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Careership: The experiences of women in choosing career paths in TVET in South Africa
African Journal of Career Development, 2023 Background: This study explored the potential role that gender and race play in influencing the career choices of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) college students.
Matimba G. Nghonyama +2 more
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Comparative Migration Studies, 2023 The European Union (EU) faces challenges that affect its persistence, including the revival of national populism in many EU member states. Studies have shown that individuals with immigration histories identify less strongly with Europe than individuals ...
Beatriz Matafora +2 more
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Parenting Advice Books Provide a Window on the Past
Social Sciences, 2021 This paper comprises a collection of illustrations, along with background information, analysis, and commentary, from “baby books”—advice books published in the United States for a parent audience from the 1890s to the 1980s.
V. Sue Atkinson
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EBioMedicine, 2022 Summary: Background: Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a leading cause of mortality, particularly for men. Few interventions have focused on protecting specifically men. Emerging evidence may implicate testosterone.
C.M. Schooling
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School Environment and School Injuries [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2014 Although injuries at school are an important issue in public health, environmental factors in schools and school yards have seldom been the focus of school injury research. The goal of our investigation was to examine the effect of environmental factors on school injuries.Nine comprehensive Finnish schools registered school injuries over a period of ...
Salminen, Simo +4 more
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Student teachers’ reflections on semiotics in Grade 3 isiXhosa literacy lessons
South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023 Background: Globally, teaching practice has been at the heart of teacher education programmes. For quality teaching and learning, literacy student teachers are expected to develop metacognitive attributes and critical thinking to integrate theory and ...
Pretty N. Magangxa, Deidre C. Geduld
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Effect of Basal Metabolic Rate on Cancer: A Mendelian Randomization Study
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Background: Basal metabolic rate is associated with cancer, but these observations are open to confounding. Limited evidence from Mendelian randomization studies exists, with inconclusive results. Moreover, whether basal metabolic rate has a similar role
Jack C. M. Ng +2 more
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Credible Mendelian Randomization Studies in the Presence of Selection Bias Using Control Exposures
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Selection bias is increasingly acknowledged as a limitation of Mendelian randomization (MR). However, few methods exist to assess this issue. We focus on two plausible causal structures relevant to MR studies and illustrate the data-generating process ...
Zhao Yang +3 more
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Circulating Cytokines and Coronavirus Disease: A Bi-Directional Mendelian Randomization Study
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 BackgroundImmune system functioning is relevant to vulnerability to coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Cytokines are important to immunity. To further elucidate the role of the immune system in COVID-19, we used Mendelian randomization (MR) to assess ...
Mengyu Li +3 more
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A Framework for Using Data as an Engineering Tool for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems
IEEE Access, 2021 Smart infrastructure has the potential to revolutionise how infrastructure is delivered, managed and automatically controlled. Data and digital twins offer an opportunity to enable this revolution and secure sustainable future smart infrastructure.
Didem Gurdur Broo, Jennifer Schooling
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