Students’ satisfaction and teaching efficiency of university offer

This study analyses the factors affecting students’ satisfaction with university experience, focusing on the aspects characterising the teaching efficiency of educational offer. For this purpose, organisation of teaching activities, available information, teaching materials, and other facilities offered to students to make their learning experience more successful, are considered as indicators of teaching efficiency. Our interest in this topic is justified by the importance that students’ satisfaction assumes, not only as indicator of the quality of educational services but also for its relationship with overall life satisfaction and subjective well-being. A structural equation model with latent variables is estimated by using survey and administrative data of the University of Pisa. Main findings seem to show that teaching efficiency has a positive effect on satisfaction and suggest that whenever it is inadequate, or at least, considered as such, students are less satisfied for their university experience. The effects of other factors on students’ satisfaction such as studies organisation, social capital and internship experience are also discussed

Results of alcohol and albendazole injections in hepatic hydatidosis: Experimental study

Background: Percutaneous drainage with alcohol injection for hydatid cysts has been commonly used in the last two decades. Albendazole is the drug of choice in the medical treatment of hydatidosis, and has also been used as an intraoperative scolicidal solution. The side-effects of its local application are not well known and have not been investigated. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of the intracystic injections of alcohol and albendazole solutions on the hydatid cysts and hepatobiliary system of rabbits

Alteration in α-tocopherol, some minerals, and fatty acid contents of wheat through sprouting

In this study, two wheat cultivars (cvs Demir 2000 and Konya 2002) were sprouted at 17 degrees C and 85% relative humidity for 9 days. Then the wheat sprouts were dried and ground. The wheats and their sprouts were analyzed for alpha-tocopherol, some minerals, and fatty acid contents during the sprouting. The alpha-tocopherol contents of cvs Demir 2000 and Konya 2002 were 26.99 and 23.77 mg/kg, respectively, and these values reached 54.62 and 47.19 mg/kg for their sprouts, respectively. Mineral analyses showed that the mineral contents of the sprouts also increased with sprouting. Fatty acids, e.g., 4:0, 6:0, 8:0, and 10:0, could not be detected in the sprouts while some of them, e.g., cis-18:1 and cis,cis-18:2, were decreasing during sprouting, but an increase in 18:3 n3 (omega-3) contents was noted. The results showed that sprouting of wheat grains leads to an increase in some significant functional components

Automatische Textkondensierung mit flexiblem graphikgestuetztem Retrieval und Wissenspraesentation (TWRM-TOPOGRAPHIC) Abschlussbericht

SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RO 3715(15) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

The richer, the happier? an empirical investigation in selected European countries

This study analyses the relationship between subjective and objective measures of well-being in selected European countries using the data of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In the first part of the paper, we develop a random-effect ordered probit model, separately for each country, relating the subjective measure of income satisfaction to actual income, and controlling for some individual and household socio-demographic fixed effects. In the second part of the paper, we fit a Bayesian cross-classified multilevel model, in order to control for intra-family correlation in subjective well-being, which actually appears to be present