Present and Future Benefits for Adult Inmate Trainees in Greek Prisons
In: Education Quarterly Reviews, Band Vol.2, Heft No.2
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In: Education Quarterly Reviews, Band Vol.2, Heft No.2
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In: Proceedings of the eRA-10 International Scientific Conference, pp. 32-44, 2015
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In: Review of European studies: RES, Band 6, Heft 1
ISSN: 1918-7181
In: Education Quarterly Reviews, Vol.4 No.1 (2021)
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In: Education Quarterly Reviews, Vol.4 No.1 (2021)
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In: Education Quarterly Reviews, Vol.3 No.4 (2020)
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WOS: 000398562100001 ; PubMed ID: 28387361 ; Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U is among the initial maternal founders in Southwest Asia and Europe and one that best indicates matrilineal genetic continuity between late Pleistocene huntergatherer groups and present-day populations of Europe. While most haplogroup U subclades are older than 30 thousand years, the comparatively recent coalescence time of the extant variation of haplogroup U7 (-16-19 thousand years ago) suggests that its current distribution is the consequence of more recent dispersal events, despite its wide geographical range across Europe, the Near East and South Asia. Here we report 267 new U7 mitogenomes that -analysed alongside 100 published ones -enable us to discern at least two distinct temporal phases of dispersal, both of which most likely emanated from the Near East. The earlier one began prior to the Holocene (-11.5 thousand years ago) towards South Asia, while the later dispersal took place more recently towards Mediterranean Europe during the Neolithic (-8 thousand years ago). These findings imply that the carriers of haplogroup U7 spread to South Asia and Europe before the suggested Bronze Age expansion of Indo-European languages from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe region. ; Estonian Institutional Research grant [IUT24-1]; ERC Starting Investigator grant [FP7-261213]; EU European Regional Development Fund through the Centre of Excellence in Genomics to Estonian Biocentre; Estonian Research Council grant [PUT1339, PUT1217, PUT766]; University of Pavia strategic theme "Towards a governance model for international migration: an interdisciplinary and diachronic perspective" (MIGRAT-IN-G); Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research: Futuro in Ricerca [RBFR126B8I]; Progetti Ricerca Interesse Nazionale; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India (GENESIS) [BSC0121, BSC 0118]; National geographic Society through Genographic Project Research Grant [6-13]; European Social Fund's Doctoral Studies and Internationalisation Programme DoRa; Leverhulme Trust's Doctoral Scholarship programme; University of Huddersfield's University Research Fund and Research Excellent Staff Scheme; FCT Investigator Programme [IF/01641/2013] ; We thank all the DNA donors who participated in this study. This study was supported by Estonian Institutional Research grant IUT24-1 (to H.S., E.M., M.R., M.M., T.K., and R.V.); ERC Starting Investigator grant (FP7-261213) (to T.K.); EU European Regional Development Fund through the Centre of Excellence in Genomics to Estonian Biocentre; Estonian Research Council grant PUT1339 (to A.K.), PUT1217 (to Kr.T.) and PUT766 (to G.C.); the University of Pavia strategic theme "Towards a governance model for international migration: an interdisciplinary and diachronic perspective" (MIGRAT-IN-G); the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research: Futuro in Ricerca 2012 (RBFR126B8I) (to A.A. and A.O.) and Progetti Ricerca Interesse Nazionale 2012 (to A.A., O.S., and A.T.); the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India (GENESIS: BSC0121) and (BSC 0118) (to Ku.T.); S.S. and E.R. acknowledge the support of National geographic Society through Genographic Project Research Grant (6-13). R.T. and A.K.P. were supported by the European Social Fund's Doctoral Studies and Internationalisation Programme DoRa. M.B.R. received support from the Leverhulme Trust's Doctoral Scholarship programme, and F.G. from the University of Huddersfield's University Research Fund and Research Excellent Staff Scheme. P.S. was supported by the FCT Investigator Programme (IF/01641/2013).
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine hospital services globally. This study estimated the total number of adult elective operations that would be cancelled worldwide during the 12 weeks of peak disruption due to COVID-19. Methods: A global expert response study was conducted to elicit projections for the proportion of elective surgery that would be cancelled or postponed during the 12 weeks of peak disruption. A Bayesian β-regression model was used to estimate 12-week cancellation rates for 190 countries. Elective surgical case-mix data, stratified by specialty and indication (surgery for cancer versus benign disease), were determined. This case mix was applied to country-level surgical volumes. The 12-week cancellation rates were then applied to these figures to calculate the total number of cancelled operations. Results: The best estimate was that 28 404 603 operations would be cancelled or postponed during the peak 12 weeks of disruption due to COVID-19 (2 367 050 operations per week). Most would be operations for benign disease (90·2 per cent, 25 638 922 of 28 404 603). The overall 12-week cancellation rate would be 72·3 per cent. Globally, 81·7 per cent of operations for benign conditions (25 638 922 of 31 378 062), 37·7 per cent of cancer operations (2 324 070 of 6 162 311) and 25·4 per cent of elective caesarean sections (441 611 of 1 735 483) would be cancelled or postponed. If countries increased their normal surgical volume by 20 per cent after the pandemic, it would take a median of 45 weeks to clear the backlog of operations resulting from COVID-19 disruption. Conclusion: A very large number of operations will be cancelled or postponed owing to disruption caused by COVID-19. Governments should mitigate against this major burden on patients by developing recovery plans and implementing strategies to restore surgical activity safely.
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