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View article: Applying Conceptualisations of Child Well-being to Early Childhood Education and Care: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Applying Conceptualisations of Child Well-being to Early Childhood Education and Care: A Scoping Review of the Literature Open
‘Well-being’ and ‘child well-being’ are broad terms with little consensus amongst numerous definitions. Applications of the term, particularly for children aged birth to six, are vague due to the lack of conceptual clarity. The aim of this…
View article: Exploring the Effectiveness of a Virtual Coaching Program to Support Staff Working at Families as First Teachers Playgroups in the Remote Northern Territory, Australia
Exploring the Effectiveness of a Virtual Coaching Program to Support Staff Working at Families as First Teachers Playgroups in the Remote Northern Territory, Australia Open
Coaching is an important form of professional development for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce. However, educators working in remote contexts do not always have access to this type of support. This paper explores the…
View article: Aboriginal children’s health, playgroup participation and early learning outcomes in two remote Northern Territory communities
Aboriginal children’s health, playgroup participation and early learning outcomes in two remote Northern Territory communities Open
Objectives: This study aimed to explore the impact of early health risks on young Aboriginal children’s attendance in playgroups and their early learning outcomes. Design: The study used a cross-sectional design to identify associations be…
View article: Supporting Young Children’s Social–Emotional Wellbeing in Early Childhood Education and Care: Perspectives from the Sector
Supporting Young Children’s Social–Emotional Wellbeing in Early Childhood Education and Care: Perspectives from the Sector Open
Child wellbeing and mental health continues to be a significant public health issue, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) professionals are uniquely positioned to monitor and support …
View article: How do Educators Use Evidence to Inform Decision-Making in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Settings? A Qualitative Interview Study
How do Educators Use Evidence to Inform Decision-Making in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Settings? A Qualitative Interview Study Open
While evidence-based practice is linked to improved quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, limited research examines how early childhood (EC) educators understand and use evidence in practice. The aim of this qualit…
View article: Small variant benchmark from a complete assembly of X and Y chromosomes
Small variant benchmark from a complete assembly of X and Y chromosomes Open
The sex chromosomes contain complex, important genes impacting medical phenotypes, but differ from the autosomes in their ploidy and large repetitive regions. To enable technology developers along with research and clinical laboratories to…
View article: A robust benchmark for detecting low-frequency variants in the HG002 Genome In A Bottle NIST reference material.
A robust benchmark for detecting low-frequency variants in the HG002 Genome In A Bottle NIST reference material. Open
Somatic mosaicism is an important cause of disease, but mosaic and somatic variants are often challenging to detect because they exist in only a fraction of cells. To address the need for benchmarking subclonal variants in normal cell popu…
View article: GIFTS: Transforming First-Year Engineering Curriculum with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning
GIFTS: Transforming First-Year Engineering Curriculum with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning Open
This Great Ideas For Teaching (and Talking With) Students (GIFTS) paper presents a plan to promote diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) in First-Year introduction to engineering classes. Curricular t…
View article: Cultivating a Sustainable Mindset in Undergraduate Engineering through the Engineering for One Planet Framework
Cultivating a Sustainable Mindset in Undergraduate Engineering through the Engineering for One Planet Framework Open
Sustainability is an intersection of environmental, social and economic perspective [1]. A sustainable mindset finds solutions to restore nature and its resources to help local, regional and global communities and reduce economic burden on…
View article: Educator wellbeing and family engagement in Australian early learning settings: perspectives of early childhood educators and families
Educator wellbeing and family engagement in Australian early learning settings: perspectives of early childhood educators and families Open
While the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it multiple challenges for families and the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce, it also highlighted the essential role of ECEC in the lives of children and families and presented un…
View article: Profiles of Professional Wellbeing and Turnover Intentions Among Australian Early Childhood Educators
Profiles of Professional Wellbeing and Turnover Intentions Among Australian Early Childhood Educators Open
Research Findings: To explore distinct professional-wellbeing subgroups and variations in turnover intentions, we examined the factor structure of the Early Childhood Professional Wellbeing Questionnaire (McMullen et al., 2020), which was …
View article: Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Culture-Related Design in First-Year Engineering Curriculum: A Work in Progress
Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Culture-Related Design in First-Year Engineering Curriculum: A Work in Progress Open
There are critical conversations happening right now around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in work and educational settings. Educational settings need to prepare students to collaborate with diverse populations in their engineering…
View article: A Framework for Implementing Design for Additive Manufacturing Methods in First-Year Engineering Curriculum: Investigating the effects of specialized training on engineering design and student self-efficacy
A Framework for Implementing Design for Additive Manufacturing Methods in First-Year Engineering Curriculum: Investigating the effects of specialized training on engineering design and student self-efficacy Open
Additive manufacturing (AM) is widely used in various industries and has transformed the way products are designed and manufactured. Training workshops in conjunction with a part assessment framework encourage designers to use design for a…
View article: Small variant benchmark from a complete assembly of X and Y chromosomes
Small variant benchmark from a complete assembly of X and Y chromosomes Open
The sex chromosomes contain complex, important genes impacting medical phenotypes, but differ from the autosomes in their ploidy and large repetitive regions. To evaluate variant detection on chromosomes X and Y, we created an 111,725 vari…
View article: Exploring Environmental Factors Associated with Child Wellbeing during COVID-19 in Australia and Germany
Exploring Environmental Factors Associated with Child Wellbeing during COVID-19 in Australia and Germany Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the wellbeing of children and families globally. With extended lockdown periods, early childhood education and school closures, and remote learning, families experienced increased stres…
View article: Immunotherapy-related adverse events in real-world patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer on chemoimmunotherapy: a Spinnaker study sub-analysis
Immunotherapy-related adverse events in real-world patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer on chemoimmunotherapy: a Spinnaker study sub-analysis Open
Background The Spinnaker study evaluated survival outcomes and prognostic factors in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer receiving first-line chemoimmunotherapy in the real world. This sub-analysis assessed the immunotherapy-…
View article: 746 Burn Provider Perceptions Before and After Implementation of a Pain and Sedation Clinical Practice Guideline
746 Burn Provider Perceptions Before and After Implementation of a Pain and Sedation Clinical Practice Guideline Open
Introduction Pain and sedation management is a crucial yet challenging aspect of burn care. We sought to survey a multidisciplinary group of nurses (RN), physicians (MD), advanced practice providers (APP), and therapists (PT/OT) to determi…
View article: Somatic small-variant calling methods in Illumina DRAGEN™ Secondary Analysis
Somatic small-variant calling methods in Illumina DRAGEN™ Secondary Analysis Open
We present the DRAGEN™ somatic pipeline for calling small somatic variants from tumor samples, with or without paired normal samples. The DRAGEN somatic variant caller offers 1) a flexible architecture that can be used on a wide array of s…
View article: Parents’ Perspectives of Family Engagement with Early Childhood Education and Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Parents’ Perspectives of Family Engagement with Early Childhood Education and Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services and families, impacting family access to services and their communication and engagement with educators. This study aimed to ex…
View article: Real-time Feedback to Improve HIV Treatment Adherence in Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Uganda: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Real-time Feedback to Improve HIV Treatment Adherence in Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Uganda: A Randomized Controlled Trial Open
We assessed an intervention aimed at improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV (PPWLH). We randomized 133 pregnant women initiating ART in Uganda to receive text reminders gener…
View article: Domains of quality in early childhood education and care: A scoping review of the extent and consistency of the literature
Domains of quality in early childhood education and care: A scoping review of the extent and consistency of the literature Open
Early childhood education and care programmes provide opportunities to enhance children's learning and development, especially when high-quality learning experiences and educator-child interactions are embedded within them. However, the qu…
View article: Mothers as First Teachers: Exploring the Features of Motherchild Interactions That Support Young Aboriginal Children’s Multilingual Learning at Playgroup
Mothers as First Teachers: Exploring the Features of Motherchild Interactions That Support Young Aboriginal Children’s Multilingual Learning at Playgroup Open
For many Indigenous children living in remote communities, the prerequisites to achieving strong language and learning outcomes include the maintenance of their first languages and progress in learning English as an additional language. Th…
View article: Early Childhood Educators’ Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Early Childhood Educators’ Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The importance of Early Childhood (EC) educators’ wellbeing has been brought into sharp focus during the COVID-19 pandemic, as educators have navigated numerous additional stressors while providing education and care services for some chil…
View article: An Abecedarian Approach with Aboriginal Families and Their Young Children in Australia: Playgroup Participation and Developmental Outcomes
An Abecedarian Approach with Aboriginal Families and Their Young Children in Australia: Playgroup Participation and Developmental Outcomes Open
New approaches to support the early learning for young Indigenous children are important to government policies across Australia. This study explores whether the Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a) intervention, with strong cultural adapta…
View article: Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century
Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century Open
The Twelfth Century in Western Europe was a remarkable time in history. Scholars have noted that Roman law was being revived, Aristotelian theory was being studied, Romanesque and Gothic art was being produced, scholasticism was being cult…
View article: A somatic reference standard for cancer genome sequencing
A somatic reference standard for cancer genome sequencing Open
Large-scale multiplexed identification of somatic alterations in cancer has become feasible with next generation sequencing (NGS). However, calibration of NGS somatic analysis tools has been hampered by a lack of tumor/normal reference sta…