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Showing 1 to 20 of 3411 for “"minority"”.
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Gender minority stress and gender dysphoria: Expanding the minority stress framework
… of this study was to validate the orignal Gender Minority Stress Model (GMSM) (Hendricks & Testa, 2012) in a U.S. population, as it has only been tested in international populations (e.g., Jäggi et al., 2018; Scandurra et al., 2017; Scandurra et al., 2018). A second aim of this study was to test …
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Identity Denied: Minority-Within-Minority Discrimination and the Contradictions of British Multiculturalism
This thesis explores the causes and lived experiences of anti-Ahmadi sentiment in the United Kingdom. It reveals that British Ahmadis experience severe, targeted anti-Ahmadi hostility, which is both more widespread and has a greater negative impact on their lives than the anti-Muslim prejudice they …
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Toward a Political Conception of Minority Rights: Reconciling Sovereignty, Human Rights and Minority Claims
… justifications for both human rights and minority rights. In particular, this research project will examine the following issues: on what normative grounds the available norms of human rights and minority rights are justified; if there is any methodic way to use the normative logic of …
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King of the Hill's Souphanousiphones, the New Model Minority, and the Subversive Model Minority
Though the term "model minority" was only coined in the 1960s to apply to Asian-Americans, in the white imagination, a "model" way to be a minority has always existed. This model has gone through various iterations from the "happy" blacks of the antebellum years to supposedly over-achieving …
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EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF MINORITY STRESS AND RESILIENCE ON SEXUAL MINORITY VETERANS’ HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION
… health disparities experienced by sexual minority individuals with military histories compared to their heterosexual peers. Often the minority stress model, which posits sexual minority individuals experience unique chronic stressors that affect their well-being and fuel health …
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Academic Bias Towards Minority Women
… very little research has been done surrounding minority females academic success; these gaps have been compensated with information about how these issues plague women in general. It is the researchers understanding that if an issue or circumstance within education affects white female students …
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Sexual minority rights in Cameroon
The objective of this study is to explore the criminalisation of persons based on sexual orientation in Cameroon in light of that country’s international human rights obligation. The study examines the constitution and laws of Cameroon as applicable to sexual minorities. It aims to discuss recent …
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Sexual minority rights in Cameroon
The objective of this study is to explore the criminalisation of persons based on sexual orientation in Cameroon in light of that country’s international human rights obligation. The study examines the constitution and laws of Cameroon as applicable to sexual minorities. It aims to discuss recent …
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Minority disproportionality in New Jersey
… examine whether New Jersey districts exhibited minority disproportionality, or the overrepresentation of minority students in special education eligibility categories and placements. A dataset with a random sample of 200 school districts was compiled with special education data from the New …
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Breaking through: developing minority leaders
… Women, Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual, and Black and Minority Ethnic (LGB & BME) leaders in order to understand the challenges they have faced in moving into and being successful in leadership positions and to provide insight into potential development interventions or organisational strategies which …
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Organizational Alienation and Minority Students
… study investigated levels of alienation between minority and non minority college students. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected through a survey instrument and interviews in two different academic contexts, a public state university and a private, Catholic university in …
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The rights of minority stockholders
… Such rights are not particularly the rights of a minority stockholder. That is to say, a stockholder merely because he is a stockholder, has certain privileges because of his holding of stock which he can assert no matter who controls the corporation. These privileges, strictly speaking, are not …
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF MINORITY COMMAND LEADERSHIP ON THE RETENTION OF MINORITY SAILORS
This thesis evaluates the effects of minority command leadership on the first-term reenlistment decisions of underrepresented junior enlisted sailors in the U.S. Navy. In this thesis, I build a data set for Navy enlisted personnel and officers observed from fiscal years 1995 to 2018. Using a linear …
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Sharing equal opportunity : minority business enterprises and their effects on minority employment in inner city neighborhoods
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Minority and Non -Minority Students With Disabilities in Higher Education: Are Current University Policies Meeting Their Needs
… in order for learning to take place. Likewise, minority students also face many of these same challenges and issues as disabled students. Yet, few researchers have looked at the double-discrimination of being both physically disabled and a minority. The purpose this research was two fold, with …
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An exploratory study examining the relationship between student engagement and success between minority and non-minority nursing students
… not adequately studied this relationship among minority nursing students and overall student engagement. This is a problem because success rates are low among this population, contributing to a shortage of qualified minority nurses and to disparities in health care for minority patients. The …
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Measuring minority language presence on Wikipedia: Towards the measurement of minority language presence on the World Wide Web
This study examines twenty majority language and minority language versions of Wikipedia (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Icelandic, Welsh, Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, West Frisian, North Frisian, Saterland Frisian, Breton, Catalan, Galician and Sardinian). The results …
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Addressing childhood obesity in ethnic minority populations
… a serious public health concern. In some ethnic minority groups obesity prevalence is significantly higher than the national average (The NHS Information Centre, 2010). Therefore, it is recommended that interventions to manage childhood obesity are tailored to the needs of ethnic minority groups …
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