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Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract In many low‐ and middle‐income countries, social insurance provides basic pension benefits with limited cover for illness and care costs, while private insurance markets are underdeveloped. Using an online survey of retirement portfolio choices in urban China, we examined the stated demand for longevity, critical illness, and long‐term care ...
Cheng Wan +3 more
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Defecation in preparation for ecdysis drives microplastic clearance in cricket nymphs
Physiological Entomology, EarlyView.In preparation for ecdysis, cricket nymphs cease feeding and gradually clear their gut contents via frass production, which removes most ingested MPs from their digestive tract. Following exoskeletal moulting, the foregut lining, including any remaining MPs, is shed and excreted alongside frass approximately 6 h later.
Jennie E. Mills +3 more
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Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2013 In 2001 excavations in Rue Jean Moulin in Uckange (Moselle) revealed part of a Roman cemetery. The site has returned several human cremations and a quadrangular building, maybe an enclosure or an ustrinum, all dated to the 2nd–3rd century AD. Furthermore,
Arnaud Lefebvre +4 more
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Animal remains from the 4th-5th century AD well at São Miguel de Odrinhas, Sintra, Portugal
, 2017 A escavação dos depósitos de preenchimento de um poço na villa romana de São Miguel de Odrinhas, em Sintra, Portugal, datados dos séculos IV/V d.C., revelou mais de 700 ossos identificáveis de mamíferos e de aves. A maior parte dos ossos de vaca, ovelha/cabra e porco correspondem provavelmente a restos de comida.
Davis, Simon, Gonçalves, Alexandre
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A Tale of Two Choices: Son Preference and Reproductive Outcomes in Uzbekistan
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this study, we use data from the recent round of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted between 2021 and 2022 to estimate the effect of son preference on reproductive behavior in Uzbekistan. We find strong evidence for differential stopping and spacing behavior among Uzbek women.
Khilola Dushamova +3 more
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Support for collective argumentation in integrated STEM: A study of elementary teachers' practice
School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.Abstract Argumentation is an important practice and an explicit goal in educational standards in multiple STEM disciplines. In this descriptive study of elementary teachers' practice, we draw on established frameworks to analyze teacher support for collective argumentation in integrated STEM. We watched over 100 h of video of classroom instruction from
Jenna Menke +6 more
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Internet ArchaeologyArchaeological mitigation undertaken by Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd at Bicker Fen, Lincolnshire, uncovered the remains of two distinctly different enclosure systems situated on a raised roddon (the dried raised bed of a watercourse).
Kim Gaunt +2 more
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Voices of Elementary Teachers: Why Science Instruction Is Nearing Extinction
School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT National survey data dating to the 1980 has pointed to a lack of science instruction provided to United States elementary students. With changing social, technical, and political landscapes, more research is warranted. This study utilized qualitative methods to drill deeper into the decision making of late first‐quarter 21st century elementary
Molly Weinburgh
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Potential health benefits of cold‐water immersion: the central role of PGC‐1α
The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend Cold‐water immersion (CWI) elicits autonomic, somato‐motoric (shivering thermogenesis), endocrine and metabolic, sensory transduction, and local biophysical effects that may converge on the transcriptional co‐activator PGC‐1α (centre).
Erich Hohenauer +2 more
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Archaeologia PolonaThe article presents materials related to the existence of Tyras in the late Roman period. Based on the available data, it is assumed that there were two phases in the existence of the city in Late Antiquity.
Oleh Saveliev
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