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Library resources, student success and the distance-learning university [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose - Research at the Open University Library Services has been investigating the relationshipbetween access to online library resources and student success to help to understand whether there is asimilar relationship at a distance-learning ...
Baker, Kirsty   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Heterogeneity in the Global Practice of Central Nervous System Staging in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is assessed by cell counting and cytomorphology from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and is used for treatment stratification worldwide. The ratio of “CNS2” patients in clinical trials ranges from 3% to 40%, with unclear prognostic significance ...
Laura Almási   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children do not exhibit ambiguity aversion despite intact familiarity bias

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The phenomenon of ambiguity aversion, in which risky gambles with known probabilities are preferred over ambiguous gambles with unknown probabilities, has been thoroughly documented in adults but never measured in children.
Rosa eLi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing the set of coherent lower previsions with a finite number of constraints or vertices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The standard coherence criterion for lower previsions is expressed using an infinite number of linear constraints. For lower previsions that are essentially defined on some finite set of gambles on a finite possibility space, we present a reformulation ...
Quaeghebeur, Erik
core   +1 more source

Dimensionality of risk perception : factors affecting consumer understanding and evaluation of financial risk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article describes two studies of the factors affecting consumer understanding of financial risk. The first study investigated factors affecting people's perception and comprehension of information about the risks related to retirement investments ...
Chater, Nick, Stewart, Neil, Vlaev, Ivo
core   +1 more source

Gambling and problem gambling in Switzerland.

open access: yesAddiction (Abingdon, England), 2016
To provide an overview of gambling and problem gambling in Switzerland, including historical aspects, past and current legislation and policies, treatment options and the research base.A literature search was conducted on two databases (PubMed and PsycINFO), and official government and statistical reports selected from the official websites of four ...
Billieux, Joel   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Increased Risk of Sarcomas in Children With Congenital Anomalies: Findings From the Genetic Overlap Between Anomalies and Cancer in Kids (GOBACK) Registry Linkage Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that contribute disproportionately to cancer mortality in children. Although congenital anomalies are among the strongest known risk factors for childhood cancer, the risk of specific sarcoma subtypes among affected individuals has not yet been thoroughly evaluated. Procedure We
Russ Wolters   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of outcomes and random arbitration on emotions in a competitive gambling task

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2011
The affective events theory proposes that the evaluation of distributive and procedural justice map onto primary and secondary appraisal sequence, respectively.
Benoit eBediou   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting Survivor‐Centered Care Through Digital Health Integration

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Survivors of childhood cancer face barriers to receiving guideline‐based, long‐term follow‐up care. Two digital tools, Passport for Care (PFC) and Cancer SurvivorLink (SurvivorLink), address complementary gaps by enabling tailored survivorship care plan (SCP) generation, updating, storage, and sharing.
Jordan G. Marchak   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling practical certainty and its link with classical propositional logic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We model practical certainty in the language of accept & reject statement-based uncertainty models. We present three different ways, each time using a different nature of assessment: we study coherent models following from (i) favourability assessments, (
De Cooman, Gert, Van Camp, Arthur
core   +1 more source

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