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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"ethnic origin"”.
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Symbolising potential: ethnic origin and inclusion in British personnel departments.
The relationship between ethnic origin and inclusion in British personnel departments has never been fully explored or explained. This thesis draws upon an exploratory questionnaire survey of personnel practitioners of ethnic minority origin, and case studies of personnel departments in five …
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Who Influences Your Outcomes? The Effect of Culture and Ethnic Origin, Neighborhood and Peers on Personal Income: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of New York City
… in life. Specifically, I consider how a person’s ethnic community, age reference group, occupational and industry group peers, and residential area neighbors affect his total income. I introduce a novel model of multiple social networks and discuss various identification implications. I apply the …
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Infertility in British South Asian communities: negotiating the community and the clinic.
… of involuntary childlessness in majority ethnic communities in the UK and other more developed societies, and also a growing literature on the experiences of infertile women in less well-resourced countries, there is a dearth of research exploring the potential impact of ethnicity and …
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Effects of Social Category and Value Dissimilarity in Teams: The Role of Relational and Collective Identification
… in their team in terms of nation and race/ethnic origin and their satisfaction and learning in a team. It is argued that these relations are moderated by value dissimilarity and individual team member identifications. Specifically, the study assessed how (a) collective identification with …
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Knowledge of Health Care Terminology in Persons with Cancer
… about sex, marital status, educational level, ethnic origin, number of hospitalizations, health care professionals in the family, perceived knowledge level, length of cancer diagnosis, age and size of the community. The "Health Care Terminology Questionnaire" was a 50-question multiple choice …
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A Study of Persistence in the Northeast State Community College Health-Related Programs of Study.
… group. The predictor variables included gender, ethnic origin, first- (or nonfirst-) generation-student status, age, specific major program of study, number of remedial and/or developmental courses taken, grades in selected courses (human anatomy and physiology I and II, microbiology, probability …
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The Use of Genetic Polymorphisms and Discriminant Analysis in Evaluating Genetic Polymorphisms as a Predictor of Population
… available that group such polymorphisms by ethnic origin or nationality. Such information could be useful to entities that base financial determinations upon predictions of disease or to medical researchers who wish to target prevention and treatment to population groups. While the use of …
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The rights of minorities in the European Union
… on non-discrimination on the grounds of race or ethnic origin, and policies on culture and education, these references may be regarded as providing the preconditions for an EU regime of minority protection. This thesis investigates whether the EU should take these developments any further, and …
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A study of selected disciplinary referrals and a report of disciplinary practices in three public junior high schools in Portsmouth, Virginia
… written Code of Conduct issued to the students, ethnic origin, economic status, and the one-parent or guardian family. The following statistical techniques were employed in the analysis of data: 1) t-test for differences in percentages, 2) Pearson r Correlation Coefficient, 3) t-test for …
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Analysis of teacher expectations and reading achievement in first grade
… of kindergarten);(2) sex of child; (3) ethnic origin; (4) order of birth; (5) area of residence; (6) parent occupation; (7) socioeconomic level; (8) attendance in kindergarten; (9) age at entry to first grade; and (10) scores on GatesMacGinitie Reading Tests (administered at conclusion …
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Study of arterial blood pressure and hypertension in Benin City
… certain age groups. Relative weight, literacy, ethnic origin, urinalysis and smoking did not explain the differences found in the mean blood pressures of rural field labourers, rural clerks and urban clerks.
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Strategies of British-Pakistani Muslim women : 'subject' and 'agency' reconsidered through (an) analysis of marriage, divorce and everyday life
… experiences of British Muslim women of Pakistani ethnic origin living in Slough in the south-east of England in matters related to maITiage, divorce and everyday life by looking into their private and social worlds in a diasporic space. Pakistanis in Britain have seen a shift in their identity …
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The Relationship between Second-Wave Feminist Philosophy and Interpretation of Biblical Gender Roles by Entering Seminary Students
… influence of select demographics (gender, race/ethnic origin, denominational affiliation, state, theological persuasion, and age) upon student beliefs regarding feminism and gender roles. The research design consisted of a descriptive quantitative survey that analyzed responses from two …
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Studies on the genetic basis of Pk, P and P1 blood group antigen expression
… Pk individuals (n=99) of different geographic/ethnic origin. A total of 24 novel mutations were identified, emphasizing the genetic heterogeneity at the glycosyltransferase loci underlying these blood groups. As a result of this study, the P antigen was assigned its own blood group system, GLOB …
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Is It Nationalism? History's Impact on Okinawan Identity
… nationalism allows Anthony D. Smith's The Ethnic Origin of Nations with its emphasis on history and ethnie to coexist with the every-day approach found in Banal Nationalism by Michael Billig and Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism. These political observers seemingly holding opposing …
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An ontology of ethnicity based upon personal names: with implications for neighbourhood profiling
… of the nature and detailed composition of ethnic groups remains key to a vast swathe of social science and human natural science. Yet ethnic origin is not easy to define, much less measure, and ascribing ethnic origins is one of the most contested and unstable research concepts of the last …
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Health Psychology Principles in Behaviour Change Interventions – Insights from Practice and Research
… and four with participants with a Pakistani ethnic origin. The data was analysed using grounded theory. The core category which emerged from the data was „impact of individual, contextual and cultural influences on health behaviours‟. The core category was supported by five higher order …
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