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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

How does the Kids SIPsmartER program impact the sugar‐sweetened beverage intake of students: An investigation beyond total treatment effect in randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin, Wen You, Annie Reid, Kathleen Porter, Brittany Kirkpatrick, Jamie Zoellner   +5 more
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‘Playing it safe’ or ‘throwing caution to the wind’: Risk-taking and emotions in a mathematics classroom

LUMAT, 2019
This paper attends to teacher intellectual risk-taking when attached to expression of positive emotions, in order to explore some of the reasons why teacher risk-taking may not appear in mathematics lessons.
Elizabeth Lake
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The choice and use of authentic documents to improve the linguistic level in a French as a foreign language class

مجلة الآداب, 2020
The use of authentic and well-chosen documents is an ideal support for the student, a reflection of a different culture. They are also excellent materials that allow, with a relevant pedagogical exploitation, to lead to a socialized final product outside
Victoria Mnati Mahmoud
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham, Jesica Siham Fernández   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cathedrals, Casinos, Colleges and Classrooms: Questions for the Architects of Digital Campuses

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2013
The bricks and mortar classroom has a long and storied history. The digital classroom is so new and different it may be wrong to even call it a “classroom”.The authors argue that architecture influences behavior.So in constructing our new digital ...
Frank McCluskey, Melanie Winter
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Place‐based risk: Examining relationships between adolescent perceptions of community risk factors and adolescent substance use across geographic contexts

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mixed evidence for the influence of structural and social factors on adolescent substance use behaviors exists across the rural–urban continuum. Therefore, this study explores how adolescent perceptions of structural and social community risk factors are associated with lifetime and past 30‐day use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, and ...
Melissa Pearman Fenton, Sarah D. Lynne, Josie L. Bryan, Catherine Woodstock Striley, Larry F. Forthun   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sounds in the classroom: Auditory context-dependent memory in school-aged children

Open Psychology, 2020
Context-dependent memory (CDM) is the effect whereby information is retrieved more accurately in the presence of the contextual information that was present during encoding than in the absence of that contextual information. Most previous CDM experiments
Ostendorf Anna L., Schlüter Helge, Hackländer Ryan P. M.   +2 more
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Firearm carrying practices and motivations: A mixed methods study among adults and youth

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this participatory action, mixed methods research study was to identify motivations related to firearm carrying from a qualitative perspective, and then to use quantitative research to characterize the patterns of motivations around carrying.
Krista R. Mehari, Colleen S. Walsh, L. Taylor Stevens, Jasmine N. Coleman, Alice Ellyson, Phillip N. Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð, Anna Magnea Hreinsdóttir, Adrijana Visnjic‐Jevtic, Alison Clark   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source