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Biotechnology governance entreaties released, echoing legacy of 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines

Rice University
Reports and Proceedings

Twenty-seven biotechnology governance entreaties echoing the legacy of the 1975 recombinant DNA guidelines are now available for public review.

First data from the EULAR RheumaFacts project

European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)
Reports and Proceedings

Monitoring health inequity across Europe

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Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) are the leading causes of disability worldwide, resulting in significant healthcare and social support costs. One of the reasons for this increasing burden seems to be the variability in the number and nature of allocated resources across Europe, as well as organisational aspects of health systems that result in disparities and health inequities across countries.

Western standards behind the gender equality paradox

Uppsala University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Previous research has asserted that women and men in gender-equal countries differ more in their preferences than women and men in less equal countries, for example by making more traditional educational choices. This relationship is known as the gender-equality paradox. However, new research from Uppsala University now shows that it is not possible to draw these conclusions from the data studied. The paper, published in the journal PNAS, shows that the question is based on Western perspectives and conditions and cannot be applied to other countries.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Doctoral dissertation explores women’s roles in peacebuilding

Estonian Research Council
Reports and Proceedings

Women play a crucial role in peacebuilding in conflict affected societies, particularly through grassroot and civil society movements such as mediation and activism. However, they are rarely included in official peace negotiation teams. Julia Vassileva, a doctoral candidate at the School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallinn University, studied why women are still underrepresented in peace processes.

Doctoral dissertation: Serfdom in the Baltic region was seen as similar to slavery in the United States and the British Empire.

Estonian Research Council
Reports and Proceedings

Slavery in the 18th-19th century United States and British Empire and serfdom in the Russian Empire have been compared in previous studies, but those works have generally overlooked the particularities of the Baltic provinces. In his doctoral dissertation defended at the School of Humanities at Tallinn University, Andre Kruusmaa focused specifically on the Baltic provinces and compared serfdom in this unique region to the slavery practiced in the southern United States and in the colonies of the British Empire in the Western hemisphere. The focus of the study was primarily on ideas that supported both slavery and serfdom, where it became clear that the two were often seen as similar practices by contemporaries and were often defended using similar arguments.

PleaseApp: the app that assesses and treats social communication skills in children aged 5 to 12, created by the UJI and the UOC, is now available from Hogrefe TEA Ediciones

Universitat Jaume I
Business Announcement

PleaseApp, an app designed to assess and treat pragmatic and social communication skills in children aged 5 to 12, developed by researchers at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló (UJI) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), is now available in the Hogrefe TEA Ediciones catalogue.

Funder: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain)

Study provides novel insights into dialogue-based teaching intervention in Chinese classrooms

ECNU Review of Education
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dialogic pedagogy has been highly valued and promoted in classrooms globally over the past few decades. However, there persists a stereotype that view Chinese classrooms as authoritative and full of rote learning. A new study has systematically reviewed several dialogue-based teaching interventions implemented in Chinese elementary and secondary schools. This review suggests that these interventions were mostly integrated with school subject fields and exert both cognitive and noncognitive effects on Chinese students

Journal: ECNU Review of Education