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Exploring the link between the risk of violent injury in adolescents and historic redlining practices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked with various contemporary community‐level disparities.
Samuel J. West   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of Life of Families Who Have Children With Cornelia de Lange Syndrome in Brazil: Opportunities for Improvement

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This exploratory cross‐sectional study aimed to estimate the family quality of life (FQoL) among 70 Brazilian families with children with Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS). Data were collected using sociodemographic and clinical data forms, the Barthel index for activities of daily living, and the Beach Center FQoL Scale, a 5‐point Likert tool
Aline Apis   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Targeting, Cascading, and Indirect Tax Design

open access: yesIMF Working Papers, 2013
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to address two fundamental issues in indirect tax design. It first revisits the case for reduced rates on items especially important to the poor, and then explores the welfare costs from cascading taxes.Design/methodology/approach– Applied theory was used in this paper.Findings– On the first issue, the paper ...
openaire   +4 more sources

The Impact of the Parental Patterns of Morbidity and Comorbidity in the Cross‐Generational Transmission of Risk for Major Depression and Alcohol Use Disorder

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To further understand the inter‐relationship of the familial transmission of major depression (MD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD), we examine, via a multivariable Cox proportional hazards model, risks for AUD and MD in 1,244,516 individuals born in Sweden from 1970 to 1990 to intact mother–father pairs as a function of parental diagnoses of MD
Kenneth S. Kendler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pregnancy outcomes in women with systemic sclerosis before and/or after diagnosis, and by parity ‐ A Swedish population‐based cohort study

open access: yesArthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objective To assess risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APO) in a contemporary cohort of women with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in relation to the timing of SSc diagnosis and by parity. Methods From the nationwide Swedish Medical Birth Register, we assembled pregnancies with births in women with SSc and in comparator women from the general population ...
Weng Ian Che   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Right answers to wrong questions: The dysfunctional nature of information needs

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract People frequently experience difficulties when seeking information to complete tasks. To overcome these difficulties, people require help. Regarding struggles with information needs, past research focuses on unclear information requests, such as ambiguous, under‐specified, and ill‐defined queries, and repairing these by user‐led strategies (e ...
Melanie A. Kilian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mobilizing mine lands for biobased decarbonization strategies

open access: yesBiofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract Over 163 000 ha of mine lands in Pennsylvania (PA) have the potential to produce willow as a feedstock for renewable energy generation. Each year these lands could produce between 454 000 and 907 000 dry Mg of willow, which can be a feedstock for bioenergy (i.e., biopower) with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) or sustainable aviation ...
Mallory Wahlstrom   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal Reforms during Fiscal Consolidation: The Case of Italy [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we aim to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the fiscal consolidation package adopted recently by the Italian Government in order to achieve a balanced budget by 2013. Revenues are forecasted to increase by more than 3.3 GDP percentage
Alberto Zanardi   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

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