing the study, we recognised that the majority of women receive their contraception from their general practitioner (GP). Our study compares the prescribing habits of GPs in 2005 pre-UK Medical Eligibility Criteria (pre-UKMEC) to those in 2010 (post-UKMEC). Whilst the a...

This study sought to determine whether using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) would detect differences in personality preferences in first-year dental students admitted to the same dental school through different admission methods. First-year dental students admitted in 2000 and 2001 were given the MBTI instrument during orientation prior to the start of classes. In fall 2000, the Class o...

This paper examines the relationships which exist between personality and second language learning and adds to the data available on the use of a highly respected personality indicator, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Language learning and academic success are both highly correlated with intelligence, but research suggests that the importance of intelligence declines after high school a...

An experiment was undertaken to study the relationship between persons’ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality and the computing tasks. For the experiment, a group of computing majors, 68 undergraduate students, (40 underclassmen and 28 upperclassmen) and 60 graduate students pursuing masters degrees have participated. The result shows that the most common MBTI types among the students ...

The study was a descriptive correlational in nature in which scientific method was used to test the research objectives. The major objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Emotional Intelligence (E.I) among university students. A 33 items questionnaire concerning E.I and 80 items concerning MBTI was used to collect the data for t...

Kinetics and mechanism of hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine by the enzyme butyrylcholine esterase was studied. The spectrophotometric Ellman's method and potentiometric pH-stat method were used for continuous determination of the actual concentration of the products thiocholine and acetic acid in the reaction mixture. The validity of the Michaelis-Menten (Briggs-Haldane) equation in the whole cou...

INTRODUCTION The shortage of physicians in rural areas of the USA has led medical schools to focus on recruiting and selecting students who will choose to work in non-urban settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of student characteristics previously correlated to choosing rural practice (ie being older, being male, being raised in a rural community, having a spouse or sig...