San Francisco's Paid Sick Leave Ordinance: Outcomes for Employers and Employees [PDF]
This study examines the effects of San Francisco's recent paid sick days legislation on employees and employers. New survey evidence is presented on how paid sick days are being used, the costs and benefits for employees and employers, and rates of ...
Robert Drago, Vicky Lowell
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Core elements in a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) for conduct problems in schools and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland – Literature review and case example [PDF]
There is increasing concern across Finnish society over the growing number of children being referred to specialized psychiatric care, leading to calls to develop new ways to deal with such problems at the primary health service level and close to the ...
Petra Kouvonen, Lotta Hamari, Sara Tani
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Evidence-Based Learning: Foundations [PDF]
This chapter discusses some of the Computer Aided Learning (CAL) Research Group’s early work, focusing on our attempts to understand learners’ practices so that teaching could be adapted to meet learners’ needs. The chapter describes and discusses examples of CALRG research from the group’s early days to the start of the 2000s.
Ann Jones, Bart Rienties, Canan Blake
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The Empirical Foundations of Teledermatology: A Review of the Research Evidence [PDF]
This article presents the scientific evidence for the merit of telemedicine interventions in the diagnosis and management of skin disorders (teledermatology) in the published literature. The impetus for this work derives from the high prevalence of skin disorders, the high cost, the limited availability of dermatologists in certain areas, and the ...
Bashshur, Rashid L.+4 more
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Punishment diminishes the benefits of network reciprocity in social dilemma experiments [PDF]
Network reciprocity has been widely advertised in theoretical studies as one of the basic cooperation-promoting mechanisms, but experimental evidence favoring this type of reciprocity was published only recently.
Boccaletti, Stefano+8 more
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Background Many studies have assessed the quality of news reports about the effects of health interventions, but there has been no systematic review of such studies or meta-analysis of their results. We aimed to fill this gap (PROSPERO ID: CRD42018095032)
Matt Oxman+7 more
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Models of integrated care for multi-morbidity assessed in systematic reviews: a scoping review
Background The prevalence of multi-morbidity is increasing globally. Integrated models of care present a potential intervention to improve patient and health system outcomes.
Anke Rohwer+9 more
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The Foundation in Evidence of Medical and Dental Telephone Consultations [PDF]
Patients can only make well-informed decisions if the information they are given by health professionals is based on scientific evidence. In this study, we assessed the foundation in evidence of free, publicly available telephone consultations in Germany.From March 2013 to January 2014, four hidden clients seeking information asked standardized ...
Anke Steckelberg+4 more
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Nonequilibrium pion distribution within the Zubarev approach
We discuss how the nonequilibrium process of pion production within the Zubarev approach of the nonequilibrium statistical operator leads to a theoretical foundation for the appearance of a nonequilibrium pion chemical potential for the pion distribution
Blaschke, David+3 more
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Foundations of probabilistic inference with uncertain evidence
AbstractThe application of formal inference procedures, such as Bayes Theorem, requires that a judgment is made, by which the evidential meaning of physical observations is stated within the context of a formal model. Uncertain evidence is defined as the class of observations for which this statement cannot take place in certain terms.
Ali Mosleh, Frank J. Groen
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