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How Screen Time and Social Media Hyperconnection Have Harmed Adolescents’ Relational and Psychological Well-Being since the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Sciences
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase in screen time and hyperconnection on social media is raising significant concerns, with particular emphasis of their effects on the relational and psychological well-being of children and adolescents.
Antonio Tintori, Giulia Ciancimino, Loredana Cerbara   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

MUNICIPAL SOCIAL SERVICES. THE NEED FOR A REFOUNDATION [PDF]

Papeles del Psicólogo, 2018
The current municipal social services began to be implemented in the 1980’s. Largely descendants of the public beneficence that the local administrations provided in the past, they still display influences from that phase today.
Miguel López-Cabanas
doaj   +1 more source

Accurate and noninvasive prostate cancer detection using plasma‐derived extracellular vesicle RNA

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Plasma extracellular vesicles were captured with WGA‐conjugated magnetic beads and profiled for RNA biomarkers. A three‐RNA panel (NM_024955, NR_047469, and NR_002564) distinguished prostate cancer from healthy controls and benign prostatic hyperplasia, supporting a simple, noninvasive approach to improve prostate cancer detection.
Hanping Wei, Haoran Wu, Wei Feng
wiley   +1 more source

Invisible poverty: migrants, new social policies and the risk of exclusion

, 2006
This chapter deals with transformations of social policies in recent years and the ways they might have affected migrants, namely referred to a particular set of policies of assistance against the risk of poverty.
G. Procacci
core   +2 more sources

Power Dynamics in Collaborative Governance Processes: A Case Study of a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood in Southern Spain

Buildings
This study focuses on assessing collaborative governance from the perspective of power dynamics in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in southern Spain: Las Palmeras.
Antonio Delgado-Baena, Antonio Sianes
doaj   +1 more source

From patient advocacy to patient‐driven research: Building active partnerships beginning at the bench to reach the bedside

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Research is strongest when conducted alongside patients, not just about them. Patient research organizations help integrate patient perspectives into research priorities, study design, and scientific meetings, leading to meaningful patient outcomes and development of relevant therapies.
Jenica H. Kakadia, Rachel Heilmann, Maximiliano Barrientos, Laura MacNeill, Ingrid Vallee, Sarah K. Schultz, Patrick O'Donoghue, Angelica A. Moresco, Victoria M. Siu, Ilka U. Heinemann   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accuracy of Measuring Relative Poverty: Using Hong Kong as an Example

Journal of Social Computing
Defining poverty based on relative income, intended to identify individuals who are significantly worse off than the mainstream living standard—is widely adopted by more developed countries and regions, such as those in the Organization for Economic Co ...
Dah Ming Chiu, Yu Cheung Wong, Stephen Chun Chung Cheng, Felix Sai Kit Ng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of undergraduate bioscience engagement: Validating attendance barriers and classroom spatial behaviour across institutions

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Student engagement extends beyond simple attendance. Across 891 bioscience students from three universities, attendance behaviour was associated mainly with structural influences, whereas classroom spatial behaviour reflected affective and sensory factors.
Nigel Page, Rachel J. Hunt, Lauren J. Albee, Daniel Berwick, Alison Snape   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Media for Digital and Social Inclusion: Challenges for Information Society 2.0 Research & Policies [PDF]

, 2011
In this paper we reflect on how research and policies can and/or should help in the development of a sustainable participatory information society for all. More specifically, we aim to investigate critically how social media can entail both potential and
Verdegem, P.
core  

Design and evaluation of FEBS Education and Training Academy module – Integrating generative artificial intelligence into life‐science education

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Life‐science educators from 14 countries redesigned their own course materials with generative AI in a three‐session, pedagogy‐first FEBS Education and Training Academy workshop built on PICRAT. Among 12 matched respondents, four more reported high confidence in each of five practical domains, and 10 of 13 reported implementing at least one idea ...
Zvonimir Mlinarić, Ali Burak Özkaya
wiley   +1 more source