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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equity premium forecasting with reliability-screened forward-looking signals. [PDF]

PLoS One
Huh J, Jeon J, Jeong S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Central bank intervention and overnight uncovered interest rate parity [PDF]

This paper considers the impact of U.S. and German central bank intervention on the risk premium in forward foreign exchange markets.Foreign exchange - Law and ...
William P. Osterberg, Richard T. Baillie
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Synergistic Physicochemical Inhibition of Reactive Shale Formations Using Hydrothermally Synthesized Hydroxyapatite Nickel Tungstate Nanocomposites in Water‐Based Drilling Fluids

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wellbore instability driven by the volumetric expansion of reactive shale formations remains a primary operational challenge in modern drilling engineering, causing severe mechanical failures and substantial economic deficits. The objective of this study is to formulate and evaluate a novel dual‐action chemical additive capable of ...
Ghaleb Oriquat, Basim Abdul Alrhym, A. C. Umamaheshwer Rao, Shivam P. Chaudhary, Pardeep Singh Bains, Ripendeep Singh, Murotov Nurshod, Rasulbek Eshmetov, Ahmad Abumalek   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of mass transfers of enrollees from liquidated health insurance companies on the financial sustainability of health insurance: an ecological study in the Colombian health system. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Pinzon Florez CE, Gómez Ardila C, Ruiz-Rodriguez M.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Exchange Rate Risk in Central European Countries [PDF]

The authors address the issue of foreign exchange risk and its macroeconomic determinants in several Central European (CE) economies. The joint distribution of excess returns in the foreign exchange market and observable country-specific macroeconomic ...
Tigran Poghosyan, Evžen Koèenda
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Gonadal development in scorpion mud‐turtles, Kinosternon scorpioides, in a controlled environment

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Stage 20 was identified as the critical point for gonadal differentiation in Kinosternon scorpioides, providing key insights into sex determination. These findings enhance conservation strategies by supporting reproductive management and population viability in both in situ and ex situ programs. Abstract Research on gonadal development including sexual
Brenda Braga, Verônica Oliveira‐Bahia, Maria Auxiliadora Ferreira, José Ribamar Felipe Marques, Diva Araújo Guimarães   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tree-based machine learning methods for predicting vehicle insurance claim size. [PDF]

Front Big Data
Terefe EM, Aga MA.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Forward Premium Puzzle in a Model of Imperfect Information: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

This paper studies the forward premium puzzle in an environment where private agents do not perfectly observe the shocks that drive monetary policy. Private agents optimally update their conditional expectations by means of the Kalman filter.
Rui Albuquerque
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