Racial Disparities in HIV Antiretroviral Medication Management are Mediated by Health Literacy by Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, Raphiel Jamale Murden, Ying Guo, Marcia Holstad, Raymond L. Ownby

“…A measure of problem-solving (how to manage a mock ARV regimen) showed significantly different performance by race and that HL measures (both reading comprehension and numeracy) mediated this relationship. Key Results: Findings suggest that although PLWH may be able to verbally explain how they are supposed to take their ARV medication, challenges may arise with management issues (eg, determining need for a refill, counting pills to determine if a dose was missed) and that PLWH with low HL (who are disproportionately AA) may be at greater risk for mistakes. …”
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What matters most for early childhood development? Evidence from Malda district, India. by Rayhan S K

“…<h4>Results</h4>It has been found that only about 25% of children are developmentally on track of literacy-numeracy domain of ECD. Although, in the other domains, the situation is better. …”
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Physician trainees' decision making and information processing: choice size and Medicare Part D. by Andrew J Barnes, Yaniv Hanoch, Melissa Martynenko, Stacey Wood, Thomas Rice, Alex D Federman

“…After adjusting for decision process and strategy, numeracy, and amount of medical training, the odds were 10.75 times higher that trainees would choose the lowest cost Medicare Part D drug plan when facing 3 versus 9 drug plans (p<0.05). …”
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Boys’ underachievement in mathematics and science: An analysis of national and international assessment data from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Mahmoud A. A. Elsayed, Aidan Clerkin, Vasiliki Pitsia, Nayyaf Aljabri, Khaleel Al-Harbi

“…The findings also indicated that although greater literacy and numeracy readiness was linked with higher science achievement among boys and girls, grade 4 boys tended to benefit more from this readiness than girls. …”
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Effects of a free school breakfast programme on school attendance, achievement, psychosocial function, and nutrition: a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial by Maddison Ralph, Michie Jo, Jiang Yannan, Gorton Delvina, Turley Maria, Ni Mhurchu Cliona, Hattie John

“…Secondary outcomes are academic achievement (literacy, numeracy, self-reported grades), sense of belonging at school, psychosocial function, dietary habits, and food security. …”
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Understanding Cognitive Deficits in People with High Blood Pressure by Weixi Kang, Sònia Pineda Hernández

“…. [−0.15, −0.08]), and number series (t(259) = −4.76, <i>p</i> < 0.01, Cohen’s d = −0.08, 95% C.I. [−0.11, −0.05]) and numeracy tasks (t(259) = −4.16, <i>p</i> < 0.01, Cohen’s d = −0.06, 95% C.I. [−0.09, −0.03]) after controlling for demographic characteristics. …”
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Early childhood development and urban environment in Mexico. by Francisco-Javier Prado-Galbarro, Carolina Pérez-Ferrer, Ana Ortigoza, Nancy Paulina López-Olmedo, Ariela Braverman-Bronstein, Rosalba Rojas-Martínez, Filipa de Castro, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez

“…Inadequate literacy-numeracy knowledge was associated inversely with the availability of daycare centers (OR = 0.56, 95% CI: 0.32, 0.97), and directly associated with the number of hospitals and clinics (OR = 1.87, 95% CI: 1.29, 2.72). …”
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The use of mass media by mothers and its association with their children’s early development: comparison between urban and rural areas by M Mofizul Islam

“…The ECD was calculated using four domains of development: physical health, literacy-numeracy, learning and social-emotional. Mothers’ use of newspapers/magazines, radio, television, internet and mobile phones was the study factor. …”
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An exploration of assessment approaches in a vocational and education training courses in Australia by Bronwyn Ewing

“…Methods These issues gave rise to trialling three assessment strategies: diagnostic, scenario and simulated assessment in a project that investigated the teaching and learning of numeracy in Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses with high Indigenous student enrolments. …”
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Red Dirt Thinking on Educational Disadvantage by John Guenther, Melodie Bat, Sam Osborne

“…A range of data support this view, including the National Action Plan—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) achievement data, school attendance data, Australian Bureau of Statistics Census data and other compilations such as the Productivity Commission's biennial Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report. …”
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Item difficulty analysis of a high-stakes mathematics examination using Rasch analysis: The case of sequences and series by Mark Jacobs, Duncan Mhakure, Richard L. Fray, Lorna Holtman, Cyril Julie

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Well-Posed Geoscientific Visualization Through Interactive Color Mapping by Peter E. Morse, Anya M. Reading, Anya M. Reading, Tobias Stål, Tobias Stål

“…Well-posed scientific visualization requires both “visual literacy” and “visual numeracy” on an equal footing with clearly written text. …”
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Extending the study of decision making competence to special populations: A case study of persons on the autism spectrum by Irwin eLevin, Gary eGaeth, Megan eFoley-Nicpon, Megan eFoley-Nicpon, Vita eYegorova, Charles eCederberg, Haoyang eYan

“…Traditional elements of decision making competency such as Numeracy and application of decision rules were comparable across groups. …”
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A receptionist robot for Brazilian people: study on interaction involving illiterates by Trovato Gabriele, Ramos Josue G., Azevedo Helio, Moroni Artemis, Magossi Silvia, Simmons Reid, Ishii Hiroyuki, Takanishi Atsuo

“…This inequality results in the presence of functional illiterate people, unable to use reading, writing and numeracy skills. We invited Brazilian people, including a group of functionally illiterate subjects, to interact with two types of receptionists differing in physical appearance (agent v mechanical robot) and in the sound of the voice (human like v mechanical). …”
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Airborne SARS-CoV2 virus exposure, interpersonal distance, face mask and perceived risk of infection by Ola Svenson, Freja Isohanni, Ilkka Salo, Torun Lindholm

“…Participants with higher scores on a cognitive numeracy test judged mask efficiency more correctly, and women were more worried and risk avoiding than men. …”
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Executive Functions Do Not Mediate Prospective Relations between Indices of Physical Activity and Academic Performance: The Active Smarter Kids (ASK) Study by Katrine N. Aadland, Yngvar Ommundsen, Eivind Aadland, Kolbjørn S. Brønnick, Kolbjørn S. Brønnick, Arne Lervåg, Arne Lervåg, Geir K. Resaland, Vegard F. Moe

“…Outcomes were performance on national tests of numeracy, reading, and English (as a second language). …”
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Assessment Tools for Measuring Health Literacy and Digital Health Literacy in a Hospital Setting: A Scoping Review by Eline M. Dijkman, Wouter W. M. ter Brake, Constance H. C. Drossaert, Carine J. M. Doggen

“…Almost all tools addressed the domain ‘understanding’ (98%), followed by ‘access’ (52%), ‘apply’ (50%), ‘appraise’ (32%), ‘numeracy’ (18%), and ‘digital’ (18%). Only four tools were frequently used: the Newest Vital Sign (NVS), the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy for Adults ((S)TOFHLA), the Brief Health Literacy Screener (BHLS), and the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ). …”
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Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Literacy in the Malaysian Context by Julaina Baistaman, Farahiyah Akmal Mat Nawi, Wan Masnieza Wan Mustapha, Mazlina Mamat

“…Based on the factor analysis, this study finalized the instrument of 11 financial literacy items, yielding three dimensions, i.e., numeracy (four items), time money value (four items), and inflation (three items). …”
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EXPLORING THE URGENCY OF TEACHING CAMPUS QUALITY FOR STUDENTS OF IKIP MUHAMMADIYAH MAUMERE by Eman Nataliano Busa, Gisela Nuwa

“…The programs run by Campus Teaching Participants IKIP Muhammadiyah Maumere are the Literacy and Numeracy Learning program, technology adaptation program, and School Administration Assisting program.…”
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Evaluating the impact of Hazelwood mine fire event on students' educational development with Bayesian interrupted time-series hierarchical meta-regression. by Caroline X Gao, Jonathan C Broder, Sam Brilleman, Timothy C H Campbell, Emily Berger, Jillian Ikin, Catherine L Smith, Rory Wolfe, Fay Johnston, Yuming Guo, Matthew Carroll

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Bayesian hierarchical meta-regression was developed to evaluate the impact of the mine fire using easily accessible aggregated school-level data from the standardised National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test. NAPLAN results and school characteristics (2008-2018) from 69 primary/secondary schools with different levels of mine fire-related smoke exposure were used to estimate the impact of the event. …”
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