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A national survey of private-sector outpatient care of sick infants and young children in Nepal

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Previous research has documented that across South Asia, as well as in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the private sector is the primary source of outpatient care for sick infants and children and, in many settings, informal providers ...
Bharat Ban   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory Design of AI with Children: Reflections on IDC Design Challenge [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Children growing up in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be most impacted by the technology across their life span. Participatory Design (PD) is widely adopted by the Interaction Design and Children (IDC) community, which empowers children to bring their interests, needs, and creativity to the design process of future technologies.
arxiv  

A cross-sectional study of blood selenium concentration and cognitive function in elderly Americans: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011–2014

open access: yesAnnals of Human Biology, 2020
Background Cognitive decline can develop into mild cognitive impairment, a high-risk factor in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The antioxidant micronutrient selenium may have some effect on preventing cognitive decline, but the association ...
Xiumin Yan   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Large-Scale Acoustic Characterization of Singaporean Children's English Pronunciation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
In this work, we investigate pronunciation differences in English spoken by Singaporean children in relation to their American and British counterparts by conducting Kmeans clustering and Archetypal analysis on selected vowel pairs and approximants. Given that Singapore adopts British English as the institutional standard due to historical reasons, one
arxiv  

Children and their Families: Function of the Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 1974
Hogg Foundation for Mental ...
Hirschberg, J. Cotter
core   +1 more source

A systematic study on the prevention and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in China

open access: yesBMC Ophthalmology, 2018
Background To identify the prevention situation, the main factors influencing prevention effects and to develop control measures over retinopathy of prematurity in China. Methods Using stratified random sampling method, we randomly selected 23 provincial
Shuman Xu   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tools for measuring gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) indicators in humanitarian settings

open access: yesConflict and Health, 2021
Background Effective measurement of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) is challenging in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), and even more so in humanitarian settings.
Céline M. Goulart   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Did your child get disturbed by an inappropriate advertisement on YouTube? [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
YouTube is a popular video platform for sharing creative content and ideas, targeting different demographics. Adults, older children, and young children are all avid viewers of YouTube videos. Meanwhile, countless young-kid-oriented channels have produced numerous instructional and age appropriate videos for young children.
arxiv  

Findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of a multi-level adolescent and youth reproductive and maternal health intervention in Karnali Province, Nepal

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2023
Introduction Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Nepal have disproportionately poor reproductive and maternal health outcomes. In response, Save the Children, the Nepal government, and local partners designed and implemented Healthy Transitions ...
Rajan Bhandari   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Children Program Intelligent Environments: Lessons Learned from a Serious AR Game [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
While the body of research focusing on Intelligent Environments (IEs) programming by adults is steadily growing, informed insights about children as programmers of such environments are limited. Previous work already established that young children can learn programming basics.
arxiv   +1 more source

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