Breakthrough

Activating relational welfare: insights from Supported Employment

Abstract In the face of ongoing welfare challenges, a wave of academic and policy thinking has advocated for recentring public policy around the principles and practices of relational welfare. The present paper argues that the potential of relational welfare can be further suppor...

Semantic Equivalence Recognition: an undeclared operation in English language assessment

English language assessments require candidates to recognise that two differently worded expressions carry the same proposition. This paper adopts the name Semantic Equivalence Recognition for that operation and sets out evidence that it is operative in live items across boards a...

International consensus guidance for general population screening for islet autoantibodies to diagnose early-stage type 1 diabetes: a nominal group technique process

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that targets and destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets. The incidence of type 1 diabetes is rising globally. At the clinical diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, between 20% and 67% of children and adolescents present wit...

A search for high-redshift radio galaxy candidates with the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey

Abstract High-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs) are among the earliest and most massive galaxies whose powerful radio emission allows us to probe the large-scale structure, galaxy evolution, and the epoch of reionisation. We present a new sample of HzRG candidates constructed using...

It’s time to talk: exploring the role of couples' communication in improving health behaviors in Kebbi, Nigeria

In societies with strong patrilineal traditions, such as in northern Nigeria, husbands play the primary role in many household decisions, including for the reproductive health of their wives and the health of other family members. While previous research has shown that couples wh...