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Towards an Open Global Air Quality Monitoring Platform to Assess Children's Exposure to Air Pollutants in the Light of COVID-19 Lockdowns [PDF]
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems, article 434, 2021 This ongoing work attempts to understand and address the requirements of UNICEF, a leading organization working in children's welfare, where they aim to tackle the problem of air quality for children at a global level. We are motivated by the lack of a proper model to account for heavily fluctuating air quality levels across the world in the wake of ...
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Children’s and Adolescents’ Happiness and Family Functioning: A Systematic Literature Review
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Background: the present research represents the first systematic review of the literature on the relation between happiness (i.e., subjective well-being, life satisfaction, positive affect) and family functioning in families with children aged 6–18 years.
F. Izzo, R. Baiocco, J. Pistella
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Implication of Natal Care and Maternity Leave on Child Morbidity: Evidence from Ghana [PDF]
Global Journal of Health Science, 12(9) (2020), 2020 Failure to receive post-natal care within first week of delivery causes a 3% increase in the possibility of Acute Respiratory Infection in children under five. Mothers with unpaid maternity leave put their children at a risk of 3.9% increase in the possibility of ARI compared to those with paid maternity leave.
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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023 Malnutrition in children is a significant risk factor for child mortality and is a global health problem. One of the influencing factors is low economic factors and the mother's education.
Y. Prasetyo +2 more
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Guidelines to Develop Trustworthy Conversational Agents for Children [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Conversational agents (CAs) embodied in speakers or chatbots are becoming very popular in some countries, and despite their adult-centred design, they have become part of children's lives, generating a need for children-centric trustworthy systems. This paper presents a literature review to identify the main opportunities, challenges and risks brought ...
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Post-global and post-digital children’s literature: some users’ legitimation strategies on the Net
Neohelicon, 2021 Our starting point is the hypothesis that we live in a post-digital and post-global era, even a post-data one. In this current time, our objects of study have become transmedial and the different media versions of a product cannot be separated one from the other, but rather should be taken as one single object.
Pérez Fresno, Inés +1 more
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Horizontal HIV transmission to children of HIV-uninfected mothers: A case series and review of the global literature [PDF]
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Vertical transmission is the predominant route for acquisition of HIV infection in children, either in utero, intrapartum or postnatally through breast feeding. Less frequently, children may acquire HIV by horizontal transmission. Horizontal transmission may be healthcare-associated (infusion of HIV-contaminated blood products, use of contaminated ...
D. Myburgh +5 more
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Conversational User Interfaces As Assistive interlocutors For Young Children's Bilingual Language Acquisition [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Children in a large number of international and cross-cultural families in and outside of the US learn and speak more than one language. However, parents often struggle to acquaint their young children with their local language if the child spends majority of time at home and with their spoken language if they go to daycare or school.
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Sleep and its relation to cognition and behaviour in preschool-aged children of the general population: a systematic review [PDF]
Journal of Sleep Research, Wiley, 2018, 27 (3), pp.e12636, 2019 Background: While the relations between sleep, cognition and behavior have been extensively studied in adolescents and school-aged children, very little attention has been given to preschoolers. Objective: In this systematic review, our aim was to survey articles that address the link between sleep and both cognition and behavior in preschoolers (24 to
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A Children’s Health Perspective on Nano- and Microplastics
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2022 Background: Pregnancy, infancy, and childhood are sensitive windows for environmental exposures. Yet the health effects of exposure to nano- and microplastics (NMPs) remain largely uninvestigated or unknown.
K. Sripada +12 more
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