Exposure to Dishwashing Liquid Assessed in University Students from Brest City: A Preliminary Study—A First Approach to Household Products Exposure in France

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1608-1628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Ramirez-Martinez ◽  
Nathalie Wesolek ◽  
Typhaine Morisset ◽  
Carolanne Coyat ◽  
Dominique Parent-Massin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Household Products ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Dishwashing Liquid

Developing a New Shadowing Procedure for Japanese EFL Learners

RELC Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 003368822093762
Author(s):  
Yo Hamada
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Explicit Instruction ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Primary Study ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Japanese University ◽  
Speakers Of Other Languages ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Preliminary Study

Shadowing, a practice of repeating what one hears as simultaneously and accurately as possible, has been researched in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) field for years. The research findings have shown that shadowing contributes to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ bottom-up listening skills, which leads to their overall listening comprehension skills. However, the accumulated research findings have not uncovered what aspects of bottom-up skills shadowing precisely contributes to. Thus, this study attempts to examine the aspects of bottom-up skills to which shadowing contributes and proposes a new shadowing procedure to compensate for the limitation of the current shadowing procedure. To this end, a preliminary study and a primary study were conducted. In the preliminary study, the bottom-up skill development through shadowing practice was precisely examined, using a 112-item bottom-up listening test. Thirty-six Japanese university students participated in the experiment and engaged in shadowing practice in eight lessons for a month. The result showed that shadowing practice was effective for developing the skill of identifying prominence in a speech, and word recognition skills but not effective for enhancing phonemic discrimination skills. In the primary study, to overcome the limitation of the shadowing procedure, a new shadowing procedure including three components of attention to output, corrective feedback, and explicit instruction was proposed. Twelve Japanese university students participated and engaged in the new shadowing procedure for three months. Their progress was assessed by a 32-item phonemic discrimination test, and the result showed that the new output-based shadowing procedure with explicit instruction and corrective feedback improved phonemic discrimination skills for intermediate level Japanese EFL learners.

SEX ON CAMPUS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN DELHI, INDIA

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. SACHDEV
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
University Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Sexual Knowledge ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Eight hundred and eighty-seven students from two major universities in Delhi, India, were surveyed, using a self-administered questionnaire, about their sexual knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. The data show that female students seem to be rejecting traditional Indian repressive sexual standards of premarital and non-procreative sex and the gender differences are beginning to narrow. Despite their sexual awareness, the students were highly ignorant of the facts of life. Being male and married did not make them more knowledgeable.

Finger Prints and Personality Scores

1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 1021-1022
Author(s):  
Dagmar Schaefer ◽  
M. A. Persinger
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Finger Print ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Left Middle

200 university students were tested to determine whether or not different types of finger prints were associated with personality test data. Comparisons were made between the three main finger-print types: loop, whorl and arch, on each of the 10 digits for each scale on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF). Subjects with arches on their left index fingers or left middle fingers scored significantly higher on the Neuroticism factor (forthright versus shrewd) than people who had whorls on these fingers. However, no obvious large or simple relationships were found in this preliminary study between the 16 PF scores and finger-print types.

scholarly journals USING CLOZE PASSAGES TO ESTIMATE READABILITY FOR RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: PRELIMINARY STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
J. D. Brown ◽  
G. Janssen ◽  
J. Trace ◽  
L Kozhevnikova
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
First Language ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Function Words ◽  
Cloze Procedure ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Highly Correlated

This preliminary study examines the relationships between each of six first language (L1) readability indexes and the cloze passage mean performances of Russian EFL students. The cloze passages were created by randomly selecting 50 text passages from an American public library and deleting every 12th word in each passage to create a 30-item cloze procedure. The participants were 5170 EFL students from 38 universities in theRussian Federation. Each student was randomly assigned to take one of the 30-item cloze passages. The L1 readability indexes calculated for each of the 50 passages were the Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, Fry, Gunning, Fog, and modified Gunning-Fog indexes. The preliminary results indicate that the L1 readability indexes were moderately to highly correlated with each other, but only somewhat correlated with the mean performances of Russian university students on cloze versions of those same passages. These results are discussed in terms of why the L1 readability indexes are moderately to highly correlated with each other but only somewhat correlated to the Russian EFL means. The authors also explain what they are planning in terms of further linguistic analyses (e.g., of variables like average word length, percent of function words, number of syllables per sentence, number of words per paragraph, frequencies of words in the passages, and so forth) and statistical analyses (including at least factor analysis, multiple regression analyses, and structural equation modeling) of these data. 

scholarly journals Segmenting the Generation Z Cohort University Students Based on Sustainable Food Consumption Behavior: A Preliminary Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene C. Kamenidou ◽  
Spyridon A. Mamalis ◽  
Stavros Pavlidis ◽  
and Evangelia-Zoi G. Bara
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
Regional Food ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Preliminary Study

In-depth knowledge of sustainable food consumption behavior regarding university students, and especially the younger ones, reveals tendencies of the worlds’ sustainable future. This study aims to explore the sustainable food consumption behavior of the Generation Z cohort (18–23 years of age) that is studying at Greek universities and living away from home, and to segment them according to their behavior. Quantitative research was implemented with an online questionnaire, which resulted in a collection of 252 valid samples. The results revealed that the focus of sustainable food consumption behavior is limited to eating seasonal fruits and vegetables and purchasing regional food. Additionally, it identified two student segments based on sustainable food consumption behavior.

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