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Sci Rep
October 2023
Departamento de Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Avenida Centenario Km 5.5, Chetumal, Mexico.
A new clown beetle species, Bacanius neoponerae, is described from Mexican nests of the arboreal ponerine ant Neoponera villosa found in the tank bromeliad Aechmea bracteata. Adult beetles were found in brood chambers or inner refuse piles, but also outside the ant nests, in decaying organic matter between the bromeliad leaves. No direct interactions between ants and microhisterid beetles could be observed.
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January 2023
Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
We explore how organisations working on parenting programmes and other types of family support and violence prevention in low-resource settings experienced the pandemic. In August 2020-May 2021, we interviewed (1) staff from three community-based organisations delivering evidence-informed parenting interventions and other psychosocial services for families in Cape Town, South Africa, (2) staff from a parenting programme training organisation and (3) staff from two international organisations supporting psychosocial services in South Africa. Interviews (22) were thematically analysed, with findings in three areas.
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August 2022
CICPSI, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisbon, Portugal.
The assessment of self-regulated learning is a relevant research topic in early childhood development. However, there are few ecologic measures to assess self-regulated learning in preschool as a dynamic and multidimensional process. This study aims to fill this gap by presenting the development and validation of the Dynamic Assessment of Self-regulated learning in Preschool (DASP) method.
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December 2021
Dermatology, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, USA.
Eur J Pediatr
February 2017
Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
Unlabelled: Medical clowns (MC) have become an integral part of the pediatric staff of hospital wards. While several studies have demonstrated the huge benefits of MC, there are almost no data regarding fear of clowns, a known phenomenon that means an irrational fear of clowns. In the current study, we sought to examine the prevalence of fear of clowns in pediatrics wards, and to characterize the affected children.
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