A Study Assessing Changes Occurring in Kindergarten Children at Central School, Hoquiam, Washington, during the School Year 1967-1968 in Terms of Readiness and Academic Growth

A group of fifty-one kindergarten children (23 boys and 28 girls) from Central School in Hoquiam, Washington, were studied for the purpose of evaluating changes occurring during the school year in terms of readiness and academic growth. A series of tests were given in October and November as an inventory of the child\u27s background of skills and readiness in the fall, and the tests were repeated in May to measure any change occurring during the school year

Dating violence in Latine LGBTQ+ adolescent relationships: treatment considerations

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), violence-sexual and physical-within adolescent dating relationships has become a significant public health concern. This is especially true for sexual minority youth of color. As such, it is a prevalent and necessary topic in many therapeutic settings. However, many of the treatment protocols in place do not address or take into consideration various cultural identities of the clients in question. This study reviewed the scholarly literature regarding the prevalence of dating violence within the LGBTQ+ Latine community, the risk factors of intimate partner violence within this community, interventions that are available for clinicians working with this population, common themes in the literature for working with sexual minority Latine youth, gaps in the literature that can be addressed with future research, and recommendations for clinicians to consider in their work with this population

Forum 10: COVID Vaccines: How did you get here?

We consider the supply chains for the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and other routine vaccines. We first outline new product development, manufacturing flow management, order fulfillment and vaccine distribution. Next, we focus on the vaccine supply chains in low and middle-income countries. We discuss the cold supply chain and challenges in these countries. Lastly, we discuss current drone delivery capabilities and how drones are being used to delivery the COVID-19 vaccine

An Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the U.S. at the County Level

Reluctance or refusal to get vaccinated, referred to as vaccine hesitancy (VH), has hindered the efforts of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns. It is important to understand what factors impact VH behavior. This information can help design public health interventions that could potentially increase vaccine uptake. We develop a random forest (RF) classification model that uses a wide variety of data to determine what factors affected VH at the county level during 2021. We consider static factors (such as gender, race, political affiliation, etc.) and dynamic factors (such as Google searches, social media postings, Stringency Index, etc.). Our model found political affiliation and the number of Google searches to be the most relevant factors in determining VH behavior. The RF classification model grouped counties of the U.S. into 5 clusters. VH is lowest in cluster 1 and highest in cluster 5. Most of the people who live in cluster 1 are democrat, are more internet-inquisitive (are more prone to seek information from multiple sources on the internet), have the longest life expectancy, have a college degree, have the highest income per capita, live in metropolitan areas. Most people who live in cluster 5 are republicans, are the least internet-inquisitive, have the shortest life expectancy, do not have a college degree, have the lowest income per capita, and live in non-metropolitan areas. Our model found that counties in cluster 1 were most responsive to vaccination-related policies and COVID-19 restrictions. These strategies did not have an impact on the VH of counties in cluster 5.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figures, 4 table

Exploring perceptions of advertising ethics: an informant-derived approach

Whilst considerable research exists on determining consumer responses to pre-determined statements within numerous ad ethics contexts, our understanding of consumer thoughts regarding ad ethics in general remains lacking. The purpose of our study therefore is to provide a first illustration of an emic and informant-based derivation of perceived ad ethics. The authors use multi-dimensional scaling as an approach enabling the emic, or locally derived deconstruction of perceived ad ethics. Given recent calls to develop our understanding of ad ethics in different cultural contexts, and in particular within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, we use Lebanon—the most ethically charged advertising environment within MENA—as an illustrative context for our study. Results confirm the multi-faceted and pluralistic nature of ad ethics as comprising a number of dimensional themes already salient in the existing literature but in addition, we also find evidence for a bipolar relationship between individual themes. The specific pattern of inductively derived relationships is culturally bound. Implications of the findings are discussed, followed by limitations of the study and recommendations for further research