Search

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

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.

11 Jan 2021: Mindfulness is typically defined as ‘the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the

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

28 Apr 2021: For example, they found that socio-economic status played little role in violent fantasy rates.

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

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

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.

15 Jul 2021: Guinea pigs have also been used in regulatory research to batch test vaccine potency. ... During these trials, thousands more humans than animals were used to test how effective and safe the vaccines were in people.

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