With the ever-increasing diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, methylphenidate has become readily accessible in the college environment. Several properties of methylphenidate indicate abuse liability. A survey regarding the recreational use of methylphenidate was distributed to the student body at a public, liberal arts college. More than 16% of the students reported they had t...

This is a studio report of researches and projects in SUAC (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture). SUAC was founded in April 2000, and organized NIME04 as you know. SUAC has "Faculty of Design" and "Department of Art and Science" and all students study interactive systems and media arts. SUAC has organized Media Art Festival (MAF) from 2001 to 2005. Domestic/overseas artists participated in S...

N 1998, A POLL OF UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS conducted by U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Arkansas fifty-third in academic reputation among the fifty-four schools of the nation’s five major athletic conferences. Also in 1998, the University of Arkansas increased the number of first-year students scoring in the ninety-fifth percentile on standardized entrance tests by 42 percent. It ...

introduction. this study was designed to measure the attitude of the medical students’ of jahrom school of medical sciences in basic and clinical stages and the approach they have to their course of study and future occupation. methods. a questionnaire was handed out in which some items such as sex, final high school scores, term average scores, patient’s education and the assigned students wer...

Faculty from four disciplines at a small Liberal Arts College in an American Midwestern city collaborated on an interdisciplinary pre-service project. Students in nursing, physical therapy, social work and special education voluntarily participated in one of two group methods of teaching. The purpose of this study was to examine whether students learn interprofessional teaming more effectively ...

Novice writers face significant challenges as they learn to master the broad range of skills that contribute to composition. Novice and expert writers differ considerably, and devising effective composition support tools for novice writers requires a clear understanding of the process and products of writing. This paper reports on a study conducted with more than one hundred middle grade studen...

198 © 2013 Joel D. Howell et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. Medicine is not fundamentally based on molecules, neither are patients nor their physicians merely collections of organs. To truly care for their patients, physicians need to e...

Abstract Background This paper explores the epistemologies and discourse of undergraduate students at transdisciplinary intersection engineering arts. Our research questions focus on kinds knowledge that value, use, identify within an interdisciplinary digital media program, as well how they talk about using these while navigating this intersection. Six interviews were conducted with pursuing a...