Universities

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Rating, ranking, and understanding acoustical quality in university classrooms.

Nonoptimal classroom acoustical conditions directly affect speech perception and, thus, learning by students. Moreover, they may lead to voice problems for the instructor, who is forced to raise his/her voice when lecturing to compensate for poor ...
Murray Hodgson (J Acoust Soc Am, 200208)
rating-ranking-understanding-acoustical-quality-university-classrooms.asp

162.

French descriptions of Wundts laboratory in Leipzig in 1886.

Translations are provided of extracts from reports by the French-speaking scholars Alfred Grafé and Emile Durkheim concerning the instructional procedures in place at Wundts Institute for Experimental Psychology in Leipzig in the summer of 1886. It is ...
Serge Nicolas, Valérie Gyselinck, David J Murray, Christina A Bandomir (Psychol Res, 200208)
french-descriptions-wundt-s-laboratory-leipzig-in.asp

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Knowledge about blood donation among a sample of Thai university students.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Blood banks in Thailand use only a voluntary donation system. Although this has been established for many years, the quantity of blood is still insufficient. Knowledge about blood donation and attitudes toward it are ...
V Wiwanitkit (Vox Sang, 200208)
knowledge-blood-donation-sample-thai-university-students.asp

164.

Participant satisfaction with a school telehealth education program using interactive compressed video delivery methods in rural Arkansas.

Socioeconomic and demographic factors can affect the impact of telehealth education programs that use interactive compressed video technology. This study assessed program satisfaction among participants in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ...
Ann B Bynum, Charles O Cranford, Cathy A Irwin, George S Denny (J Sch Health, 200208)
participant-satisfaction-school-telehealth-education-program.asp

165.

Fee-paying systems and service patterns in a Hong Kong dental clinic.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe and compare patients consumption of dental services and dentists productivity in a university campus clinic before and after changing from a time-based to an item-based fee-paying system. METHOD: Data were ...
Edward C M Lo, Jasmine C Y Y Yeung, C H Chu (Int Dent J, 200208)
fee-paying-systems-service-patterns-hong-kong-dental-clinic.asp

166.

Psychosocial correlates of death anxiety among Chinese college students.

This study aims to explore various psychosocial correlates associated with how Chinese react to death and dying. A total of 282 Chinese college students participated in this study. They completed the Death Anxiety Scale, the Revised Death Anxiety Scale, ...
Catherine So-Kum Tang, Anise M S Wu, Elsie C W Yan (Death Stud, 200207-08)
psychosocial-correlates-death-anxiety-chinese-college-students.asp

167.

Establishing a doctor of philosophy program in nursing in an historically black college or University.

The planning and implementing of a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program at Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, LA (SUBR), an Historically Black College or University (HBCU), are discussed. The steps for initiating this new ...
Enrica Kinchen Singleton, Janet Simmons Rami (ABNF J, 200207-08)
establishing-doctor-philosophy-program-nursing-historically-black.asp

168.

A collaborative model: twenty healthcare agencies and academic institutions share resources to educate preceptors.

The Boston Collaborative Learning Group (BCLG), a 20-member consortium of healthcare agencies and academic institutions, originated in 1996 in response to a demand for innovative cost-effective measures. Directors of Staff Development and academicians ...
Katherine Barry Frame, Marsha J Ballantyne, Susan C Haussler, Patricia McLaughlin, Elizabeth C Kudzma, Jane M Murphy, Barbara Hazard Munro (J Nurses Staff Dev, 200207-08)
collaborative-model-twenty-healthcare-agencies-academic-institutions.asp

169.

Clarifying the contribution of subjective norm to predicting leisure-time exercise.

OBJECTIVE: To clarify the contribution of subjective norm to exercise intention and behavior by considering the influence of descriptive as well as injunctive social norms related to family and friends. METHODS: A sample of 530 college students completed ...
Morris A Okun, Paul Karoly, Rafer Lutz (Am J Health Behav, 200207-08)
clarifying-contribution-subjective-norm-predicting-leisure-time.asp

170.

Assessing student staff motivation and satisfaction to strengthen health education services.

A student staff inquiry project in the department of health education at a large state university assessed the motivation and satisfaction of student staff and peer educators. The students who managed this Student Inquiry Project created the interview ...
Brian R Grossman, Fern Walter Goodhart (J Am Coll Health, 200207)
assessing-student-staff-motivation-satisfaction-strengthen-health.asp