the study of comparative politics ,in the field of political science, has a great significance. this article not only introduces schools of thought which have been phenomena in the history of comparative politics but also surveys the history behind this growth. the present article shall . deal with and subsequently explain the success of this field and its current status. the new conceptualizat...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2016.09.002 2214-1391/ 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Social and Welfare Studies, University of Linkoping, Campus Norrkoping, S-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden. E-mail address: [email protected] (K. Hjelm). F...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the students' attitudes towards cultural activities and institutions in the university to improve it. This study was based on a survey method along with self-assessment questionnaire and stratified random sampling among 350 university students in the first semester of the academic year 1392-1391. For the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, face v...

PURPOSE Recently, concern of the college students' mental health has increased due to their continuous psychologic problems such as suicidal attempt. This study aimed to examine the correlation among depression, stress, self-esteem, and coping strategies of the medical students and also according to the academic year. METHODS The subject was 384 medical students of K medical school in Korea. ...

We use instrumental variable estimation strategy to estimate the e¤ect of a one year delay in entering kindergarten on academic outcomes of children. Using data from the Child-NLSY, we present evidence that older entrants perform better in test scores compared to younger entrants in the same grade. The positive e¤ects from being older are statistically signi…cant, at conventional levels of sign...

The convergence of tuberculosis (TB) and the HIV epidemic pose new public health challenges. The interaction between HIV and TB in co-infected persons is bidirectional and synergistic, HIV infection predisposes to the development of active TB, and on the course of HIV-related im-munodeficiency is worsened by active TB infection. TB is the most common opportunistic infection seen in HIV patients...