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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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Analysis of long-term trends and 15-year predictions of smoking-related bladder cancer burden in china across different age and sex groups from 1990 to 2021

Discover Oncology
Background Tobacco is a significant risk factor for bladder cancer, with notable disparities in smoking rates and cancer prevalence between sex. Our objective is to assess the sex- and age-specific burden of bladder cancer attributable to smoking in ...
Jieming Zuo, Junhao Chen, Zhiyong Tan, Xingcheng Zhu, Haifeng Wang, Shi Fu, Jiansong Wang   +6 more
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Socioeconomic status and lifestyle as factors of multimorbidity among older adults in China: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundMultimorbidity is increasingly prevalent among older adults and poses significant challenges to public health systems. While previous studies have highlighted the role of individual behaviors, the complex interaction between lifestyle factors ...
Wei Gong, Wei Gong, Wei Gong, Xiaoxiao Hu, Huimin Cui, Huimin Cui, Yuxin Zhao, Yuxin Zhao, Hong Lin, Hong Lin, Hong Lin, Peng Sun, Peng Sun, Jianjun Yang, Jianjun Yang   +14 more
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The absent presence of disability in British higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Rates of disability disclosure are steadily increasing in British higher education (HE), with 18% of the student population having a known disability in 2023/24. It might be assumed that progress is being made with increased representation, rights and support for disabled students.
G. Koutsouris, L. Stentiford, E. Dimitrellou, Z. Yu, Pujaningsih, N. Azizah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Government By and For Millenial America: A Blueprint for 21st Century Government [PDF]

, 2013
Using this generation's unique ethos and commitment to pragmatic problem-solving, Millennials across the country have collaborated to design their vision for a 21st century democracy and reject the idea that our system is too broken, too stagnant, and ...
Brandi Lupo, Drew Morrison, Elizabeth Stokes   +2 more
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Does National Culture Drive the Value Relevance of Nonfinancial Disclosure?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to investigate the association between national culture and the value relevance of nonfinancial disclosure provided by listed firms in Germany, Spain, France, and Italy from 2018 to 2023. The results of Hierarchical Linear Model regressions show that, in countries where the national culture is characterized by greater ...
Raffaela Casciello, Marco Maffei, Annamaria Zampella   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Virtue Ethics, Corporate Sustainability, and Tax Disclosure: Evidence From Global Fortune 500

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on virtue ethics, this paper explores how corporate virtues influence sustainability performance and whether this, in turn, affects tax disclosure. Using a sample of 339 companies from the 2021 Fortune Global 500 list, our findings indicate that corporate virtues significantly drive sustainability performance.
Chiara Mio, Silvia Panfilo, Francesco Scarpa   +2 more
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The disproportionate burden of pulmonary arterial hypertension among the elderly: global, regional, and national trends from 1990 to 2021—findings from the 2021 global burden of disease study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
ObjectivesPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a chronic vascular disorder characterized by elevated pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance, leading to right ventricular failure.
Meng Tang, Xingxing Liu, Xiaoyu Hao, Zhiming Liu, Zuwei Li, Hanbin Luo, Guohui Zou, Guohui Zou   +7 more
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Heterogeneity of Green Investments, Firms' Sales, and Wages: Italian Evidence on Circular Economy, Resource‐Saving, and Energy Efficiency Investments

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the relationship between firms' investment in green technologies and competitive performance. We take advantage of new data on the adoption of different green technologies (circular economy, technical advancements, energy savings, and efficiency gains) from a large representative sample of Italian firms.
F. Quatraro, A. Ricci
wiley   +1 more source

Economic impact of education: evidence and relevance [PDF]

, 2016
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Hermannsson, Kristinn
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