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    Financial literacy: Thai middle-class women do not lag behind
    (2021-09-01) Antonia Grohmann; Olaf Hübler; Roy Kouwenberg; Lukas Menkhoff; Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät; College of Management Mahidol University; Aarhus Universitet; German Institute for Economic Research; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    This research studies the stylized fact of a “gender gap” in that women tend to have lower financial literacy than men. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap for those with at least minimum wage earnings. This result is not explained by men's low financial literacy, nor by women's high income and good education. Rather, country characteristics may influence finance-specific gender equality, such as Thailand's small gender gaps in pupils’ mathematics abilities and secondary school enrollment, and women's strong role in financial affairs. This may indicate ways to reduce the gender gap in financial literacy elsewhere.
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    Racial differences in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
    (2018-11-27) Su Hyun Kim; Maureen A. Mealy; Michael Levy; Felix Schmidt; Klemens Ruprecht; Friedemann Paul; Marius Ringelstein; Orhan Aktas; Hans Peter Hartung; Nasrin Asgari; Jessica Li Tsz-Ching; Sasitorn Siritho; Naraporn Prayoonwiwat; Hyun June Shin; Jae Won Hyun; Mira Han; Maria Isabel Leite; Jacqueline Palace; Ho Jin Kim; National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi; University of Oxford; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Heinrich Heine Universität; Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine; Syddansk Universitet; Queen Elizabeth Hospital Hong Kong; Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University; The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Biometric Research Branch
    © 2018 American Academy of Neurology. Objective We aimed to evaluate racial differences in the clinical features of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. Methods This retrospective review included 603 patients (304 Asian, 207 Caucasian, and 92 Afro- American/Afro-European), who were seropositive for anti-aquaporin-4 antibody, from 6 centers in Denmark, Germany, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, and Thailand. Results Median disease duration at last follow-up was 8 years (range 0.3-38.4 years). Asian and Afro- American/Afro-European patients had a younger onset age than Caucasian patients (mean 36, 33, and 44 years, respectively; p < 0.001). During the disease course, Caucasian patients (23%) had a lower incidence of brain/brainstem involvement than Asian (42%) and Afro-American/ Afro-European patients (38%) (p < 0.001). Severe attacks (visual acuity ≤0.1 in at least one eye or Expanded Disability Status Scale score ≥6.0 at nadir) at onset occurred more frequently in Afro-American/Afro-European (58%) than in Asian (46%) and Caucasian (38%) patients (p = 0.005). In the multivariable analysis, older age at onset, higher number of attacks before and after immunosuppressive treatment, but not race, were independent predictors of severe motor disabilities at last follow-up. Conclusion A review of a large international cohort revealed that race affected the clinical phenotype, age at onset, and severity of attacks, but the overall outcome was most dependent on early and effective immunosuppressive treatment.
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    Speaking their language – Development of a multilingual decision-support tool for communicating invasive species risks to decision makers and stakeholders
    (2021-01-01) Gordon H. Copp; Lorenzo Vilizzi; Hui Wei; Shan Li; Marina Piria; Abbas J. Al-Faisal; David Almeida; Usman Atique; Zainab Al-Wazzan; Rigers Bakiu; Tea Bašić; Thuyet D. Bui; João Canning-Clode; Nuno Castro; Ratcha Chaichana; Tülin Çoker; Dimitriy Dashinov; F. Güler Ekmekçi; Tibor Erős; Árpád Ferincz; Teresa Ferreira; Daniela Giannetto; Allan S. Gilles; Łukasz Głowacki; Philippe Goulletquer; Elena Interesova; Sonia Iqbal; Katarína Jakubčinová; Kamalaporn Kanongdate; Jeong Eun Kim; Oldřich Kopecký; Vasil Kostov; Nicholas Koutsikos; Sebastian Kozic; Petra Kristan; Yoshihisa Kurita; Hwang Goo Lee; Rob S.E.W. Leuven; Tatsiana Lipinskaya; Juliane Lukas; Agnese Marchini; Ana Isabel González Martínez; Laurence Masson; Daniyar Memedemin; Seyed Daryoush Moghaddas; João Monteiro; Levan Mumladze; Rahmat Naddafi; Ion Năvodaru; Karin H. Olsson; Norio Onikura; Daniele Paganelli; Richard Thomas Pavia; Costas Perdikaris; Renanel Pickholtz; Dariusz Pietraszewski; Meta Povž; Cristina Preda; Milica Ristovska; Karin Rosíková; José Maria Santos; Vitaliy Semenchenko; Wansuk Senanan; Predrag Simonović; Evangelia Smeti; Barbora Števove; Kristína Švolíková; Kieu Anh T. Ta; Ali Serhan Tarkan; Nildeniz Top; Elena Tricarico; Eliza Uzunova; Leonidas Vardakas; Hugo Verreycken; Grzegorz Zięba; Roberto Mendoza; Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment; Centre for Ecological Research; Shanghai Science and Technology Museum; Scientific and Practical Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources; University of Coimbra, Marine and Environmental Sciences Center; Ilia State University (ISU); Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China; Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam; The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat; Agricultural University of Tirana; University of Santo Tomas, Manila; University of Basrah; Environment Public Authority Kuwait; University of Belgrade; Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Brussels; University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore; Universidade dos Açores; Shahid Beheshti University; Bournemouth University; Sangji University; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; Ovidius University of Constanta; Kyushu Sangyo University; Chungnam National University; Kasetsart University; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Hacettepe Üniversitesi; Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski; IFREMER Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer; Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Centre for the Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; Tomsk State University; Radboud Universiteit; Università degli Studi di Pavia; Universidad San Pablo-CEU; Mahidol University; University of Northern British Columbia; Burapha University; University of Lodz; University of Zagreb; Tel Aviv University; Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa; Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Albanian Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development; Regional Unit of Thesprotia; Umbra; Institute of Animal Sciences; Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development
    Environmental changes due to non-native species introductions and translocations are a global concern. Whilst understanding the causes of bioinvasions is important, there is need for decision-support tools that facilitate effective communication of the potential risks of invasive non-native species to stakeholders. Decision-support tools have been developed mostly in English language only, which increases linguistic uncertainty associated with risk assessments undertaken by assessors not of English mother tongue and who need to communicate outcomes to local stakeholders. To reduce language-based uncertainty, the ‘ecology-of-language’ paradigm was applied when developing the Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK), a decision-support tool that offers 32 languages in which to carry out screenings and communicate outcomes to stakeholders. Topics discussed include uncertainty related to language-specific issues encountered during the AS-ISK translation and the potential benefits of a multilingual decision-support tool for reducing linguistic uncertainty and enhancing communication between scientists, environmental managers, and policy and decision makers.