There is very little reported information concerning the participation of older adults in diabetes education and care programs, factors related to their attendance, and the influence of attendance on program outcomes. In this study, which was part of a larger study of insulin therapy, subjects (> or = 65 years old) assigned to the intensive management group (n = 53) were provided with education...

Class attendance of computer science courses in higher education is typically not overwhelming. Anecdotal reports and the authors’ experiences with a low-resource mode of peer instruction indicated increased class attendance after a lecture with such concept tests. This has been evaluated systematically with a 3-year computer science module using a medium-resource, software-based, Audience Resp...

We extend the gym-attendance study of Charness and Gneezy (2009) by incentivizing subjects to attend the gym for a month, observing their preand post-treatment attendance relative to a control group, and eliciting subjects’ preand post-treatment predictions of their post-treatment attendance. We find a habit formation effect similar to that of Charness and Gneezy in the shortrun, but with subst...

Women in developing countries generally lack access to cervical cancer preventive services. An audit was performed in rural South Africa to test the hypothesis that women do not follow (pre-)cancerous cervical disease treatment sufficiently, to understand the possible reasons for this non-attendance behavior, and to evaluate other published diagnostic and treatment initiatives. Based on Pap sme...

In this paper, I provide new evidence from High School and Beyond (HSB) on the effects of compulsory attendance on high school completion and future youth unemployment. I develop Bayesian estimation approaches to the simultaneous equation model with ordered probit and two-limit censored regression and the bivariate duration model, accounting for the heterogeneity in returns to education and the...

This study integrates research linking academic performance with individual differences and class attendance. Whereas individual differences (ability, traits) are not controllable by students, students can control their attendance, study and work. Thus we sought to determine the extent to which ‘‘control’’ and ‘‘no control’’ variables predict academic performance. With N = 338, measures of verb...

The author presents new evidence on the effects of attendance on academic performance. He used a large panel data set for introductory microeconomics students to explicitly take into account the effect of unobservable factors correlated with attendance, such as ability, effort, and motivation. He found that neither proxy variables nor instrumental variables provide a solution to the omitted var...

Taking Attendance manually is a very tedious job and wastes a lot of time too. The existing biometric attendance also wastes a lot of time as it is not automatic and also requires the involvement of the students too. The work described aims at automating the whole process. The camera installed will take a picture of the whole classroom, followed by detecting individual faces in the image, recog...

We are proposing a system of employee attendance & security system using face and Biometric integrated with Smart RFID cards using Arduino.With this proposed system the drawback of existing RFID attendance system such as dual or multi entry with single card or miss use of the cards can be prevented. The existing RFID based attendance system has been enhanced with the integration of face recogni...

This study aims to analyze the association between religious attendance, self-reported religiousness, depression, and several health factors in 170 older adults from a Brazilian outpatient setting. A comprehensive assessment was conducted including sociodemographic characteristics, religious attendance, self-reported religiousness, functional status, depression, pain, hospitalization, and menta...