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Welfare Service Professionals, Migrants, and the Question of Trust. A Danish Case

open access: yesProfessions and Professionalism, 2016
The aim of this article is to analyze migrants’ interpretations of their encounters with welfare service professionals in Denmark, focusing on client trust and exploring its diversity across professions.
Barbara Fersch
doaj   +1 more source

Child Welfare: An Overview of Federal Programs and Their Current Funding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Child welfare services are intended to prevent the abuse or neglect of children; ensure that children have safe, permanent homes; and promote the well-being of children and their families. As the U.S.
Stoltzfus, Emilie
core   +5 more sources

Truth and Regret in Online Scheduling

open access: yes, 2017
We consider a scheduling problem where a cloud service provider has multiple units of a resource available over time. Selfish clients submit jobs, each with an arrival time, deadline, length, and value.
Chawla, Shuchi   +3 more
core   +1 more source

PARP inhibitors elicit distinct transcriptional programs in homologous recombination competent castration‐resistant prostate cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
PARP inhibitors are used to treat a small subset of prostate cancer patients. These studies reveal that PARP1 activity and expression are different between European American and African American prostate cancer tissue samples. Additionally, different PARP inhibitors cause unique and overlapping transcriptional changes, notably, p53 pathway upregulation.
Moriah L. Cunningham   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social work and welfare system Commonalities and differences between Portugal, Spain and Germany

open access: yesServiço Social em Revista, 2011
The development of the welfare state intersects with the knowledge and the Social Action. Specialists in this area argue that knowledge and action are associated with Social Service to the type of welfare state pursued in each country.
Maria Irene Carvalho
doaj   +1 more source

Whatever Works [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
AbstractThe chapter compares employment structures in five Continental European welfare states, with a focus on private services. Despite a common trend to overcome institutional employment barriers by creating a more divided labor market, a closer look reveals considerable differences between national patterns of standard and non-standard work.
Eichhorst, Werner, Marx, Paul
openaire   +4 more sources

Characterizing the salivary RNA landscape to identify potential diagnostic, prognostic, and follow‐up biomarkers for breast cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study explores salivary RNA for breast cancer (BC) diagnosis, prognosis, and follow‐up. High‐throughput RNA sequencing identified distinct salivary RNA signatures, including novel transcripts, that differentiate BC from healthy controls, characterize histological and molecular subtypes, and indicate lymph node involvement.
Nicholas Rajan   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Welfare Reform On Infants & Toddlers, Their Families, & Their Communities: The Role of Early Head Start & Head Start [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This study is a qualitative inquiry investigating how perspectives of welfare reform implementation may change or evolve from (a) state level policy makers, (b) county or local administrators responsible for implementing the policies, (c) social service ...
Brookes, Sheila J. (Sheila Joyce), 1963-   +1 more
core  

Adenosine‐to‐inosine editing of miR‐200b‐3p is associated with the progression of high‐grade serous ovarian cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
A‐to‐I editing of miRNAs, particularly miR‐200b‐3p, contributes to HGSOC progression by enhancing cancer cell proliferation, migration and 3D growth. The edited form is linked to poorer patient survival and the identification of novel molecular targets.
Magdalena Niemira   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Services, Democracy and the Capability Approach: Concluding Reflections

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2020
The article recapitulates some major challenges and pitfalls associated with the turn toward welfare service states analysed in the contributions of this special issue.
Jean-Michel Bonvin, Holger Ziegler
doaj   +2 more sources

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