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Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examined the mediation model of socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) on reading abilities in Chinese (as first language, L1) and English (as second language, L2) in 260 native Cantonese‐speaking students (146 boys) from Hong Kong local primary schools with the mean age at 111.3 months (range = 98–132 months).
Dan Lin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
wiley   +1 more source

Mercy Consent and Contained Resistance: Grievance Systems in Chinese Food‐Delivery Platforms

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on a multi‐methods qualitative study, this article investigates how in‐platform grievance systems operate in the Chinese food‐delivery platform work. Drawing on labour process theory, we examine the role of in‐platform grievance systems in shaping the dynamic interplay between control, consent, and resistance. Our findings reveal that in‐
Ziheng Liu, Wei Wei
wiley   +1 more source

Interventions for Preventing Obesity in Children and Adolescents Aged 5–18 Years: An Overview of Nonrandomized Study Evidence Reported in 28 Systematic Reviews

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Community‐ and population‐level and policy interventions are commonly evaluated using nonrandomized studies (NRS), rather than randomized trials (RCTs). Recent Cochrane reviews of interventions for preventing childhood obesity have been restricted to RCTs, so less is known about the effectiveness of these more upstream ...
Francesca Spiga   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Versus Private Providers: How Ownership Impacts Quality in Public Service Markets

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments continue to liberalize public services through quasi‐market measures that grant consumers a subsidized choice of public, nonprofit, or for‐profit provider. The assumption is that competition and differences in ownership improve service quality.
Lena Brogaard
wiley   +1 more source

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