World-wide, universities in health sciences have transformed their curriculum to include collaborative learning and facilitate the students' learning process. Interaction has been acknowledged to be the synergistic element in this learning context. However, students spend the majority of their time outside their classroom and interaction does not stop outside the classroom. Therefore we studied...

extended abstract 1. introduction urbanization is a process which leads to the growth of cities and urban changes due to industrialization and economic development. in other words, urbanization is an inevitable and demographic force and movement which should not be neglected. informal settlements, which took place in europe after the industrial revolution at the time of the transition from the ...

the aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between media literacy and social skills among citizens in isfahan. to this end, a descriptive-correlation methodology was employed. the population under study consisted of all citizens living in isfahan who were reported to be 1796967 persons in 2013. using cochran formula, 384 persons were selected by stratified sampling and were in...

AIMS Skog's theory of collective drinking behaviour implies that countries with a strict informal social control of drinking alcohol would not exhibit 'collective displacement' of consumption (a linear association between population mean consumption and percentile values across the full range of the distribution), as do countries with less informal social control. This paper aimed to test this ...

The aim of this study was to compare the social capital indicators of members and non-members of cooperatives in Siahkal County.  The sample size was calculated by the Cochran formula to include300individuals (150 member cooperatives and 150 non-members of the cooperative) that were selected by the stratified random sampling method. The main tool employed in this study was a questionnaire that ...

the aim of this study was to examine whether formal and informal social activities are associated with a lower risk of depression. besides, we investigated which type of social activities may protect against late-life depression by gender using data from a population-based study of older korean adults.data for analysis were drawn from the 2010 korean longitudinal study of aging. study sample in...