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Inspecting for positive outcomes
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2010 The Care Commission was set up in 2002 to help improve care services in Scotland. It regulates almost 15,000 services that care for more than 320,000 people in all parts of Scotland. These services include childminders, foster care and adoption services,
Bryan Livingstone
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How Do People Become Foster Carers in Portugal? The Process of Building the Motivation
Social Sciences, 2019 Act no. 142/2015 highlights the importance of children out-of-home being placed in a family context. However, foster care continues to be an almost absent component in the Portuguese childcare system.
Elisete Diogo, Francisco Branco
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibits racially disparate rates of disease progression. Black people with MS (B‐PwMS) experience a more severe disease course than non‐Hispanic White people with MS (NHW‐PwMS). Here we investigated structural and functional connectivity as well as structure–function decoupling in the ...
Emilio Cipriano +11 more
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Colloquium, 2020 The social and political transformation that occurred in Poland following the fall of the communist system has resulted in an intensive development of non-governmental organizations, including those offering services for children and families.
Piotr Kulikowski
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Relationship Between Neurologic Symptoms and Signs and FMR1 Genotype in Premutation Carriers
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Fragile X‐associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) is the most severe late‐onset condition caused by a premutation in the FMR1 gene, characterized by expanded CGG triplet repeats of 55–200. Clinical presentations of FXTAS, including gait ataxia, kinetic tremor, cognitive decline, and rare Parkinsonism, are linked to ...
Flora Tassone +8 more
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Context-specific mental health services for children in foster care [PDF]
Children and Youth Services Review, 2009 Although a high proportion of foster children receive mental health services, existing research suggests limited accessibility and effectiveness of these services. This paper discusses strategies to develop a model to deliver evidence-based services using the unique opportunities apparent within publicly funded child welfare systems.
Sonya J, Leathers +5 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To (1) validate GAD65‐ELISA detection and quantification for type 1 diabetes mellitus and autoimmune neurological diagnoses, (2) correlate ELISA results (reference range < 5 IU/mL) with established radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIA; ≤ 0.02 nmol/L), and (3) define ELISA clinical utility and pitfalls.
Andrew McKeon +11 more
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The new direction of the social foster care system in Japan
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2019 Social foster care services in Japan were primarily provided through Residential Care Institutions for Children (RCIC). To improve the foster parent placement rate, the Japanese government is now reorganising measures to arrange for foster parents to be ...
Kelji Noguchi +2 more
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Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013 This paper discusses the development and functioning of foster families, one of the priority interventions for children without parental care in Russia and abroad.
Oksana Vladimirovna Besschetnova
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Developing current procedural terminology codes that describe the work performed by machines
npj Digital Medicine, 2022 The “Taxonomy of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Services and Procedures” became part of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set effective January 1, 2022.
Richard A. Frank +9 more
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