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MRIMS Journal of Health Sciences, 2017 Background: Tobacco in both smoked and smokeless forms is a major killer world wide. It is responsible for100 million premature deaths in the 20th century, and if the current trends of tobacco use continue, this number is expected to rise to 1 billion in
Ved P Kulkarni, P Prabhakar Varma
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Multicast in DKS(N, k, f) Overlay Networks [PDF]
, 2003 Recent developments in the area of peer-to-peer computing show that structured overlay networks implementing distributed hash tables scale well and can serve as infrastructures for Internet scale applications.
Ali Ghodsi +4 more
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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation [PDF]
We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem.
Boucher, Vincent +3 more
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The Economics of Education: Vouchers and Peer Group Effects [PDF]
Lessons from the history of US school reforms and empirical analysis have painted a picture of schools as complex institutions producing a product that is influenced by the various choices made by parents and school bureaucracies who respond to ...
Thomas J Nechyba
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Group Cooperation Under Alternative Peer Punishment Technologies: An Experiment. [PDF]
This paper experimentally studies peer punishment under three alternative technologies. We find that the choice of peer punishment technology has a substantial impact on group performance.
Casari, Marco, Luini, Luigi
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مراقبت پرستاری و مامایی ابن سینا, 2020 Background & Aim: Caring for a child with cancer can be deeply frustrating for parents with high levels of anxiety and psychological distress. Parents who suffer from high psychological stress have poorer performance in the family and health-related ...
Fereshteh Ghaljaei +4 more
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People Living with HIV Experiences from Peer Support: A Meta-Synthesis [PDF]
International Journal of Community Based Nursing and MidwiferyBackground: Peer support groups play a crucial role in enhancing the psychosocial well-being ofpeople living with HIV (PLHIV), and understanding their experiences is essential for optimizing theirimpact.
Syamikar Syamsir +6 more
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The Effect of Peer Group Education on Anxiety of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis [PDF]
مجله ایرانی آموزش در علوم پزشکی, 2012 Introduction: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic diseases of the central nervous system which causes mental disorders including anxiety in patients.
Ali Dehghani +3 more
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Girl Power? An analysis of peer effects using exogenous changes in the gender make-up of the peer group. [PDF]
The effect of a child’s peers has long been regarded as an important factor in affecting their educational outcomes. However, these effects are often difficult to estimate.
Steven Proud
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