Students

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Tobacco use by university students, Lebanon, 2001.

AIMS: The objective was to determine the prevalence of smoking [cigarettes and/or narghile (i.e. water-pipe)] among university students and to examine multiple correlates. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Beirut, Lebanon. PARTICIPANTS: A proportionate ...
Hala Tamim, Abdallah Terro, Hania Kassem, Adline Ghazi, Tarek Abou Khamis, Maher M Abdul Hay, Umayya Musharrafieh (Addiction, 200307)
tobacco-university-students-lebanon.asp

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Reading disappearing text: cognitive control of eye movements.

Participants read sentences containing high- or low-frequency target words under normal reading conditions or disappearing-text conditions (in which the word that was fixated disappeared after 60 ms). Even though the fixated word had disappeared after 60 ...
Keith Rayner, Simon P Liversedge, Sarah J White, Dorine Vergilino-Perez (Psychol Sci, 200307)
reading-disappearing-text-cognitive-control-eye-movements.asp

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Effect of social category priming on personal attitudes.

In four studies, we examined the spontaneous activation of specific attitudes related to social categories. These studies investigated whether priming participants with concepts associated with the elderly and skinheads influenced participants attitudes. ...
Kerry Kawakami, John F Dovidio, Ap Dijksterhuis (Psychol Sci, 200307)
effect-social-category-priming-personal-attitudes.asp

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Health literacy education and training: a student-professional collaboration.

A Healthy People 2010 objective is to improve the health literacy of persons with inadequate or marginal literacy skills. We designed a nutrition education module for dietetics students that allowed learning about health literacy while teaching this ...
Nancy Cotugna, Connie E Vickery (J Am Diet Assoc, 200307)
health-literacy-education-training-student-professional-collaboration.asp

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Smoking behaviour among arts student of a college in Mangalore, Dakshina Kannada.

176 Arts students out of 450 students doing their under-graduation in an age range of 17 to 24 years returned a questionnaire designed to test their level of knowledge about smoking, attitude towards smoking and practice of smoking. 96.6% of the ...
B S Sajjan, J Chacko, K Asha (Indian J Med Sci, 200307)
smoking-behaviour-arts-student-college-mangalore-dakshina-kannada.asp

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Paranoia in a nonclinical population of college students.

The present study examined the incidence of paranoid ideation in a nonclinical population. A sample of 324 college students completed a questionnaire assessing their personal experiences of paranoia, with an emphasis on the cognitive, behavioral, and ...
Lyn Ellett, Barbara Lopes, Paul Chadwick (J Nerv Ment Dis, 200307)
paranoia-nonclinical-population-college-students.asp

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A complexity theory model in science education problem solving: random walks for working memory and mental capacity.

The present study examines the role of limited human channel capacity from a science education perspective. A model of science problem solving has been previously validated by applying concepts and tools of complexity theory (the working memory, random ...
Dimitrios Stamovlasis, Georgios Tsaparlis (Nonlinear Dynamics Psychol Life Sci, 200307)
complexity-theory-model-science-education-problem-solving-random.asp

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Ifs, maybes and butts: factors influencing staff enforcement of pupil smoking restrictions.

Levels of pupil smoking are reported to be associated with the extent to which school staff consistently enforce smoking restrictions. Little is known, however, about factors which might motivate or discourage staff from doing so. Following analysis of ...
J Gordon, K M Turner (Health Educ Res, 200306)
ifs-maybes-butts-factors-influencing-staff-enforcement-pupil-smoking.asp

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Longitudinal shifts in exercise stages of change in college students.

AIM: The protective health benefits of regular physical activity are well established. To date, few studies have assessed the prevalence of exercise behavior and factors influencing exercise adoption and maintenance among college students. The purpose of ...
L S Wallace, J Buckworth (J Sports Med Phys Fitness, 200306)
longitudinal-shifts-exercise-stages-change-college-students.asp

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Peer sexual harassment in adolescence: the function of gender.

The author describes the sexual harassment experiences of 565 male and female students in Grades 9 through 11 and discusses the influence of the social construction of gender on those experiences. The sample was drawn from 12 schools in 2 Canadian ...
V Susan Dahinten (Can J Nurs Res, 200306)
peer-sexual-harassment-adolescence-function-gender.asp