Plain English summary Many young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) find it hard to control their blood glucose levels. With lots of things going on in their lives, their diabetes is often not the most important thing to them.
Mary Clare O’Hara+15 more
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How Adults Understand What Young Children Say [PDF]
Children's early speech often bears little resemblance to that of adults, and yet parents and other caregivers are able to interpret that speech and react accordingly. Here we investigate how these adult inferences as listeners reflect sophisticated beliefs about what children are trying to communicate, as well as how children are likely to pronounce ...
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“The hope – the one hope – is that your generation will prove wiser and more responsible than mine.” Constructions of guilt in a selection of disaster texts for young adults [PDF]
This paper explores a range of definitions of guilt, and argues that fiction for young adults which is set after a major disaster that has been caused by humans has surprisingly little emphasis on guilt.
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Design Your Life: User-Initiated Design of Technology to Support Independent Living of Young Autistic Adults [PDF]
This paper describes the development of and first experiences with 'Design Your Life': a novel method aimed at user-initiated design of technologies supporting young autistic adults in independent living. A conceptual, phenomenological background resulting in four core principles is described. Taking a practice-oriented Research-through-Design approach,
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What is the perceived nature of parental care and support for young people with cystic fibrosis as they enter adult health services? [PDF]
The majority of those diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) now live to adulthood. In response to increased survival age, transition services have been developed to ensure smooth transfer from paediatric to adult specialist healthcare, although the ...
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Portrait of the journal as a young adult [PDF]
Since its founding a decade ago, Environmental Health has received more than one thousand manuscripts. Last year marked the first time we published over 100 articles. The journal web site currently receives over 60,000 unique visitors every month, and the steady increase suggests that the number will soon exceed 100,000 monthly. Individual articles are
David Ozonoff+2 more
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A hypothetico-deductive approach to assessing the social function of chemical signalling in a non-territorial solitary carnivore [PDF]
The function of chemical signalling in non-territorial solitary carnivores is still relatively unclear. Studies on territorial solitary and social carnivores have highlighted odour capability and utility, however the social function of chemical ...
A Kodric-Brown+87 more
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Innovative Approaches to Address Social Determinants of Health Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Background: Social determinants are the leading causes of health disparities. Yet health care systems have not systemically addressed social determinants of health as it pertains to adolescents and young adults (AYAs), among other populations in need ...
Kathleen P. Tebb+5 more
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Background Routine supplementation of thiamine in patients with restrictive eating disorders prior to initiation of nutritional rehabilitation, is an example of a clinical guideline based on expert opinion rather than evidence-based recommendations. This
Elizabeth Parker+7 more
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Designing AI for Online-to-Offline Safety Risks with Young Women: The Context of Social Matching [PDF]
In this position paper we draw attention to safety risks against youth and young adults that originate through the combination of online and in-person interaction, and opportunities for AI to address these risks. Our context of study is social matching systems (e.g., Tinder, Bumble), which are used by young adults for online-to-offline interaction with
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