conclusions lecture and educational package can both improve some dimensions of the qol in patients with hypertension. however, as pamphlets are cheap and easy to use, this method may be used as an effective method for self-care education in health care settings in iran, where the system is faced with nursing shortage. results no significant differences were observed between the three groups fo...

Methods for the Behavioral, Educational, and Social Sciences (MBESS; Kelley, 2007b) is an open source package for R (R Development Core Team, 2007b), an open source statistical programming language and environment. MBESS implements methods that are not widely available elsewhere, yet are especially helpful for the idiosyncratic techniques used within the behavioral, educational, and social scie...

Taxpayers shelter income from taxation both through illegal evasion and legal avoidance. This tax sheltering creates a difference between a household’s actual income and what it reports to the tax authorities. While tax sheltering is a central concern for designing a tax system, the private nature of this behavior complicates evaluating the magnitude and determinants of such behavior. In this p...

Video is taken advantage of in different educational settings. In the simplest cases, teachers might present movies on video to their students in the classroom. In more advanced cases, videos might be made during exercise and training in order to provide visual and dynamic feedback to the trainees, for example. In educational settings, very often videos are watched, commented on and analyzed in...

The monist-project has committed itself to the task of developing recipes for the use of simulations in higher education in neural and cognitive science. The basis of the monist-project is a software package, the monist console, designed for providing compact, ready to use educational simulations with variable application context. The monist console is a client-server application supporting onl...