Researchers have long noted that child support policy for low-income parents may discourage formal child support payments and increase fathers’ participation in the underground economy. Among other factors, low-income fathers may have an incentive to avoid the formal child support system through underground work, since child support order amounts for low-income fathers can be quite high relativ...

Structural equation modeling was used to test a theoretically based model of environmental, family, and child factors as determinants of the leisure and recreation participation of children with physical disabilities. Participants were 427 families and children (229 boys and 198 girls) with physical functional limitations, in 3 age groups (6–8, 9–11, and 12–14 years). Data were collected via ho...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...

OBJECTIVE To study whether the Dutch participation model is a good model of participation. BACKGROUND Patient participation is on the agenda, both on the individual and the collective level. In this study, we focus on the latter by looking at the Dutch model in which patient organizations are involved in many formal decision-making processes. This model can be described as neo-corporatist. ...

OBJECTIVE 1. Examine the relationship between household wealth, social participation and loneliness among older people across Europe. 2. Investigate whether relationships vary by type of social participation (charity/volunteer work, sports/social clubs, educational/training course, and political/community organisations) and gender. 3. Examine whether social participation moderates the associati...

BACKGROUND WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) is a feasible tool for assessing functional disability and analysing the risk of institutionalisation among elderly patients with dementia. However, the data for the effect of education on disability status in patients with dementia is lacking. The aim of this large-scale, population-based study was to analyse the effect of educatio...

This case study was conducted to determine the benefits of a multi-dimensional study abroad program that included a community service component. It encompassed the following aspects of the study abroad experience: motivation for travel, language learning research, the role of autonomy in language learning, and cultural awareness, behaviors, and attitudes. The researcher acted as a participant a...

In this paper, we describe the UPC systems that participated in the TweetMT shared task. We developed two main systems that were applied to the Spanish–Catalan language pair: a state-of-the-art phrase-based statistical machine translation system and a context-aware system. In the second approach, we define the “context” for a tweet as the tweets of a user produced in the same day, and also, we ...