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The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
wiley   +1 more source

Prolonged exposure to artificial light and carcinogenesis: A systematic review of oncostatic mechanisms associated with melatonin pathways

open access: yesPhotochemistry and Photobiology, EarlyView.
Exposure to artificial light at night (ALAN), particularly at blue wavelengths, disrupts circadian rhythms by suppressing melatonin, thereby increasing cancer susceptibility. This systematic review consolidates evidence linking prolonged ALAN exposure to an elevated risk of breast and prostate tumors.
Gabriel Barboza   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A certainty‐weighted, belief‐based model of political attitudes: A Bayesian analysis of American public attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study proposes a novel, certainty‐weighted account of the process by which political beliefs shape political attitudes. Building upon expectancy‐value frameworks, this paper introduces belief certainty as a moderator of belief impact. A Bayesian partial‐pooling approach is used to test a model positing how beliefs about what the Patient ...
Gabriel Miao Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Intersection of Human Development and Poverty: An Analysis of HDI and I-HDI in Yogyakarta based on Maqāşid Syarī’ah

open access: yesFikri : Jurnal Kajian Agama, Sosial dan Budaya
Despite its high Human Development Index (HDI), Yogyakarta paradoxically suffers from one of the highest poverty rates on the island of Java. This situation underscores the limitations of conventional human development metrics, particularly in regions with a predominantly Muslim population. To address this issue, this study introduces the Islamic Human
null Abdullah Haidar, null Dedy Rachmad
openaire   +1 more source

“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

MEASURING HUMAN WELLBEING AND ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: HOW CREDIBLE ARE THE UNDP'S HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS? [PDF]

open access: yes
The broad objectives of the Human Development Report (HDR) and the estimates of human wellbeing are to identify policies that reduce poverty, economic and gender inequalities inequalities and increase human wellbeing. Since inception in 1990, the HDR and
Chieko Tokuyama, J. Ram Pillarisetti
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The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We report on the wellbeing of the young in twenty‐eight countries located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia including fifteen post‐Soviet countries. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people, which characterizes Western Europe and English‐speaking advanced economies. The mental health of the
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
wiley   +1 more source

Distinctive neurophysiological correlates of sound onset and offset perception in humans

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings were obtained from participants listening to successive pairs of 1‐2 s noises in a silent background (Study 1) or successive pairs 1‐2 s silent gaps in a noise background (Study 2). Participants heard the same stimuli in the context of either a duration discrimination task (identifying ...
Fatima Ali   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple ortho‐mosaicking software pipelines produce comparable imagery‐derived wheat phenotypes

open access: yesThe Plant Phenome Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1, December 2026.
Abstract Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) equipped with multispectral and RGB sensors offer valuable data for monitoring crop health and assessing disease severity. However, the wide range of available photogrammetric software complicates software selection for high‐throughput plant phenotyping.
Sanju Shrestha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global patterns and trends in kidney cancer incidence and mortality

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, Volume 159, Issue 1, Page 67-77, 1 July 2026.
What's New? Decreasing mortality from kidney cancer in developed countries contrasts with persistently high or rising mortality in less‐developed regions. Factors underlying this widening gap remain incompletely understood. Using GLOBOCAN 2022 data, the present study examined patterns in kidney cancer incidence and mortality worldwide and the relation ...
Anton Barchuk   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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