John Sharry

Amazon.com is the undisputed ruler of retail media, taking up 40 percent of total ad spend in the category with an 18 percent year-over-year growth in its ad revenue in 2024. Big-box retailers like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy, along with top grocers including Albertsons and Kroger, have captured meaningful ad dollars with their retail media businesses, leading to many more retailers (and nonretailers) jumping in with nascent offerings of their own.

1 Introduction Parents Plus (PP) Programs are group-based parent training interventions that were found to have medium to large effect sizes on a range of parent and child wellbeing indices in a meta-analysis which included data from over 1000 families (Carr et al. 2017). PP programs are designed for families of children with clinical and sub-clinical difficulties and can be delivered in both community and clinical settings.

Abstract As the COVID-19 pandemic winds down, it leaves behind the serious concern that future, even more disruptive pandemics may eventually surface. One of the crucial steps in handling the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was being able to detect the presence of the virus in an accurate and timely manner, to then develop policies counteracting the spread. Nevertheless, as the pandemic evolved, new variants with potentially dangerous mutations appeared.