background: training medical students in tobacco prevention and cessation skills is critical to have competent physicians who are prepared to address the grave levels of morbidity and mortality associated with tobacco use. medical students should possess adequate knowledge of the risks of tobacco use and acquire appropriate skills for helping their patients in smoking prevention and cessation. ...

background: pedestrian injuries are a significant source of mortality and disability among children and prevention of it requires educational strategies and comprehensive approaches. this study was done to determine the effect of health education based on planned behavior theory (tpb) in promotion of safe behaviors in crossing the road among students, who are in four-grade in the primary school...

conclusions the individual characteristics, educational background and admission criteria had showed relation with academic failure. vulnerable students should be identified and educational supports should be provided for these students. results the frequency of course repetition, probation, and delayed graduation was reported to be 19.25%, 3.9% and 19.85%, respectively. gaining low grade in hi...

We present an approach to text simplification based on synchronous dependency grammars. Our main contributions in this work are (a) a study of how automatically derived lexical simplification rules can be generalised to enable their application in new contexts without introducing errors, and (b) an evaluation of our hybrid system that combines a large set of automatically acquired rules with a ...

We present the first attempt at using sequence to sequence neural networks to model text simplification (TS). Unlike the previously proposed automated TS systems, our neural text simplification (NTS) systems are able to simultaneously perform lexical simplification and content reduction. An extensive human evaluation of the output has shown that NTS systems achieve almost perfect grammaticality...

As technology continues to disrupt education at nearly all levels from K–12 to college and beyond, the challenges of understanding the impact technology has on teaching continue to mount. One critical area that yet remains open, is examining teachers’ usage of technology by specifically collecting detailed data of their technology use, developing techniques to analyze that data and then finding...

As the health care professionals of tomorrow, the students of today are the future of our profession and will shape both dentistry and dental education. To provide historical perspective on today's students, this article summarizes trends in the demographics of allied, predoctoral, and advanced dental students in the United States over the past seventy-five years and reviews efforts made to pro...

The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (Toronto Rehab) is a current leader in the movement of interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives in Ontario, Canada. Nine students from seven different health care disciplines, including medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy, social work, and speech language pathology participated in the second IPE clinical placement in the win...

________________________ Date i ABSTRACT Environmental education: improving student achievement Oksana Bartosh The present research, being one strand of the Environmental Education Consortium's longer research effort, aims to study the impact of environmental education (EE) programs on student achievement in traditional subjects such as math, reading and writing. By comparing " environmental sc...

english abstracts / 11 ibn anbari s principles and style in the book al-ensaf fi masael al-khelaf eisa motaghi zadeh * majid mohammadi ** abstract after combing arabic language with non arabic and expanding the issue of diction, linguists tried to preserve the quran language, consequently they decided to legislate some special rules for facilitating the teaching of arabic grammar. very soon, su...