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Migrant-based youth bulges and social conflict in urban sub-Saharan Africa

Demographic Research, 2020
Background: Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced relatively high population growth, which raises concerns about the potential contribution of large young cohorts, termed 'youth bulges', to unrest.
Ashira Menashe Oren
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Urban youth in Africa [PDF]

Environment and Urbanization, 2010
It is widely assumed that most Africans reside in rural areas, that African cities make little economic sense and are unusually violent because so many unemployed young men live there, and that urban migrant youth can be drawn back to their former rural homes. This paper challenges all of these assumptions.
openaire   +1 more source

Addressing Substance Use Utilizing a Community-Based Program among Urban Native American Youth Living in Florida

Genealogy, 2020
This study was conducted in Florida among two urban Native American youth programs that are sponsored by urban Native American community organizations. Convenience and snowballing were used as a sample recruitment strategy. Assignment to the experimental
Rose Wimbish-Cirilo, John Lowe, Eugenia Millender, E. Roberto Orellana   +3 more
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Does free public transit increase physical activity and independent mobility in children? Study protocol for comparing children’s activity between two Finnish towns with and without free public transit

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Children’s habitual physical activity, including active travel and catching public transit (walking and cycling to and from destinations), and independent mobility (mobility without an adult) have decreased. Public transit trips are physically
Arto J. Pesola, Pirjo Hakala, Päivi Berg, Samira Ramezani, Karen Villanueva, Sari Tuuva-Hongisto, Jussi Ronkainen, Tiina E. Laatikainen   +7 more
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Multicomponent intervention for schoolchildren with asthma: Pilot cluster randomized controlled trial

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global
Background: Physical activity (PA) is an important factor in asthma management. However, studies report low PA in children with asthma living in underserved communities.
Marina Reznik, MD, MS, Florinda Islamovic, MD, Jill S. Halterman, MD, MPH, Cheng-Shiun Leu, PhD, Jiaqing Zhang, PhD, Philip O. Ozuah, MD, PhD   +5 more
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The $746 Million A Year School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Ineffective, Discriminatory, and Costly Process of Criminalizing New York City Students [PDF]

, 2017
This report, released by the Center for Popular Democracy and Urban Youth Collaborative, reveals the staggering yearly economic impact of the school-to-prison pipeline in New York City, $746.8 million.
Center for Popular Democracy, Urban Youth Collaborative   +1 more
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An Increasing Misalignment Between Crop Distribution and Environmental Resources Under Climate Change in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Climate change reshapes the spatial alignment between crop production and environmental resources. Using multi‐source data and a crop model, integrated climatic, water, and soil endowments for maize and wheat are quantified and compared with harvest distributions.
Zheng'e Su, Zhentao Zhang, Jin Zhao, Xia Liang, Chuang Zhao, Zhijuan Liu, Minghao Zhuang, Jing Sun, Bo Lu, Ke Liu, Johannes W. M. Pullens, Matthew T. Harrison, Deli Chen, Xiaoguang Yang   +13 more
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Urban Agriculture Education and Youth Civic Engagement in the U.S.: A Scoping Review

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Urban agriculture education is increasingly used to foster civic engagement among youth. To better understand empirical research on this topic, we analyzed peer-reviewed journal articles that focus on civic engagement among high-school-age students in ...
Alex Russ, Madeline B. Gaus
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Youth Culture and Urban Pride; the Sociolinguistics of East Javanese Slang [PDF]

, 2014
This study offers an overview of the characteristics and social functions of youth slang in the Indonesian province of East Java. It examines Boso Walikan and various types of Surabayan slang.
Hoogervorst, T. G. (Tom)
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Diversity of Pharmaceuticals Enhances Antibiotic Resistance in the Invertebrate Gut via Biofilm‐Mediated Mechanisms

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Pharmaceutical diversity acts as an independent driver of antibiotic resistance in soil invertebrates. While bulk soil remains unaffected, the collembolan gut microbiome exhibits significant resistance gene enrichment under complex chemical exposure and diurnal warming.
Yi‐Fei Wang, Ya‐Ning Wang, Da Lin, Jia‐Yang Xu, Feng‐Yuan Qi, Hui‐Ling Cui, Hui‐Jie Lu, Min Qiao, Edward Topp, Dong Zhu, Matthias C. Rillig, Yong‐Guan Zhu   +11 more
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