OBJECTIVE To characterize dropouts from type-2 diabetes (T2D) care in communal primary health care. DESIGN An observational study. SETTING In a Finnish city, patients with T2D who had not contacted the public primary health care system during the past 12 months were identified with a computer based search and contacted by a trained diabetes nurse. SUBJECTS Dropouts from T2D treatment. M...

A person's ability to lead a stable, affluent life is made possible through education. In the same way, country's development may be influenced by proportion of its population with higher level This number does, however, decline because early schooling dropouts. Furthermore, nation's resources are diminished if student cannot continue dropout. Although dropouts constantly falling, it still very...

School dropout is a major problem as it has negative impacts that result in high social costs. A learner can be called when the fails to enroll school despite having reached mandatory age. This paper aims identify root causes of dropouts Philippines, specifically all regions for years 2008 and 2013. The secondary data on proportion population 6 24 old who are not attending from website Philippi...

In Thailand, many universities face the problems of student dropouts or failures before graduations. In order to improve and support the academic management processes, some universities are developing innovative information systems and services with an aim to enhance efficiency and retain the students to graduations. Moreover, this information technological support can also improve student rela...

Using neural networks, the present study replicates previous results on prediction of student dropout obtained with decision trees and logistic regressions. For this purpose, multilayer perceptrons are trained same data as in initial study. It is shown that networks lead to a significant improvement students at risk. Already after first semester, potential dropouts can be identified probability...

An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro-level data in combination with its longit...