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ABSTRACT This article examines the Community Ethics Advisory Board (CEAB) on the Thailand–Burma border as a locally led ethics advisory mechanism that complements formal and institutionalised ethics systems within and beyond the region. CEAB was created to enable community members to provide guidance on research proposals and activities in their areas,
Naw May Lyar Soe +3 more
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ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
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How Bioethicists Can Contribute to Democratic Deliberation
ABSTRACT It is sometimes suggested that policymaking on bioethical questions should be more democratic, either through direct popular participation (as in a referendum) or through improved forms of representation (such as random mini‐publics or elected officials). Such proposals seem to leave no special place for input from bioethicists.
Ben Saunders
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Abstract Objectives The feared self‐concept, the self that a person fears they may be or could become, has been increasingly shown to drive the development and maintenance of obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD). It is proposed that the feared self develops from a vulnerable self‐concept, which itself is a result of normative self‐concept development ...
I. Gomez +4 more
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This study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between maternal parenting styles grounded in teachings of Islamic education and accountability of sixth grade boys. The research design was descriptive and correlational.
Irandokht Fayyaz, Maryam Zarrinjuy Alvar
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Is leisure‐time reading related to empathy and social skills in 8‐ to 10‐year‐old children?
Abstract There is growing interest in the effects of reading on empathy and prosocial behaviour but not enough is known about the associations among these variables in children. In a study undertaken at a single time point, we examined children's leisure reading and self‐reported prosocial behaviour, and whether the relation between them was mediated ...
Alan Garnham +3 more
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Abstract Background Learning English as a second language (L2) is crucial in a globalized world. However, longitudinal evidence on how young learners' achievement emotions and perceived teacher–child relationship quality jointly shape L2 outcomes remains limited.
Fabiola Silletti +6 more
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Economic inequality and academic perseverance: Evidence from 73 countries
Abstract Background Academic perseverance is important for educational success, yet research has focused mainly on individual and proximal environmental factors, with limited attention to broader socioeconomic contexts. Aims This study examined whether national economic inequality was associated with students' academic perseverance and whether this ...
Yifan Wang, Yanru Liu, Dennis Alonzo
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Residual permutation tests for feature importance in machine learning
Abstract Psychological research has traditionally relied on linear models to test scientific hypotheses. However, the emergence of machine learning (ML) algorithms has opened new opportunities for exploring variable relationships beyond linear constraints.
Po‐Hsien Huang
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