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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Disproportionate Impact"”.
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An Ethical Call for Early Implementation of Palliative Care for Underserved Heart Failure Patients
… that affects millions of Americans, but has a disproportionate impact on underserved, minority communities. Over the coming decade, heart failure will become a chronic disease for more Americans as treatments improve, but the disease cannot be cured. Minority populations are, and will continue …
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Peatland burning identification among other wildfires across different ecozones in Canada
… the critical importance of the potential impact of peat on wildfire growth and management. By highlighting the disproportionate impact of peat burning, this study provides a foundation for future research aimed at developing targeted remote sensing techniques and policy responses to …
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Assessing South Africa’s rape laws against due diligence criteria
… in the South African judicial system and their disproportionate impact on female rape survivors, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities. The primary research question investigates how the ‘mistaken belief in consent’ defence aligns with South Africa’s international human …
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An exploratory study on the experiences of female youth victims of crime during load shedding in Site C, Khayelitsha
… While there is extensive literature on the impact of load shedding on crime, no attention has been given to its impact on crime against female youth in Site C, Khayelitsha. The study fills this gap in the existing literature. Although males can experience crime too, the focus of this study …
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Identifying and assessing coordinated influence campaigns on social networks
… influence campaigns, and quantify the impact of bots on the opinions of users in a social network. First, we provide evidence that modern bots in the social network Twitter coordinate their attacks. They do not create original content, but rather amplify certain human users by …
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Biomimicry in Leadership: How Healthy Leaders Facilitate Healthy Organisational Ecosystems– Lessons from Keystone Species
… contribute to ecosystem health through their disproportionate impact on their environments. Through an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, this study analysed 30 keystone species across nine behavioural categories, conducted semi-structured interviews with ten sustainability leaders, …
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Bacterial pneumonia hospitalization and pneumonia inpatient mortality in Texas, 1999-2007
Bacterial pneumonia has a disproportionate impact on the elderly. It is considered as an ambulatory care-sensitive condition by the Agency for Healthcare and Research (AHRQ), for which good outpatient care can potentially prevent the need for hospitalization or for which early intervention can …
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Advancing Equity in Financial Aid for Black Students: A Document Analysis Study of Student Equity Plans in California Community Colleges
… SEPs recognized that Black students experienced disproportionate impact (DI) in key metrics such as enrollment, persistence, transfer, and completion, they often failed to translate these findings into race-conscious financial aid strategies. Instead, colleges frequently defaulted to universal or …
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Influence of Tree Planting Program Characteristics on Environmental Justice Outcomes
… spatially-dependent, so this disparity has a disproportionate impact on these communities, which are additionally subject to higher rates of health problems. Planting programs are a common way that municipal and nonprofit urban forest organizations attempt to increase canopy in cities. …
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Renewable energy resource systems: a feasibility study for educational facilities applications
… to examine alternative ways to ease the disproportionate impact energy costs have on the total financial resources of school districts. Renewable energy resources offer a wide variety of possible alternative ways to provide situationally appropriate answers to this budget problem. This …
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Greenwashing? The global rise of sustainability and forced housing displacement in Fortaleza, Brazil
… sustainability, with a focus on equitable impacts to both formal and informal settlements. Specifically, this thesis seeks to uncover why infrastructure investments justified as increasing the capacity for sustainability continue to result in the systematic displacement of low-income …
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Competitive Effects of Honey Bee (Apis melifera) Hives on Morphology and Morphology-Based Abundance of Bumble Bees (Apidae: Bombus) in an Urban Prairie Landscape (City of Red Deer, Alberta)
… bumble bees are expected to have the greatest impact on bumble bees of similar morphologies to honey bees, including body size and tongue length. Two pairs of sites (located near to- and far from honey bee hives) were compared for effects on bumble bee body size and abundance relative to tongue …
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From Silence to Sankofa: The Role of Archives in Addressing Urban Renewal’s Displacement History
… from their homes and neighborhoods, with a disproportionate impact on Black, immigrant, and low-income communities across the country. The archives of the renewal period hold the story of this widespread displacement and are of significant value for contemporary planning practice. Through …
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Retaining principals in high poverty public schools
… in high-poverty schools is having a profound impact on student achievement. Principal turnover influences teacher turnover, sustainability of school improvement efforts, and generates increased financial costs to the district. Research cites the demands of the job, increased accountability, …
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In Pursuit of Racial Justice: The Politics and Consequences of Racial Disparity Reform in the U.S. Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems
… to distinct national policy responses. Ideas of disproportionate impact motivated exploratory reform in capital punishment, beliefs of discrimination encouraged prohibitory reform in racial profiling, and constructions of disparity and discrimination prompted comprehensive reform in youth …
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Food access, self-rated health, and diabetes self-efficacy among prenatal women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minority populations, resulting in pandemic-related behaviors such as food and water stockpiling (FWS). Consumer FWS behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic posed a demand shock in the food supply chains, affecting access to …
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Quantification of tobacco aphid, Myzus nicotianae Blackman, injury to flue-cured tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum (L.)
A two year study was conducted to measure the impact of tobacco aphid, Myzus nicotianae Blackman, colonization and cumulative aphid-days on flue-cured tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum (L.). The objectives of the study included quantifying the response of tobacco production variables, cured leaf quality, …
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Optimizing Equity in Healthcare Access: An Integer Programming Approach to Emergency Department Closures and Travel Burden Disparities in Ontario
Emergency department (ED) closures in Ontario disproportionately affect rural communities. Patients in rural areas already face inequitable access to care, with many lacking a primary care provider. In many communities, the ED serves as both emergency and primary care. When an ED closes, local …
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A Descriptive Study of Native Americans Participation in HIV Testing in Montana
… The fact HIV/AIDS does not appear to have had a disproportionate impact on Montana’s American Indian population at the present time is somewhat surprising given other markers of potential HIV risk, such as the increase in both teen pregnancies and other sexually transmitted disease rates like …
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A Descriptive Study of Native Americans Participation in HIV Testing in Montana
… The fact HIV/AIDS does not appear to have had a disproportionate impact on Montana’s American Indian population at the present time is somewhat surprising given other markers of potential HIV risk, such as the increase in both teen pregnancies and other sexually transmitted disease rates like …
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