The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of alcohol abuse among university students in Osijek, Croatia and its possible interconnections with gender, year of study, repetition of year of study, faculty subject area, sources of financing and type of residence during study. A validated questionnaire was self-administered to cross-faculty representative student sample of "J. J. Strossmay...

Maps are used to track diseases and illustrate the social context of health problems. However, commercial mapping software requires special training. This article illustrates how nonspecialists used Google Earth, a free program, to create community maps. The Bronx, New York, is characterized by high levels of obesity and diabetes. Residents and medical students measured the variety and quality ...

Since the early 1970s, ballot initiatives and court rulings have sought to equalize funding across California schools. Yet 30 years later, variations in funding remain both across and within school districts. Moreover, although “funding per pupil” provides a readily available and understandable measure of school resources within a district, it provides little insight into how individual schools...

Are regulations on the payday loan effective? Do people switch to other forms of expensive credit such as pawnshop loans because of such regulations? In this study, we aim to find the answers to these two questions through exploring state-level variations in regulations on payday loans and other alternative financial services. Using FDIC’s panel survey data and Google Trends data, we find that ...

ability to have good interpersonal relationship without social anxiety is the inseparable component of an effective nursing care process. the purpose of this study was to determine relationship between social anxiety and some demographic characteristics in undergraduate nursing students. this descriptive analytic study includes 400 students from tehran university of medical sciences who were re...

background and purpose: quality of life is a ubiquitous concept, and improving quality of life plays a pivotal role in the promotion of individual and social health. this parameter requires exclusive attention in case of students since quality of life remarkably affects learning and academic achievement.this study aimed to evaluate quality of life among the students of islamic azad university o...

A shopping promenade that incorporates six cinema halls with capacities ranging from 150 to 310 locations has been built in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The authors of this project were the architects Mariani, Pérez Maraviglia and Cañadas. The employer of the project was Florencio Aldrey Iglesias, who has a long and recognized trajectory both locally and nationally. The place chosen by...

By LEE DORLAND Daily Iowan Report.r The Associated Residence HaUs (ARH) Judicial Board has been temporarily suspended, ARH President Doug Couto, Ba, announced Thursday at a dormitory rules discussion in Hillcrest. All dorm residents \ViIl be without a disciplinary board until the ARH Judicial Committee recommends which student code the board should enforce. The committee plans to recommend .t a...

Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the...

Exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were used to investigate the structure of the Student Report Inventory (SRI) and Parent Report Inventory (PRI) of the College Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Response Evaluation. The sample was composed of 1,080 college students and their parents and was stratified by ethnicity, gender, ability level, age...