Boredom is typically regarded a nuisance. Past research on boredom depicts this common emotion as a correlate of many detrimental psychological and social factors, including addiction, depression, discrimination, and ...

Objective-To examine the consistency of survey estimates ofpatient satisfaction with interpersonal aspects of hospital experience. Design-Interview and postal surveys, evidence from three independent population surveys ...

The purpose of this investigation was to determine if online activities could improve attitude and academic achievement in Science with a group of students at secondary level education. The problems with homework are ...

Background: In Botswana, one fifth of the adult population is infected with HIV, with young women most at risk. Structural factors such as poverty, poor education, strong gender inequalities and gender violence render many ...

Developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have had a major impact on all areas of human development. Governments have recognised the enormous significance of knowledge society developments on the ...

Background - Verbs are known to be central to sentence production (Levelt 1989). Children with SLI (CwSLI) have been found to have significant difficulty with both verb knowledge and the production of sentences around ...

Background: Children with specific language impairment (CwSLI) exhibit significant difficulties in language ability affecting areas such verb knowledge and verb production, producing fewer verbs and verb argument structures ...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) is the most common chromosomal abnormality in females and is associated with several co-morbidities. It commonly results from X monosomy which is diagnosed on a 30 cell karyotype. Congenital ...

Objective: Older spousal caregivers of dementia patients have been found to show a relatively poor antibody response to medical vaccination. The present case control study compared the antibody responses to vaccination ...

The purpose of this study was to work with a group of disengaged teenage girls to understand and help them transform their self-identified barriers to their physical education engagement and physical activity participation. ...