Self-esteem, perceived social support, social capital, and risk-behavior among urban high school adolescents in NepalAdolescenceRisk-behaviorSelf-esteemPerceived social supportSocial capitalAdolescence is not only characterized by a period of exploration and experimentation but also by vulnerability to risk...
High school students absolutely can study abroad. In fact, there are programs designed specifically for high school students to gain international experience, make new friends, and fully immerse themselves in another country as a student at a high school abroad! Although not all school districts in...
A friend who had done the Medical Programme for High School Students said that if I was undecided about going to Med school, then I should take part in the programme. Now, as a medical student (awaiting my 1st anatomy exam) I can say that my journey in Nepal with Projects Abroad has ...
were the least preferred strategies by Nepalese high school students. Some pedagogical implications of these findings have been discussed at the end. Department of Mathematics Education, Tribhuvan University, Mahendra Ratna Campus Tahachal, Kathmandu, Nepal Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College ...
I did get sick in Nepal, but it was mostly stomach sickness. No headaches or anything like that. Mom didn’t feel a headache until we got pretty high up. We noticed a lot of people dropping; a lot of people bused into Manang, and from there, it’s a two-day hike up to the ba...
Like many high school graduates, Maggie Doyne didn't go straight to college. She decided to travel and arrived in western Nepal in 2006. A war had just ended there and left many children living on the streets. They were often forced to work at hard physical jobs for little money.One day...
Countries will know that they are on the way towards a high-quality, accountable health system when health workers and policymakers choose to receive health care in their own public institutions. Introduction The past 20 years have been called a golden age for global health.1 Fuelled by a ...
In this process, a seed node vi transitions to the next node based on the structure matrix A with probability a, and hops to other nodes based on the attribute proximity matrix S with probability 1 À a. The first-degree link between nodes vi and vj is represented as follows: P1ij ...
In the contiguous external drainage area, such as the eastern Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes, the topographic relief is comparatively high and quite different from that of the internal drainage region (Figs. 1 and 2). So far, a series of studies have been conducted to constrain the tectonic ...
‘acclimatization vs. adaptation’. And what doctors in the United States need to know is that, just because a person lives at high altitude in the United States, we may be acclimatized, but we are not adapted, like the natives of La Paz and Nepal. So therefore we don’t have ...