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Affirmative Action and Diversity in Public Education — Legal Developments [PDF]

, 2003
The first part of this report briefly reviews the judicial evolution of race-based affirmative action, particularly in relation to public education.
American Law Division, Dale, Charles V.
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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Design and validation of Dolosigranulum pigrum specific PCR primers using the bacterial core genome

Scientific Reports, 2023
Dolosigranulum pigrum—a lactic acid bacterium that is increasingly recognized as an important member of the nasal microbiome. Currently, there are limited rapid and low-cost options for confirming D. pigrum isolates and detecting D.
Maliha Aziz, Amber Palmer, Søren Iversen, Juan E. Salazar, Tony Pham, Kelsey Roach, Karsten Becker, Ursula Kaspar, Lance B. Price, Sharmin Baig, Marc Stegger, Paal Skytt Andersen, Cindy M. Liu   +12 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia

Population Health Metrics
Background Accurate measurement of children’s anthropometry is of central importance for the assessment of nutritional status as well as for the evaluation of nutrition-specific interventions.
Günther Fink, Mpela Chembe, Savanna Henderson, Peter C Rockers, Doug Parkerson   +4 more
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Health care utilisation in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study among host communities

Global Public Health
To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries introduced public health and social measures that had indirect societal, economic consequences. Concerns during epidemics include continuity of routine health services.
Chiara Altare, Natalya Kostandova, Md Abul Hasan, Jogie Abucejo Agbogan, Md Lalan Miah, Hannah Crockett, Madison Bates, Sharon Leslie, Brigitte Tonon, Caroline Antoine, Paul Spiegel   +10 more
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Public School Choice: Action Guide for Parents and Communities [PDF]

, 2006
School districts are required to provide ALL parents the opportunity of transferring their children to another public school if their current school, funded with Title I money, has been identified for school improvement, corrective action, or ...

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Human rights and ethical reasoning : capabilities, conventions and spheres of public action [PDF]

, 2012
This interdisciplinary article argues that human rights must be understood in terms of opportunities for social participation and that social and economic rights are integral to any discussion of the subject.
Bessy C, Boltanski L, Byrne D, Dupuy J-P, Felice WF, Foucault M, Freeman M, Knight FH, Marshall TH, Orléan A, Pogge TW, Rogowski R, Salais R, Salais R, Storper M, Thévenot L, Turner B, Woodiwiss A, Zimmermann B   +18 more
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Serological Benefit of SARS‐CoV‐2 Vaccination Relative to Infection in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of severe outcomes from SARS‐CoV‐2 (SCV2). In the post‐pandemic context, where most children have been infected with SCV2, there are limited data on whether vaccination remains beneficial in children with ALL.
Janna R. Shapiro, Freda Qi, Karen Colwill, Alina D. Dorogy, Ying Liu, Michelle Science, Anne‐Claude Gingras, James M. Rini, Sumit Gupta, Sarah Alexander, Shelly Bolotin, Tania H. Watts   +11 more
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