BACKGROUND Injury is a significant cause of childhood death and can result in substantial long-term disability. Injuries are more common in children from socio-economically deprived families, contributing to health inequalities between the most and least affluent. However, little is known about how the relationship between injuries and deprivation has changed over time in the UK. METHODS We c...

This commentary seeks to examine the extent which Kurdish liberation projects are free from global colonial continuities. While discussion on colonialism and Kurdistan typically centres Kurds’ relationships with their immediate colonisers, it obscures at least two forms of continuities in projects. A decolonial perspective built coloniality concept enables these Firstly, manifestation politico-...

It is shown that application of the Rasch model for equating grades at Basic and Higher Level of Mathematics at General Matura exam in [Hauptman, Metodološki zvezki 7 (2010) 167-181.] is not justified.

The approximate equivalence relation equating the frequency dispersion of the Lorentz model alone with that modified by the Lorentz-Lorenz formula is shown to also equate the branch points appearing in each of these two descriptions.

Abstract People rely on well-functioning ecosystems to provide critical services that underpin human health and well-being. Consequently, biodiversity loss has profound negative implications for humanity. Human–biodiversity interactions can deliver individual-level well-being gains, equating substantial healthcare cost savings when scaled up across populations. However, questions remain about w...

In this paper test equating is considered as a missing data problem. The unobserved responses of the reference population to the new test must be imputed to specify a new cutscore. The proportion of students from the reference population that would have failed the new exam and those having failed the reference exam are made approximately the same. We investigate whether item response theory (IR...