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Abstract Many newcomer children spend a ‘silent year’ in elementary school classrooms while they adjust to a new culture and language. This often delays inclusion in learning and forming friendships with peers. For refugee children with disabilities (RCDs) this phase may last for 3 years or more, impacting their mental health and sense of belonging ...
Susan Barber
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Abstract The study investigated the relationships between students' grit, academic engagement, motivation and self‐regulated learning (SRL). It explored the mediating role of academic motivation and SRL in the relationship between students' grit and academic engagement.
Paul Obeng+7 more
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Flood Disasters and Health Among the Urban Poor [PDF]
Billions of people live in urban poverty, with many forced to reside in disaster-prone areas. Research suggests that such disasters harm child nutrition and increase adult morbidity. However, little is known about impacts on mental health, particularly of people living in slums. In this paper we estimate the effects of flood disasters on the mental and
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ABSTRACT The Pareto principle is based on the concept that roughly 80% of outcomes are generated by 20% of inputs, efforts, or contributors within a group. Using a national sample of U.S. prison inmates, we examined various percentile rankings of self‐reported institutional misconduct to determine how much disorder is created behind bars by the most ...
Mark A. Morgan+3 more
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Mental health literacy in an educational elite – an online survey among university students
Background Mental health literacy is a prerequisite for early recognition and intervention in mental disorders. The aims of this paper are to determine whether a sample of university students recognise different symptoms of depression and schizophrenia ...
Fritschi Nadja+4 more
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Information cascades and the distribution of economic recessions in the United States [PDF]
The American economy can be thought of as a highly connected random network in terms of both its technological and informational connections. The cumulative size of economic recessions, the fall in output from peak to trough, is analysed for the US economy 1900-2002.
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Non-verbal Facial Action Units-based Automatic Depression Classification [PDF]
Depression is a common mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth. Traditional clinical depression diagnosis methods are subjective and time consuming. Since depression can be reflected by human facial expressions, We propose a non-verbal facial behavior-based ...
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The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Current Crisis [PDF]
In the past year, a rising tide of antagonism to the New Deal has formed among some economists and writers, claiming that the New Deal policies made the Great Depression worse. Is there any basis in fact to New Deal denialism?
Field, Alexander J.
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ABSTRACT Existing research examines the relationship between personal life shocks and financial well‐being primarily through the lens of objective markers of the individual's financial situation (e.g., liquidity). Little attention has been paid to the relative roles of these objective markers and more intuitive or affect‐based factors in how an ...
Jordan Bell+2 more
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Receiving Employee Attention on the Floor of the Store and Its Effects on Customer Satisfaction
ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of the customer's perceptions of being the object of employee attention in physical store settings. Our specific concern is employee attention when the customer is browsing in a store and does not require any particular service from employees.
Magnus Söderlund+1 more
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