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Do Parents Value School Effectiveness?

The American Economic Review, 2017
School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents’ choices reward effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics.
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, J. Schellenberg, Christopher R. Walters   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Geographic variation in walking activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examined whether there is geographic variation in field populations, focusing on the moving activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Results showed significant differences in moving activity among field populations but no correlation with latitude or meteorological factors.
Kentarou Matsumura
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing pharmacogenomic research in US Hmong populations: prevalence of key single nucleotide variations in California Hmong

Frontiers in Pharmacology
IntroductionIn collaboration with the Minnesota Hmong community, we have previously discovered significant differences in allele frequencies for key Single Nucleotide Variations (SNVs) within Very Important Pharmacogenes (VIPs) between Hmong and East ...
Boguang Sun, Tou Thao, Kathleen Culhane-Pera, Eric Yang, Mai Yang Thor, Pao Yang, Metta Xiong, Zoua Vang, Robert J. Straka   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pregnancy denial and early infant development: a case-control observational prospective study

BMC Psychology, 2019
Background The denial of pregnancy is the non-recognition of the state of the current pregnancy by a pregnant woman. It lasts for a few months or for the whole pregnancy, with generally few physical transformations.
Julie Auer, Coralie Barbe, Anne-Laure Sutter, Dominique Dallay, Laurianne Vulliez, Didier Riethmuller, Violaine Gubler, Valérie Verlomme, Stéphanie Saad-Saint-Gilles, Alain Miton, Emmanuelle Tessier, Olivier Parant, Julie Le Foll, Agnès Bourgeois-Moine, Sylvie Viaux, Marc Dommergues, Gisèle Apter, Joëlle Belaisch-Allart, Anne Danion, Israël Nisand, Olivier Graesslin, Alexandre Novo, Julien Eutrope, Anne-Catherine Rolland   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parental perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-old children: Focus group findings from Worcester Massachusetts

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing public health issue. The present work describes parental perceptions of COVID-19 vaccination for 5- to 11-year-old children, to aid in vaccination efforts.
Melissa Goulding, Grace W. Ryan, Princilla Minkah, Amy Borg, Maricelis Gonzalez, Nelly Medina, Pamela Suprenant, Milagros C. Rosal, Stephenie C. Lemon   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Personality and parenting style in parents of adolescents [PDF]

Journal of Adolescence, 2009
ABSTRACTSince parental personality traits are assumed to play a role in parenting behaviors, the current study examined the relation between parental personality and parenting style among 688 Dutch parents of adolescents in the SMILE study. The study assessed Big Five personality traits and derived parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian ...
Huver, R.M.E., Otten, R., Vries, H. de, Engels, R.C.M.E.   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Health Savings Account - Eligible High Deductible Health Plans: Updating the Definition of Prevention [PDF]

, 2014
High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) are an important and growing part of the health insurance landscape. By some estimates, as many as 80 percent of large employers may offer an HDHP in 2014.
A. Mark Fendrick, Elizabeth Q. Cliff, Kaden Milkovich, Kathryn Spangler, M. Richard McKellar, Michael Chernew, Stephen Parents   +6 more
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Parents' experiences of sharing neonatal information and decisions: Consent, cost and risk [PDF]

, 2005
This paper is about the care of babies with confirmed or potential neurological problems in neonatal intensive care units. Drawing on recent ethnographic research, the paper considers parents' experiences of sharing information and decisions with ...
Alderson, Priscilla, Hawthorne, Joanna, Killen, Margaret   +2 more
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The thioredoxin‐like and one glutaredoxin domain are required to rescue the iron‐starvation phenotype of HeLa GLRX3 knock out cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Glutaredoxin (Grx) 3 proteins contain a thioredoxin domain and one to three class II Grx domains. These proteins play a crucial role in iron homeostasis in eukaryotic cells. In human Grx3, at least one of the two Grx domains, together with the thioredoxin domain, is essential for its function in iron metabolism.
Laura Magdalena Jordt, Manuela Gellert, Finja Zelms, Sander Bekeschus, Christopher Horst Lillig   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teenage parents [PDF]

, 2008
Teenage pregnancy is considered to be one of the most important adolescent health problems in Western society. It is associated with a high economic cost involving both direct monetary expenditure for public assistance for welfare and child health care ...
Quinlivan, Julie A
core   +1 more source