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Volunteering, Crime and Secondary School Attendance: Evidence From Queensland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Student absenteeism is a critical issue in Australia and worldwide, with alarming declines in attendance rates further exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. While research has long highlighted the relevance of school and family factors, less is known about how the broader community context shapes attendance.
Matthias Kubler   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Understanding of Subjective Liveability for People With Disability

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern liveability frameworks aim to enhance health and well‐being through equity‐based measures across built, natural, social, and economic environments, yet they often overlook the perspectives of people with disability. This study explored expectations of liveable neighbourhoods among adults with diverse disability experiences in urban and ...
Maria Hobbs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health status of children left behind in rural areas of Sichuan Province of China: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC International Health and Human Rights, 2019
Background In recent decades, many workers from rural areas in China migrated to urban cities in search of a better livelihood. Due to the household registration policy and other financial barriers, more than 40 million of children were left behind in ...
Daisheng Tang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Employing machine learning for early detection of poly-victimization in rural children: a survey study in China’s Chaoshan region

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Poly-victimization (PV), encompassing multiple forms of victimization including physical abuse, emotional maltreatment, neglect, and peer violence, poses a significant public health challenge among children, particularly in rural areas with ...
Zicheng Cao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Left-Behind Children in Impoverished Rural China: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study of First Grade Junior High School

open access: yes, 2020
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems and related factors of left-behind children in impoverished rural China (mainly in the first grade of junior high school). Methods: A cross-sectional survey of rural households
Zhou, Yuming   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The 9+ month marathon: How pregnancy may have shaped human endurance capacities

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Anthropology has long considered the evolution of our uniquely human endurance capacities to be the result of selection upon anatomical and physiological features imposed by the demands of thermoregulation and resource acquisition, particularly during the demands of persistence hunting. Research has focused on the anatomical changes present in
Cara Ocobock
wiley   +1 more source

The mechanism of labor in nonhuman primates: A look inside

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract While in humans, the flexed position of the fetus and its rotating course down the birth canal are well documented, in other primates the mechanism of labor is unknown. Despite the lack of comparative data, it is commonly assumed that the human obstetric mechanism is unique, and anthropologists have disputed when and why the transition to the ...
Melissa K. Stoller
wiley   +1 more source

Labor migration in rural Nepal Arghakhanchi communities: impacts on left-behind caregivers and children

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Children from migrant families with absent parents are more likely to have poorer physical and mental health than children from non-migrant families.
Sirjana Adhikari   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental differences in cortical bone structure in chimpanzee and human femora reflect early locomotor independence in humans

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The cortical bone structure of long bone diaphyses changes throughout growth via skeletal modeling and has important implications for bone strength and structural integrity. Ontogenetic trends in diaphyseal structure have been identified in both chimpanzees and humans but it is not yet clear how these trends compare given notable differences ...
Karen R. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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