Group Of Young Students Research Articles

How to avoid the faster-is-slower effect in competitive evacuation?

The faster-is-slower (FIS) effect is an interesting phenomenon in crowd dynamics. However, the validity of FIS was not universally accepted without objection. A series of experiments was conducted by using a group of young students in a room evacuating through a narrow exit at two locations, i.e. a center exit and a corner exit. The mean time intervals of two consecutive persons passing through a center exit were 1.14 ± 0.09, 1.31 ± 0.43 and 1.42 ± 0.93 s at low, medium and high competitiveness, respectively, i.e. which was the FIS effect. However, the mean time intervals of two consecutive persons passing through a corner exit were 1.04 ± 0.07 and 0.85 ± 0.17 s at low and high competitiveness, respectively, which was contrary to the FIS effect. Furthermore, two series of circulation movement at high competiveness were studied in which all students were required to re-enter the room from another opening after getting out of the room and this process continued until the end of a test. The mean time interval of consecutive persons passing through the exits was around 2.39 ± 4.29 and 0.77 ± 0.25 s for the center exit and corner exit respectively, and the flow rate of the corner exit was around 3 times that of the center exit. The complementary cumulative probability distribution of the time intervals between consecutive students Δt was studied and it followed a power law, i.e. . However, the study showed that alpha alone cannot well represent the efficiency of an evacuation. The experiment demonstrated that the FIS effect can be avoided by relocating the exit to the corner and the flow rate can be greatly improved, particularly in high competiveness conditions.

Innovative Research on “Party History Education” in Colleges and Universities in the New Media Era

At present, new media has become an important channel for young college students to obtain information. The influence of traditional media in the group of young students has gradually weakened. It has become a national strategy to promote the integrated development of traditional media and emerging media and let the mainstream voice master the voice of the network. As an important part of ideological and political work, in the new media era, focusing on the objectives and requirements of “learning history to understand reason, learning history to increase trust, learning history to uphold morality and learning history to practice”, we need to fit in with the characteristics of new media and innovate from a new angle, so as to enhance the sense of the times and attraction of Party history learning and education. This paper focuses on how to realize the organic integration of new media and Party history education in the new era, run through the objectives and requirements of “ learning history to understand reason, learning history to increase trust, learning history to uphold morality and learning history to practice ”, and innovate the content system, operation mechanism and evaluation system of Party history education in the new media era, playing a “combined fist”, in order to promote the learning and education of Party history in colleges and universities to achieve solid results.

Equity in technological higher education. A look from the Subsystem of Technological Universities in Mexico

This work is part of the results of an investigation that is being carried out at the Technological University of Tula-Tepeji with the objective of analyzing the public policy of creation of the Technological Universities Subsystem (SUT) that the Mexican federal government implemented in response to educational equity. The work corresponds to an investigation with an exploratory and analytical approach that began with the study of theories related to equity in education and the educational policies implemented by the federal government in terms of equity to land with a quantitative study of the SUT. An attempt is made to answer the question: In what way has the SUT contributed to reducing situations of educational inequity in groups of young students from the less favored social strata? to assess scope, for now, only with respect to educational inclusion. However, educational equity is a more comprehensive concept that encompasses other dimensions of analysis and not only effective access to higher education, which is why it is proposed in the end to carry out other complementary studies to make a more objective balance. of the results achieved by the SUT.

Investigating the impact of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) to help improve reading comprehension in low performing urban elementary schools

In the United States, literacy rates vary between socio-economic groups, and this reading gap is also a common feature in the education systems of OECD member states. To help address this reading gap previous research has identified a number of teaching strategies that have a positive impact on student learning outcomes, including the use of peer collaboration and complex texts. However, the contribution of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning to help address the reading gap for students attending low performing urban elementary schools has, to date, received much less attention and little is known about the ability of young students with access to the Internet to read complex texts in groups and how this impacts on individual reading comprehension scores. This study therefore examines the impact of combining the use of complex texts, collaborative learning and access to the internet on the reading comprehension scores of 58 fourth-grade students (ages 10-11). The students met once a week for an hour over six consecutive weeks and read under the following three conditions: eighth grade level texts independently, eighth grade level texts in groups with internet access and fourth grade level texts in groups with internet access. Our findings demonstrate that groups of young students with access to the internet are capable of reading complex texts with minimal teacher intervention. We also believe that this approach has the potential to help students develop both their offline and online reading comprehension skills.

Acceptability of HIV self-testing in African students: a cross-sectional survey in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

IntroductionThe empowerment of young people aged 15-24 years is a key component of an effective AIDS response. HIV self-testing (HIVST) is progressively being implemented in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).MethodsSocio-demographic and behavioural factors associated with acceptability of HIVST were evaluated among university students in Bunia, DRC. A representative cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-administered semi-structured questionnaire.ResultsA total of 1,012 students were recruited. Acceptability of unsupervised HIVST was higher in the group of young students as compared with older students and was markedly associated with prior knowledge on HIVST.ConclusionAdapted communication about HIVST appears likely essential to increase the supply and use of HIVST among students in DRC.

Human integration through Olympism education: a pragmatic engagement of youths in a war-torn society

This paper delineates the findings of a mixed methods study that investigated how Olympism education could strengthen competencies of human integration through delivery of physical, social, and critical literacy and conflict resolution literacy. The study introduced a curriculum model integrating Olympism values and conflict resolution strategies for the purpose of facilitating human integration. This integrated curriculum model was then tested among a group of young students who represent the two main ethnic groups Sinhalese and Tamils, in a war-torn society in Sri-Lanka. The intervention of this study provided pragmatic involvement for young students as the representatives of the next generation, in order to teach them the convergence and contradictions of perceptions of social reform ideals through sport. Results revealed that conflict resolution strategies combined with Olympism education integrated curriculum intervention significantly improved young students’ conflict resolution competencies, regardless of their gender or ethnicity. This study demonstrated significant gains in the ability of young students to learn about human integration through learning about Olympism within sport and physical education lessons, in regards to effective conflict resolution.

1703 – Activities group with young students: conflicts identification

Introduction In a public elementary and secondary education school, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, an Extension Project of the University of Sao Paulo that aims to invest in the promotion of physical, mental and social health of a group of students is developed. Structured activities, including games, group activities and experiences are offered, coordinated by nursing students and supervised by a faculty member responsible for the project. Objectives To verify the opinion of a group of students about the school and the roles of significant people; to identify existing conflicts, according to the type of violent acts. Aims To know the circumstances of the interaction of a group of young students with the school and family. Method This qualitative study with participant observation analyzed 3 group meetings conducted with twenty 6th grade students of the elementary school. Results Students’ perceptions about the school and its professionals were different. They considered family members as important people, who take care, place limits, scold and beat. They struggled to establish their role and that of colleagues at school. Colleagues are friends to play with. The following types of violence were identified: physical, psychological and negligence. Conclusion To work on self-esteem, tolerance and cooperation; alleviate conflicts with affective attitudes that express respect; offer educational spaces where young people can take positions, facilitate their interaction and exercise their creativity and reflection preventively collaborate to decrease violence at school. Thus, it may be easier to build models of peaceful coexistence in other social environments.

Thinking inside the box constrained creativity and new technology

Thinking outside of the box is a standard cliché for creativity. Yet an awareness of the boxed nature of new media can empower young students to think creatively about design. This article is a reflection of one teacher who led a group of young students in a series of lessons based on basic design principles related to technology. It is based on classroom experience and research at the University of Central Florida.

Between Cultured Young Men and Mischievous Children: Youth, Transgression, and Protest in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico

This article traces the progression of "youth" in Mexico from 1867 to c. 1900. It argues that the historical "images" of youth that developed during this period are telling as to youth culture, but also reveal much concerning greater societal and national aspirations. As this burgeoning vision of youth took shape in the late nineteenth century, its preeminent expression was the preparatoriano, or the student of the National Preparatory School. This "positivist image" of youth, hitherto overlooked in the historiography, was particularly celebratory and bespoke the transformative nature of the modern state. This group of young students, however, was not homogenous. As the restored nation tried its find its course (through local notions of liberalism and positivism), different notions of youth were imagined, experienced, further defined, and contested. This relationship between official ideology and reality was evident in the subcultural behavior of young men and the reactions these contested images generated among the old or the parent culture. This essay traces the contested relationship between official representation and subculture in the rise of student activism, the appropriation of new and public spaces, the creation of innovative style, and the celebration of an illicit bohemian lifestyle, on the one hand, and in public reaction, on the other.

Image of various providers of sexual health care varies

EDITOR,—Sue Stuart-Smith's editorial on teenage sex1 offers a sobering challenge to those who provide sexual health care for young people.2 Stigma can be a powerful barrier to attendance at a service; conversely, however, image can be harnessed to focus marketing strategy. We present data from a large group of young students that show considerable differences in the market appeal of NHS providers of sexual health care with different names: genitourinary medicine clinics, sexual health clinics, family planning clinics, and general practitioners. Students passing an …

Protein analysis in cerebrospinal fluid. II. Reference values derived from healthy individuals 18-88 years of age.

Analyses of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to determine the blood-CSF barrier function and to detect intrathecal IgG production are used in the diagnosis of neurological and psychiatric diseases. Therefore, accurate reference values for these parameters are of utmost importance. However, current reference values are based on 'reference groups' consisting of patients with psychiatric and/or neurological symptoms but without positive clinical findings and on groups of young students. The present study presents reference values for CSF proteins in a large sample (n = 105) of healthy individuals, with a large age-span (18-88 years of age). The parameter for the determination of the blood CSF barrier function, the CSF/serum (CSF/S) albumin ratio, was found to show an increasing variability in individuals over 45 years of age, suggesting a less stable blood-CSF barrier function than in younger individuals. The upper reference limit for the CSF/S albumin ratio was 6.8 for individuals under 45 years of age and 10.2 for individuals over 45 years of age. The IgG index, a dimensionless quotient for the determination of intrathecal IgG production, showed only a minor correlation with age and had an upper reference limit of 0.63.

An electrophysiological study of semantic processing in young and middle-aged academics.

This study explored age differences in the N400 component, described by Kutas and Hillyard as an index of semantic expectancy. A group of young students and a group of middle-aged academics read a number of congruent and incongruent sentences followed by a recognition task. Age differences were found in both accuracy and speed in the recognition task. The N400 elicited in the reading task was both delayed in latency and reduced in amplitude in the older group. These aging effects could not be attributed to early stimulus input processes because the N1 did not differ between the age groups. A re-averaging of the event-related potentials during reading as a function of subsequent recognition showed a small memory-related positivity for the younger group and a large memory-related positivity for the older group, suggesting a difference in the encoding strategies of the two groups. To check the generalizability of the results of this particular age group, a further task (a memory scanning task) was carried out. The results, a delayed P3b and an increased reaction time, matched those found in the literature.

Learning the law

Dismay and disappointment! These emotions characterised the reactions of a large group of young students questioned recently on their feelings at the end of the first lesson in a course on General Principles of English Law. Dismay at the mass of material which, clearly, had to be digested and assimilated if the subject was to make sense, even at an elementary level. Disappointment at the somewhat arid nature of the subject content which seemed totally removed from the exciting picture of the legal process painted so often by fiction writers and the news media. So it is for many students of the law who must come to terms with its difficulties. There are no short cuts to competence in legal studies; so texts which hold out to the reader a promise that the law will be made easy, or that its essential features will be clarified in ten simple lessons, can give no more than a sketchy outline of some few topics. A difficult journey lies ahead of the young student, whether the goal be ONC/D, HNC/D with a law content, or the law examinations of the professional bodies. But the journey can be made much easier, much more enjoyable, once the inescapable rigours are accepted and precautions taken to mitigate their severity.

Clinical and experimental comparison of diazepam, chlorazepate and placebo

A double blind clinical evaluation of chlorazepate (dipotassium-7-chloro-5-phenyl-2,2-dihydroxy-3-carboxy-1,2-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepine), diazepam and placebo on a patient group of young students, mean age 25 years, is reported. Both drugs were significantly better than placebo and according to global assessment chlorazepate was superior to diazepam. An analysis of the main target symptom revealed better effects of chlorazepate on the following items: anxiety, feeling of muscular tension and gastro-intestinal disturbances. With respect to irritability and sleep disturbances both drugs were found to be equally effective. In patients' self-ratings chlorazepate was considered superior to diazepam in giving more alertness and less drowsiness during day time. The results are discussed with reference to EEG-studies and pharmaco-kinetic properties of chlorazepate and diazepam. Performance tests in simulated car-driving by healthy volunteers did not demonstrate any significant difference as compared with placebo. The psychophysiological eeffects, however, are more pronounced after diazepam than after chlorazepate medication.

Talking to Young Musicians

I had an invitation this year to go to Salzburg for a month. This came from a group of Americans who run what is known as the Salzburg Seminar. The seminars were started by the Harvard Students Council because a group of young students there felt that there ought to be some means, after the recent war, of getting together young Europeans. The idea was to let them study the American way of life, culture and so on: and also to exchange views with each other, to compare notes and discuss what was going on in the various European countries. They thought it especially valuable that young students from the vanquished countries should have a chance of meeting their fellow Europeans, many of them, for the first time. Such a meeting place helps enormously understanding between nations: at least, between the lucky fifty or so a month who manage to get to Schloss Leopoldskron, formerly Max Reinhardt's castle, where the seminars are held.