In view of the mounting death toll of COVID-19 worldwide and the complicating circumstances that commonly accompany such losses, we studied the grief experiences of 209 adult mourners who lost a loved one to coronavirus with a focus on self-blaming emotions and unresolved issues with the deceased. ...

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Computer vision technology is advancing rare disease diagnosis to address unmet needs of the more than 300 million individuals affected globally; one in three rare diseases have a known facial phenotype. 3D face model reconstruction is a key driver of these advances. ...

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Adolescent girls appear more vulnerable to experiencing mental health difficulties from social media use than boys. The presence of sexualized images online is thought to contribute, through increasing body dissatisfaction among adolescent girls. ...

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Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices have demonstrated efficacy in adults and more recently in youths and older adults with type 1 diabetes. In adults with type 1 diabetes, the use of real-time CGM compared with intermittently scanned CGM was associated with improved glycemic control, but there are limited data available for youths.  ...

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This essay examines wages and the gender wage gap between 1993 and 2008 in Vietnam ...

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Young people's use of mobile phones and access to the Internet have increased dramatically in the last decade, especially among those aged 9-15 years. ...

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This research explored adults' perceptions of how sexualized images typically found on social media might influence adolescent girls' mental health, what support girls might need should they experience mental health difficulties, and how such difficulties could be prevented or reduced. ...

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Our findings suggest that immigrants in Australia have emotional or altruistic connections to their home countries ...

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The relationship between diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and long-term glycemic control varies between studies. We aimed, firstly, to characterize the association of DKA and its severity with long-term HbA1c in a large contemporary cohort, and secondly, to identify other independent determinants of long-term HbA1c. ...

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Allergies are mediated by several immunological mechanisms that make different contributions in different patients. ...

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Francis Ha Mitrou Nguyen FG HN BEc PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 francis.mitrou@telethonkids.org.au Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, ...

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In this chapter we provide a brief summary of the key themes of the book, identify emerging directions and challenges in life course theory and data designs and highlight some policy challenges for researchers going forward. © 2022, The Author(s). ...

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