Teacher self-efficacy refers to the beliefs teachers hold regarding their capability to bring about desired instructional outcomes and may be helpful for understanding and addressing critical issues such as teacher attrition and teacher use of research-supported practices. Educating students with autism likely presents teachers with some of the most significant instructional challenges. The sel...

AIM To explore the relationship between sources of stress and psychological burn-out and to consider the moderating and mediating role played sources of stress and different coping resources on burn-out. BACKGROUND Most research exploring sources of stress and coping in nursing students construes stress as psychological distress. Little research has considered those sources of stress likely t...

A person working with diverse information sources—with possibly different formats and information models—may recognize and wish to express conceptual structures that are not explicitly present in those sources. Rather than replicate the portions of interest and recast them into a single, combined data source, we leave base information where it is and superimpose a conceptual model that is appro...

Querying heterogeneous XML document collections is an open problem. This will require building some sort of correspondence between the DTD of the different sources. We consider here the problem of matching the structure of XML documents from different sources. We introduce for that a stochastic structured document model and describe preliminary experiments performed on the INEX collection.

Managing data and multimedia sources with a unique tool is a challenging issue. In this paper, the capabilities of the MOMIS integration system and the MILOS multimedia content management system are coupled, thus providing a methodology and a tool for building and querying a populated ontology representing data and multimedia sources.

This study examined the effects of creativity training on creative self-efficacy. We developed a creativity course based on social cognitive theory. The course was conducted in two formats: a five-day course and a condensed one-day course. Samples consisted of students and municipality employees (five-day course), and special education teachers (one-day course). Students from amathematics and s...

Background: Breastfeeding self-efficacy is a modifiable factor that can increase breastfeeding success and duration. Breastfeeding support programmes help to improve self-efficacy and to facilitate a longer duration of breastfeeding. Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of antenatal breastfeeding education on breastfeeding self-efficacy and breastfeeding success. Methodology: ...

Several factors limit the efficacy of nematicides. Consequently, modifications can be made to their active ingredient, formulation, and application to increase their efficacy.