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- Avery, Helen, et al.
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Inclusion of refugee students in Europe : (Round table)
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- European countries have been receiving refugee children for decades with a recent peak in 2015/2016 (Crul 2017). Although the number of refugees currently arriving in Europe must be seen in proportion to the much higher percentage of refugees that remain in states outside European borders (Dryden-Peterson 2016), the inclusion of refugee children is perceived as a major challenge by policy makers and practitioners in many European countries.There are several issues to be addressed: Some of them concern the practical inclusion of refugee children within the educational system i.e. school arrangements, reception classes or mainstream schooling, checking of the background of prior education, building the relationship between families and school actors whereas others apply to pedagogical fields i.e. additional intercultural training for teachers or political/communal stakeholders, housing arrangements, financial funding (Koehler 2017). The main challenge however lies in the development of educational concepts and policies that are well coordinated and highly effective in terms of promoting the potentials and future perspectives of refugee children and youth to avoid that they will become “a lost generation” (Crul 2017).Within the construction of such concepts and policies it is important to focus on the provision of equal access to compulsory education regardless of status of residency and on equal educational opportunities instead of exclusion. Access to schooling, acquisition of the national language, integration into mainstream education and vocational training can be seen as “core goals“ regarding the continuity of learning (Huddleston & Wolffhardt 2016). To enable the children to (re)activate all their possible resources and potentials it is furthermore relevant to recognize their family languages as a valuable resource (Siarova & Essomba 2014).The panel discussion aims to shed light on policies and concepts for the inclusion of refugee children in different European countries. As a first step the participants will give a short statement (max. 10 minutes) on current developments, challenges and strategies in their country. A focus should be placed on both existing concepts and improvement approaches. Afterwards there will be room for discussion on these concepts in a comparative perspective (30 minutes). Existing differences among different national perspectives based on e.g. geographical position, political situation and educational systems will be taken into consideration while possible starting points for joint concepts in the future might be discussed as well: Which aspects should be included in a coordinated concept on the European level concerning the participation of refugee children in different fields of the education? Are there elements from national concepts which could serve as examples of “best practice” to be considered? What might be the added value of a coordinated concept in comparison to national solutions? Which steps should be taken for developing and imposing such a concept?ReferencesCrul, M. (2017). Refugee children in education in Europe: How to prevent a lost generation? (SIRIUS Network Policy Brief Series), Issue No.7. Dryden-Petterson, S. (2016). Refugee education in countries of first asylum: Breaking open the black box of pre-settlement experiences. Theory and Research in Education, 14(2), 131-148. Huddleston, T., & Wolffhardt, A. (2016). Back to School: Responding to the needs of newcomer refugee youth. Koehler, C. (2017). Continuity of learning for newly arrived refugee children in Europe. (NESET II ad hoc question No. 1). Siarova, H., & Essomba, M. A. (2014). Language Support for Youth with a Migrant Background: Policies that Effectively Promote Inclusion. (SIRIUS Network Policy Brief Series), Issue No. 4. ChairEmre Arslan (emre.arslan@uni-koeln.de), University of Cologne, Germany; Fenna tom Dieck (f.tomdieck@uni-koeln.de), University of Cologne, Germany
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- Hudson, Lawrence N, et al.
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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ecology and Evolution. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2045-7758. ; 7:1, s. 145-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.
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- Locke, Adam E, et al.
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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology.
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Ingår i: Nature. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 518:7538, s. 197-401
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals. This analysis identifies 97 BMI-associated loci (P < 5 × 10(-8)), 56 of which are novel. Five loci demonstrate clear evidence of several independent association signals, and many loci have significant effects on other metabolic phenotypes. The 97 loci account for ∼2.7% of BMI variation, and genome-wide estimates suggest that common variation accounts for >20% of BMI variation. Pathway analyses provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility and implicate new genes and pathways, including those related to synaptic function, glutamate signalling, insulin secretion/action, energy metabolism, lipid biology and adipogenesis.
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- Panagopoulou, Paraskevi, et al.
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Parental age and the risk of childhood acute myeloid leukemia : results from the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium
- 2019
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Ingår i: Cancer Epidemiology. - : Elsevier BV. - 1877-7821 .- 1877-783X. ; 59, s. 158-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background:Parental age has been associated with several childhood cancers, albeit the evidence is still inconsistent.Aim:To examine the associations of parental age at birth with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) among children aged 0-14 years using individual-level data from the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC) and non-CLIC studies.Material/methods: We analyzed data of 3182 incident AML cases and 8377 controls from 17 studies [seven registry-based case-control (RCC) studies and ten questionnaire-based case-control (QCC) studies]. AML risk in association with parental age was calculated using multiple logistic regression, meta-analyses, and pooled-effect estimates. Models were stratified by age at diagnosis (infants < 1 year-old vs. children 1-14 years-old) and by study design, using five-year parental age increments and controlling for sex, ethnicity, birthweight, prematurity, multiple gestation, birth order, maternal smoking and education, age at diagnosis (cases aged 1-14 years), and recruitment time period.Results:Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) derived from RCC, but not from the QCC, studies showed a higher AML risk for infants of mothers >= 40-year-old (OR = 6.87; 95% CI: 2.12-22.25). There were no associations observed between any other maternal or paternal age group and AML risk for children older than one year.Conclusions:An increased risk of infant AML with advanced maternal age was found using data from RCC, but not from QCC studies; no parental age-AML associations were observed for older children.
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