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Common Genetic Variants Explain the Majority of the Correlation Between Height and Intelligence: The Generation Scotland Study

open access: yesBehavior Genetics, 2014
Greater height and higher intelligence test scores are predictors of better health outcomes. Here, we used molecular (single-nucleotide polymorphism) data to estimate the genetic correlation between height and general intelligence (g) in 6,815 unrelated ...
R. Marioni   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Amplifying Voices

open access: yesCanadian Journal for New Scholars in Education
This literature review examines how marginalized students are represented in educational data, addressing disparities faced by student groups such as racialized students, those with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students, students from low-income backgrounds, and
Rachel Christine Scotland
doaj  

How Scotland will be disadvantaged in the longer term by recent changes in government accounting for European structural funds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In 2006, the Treasury reclassified the way in which receipts from the EU are handled in the UK government’s public expenditure control system. This was intended to be a purely technical change, whose impact would be budgetarily neutral. We show here that,
Cuthbert, Jim, Cuthbert, Margaret
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Foot and Mouth Epidemic Reduces Cases of Human Cryptosporidiosis in Scotland. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In Scotland, rates of cryptosporidiosis infection in humans peak during the spring, a peak that is coincident with the peak in rates of infection in farm animals (during lambing and calving time).
Jones, Keith   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Time to address the double inequality of differences in dietary intake between Scotland and England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Geographical disparities in health outcomes have been evident across the UK for decades. There is limited recent analysis on the dietary differences between Scotland and England that might go some way to explain these health differences. This study aimed
Anderson, Annie S.   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Editorial Vol15 no1

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2016
Welcome to the first issue of the SJRCC of 2016, a bumper collection of articles, varied by topic and geography. In this issue we are delighted to be publishing for the first time the text of the Care Leavers’ Annual Lecture, sponsored by Who Cares ...
Graham Connelly
doaj   +1 more source

Scotland as an Optimal Currency Area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Since the Scottish independence movement has reached the point that there will be a referendum on Scottish independence this September, the issue of whether the Scotland is optimal currency areas is very topical.In this paper we review the microeconomic ...
Binner, J.   +3 more
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From residential unit to permanent foster care: reflections on one child's journey towards legal permanence in Scotland

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2016
This article reflects on the transition journey of one child who for various reasons was unable to live with his biological parents. The focus is on the child's move from living in a residential children's unit to living with a permanent foster carer ...
Aileen Nicol
doaj   +1 more source

Phase Transitions in Non-Equilibrium Systems [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2000
Phase transitions and critical behavior of driven systems are reviewed. Models exhibiting phase transitions, spontaneous symmetry breaking, phase separation and coarsening processes in d=1 dimension are discussed.
arxiv  

The defence industry in Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
“The defence industry is vital to Scotland”1 The above quote from the recent House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee report concerns the volume of economic activity that the defence industry supports in Scotland.
Dunlop, Stewart
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