Why Students Drop Out of School: A Review of 25 Years of Research

Reviews research on the underlying causes of the high school dropout crisis -- individual and institutional characteristics that predict whether a student is likely to drop out of high school. Discusses student engagement, deviance, and other models

Investments In The Development Of Human Capital: Rate Of Return To Investments In Tertiary Education In Malaysia For The Year 2000 [LC67.6. L732 2005 f rb] [Microfiche 8542].

Pada lazimnya, orang yang mempunyai tahap pendidikan yang lebih tinggi menerima upahan yang lebih tinggi. Usually, people with higher levels of education receive higher levels of earnings

Cancer Survival Experiences Retold Through Web Portal

The purpose of this paper is to examine the experience of cancer survivors while they are still a patient of cancer. Their reflections were documented in video form and published via a web portal entitled ‘Share’. Besides that, this paper also seeks to understand the impact of experience retold via the portal to media users who are generally the support group members. This research uses a qualitative approach which involved five cancer survivors for the actual interviews while two cancer survivors for pilot interviews. The researcher conducted in-depth interviews with empathetic listening approach in order to collect the cancer survivor’s experience. Maslow’s Theory of Motivation is adopted as a conceptual framework for guiding the research particularly in framing the interview questions that focuses on exploring the physiological, safety, love and belonging needs of cancer survivors which is the first three levels discussed in Maslow’s theory. A survey is disseminated to the support group to understand their perception towards the Share’s portal. The results informed that the cancer survivors needs have been identified accordingly to the first three levels of Maslow’s theory. The cancer survivors’ needs were similar to each other when they were still patients. Their sharing intention was high, because they had reached a certain level of attitude compared to the time when they are healthy after experiencing a bigger challenge in their lives. As for the feedbacks from the support group majority of the feedbacks support the role of this portal to keep them connected and agreed on the importance to have such a portal to cater to their support group. This study enables the researcher to understand the experience sharing process and learning from the cancer survivors. Besides that, this study offers a better understanding of the needs of cancer patients. This study benefits the cancer support group in Malaysia because of the fundamental needs for the cancer support group to enable them to have a better knowledge, experiences, and advice sharing to new cancer patients. Such information offers the community a better understanding of the needs of cancer patients based on Maslow’s Theory of Needs. Maslow’s Theory is widely used in the healthcare and hospice study in the recent year

Investments In The Development Of Human Capital: Rate Of Return T0 Investments In Tertiary Education In Malaysia For The Year 2000

Pada lazimnya, orang yang mempunyai tahap pendidikan yang lebih tinggi menerima upahan yang lebih tinggi. Usually, people with higher levels of education receive higher levels of earning

Investments in the development of human capital : rate of return to investments in tertiary education in Malaysia for the year 2000

Pada lazimnya, orang yang mempunyai tahap pendidikan yang lebih tinggi menerima upahan yang lebih tinggi. Perkara ini adalah selaras dengan Tiori Modal Insan yang menyatakan upahan yang lebih diterima kerana peningkatan produktiviti akibat daripada lebihan modal insan yang terbentuk melalui pendidikan. Ini menjadikan pendidikan sebagai suatu item pelaburan. Sesungguhnya, jika pendidikan merupakan suatu item pelaburan, maka ahli-ahli ekonomi dan para pendidik sudah tentu ingin mengetahui akan tahap keberuntungan pelaburan ini. Usually, people with higher levels of education receive higher levels of earnings. This conforms to the Human Capital Theory which postulates that higher levels of earnings are earned because of higher productivity resulting from more human capital formed through more education. This makes education an investment item. If indeed education is an investment item, then economists and educationists would surely like to know its profitability as an investment

Kesan Imputasi Ke Atas Penganggaran Pekali Kebolehitlakan.

Kejadian data hilang menimbulkan masalah ketaksaksamaan anggaran parameter bagi kebanyakan penyelidikan dan eksperimen sains. Imputasi merupakan salah satu penyelesaian yang sering digunakan dalam menangani masalah data hilang. The occurrence of missing data brought about problems of parameter estimation bias to most research and science experiments. Imputation is one of the means frequently used in handling problems of missing data

Ru-Catalyzed, cis-Selective Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Various Monomers, Including a Dendronized Macromonomer, and Implications to Enhanced Shear Stability

An unsaturated polymer’s cis/trans-olefin content has a significant influence on its properties. For polymers obtained by ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), the cis/trans-olefin content can be tuned by using specific catalysts. However, cis-selective ROMP has suffered from narrow monomer scope and lack of control over the polymerization (giving polymers with broad molecular weight distributions and prohibiting the synthesis of block copolymers). Herein, we report the versatile cis-selective controlled living ROMP of various endo-tricyclo[4.2.2.0^(2,5)]deca-3,9-diene and various norbornene derivatives using a fast-initiating dithiolate-chelated Ru catalyst. Polymers with cis-olefin content as high as 99% could be obtained with high molecular weight (up to M_n of 105.1 kDa) and narrow dispersity (<1.4). The living nature of the polymerization was also exploited to prepare block copolymers with high cis-olefin content for the first time. Furthermore, owing to the successful control over the stereochemistry and narrow dispersity, we could compare cis- and trans-rich polynorbornene and found the former to have enhanced resistance to shear degradation