Was it worth it? A comparison of the role of adult education and training in the labour market insertion and progress of men and women in the West of Scotland: results of qualitative research [PDF]
Despite a number of relevant longitudinal studies carried out in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the United States of America, there is a relative paucity of research into the long-term outcomes of adult return to learning.
Clayton, P.
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COVID-19 and eating disorder and mental health concerns in patients with eating disorders
Plain English Summary The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders implemented across the world dramatically altered daily life for people of all ages.
Julia A. Vitagliano+8 more
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Background: Wearable cardioverter-defibrillators (WCDs) are currently used in patients at temporarily heightened risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) who are temporarily unable to receive an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD).
Berardo Sarubbi+10 more
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Adult reading teachers’ beliefs about how less-skilled adult readers can be taught to read. [PDF]
Despite large-scale interventions, significant numbers of adults worldwide continue to have problems with basic literacy, in particular in the area of reading. To be effective, adult reading teachers need expert knowledge at practitioner level.
Chapman, Elaine, McHardy, Janet
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Adult Social Work and High Risk Domestic Violence Cases [PDF]
Summary This article focuses on adult social work’s response in England to high-risk domestic violence cases and the role of adult social workers in Multi-Agency Risk and Assessment Conferences. (MARACs).
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Effects of density experience on mate guarding behavior by adult male Kanzawa spider mites [PDF]
In the Kanzawa spider mite, Tetranychus kanzawai (Acari: Tetranychidae), adult males guard pre-reproductive quiescent females. I experimentally examined the effects of density experience during development and/or after adult emergence on precopulatory ...
Oku, K.
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Sox9 and Sox8 protect the adult testis from male-to-female genetic reprogramming and complete degeneration. [PDF]
The new concept of mammalian sex maintenance establishes that particular key genes must remain active in the differentiated gonads to avoid genetic sex reprogramming, as described in adult ovaries after Foxl2 ablation.
Bakkali, Mohammed+9 more
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Access to care and worsening eating disorder symptomatology in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Plain ENGLISH summary The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on our global community’s mental health, in particular those struggling with psychiatric illnesses, such as eating disorders (ED).
Rebecca Spigel+7 more
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Contradictions in adult education structures and policies in Austria: their interrelation with the professional development of educators [PDF]
This article analyses the structural influences on the professional development of adult educators and their relation to education policy using Austria as a fairly average example of the diversity in European adult education.
Lassnigg, Lorenz
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Age and employment: a picture of the East Midlands [PDF]
This report draws together information from a range of existing sources to assist stakeholders in the East Midlands to consider the Later Life agenda when developing strategy and ...
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