OBJECTIVE To examine neighborhood effects on academic achievement of children with extremely low birth weight (ELBW <1000 g) and normal birth weight (NBW) controls. METHODS The study included 183 8-year-old children with ELBW born during 1992-1995 and 176 sociodemographically similar NBW controls. Academic achievement was measured via The Woodcock-Johnson III Academic Skills Cluster. RESULT...

Background: Better understanding of factors associated with medical school performance is necessary to improve admission processes and to help students succeed in their career. This study follows a group of Iranian med students during their first 2.5 years of medical education, to evaluate their academic success in accordance with their demographic, cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics. ...

This article examines the characteristics of internet that motivate faculty members of Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University (IMSU) in Saudi Arabia to utilize the Internet in their research and instructional activities. The framework of the study was the attributes of innovations offered by Rogers. A modified instrument was adopted to collect the data and measure the attributes. The result revealed...

The academic performance of students from socially disadvantaged communities has been the prime concern of scholars from the disciplines of Education, Psychology and Psychiatry over the past three decades. The efforts to remedy this have, however, not yielded any sustainable results. Generally, when the academic performance is poor, the school resources and support systems are blamed. It was ob...

This paper implements a novel approach to formalizing spatial externalities by employing spatial econometric methods that combine spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity in the form of spatial regimes. The results confirm earlier findings that academic externalities are not uniform across sectors but also indicate important differences across sectors in terms of agglomeration effects.

Clustering and categorization of academic network, especially collaboration network, is always an interesting question, in that it can provide many insight into academic fields. While traditional methods, such as spectral clustering, are based on the assumption that each node can be assigned to only one clustering, more and more observations suggest that communities in academic network probably...

objective: the purpose of the current research is to determine the impact of play therapy on academic achievement of students with mental deficiency of khorramabad exceptional elementary school. method: it was a pre-test, post-test study design. 60 students were selected and according to their mental deficiency characteristics were assigned to either experimental or control group. each group co...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Data supporting the efficacy of stroke center characteristics are limited. METHODS A questionnaire detailing stroke treatment practices was sent to 42 academic medical centers in the University Health Systems Consortium. In-hospital mortality of all emergency department admissions for ischemic stroke at these institutions was evaluated in a database of discharge abstrac...