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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Over-representation"”.

  1. Minority over-representation in the juvenile justice system

    Burgess, Shirley G

    Minority over-representation in the juvenile justice system is a national concern. Research in this area is limited, however, there is indication that minority over-representation, particularly of African-American youth, seems to occur at various stages of juvenile justice processing. It is my …

    unlv Repository record

  2. The over-representation of Hispanics in special education programs in New Jersey

    Chey, Alexandra Lynne2016

    <p>The over-representation of Hispanics of Special Education programs has been a debate for years now. Over-representation happens when the percentage of minority students in special education programs is greater than in the school population as a whole. This study attempts to evaluate the causes …

    rowan Repository record

  3. The Perceptions of General Education Teachers About the Over-Representation of Black Students in Special Education

    Grice, David Roland

    <p>Statement of the Problem: There is an over-representation of Black students in special education. Black students are typically referred for special education consideration by the end of the fourth grade. One effort to reduce the large number of referrals in Connecticut was <em>Courageous …

    andrews-thes Repository record

  4. An Investigation Into The Apparent Over-representation Of Blacks In Educable Mentally Handicapped Programs In K-12 Schools Within The 67 Florida Public School Districts

    Thomson, Arlene H.

    … Decades of research have substantiated the over-representation of black students into certain categories of special education, including EMH, in comparison to white and Hispanic students. This disparity has raised questions within schools, academe and research communities, and legislative …

    ucf

  5. An exploratory study into the appropriateness of community policing theory and strategy given the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system in Saskatchewan.

    Gerlach, Loretta KimFaculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina2002

    regina Repository record

  6. Indigenous culture as a strategy to defer Mushkegowuk youth from criminal behaviour in Moose Cree First Nation.

    Lacasse, NatalieLaurentian University of Sudbury2017

    The over-representation of Indigenous Peoples within correctional facilities is a growing concern in Canada. This research study aims to determine if the community members of Moose Cree First Nation find it feasible to initiate traditional culture as a course to deter Indigenous youth from criminal …

    laurentian Repository record

  7. ONTARIO ICE-HOCKEY PARTICIPATION FOR MALE YOUTH BETWEEN THE AGES OF 10 AND 15 YEARS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELATIVE AGE AND DROPOUT RATES

    Lemez, SrdjanUniversity of Windsor2012

    … and four [χ2(3) = 12.85, p < .05; w = .03]. The over-representation of dropouts in the relatively younger players represents an important finding in youth ice-hockey research that has not previously been systemically examined by researchers.

    windsor Repository record

  8. Why do medical students fail? a study of 1st year medical students and the educational context

    Popovic, Celia FrancesUniversity of Birmingham2007

    … exams. Alarm has been raised about the apparent over-representation of ethnic minority students amongst those who fail. In this case study I ask: 1. Is there a connection between students’ ethnicity and performance in end of first year exams? 2. Is the experience of medical students at this …

    birmingham Repository record

  9. Serious Games for Cyber Security - A New General Design Framework

    Le Compte, AlexisDe Montfort University2021

    … about the design process of serious games and over representation of simulation based serious games. To this end, this thesis explores the design of serious games and proposes a framework to help building serious games of all types of genres, not specifically simulation based games. This …

    de-montfort Repository record

  10. Coping and Suicide Amongst ‘the Lads’: Expectations of masculinity in post-traditional Ireland

    Garcia, FeliciaNational University of Ireland Maynooth2013

    … to retrieve information on the gendered over-representation in suicidal behaviours among of young, Irish working-class men. In addition to suicide, I focused extensively on ideas of ‘gender appropriate’ behaviours and related issues such as alcohol, - and drug abuse and other risky and …

    maynooth Repository record

  11. Optimizing Acyclic Identification of Aptamers

    Miller, Caitlin M.

    … vitro evolution typically used for aptamer discovery by employing libraries with an over-representation of all possible sequences and high throughput sequencing. Although the method was successful at identifying the thrombin binding aptamer, improvements to partitioning and sample preparation …

    syracuse-diss Repository record

  12. When Good Intentions Aren't Good Enough: Dismantling Colonial Praxis in Educational Leadership

    Barron, Peter Francis2024

    … a moral imperative, a mandate of the provincial government and a response to Call to Action #10 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This dissertation-in-practice, viewed through the lens of critical theory, interrogates systemic barriers within Three Bear Hills School Division (a …

    uwo Repository record

  13. The Irish in Middlesbrough : a part of Middlesbrough's community or apart from it?

    Willis, JT2011

    … occupations have been examined. Also, the over-representation of the Irish-born incrime statistics are presented with an assessment of putative causes.The Catholic Church and its spiritual and material influence in Middlesbrough hasbeen studied from storms in the 1870s to calm in the 1900s. …

    salford Repository record

  14. Maternity Leave Policy in U.S. Police Departments and School Districts: The impact of descriptive and social group representation in a context of gendered institutions

    Schulze, Corina S.

    … are identified as being the political representation of women on local legislative bodies, the bureaucratic representation of women in their place of employment, and the level of women's movement activity in the community. Moreover, the gendered context of the organization is considered …

    uno Repository record

  15. ‘It’s not just about lock and key, it’s about you as a human being': treating the person before the personality disorder in prison

    Ralph, SarahCity University London2015

    There continues to be an over-representation of female offenders diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) within UK prisons (Sansone & Sansone, 2009). Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) has shown effectiveness in managing the symptomatology of BPD and has been adapted for a forensic …

    city-london Repository record

  16. Deep learning of regulatory sequence variation in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Tilly, TobiasUniversity of Cambridge2023

    … variants were filtered and aggregated for over-representation analysis, comparing cases with controls. These scores were used in an outlier analysis using the Fisher's exact test and a sweep across the landscape of 1,135 PAH gene-associated enhancers, using SKAT-O. After p-value adjustment, …

    cambridge Repository record

  17. Reviving cultural connections and the need to advocate for cultural reports under section 27 of the Sentencing Act 2002 for reimagining whanaungatanga

    Werahiko, KatrinaThe University of Waikato2026

    … improve the prison system and the current Māori overrepresentation in it. The thesis argues that an enhanced understanding of whanaungatanga and its utilisation under s 27 of the Sentencing Act 2002 can reframe interpretation of and response to Māori prisoner statistics. Furthermore, it is …

    waikato-masters Repository record

  18. Black people and criminal justice in England and Wales: a study on bail

    Williams, KadifaThe Open University2000

    … treatment by the police, in addition to the over-representation of black people in the total and remand prison population raises questions about the nature and extent of discrimination and racism in the criminal justice system. Reasons for the apparent differential treatment of black people …

    the-open-u Repository record

  19. Modeling and Analysis of Regulatory Elements in Arabidopsis thaliana from Annotated Genomes and Gene Expression Data

    Pati, AmritaVirginia Tech2005

    … correlated with respect to gene expression data over a set of treatments, the regulatory element combination can be biologically directed. The system developed in this work, XcisClique, consists of a comprehensive infrastructure for annotated genome and gene expression data for Arabidopsis …

    vt Repository record

  20. Evolutionary fingerprints in genome-scale networks

    Schütte, MoritzUniversität Potsdam

    … innovations in terms of a new enzyme. Overall, these simulations generate putative time-courses of the evolutionary walk on the metabolic network. By a time-series analysis, we find that the acquisition of new enzymes appears in bursts which are pronounced when the influence of the …

    potsdam-diss Repository record

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