dental caries is one of the most preventable yet prevalent chronic diseases worldwide. our objective was to evaluate the effect of family structure and behavioral and eyesight problems as they relate to caries severity in schoolchildren.this research was carried out on 845 primary schoolchildren aged 9 yr in kerman, iran, in 2012. ten variables, including health records, family structure inform...

The aim of the article is to shed light on children’s views of the different forms of documentation that are related to and used in the interaction between home and school. The study draws on qualitative interviews with 52 pupils aged 12-13 years in Year 6 in Sweden. The analyses reveal how documentation and documents are created and understood from the pupils’ perspectives. The pupils point to...

Late in the summer term of 1999, the staff and pupils of Annandale Primary, a mainstream primary school of 240 pupils, were informed of a proposal to move them into a brand-new building on the Greenwich peninsula. The school has a very mixed socio-economic intake, with a catchment area encompassing both private and social housing; 35 per cent of the pupils have free school meals, 25 per cent ha...

The Bebras International Contest on Informatics and Computer Literacy is a motivation competition in informatics that addresses all lower and upper secondary school pupils divided into three age groups: Benjamin (age 1114), Junior (age 15-16) and Senior (for upper secondary level). Using a computer the pupils have to solve 15 to 21 tasks of different levels within 45 minutes. Two general types ...

We employ a regression-discontinuity design to identify effects on educational attainment (years of education) of class size and the number of pupils per weekly teacher hour using administrative rules as instruments. We use a Danish administrative panel data set based on a 10% random sample of eight cohorts of pupils (and their parents). Restricting the sample to observations close to enrolment...

Background:Olanzapine is a highly tolerable and easily affordable atypical antipsychotic drug which has been commonly prescribed in both inpatient and outpatient settings for several mental disorders. Olanzapine overdose is commonly seen in psychiatric patients, who attempt suicide by intoxicating themselves with their own prescribed medications. Increased olanzapine use is associated with incr...

  Background: Learning disability is one of the most noticed subjects for behavioral specialists. Most of the learning difficulties are caused by senso-motor development and neurological organization. The main purpose of the present research is to examine the role of delayed perceptual-motor development and brain damage in origination of expressive writing disorder (EWD).   Methods: The studi...