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Elsevier, Advances in Life Course Research, Volume 65, September 2025
This study investigates the family trajectories of young women in Mexico and Colombia, analysing changes across three birth cohorts and examining the evolving relationship between educational attainment and family trajectories. Utilizing data from the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and the Mexican Encuesta Nacional de la Dinámica Demográfica (ENADID), the study encompasses retrospective partnership and childbearing histories for 45,683 women.
Elsevier, Advances in Life Course Research, Volume 65, September 2025
Prevalent in the Global South, child marriage powerfully shapes women's work and family lives. Analyzing data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey, we examine how child marriage influences the work-family life courses of Egyptian women between ages 6 and 30, to advance life course research in two crucial aspects. First, using multichannel sequence analysis, we identified six distinct work-family trajectories of Egyptian women who married as children and compared these with women who married as adults.
Elsevier, Results in Engineering, Volume 27, September 2025
Incorporating human behavioral factors into travel demand analysis is increasingly critical in transportation planning. Perceived security is a key behavioral factor influencing urban travelers’ choices, particularly for active transportation modes like cycling and vulnerable road users like women. While prior studies have explored certain aspects of perceived security —mainly for pedestrians—the application of Machine Learning (ML) models to predict cyclists’ perceived security remains a relatively developing research area.
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International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 117, September 2025

This article analyses over 1,200 legal and policy documents from 193 countries to assess global efforts toward educational equity, focusing on barriers related to income, disability, gender, and discrimination. It reveals significant gaps, including tuition fees before secondary school, lack of protections against sexual harassment and disability discrimination, and limited provisions for inclusive education.
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Studies in Educational Evaluation, Volume 86, September 2025

This study explores how students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness at school relate to their wellbeing, focusing on girls, students with special educational needs (SEN), and low socioeconomic status (SES) students
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Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 57, September 2025

This study examined the effectiveness of video modeling combined with small group instruction to teach leisure skills using waste materials to three individuals with multiple disabilities.
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Volume 79, September 2025

Notations are fundamental in mathematics and related fields, but their design has overlooked the diverse needs of different users. Recent insights into neurodiversity highlight how certain design choices can either hinder or facilitate comprehension for neurodiverse students.
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Endocrine Practice

Volume 31, Issue 9, Supplement, September 2025, Page S193

 

Evidence from preclinical research suggests that dysfunction in thyroid hormones may increase ?-amyloid levels and tau phosphorylation, 2 hallmark features of Alzheimer's Disease(AD). This study showed a strong association between hypothyroidism and AD mortality.

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RELX Environmental Challenge 2025: four shortlisted projects to bring safe water and sanitation to communities around the world

The RELX Environmental Challenge 2025 shortlist features four innovative projects that provide sustainable access to safe water and improved sanitation.  The RELX Environmental Challenge prioritises replicable, scalable, sustainable and innovative solutions. They must also have practical applicability and involve local communities and other key stakeholders.

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Learning and Instruction, Volume 98, August 2025

This article focuses on whether handwriting and typing contribute differentially to lexical acquisition within the alphabetic system, providing distinct sensorimotor experiences for words through different motor actions and consequent attentional and time constraints in producing letters. We examined a sample of middle school students with reading and spelling disabilities alongside age-matched peers with typical development.

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