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7 Apr 2021: Dr Sonia Ilie, its lead author, said: “In many lower-income countries, low socio-economic status is a continual barrier to young people’s attainment. ... It also suggests that factors such as a person’s gender interact with their socio-economic

3 Feb 2021: If a household sample tests positive, then those students who swabbed would take an individual confirmatory test – if they or anyone else in their household tested positive in this follow-up, ... students received the right tests and the right test

17 Nov 2021: The vision is to create two-way alliances with scientists working in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMIC), where the burden of infectious disease is greatest. ... We still face big challenges in the form of economic and political will but I’m

2 Jun 2021: A new analysis of crime rates in 27 cities across 23 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East has found that stay-at-home policies during the pandemic ... The research team found no overall relationship between measures such as school

21 Oct 2021: However, the researchers say that only a few nations deployed policy responses tailored to the specific needs of young people affected by the economic fallout of COVID-19. ... people who have faced 18 months of social and economic chaos,” he added.

4 Jun 2021: My life changed one afternoon in the middle of a rather dull strategic planning meeting. ... Globally we face enormous challenges like recovering from the health, economic and social consequences of COVID-19 and, of course, climate change.

22 Mar 2021: Towards the middle of December, a sombre Matt Hancock, UK Health Secretary, stood up to deliver an address to the House of Commons. ... This is under regular review to ensure that tests do not become so affected that they report a false negative result.

25 Jan 2021: The case of China is complex. It does not claim to be a liberal democracy, and its recent economic growth, while lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, has created new ... The emerging evidence is that test and trace systems work best when

5 Feb 2021: fatalities: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) CoV, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) CoV-1 and CoV-2. ... The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous social and economic damage. Governments must seize the opportunity to reduce health

20 Oct 2021: and telecoms sector, and supporting regional and national innovation strategy and policy in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. ... His management training has included the Royal College of Art, London School of Economics, MIT Sloan, Harvard Business

26 Mar 2021: They conducted a detailed search for publications reporting trials or evaluations about how EdTech is being used to help primary school-age children with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries. ... It also suggests, however, that there have

1 Mar 2021: unrelated to climate and used to test “baseline” support. ... China. India. Brazil. United Kingdom. United States. Indonesia. Poland. This project was funded by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account.

12 Apr 2021: The main task involved stopping the moving bar as it reached the middle line. ... reached the middle bar - but this was not the case for those women affected by anorexia nervosa.

9 Nov 2021: In earthquake-prone developed countries like Japan and New Zealand, even severe earthquakes cause very few deaths – they are mainly stories of economic loss. ... But throughout much of the Mediterranean–Middle East–Central Asia earthquake belt,

13 May 2021: These interviews were recorded as podcasts. The collaboration is part of the ‘Engaging the Public in Census 2021 project’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Economic and ... Today young people have to stay in full-time

4 Nov 2021: severe economic difficulty. ... Zhenru Jacqueline Lin was a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and St John’s College, Cambridge until May 2021.

15 Apr 2021: Sensitivity is the ‘true positive’ rate – that is, how often a test correctly generates a positive result for people who have Barrett oesophagus. ... Specificity, on the other hand, measures a test’s ability to correctly generate a negative

20 May 2021: Standardised test scores and teacher reports were used to measure academic attainment, and a survey of standard risk factors, taken when the children were very young, to establish socio-economic status. ... When the researchers factored in low

9 Mar 2021: homework. During the CBE programme, the students’ test scores improved, on average, by 27 percentage points. ... In Europe and the US, children from lower socio-economic backgrounds will similarly be experiencing severe learning loss.

28 May 2021: free school meals, and those of students with middle-ranking prior attainment. ... It also points to research conducted in 2016 in which Key Stage 3 pupils’ test scores improved dramatically after a portion of their regular curriculum was replaced