Book review: Residential child care: prospects and challenges Andrew Kendrick, Editor by Irene Stevens

“…The book is divided into four helpful sections that cover: wellbeing and development; discrimination; conflict and response; and context and culture. …”

Les inégalités d’accès dans l’enseignement supérieur français depuis 1998 : beaucoup de réformes pour des résultats mitigés. by Magali Jaoul-Grammare

“…We use a multinomial logistic regression to compare the Cereq database Generation 1998 and 2013 focusing on four vectors of inequalities: gender, social, cultural and geographical inequalities. …”
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Nurses' Experiences of Caring for Older Persons in Transition to Receive Homecare: Being Somewhere in between Competing Values by Sigrun Hvalvik, Bjørg Dale

“…Eleven home nurses divided into two focus groups were interviewed, and a phenomenological hermeneutical design was used. Four interpretations closely related to each other were revealed: it is essential to have an understanding of the patients' transition history; the nurse' repertoire is challenged in the transition process; care must be adapted to the patients' life world; the excellence of care is threatened by the context. …”
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Twenty years of EU accession: learning lessons from Central and Eastern European agriculture and rural areas by Attila Jambor, Matthew Gorton

“…To explain membership of lower- and higher-speed convergence clubs, the paper identifies four sets of factors, namely initial conditions, pre-accession policy frameworks and actions, administrative preparedness, and post-accession policies.…”
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Regional variety preferences by teachers in USA by Angela George, Anne Hoffman-González

“…The findings indicate preferences split among four macro-varieties and a dispreference for Caribbean Spanish, highlighting the importance of comprehension and exposure to varieties regardless of prior explicit training on the topic.…”
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Une cachette d’objets de valeur des années 260 apr. J.-C. dans une villa de la cité des Nerviens (Merbes-le-Château, Belgique) by Nicolas Paridaens, Nicolas Authom, Sébastien Clerbois, Marie-Paule Delplancke, Johan van Heesch

“…It consists of two copper-allied caldrons and of a small casket containing two silver spoons, a purse with 122 silver antoniniani, a glass flask and four worn sestertii deposited on a plaque dedicated to the Danubian Riders. …”
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Divergence correction for three-dimensional magnetotelluric forward modelling with arbitrary electrical anisotropy by Guo Yu, Jing Han

“…The divergence correction is adapted from techniques initially developed for isotropic MT modeling. Through four numerical examples—a 1D anisotropic model, a 2D anisotropic model with an infinite lateral fault overlying perfect conductor, a 2D anisotropic model with upper and lower structure and a challenging 3D anisotropic model with random parameters—the validity and efficiency of the proposed approach are demonstrated. …”
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The dangers of recreational lasers: A case series of retinal injuries by Gaurav Patil, Surendra Wadgaonkar, Ketaki Bhat, Suhas J. Sonawane

“…Two patients had preretinal hemorrhage, and four exhibited macular-involving subhyaloid hemorrhage, with a median size of two-disc diameters or larger. …”
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An Objective Assessment of Long-term Postoperative Hyperpigmentation in Patients With Apocrine Gland-eliminated Osmidrosis Surgery by Wen-Tsao Ho, MD

“…Twenty female patients with Fitzpatrick skin type III–IV who had undergone osmidrosis surgery were included in this study. …”
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Exploring the practical theological study of congregations by W. J. Schoeman

“…An introduction to the study field of congregations is followed by a description of the development of the study field of congregational studies from the perspective of four countries, namely the United States, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and South Africa. …”
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THE INERTIA FORCE EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF CRANK-GROUP DRIVING MECHANISM by WU Yao, CAO JuJiang, YAN WeiLiang, XI WenJun

“…The inertia force equilibrium condition for any Crank-group Mechanism can be listed directly by combining the formulas of the mass moment substitution formula of connecting rod truss and the inertia force balancing equation of arbitrary crank in the mechanism,then take Four-Cranks Mechanism as an example to simplify the equilibrium conditions that provide a theoretical basis for different structure form of cranks in the mechanism. …”
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Conciencia democrática e industria editorial en los primeros años de la Transición española : la Biblioteca de divulgación política by Marta Simó Comas

“…This study highlights the role played by the publishing industry in the creation and dissemination of a new civic and political awareness in the early years of Spain’s Transition to Democracy. After four decades of dictatorship, prohibition and disinformation Spain’s civil population was characterised for the most part by passivity, and its generally favourable attitude towards the restoration of Democracy was uninformed by ideological convictions or a critical consciousness. …”
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Deformation Control in Rest-to-Rest Motion of Mechanisms with Flexible Links by Roberto Caracciolo, Dario Richiedei, Alberto Trevisani

“…A validation of the proposed control strategy is provided by applying the DRC to the real-time control of a four-bar linkage.…”
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Detection of Antibody to Envelope (E2) Antigen of Hepatitis C Virus by RK Chaudhary, E Burres

“…One hundred and four clinical specimens from provincial public health laboratories were tested for antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV) envelope protein (anti-E2). …”
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Surgical Orthodontic Treatment of Severe Skeletal Class II by Fahad F. Alsulaimani, Maisa O. Al-Sebaei, Ahmed R. Afify

“…The case was managed with a combination of presurgical orthodontic treatment followed by a double jaw orthognathic surgery and then another phase of orthodontic treatment for final occlusal detailing. Extraction of the four first premolars was done during the presurgical orthodontic phase of treatment to decompensate upper and lower incisors and to give room for surgical setback of the maxillary anterior segment. …”
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An Approximation of Minimum Initial Capital of Investment Discrete Time Surplus Process with Weibull Distribution in a Reinsurance Company by Soontorn Boonta, Somchit Boonthiem

“…The results show that the direct search method approximates the parameters more precisely than other frequently used methods (to four-digit accuracy). Second, we approximate the minimum initial capital (MIC) a reinsurance company has to hold under a given ruin probability (insolvency probability) by using parameters from the first part. …”
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Euro-area labour markets: Different reaction to shocks? by Jan Bruha, Beatrice Pierluigi, Roberta Serafini

“…The model entails, in the long run, four driving forces: trend labour force, trend labour productivity, long-run inflation rate and trend hours worked. …”
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The Review of Policy Instruments Stimulating Circular Economy: A Case Study of Poland by Agnieszka Karman

“…The review was completed using analytical frameworks; primary material was compiled using the Science Direct database. The following four groups of potential instruments were identified and characterized: nodality, authority, treasure, and organization-based. …”
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Twospotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Arachnida: Acari: Tetranychidae) by Thomas R. Fasulo, Harold A. Denmark

“…The following nymphal stages and the adult have four pairs of legs. This document is EENY-150 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 89), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Cuatro inscripciones pertenecientes al antiguo Convento de San Vicente de Villamayor de los Montes by Alejandro García Morilla

“…It represents a primary historiographic source to rebuild its historical past from a scriptural and advertising perspective. This four-inscription group constitutes one of the few vestiges preserved from the early monastery of Villamayor.Here we study this corpus through the modern Spanish epigraphic method used for the edition of the Corpus Inscriptionum Hispaniae Mediaevalium, in order to present a critical and scientific study of this group which could allow us to go deep into the particularities of this advertising activity – that is what inscriptions are – and the purpose which these epigraphs may have had, as well as for a better knowledge of the society which created them. …”
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