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Measuring child and adolescent well-being in Denmark: Validation and norming of the Danish KIDSCREEN-10 child/adolescent version in a national representative sample of school pupils in grades five through eight. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
KIDSCREEN-10 is a generic instrument for measuring global health-related quality of life among 8-18-year-old children and adolescents. This study examines the criterion-related construct validity and psychometric properties of the Danish language version
Tine Nielsen, Maiken Pontoppidan, Morten Pettersson, Christina H Donstrup, Svend Kreiner, Signe Boe Rayce   +5 more
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Income-Well-Being Gradient in Sickness and Health. [PDF]

Health Econ
ABSTRACT We propose a method for studying the value of insurance. For this purpose, we analyze the well‐being of the same individuals, comparing sick and healthy years, using German panel survey data on life satisfaction. We impose structure on the income–well‐being gradient by fitting a flexible utility function to the data, focusing on the ...
Kanninen O, Böckerman P, Suoniemi I.
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Comparative performance of multiple-list estimators of key population size. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Estimates of the sizes of key populations (KPs) affected by HIV, including men who have sex with men, female sex workers and people who inject drugs, are required for targeting epidemic control efforts where they are most needed. Unfortunately, different
Steve Gutreuter
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Fission-Fusion Group Dynamics and Cooperative Hunting Stabilise Social Carnivore Populations. [PDF]

Ecol Lett
Fission‐fusion subgroup dynamics within prides allows lions to alleviate the foraging cost of sociality. This has the effect of both stabilising ecological interactions with their prey as well as allowing large prides to persist, features of the Serengeti ecosystem that have long eluded researchers.
Fryxell JM, Mduma S, Masoy J, Hopcraft JGC, Sinclair ARE, Dejeante R, Packer C.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Association of Periodontitis and Stroke History: Exploring the Role of Hypertension in a Cross-Sectional NHANES Analysis. [PDF]

Int J Dent
Background Periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease, and stroke, a leading cause of death and disability, share common risk factors and inflammatory pathways. However, the role of key mediators such as hypertension in this relationship remains to be fully elucidated.
Jin SY, Liu Q, Cao XQ, Wu DW, Cai YF, Niu LN, Qin W, Ye T.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Rest-Activity Rhythms and Suicidal Ideation in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder. [PDF]

Bipolar Disord
ABSTRACT Introduction Risk for suicide is disproportionately elevated among youth with bipolar spectrum disorder (BD), which is characterized by recurrent mood episodes and significant shifts in sleep and circadian rhythm. Disruptions in circadian rhythm, such as 24‐h rest‐activity patterns, are a relevant risk factor for SI, yet understudied in BD ...
Seah THS, Goldstein TR, Rode N, Chen Q, Franzen PL.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Support vector regression model for the prediction of buildings’ maximum seismic response based on real monitoring data [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Maximum drift ratio (MDR), one of the engineering demand parameters (EDPs), provides fundamental physical value for predicting building damage. Existing machine learning based prediction models mainly rely on numerical simulation data or structural ...
Dongwang Tao, Shizhe Fang, Haixu Liu, Jianqi Lu, Jiang Wang, Qiang Ma   +5 more
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Space and Interracial Marriage: How Does the Racial Distribution of a Local Marriage Market Change the Analysis of Interracial Marriage in Brazil?

Revista Latinoamericana de Población, 2017
This article focuses on the following question: How would interracial marriage rates change when considering the racial distribution of the local marriage market? I used data from the Brazilian Census for the years 1991 and 2000 and loglinear models. The
Maria Carolina Tomás
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Determining the Effects of Students’ Family Characteristics on Entrepreneurship Tendency by Multiway Frequency Analysis

İstanbul İktisat Dergisi, 2021
Entrepreneurs are vital economic actors that produce economic gains by combining the factors of production, hence creating added value and employment opportunities.
Sema Ulutürk Akman
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The Parental Stress Scale revisited: Rasch-based construct validity for Danish parents of children 2–18 years old with and without behavioral problems

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background Experiencing parental stress is common among parents of children of all ages and is elevated in families characterized by stressors such as poverty, mental health problems, and developmental problems. The Parental Stress Scale (PSS) is a short
Tine Nielsen, Maiken Pontoppidan, Signe Boe Rayce   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source