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Young people who are marginally housed have elevated rates of numerous adverse outcomes, including cognitive deficit, psychiatric illness, substance use and premature mortality. Childhood adversity…

The One Child Policy, implemented in China from 1979 to 2015, had a profound impact on the country's family structure. The policy resulted in smaller family sizes, as well as a gender imbalance…

A butoh-inspired performance, The 13th Chronicle is a response to the twelve chronicles presented in Sabes Algo de Mariana? (Do You Know Anything About Mariana? 2011), a play by Mexican scholar and…

With oceans projected to carry more plastic pollution in volume than fish by 2050, various countries have stepped up clean-up, mitigation, and prevention efforts. Abandoned, lost, and/or discarded…

Mobile communication systems have advanced to 4G (fourth generation), with 5G comprising visions, concepts and designs for better performance. The key 5G feature is the use of antenna arrays on…

Prenatal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) may impair children's neurodevelopment. Effects of indoor PM2.5 on neurodevelopment, and the neurodevelopmental benefits of using portable…

Deglaciation of the last Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) remains under-researched compared to coeval ice sheets, limiting it as an analogue for modern ice sheets. The northern Thompson Plateau, a…

Du Val singularities appear in the classification of algebraic surfaces and other areas of algebraic geometry. Wahl's concept of local Euler characteristics of sheaves helps in describing the…

One of the main threats to the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population is environmental contaminants. Among the contaminants of greatest concern are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a…

The Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters program (HIPPY) is a school readiness program for parents with preschool-aged children. This study examines Multicultural HIPPY, a branch of…

Since the inauguration of the United Nations' (UN) Global Compact, global public-private partnerships (GP3s) between the UN and the private sector have become common practice across the UN…

The definitions of wellbeing and health determine, to a great extent, the actionable steps that societies take to achieve them. Fundamental limitations to the current dominant understandings of these…

The implied universalist and formalist semantic assumptions in today's Natural Language Processing (NLP) paradigms used in artificial intelligence systems fundamentally lack the capacity to…

Due to its rich collection of information over time, administrative databases have become a popular data source to conduct population-based health research. Motivated by estimating the long-term…

The works presented here focus on the semi-magic, stable nucleus 118Sn and the nuclear structure within. Two very different reactions were performed to populate excited states in 118Sn: β-decay of…

Rare-earth-based intermetallic systems display a wide variety of distinct magnetic properties. Besides the well-known ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic orderings, specific arrangements of magnetic…

Histories of Pan-Islamism in the late 19th and early 20th century have long been populated by accounts of Indian Muslim notables and their concerns for the growing European aggression against the…

Increasing bicycling for transportation is a priority on healthy city policy agendas given its potential to improve health outcomes and advance sustainability goals. Safety concerns and inadequate…

Older people residing in long-term care facilities are at risk of malnutrition due to inadequate consumption of energy, macronutrients, and micronutrients necessary for maintaining their overall…