Brain cancer and leukemia are the most common cancers diagnosed in the pediatric population and are often treated with lifesaving chemotherapy. However, chemotherapy causes severe adverse effects and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a major dose-limiting and debilitating side effect. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• October 2022

In this chapter we use rich longitudinal data to examine the typical growth of vocabulary in children as they age from 4 years onwards. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• October 2022

Climatic conditions play a key role in the transmission and pathophysiology of respiratory tract infections, either directly or indirectly. However, their impact on the COVID-19 pandemic propagation is yet to be studied. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• November 2022

Engagement has been identified as an important predictor of student outcomes; therefore, teachers’ ability to accurately and objectively measure student engagement is essential and can assist teachers to make instructional decisions based on data rather than perception. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• November 2022

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is a component of neural tissue. Because its accretion into the brain is greatest during the final trimester of pregnancy, infants born before 29 weeks' gestation do not receive the normal supply of DHA. The effect of this deficiency on subsequent cognitive development is not well understood. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• October 2022

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by permanent scarring of lung tissue and declining lung function, and is an incurable disease with increase in prevalence over the past decade. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• November 2022

The aim of this study was to devise an evidence-based missing data rule for the Quality of Life Inventory-Disability (QI-Disability) questionnaire specifying how many missing items are permissible for domain and total scores to be calculated using simple imputation. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• August 2022

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very young ages and widen overtime. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• August 2022

School toilets have been identified by sexuality and gender diverse (SGD) students as the least safe spaces in educational institutions. They are sites of verbal, physical and sexual victimisation. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• August 2022

The introduction of pathogens originating from Eurasia into the Americas during early European contact has been associated with high mortality rates among Indigenous peoples, likely contributing to their historical and precipitous population decline. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• August 2022

Chemotherapy has historically been the mainstay of cancer treatment, but our understanding of what drives a successful therapeutic response remains limited. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• July 2022

The prevalence of bullying worldwide is high (UNESCO, 2018). Over the past decades, many anti-bullying interventions have been developed to remediate this problem. However, we lack insight into for whom these interventions work and what individual intervention components drive the total intervention effects. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
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• 2022
• July 2022