Sentences with phrase «among vulnerable groups»

Although not without exceptions, the evidence generally indicates that more stringent graduation requirements reduced high school graduation rates among vulnerable groups, specifically low - achieving students (including those with learning disabilities), students of color, and urban low - income students.

Prisoners also targeted by # 10.7 m investment in researching how to stop spread of transmissions among vulnerable groups

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Gaps certainly exist, particularly among certain vulnerable groups, but the problem is not widespread.

KS), which make up the Hyundai Motor Group, have not been directly criticized by Trump but they may have felt vulnerable because among major brands, they have one of the lowest ratios of cars built in the United States to cars sold.

These habits are all the more necessary in modern societies where a high degree of interdependence among strangers co-exists with an economic system that emphasizes individual profit maximization and a political system vulnerable to interest - group activity.

Erich Neumann, among others, has shown how those who think of themselves as strong and self - sufficient may at times project their inner sense of inferiority onto the more vulnerable ethnic, economic, and religious groups in their social environment.

During emergency situations, disease and death rates among babies and children are higher than for any other age group; and the younger the child, the higher the risk, leaving babies under six months most vulnerable.

In prisons and among the homeless community, the two largest and most vulnerable user groups, the ban has made the problem worse.

Historically, international agreements and frameworks related to humanitarian crises (such as International Humanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable groups.»

Yet outside food groups reported continued malnutrition among vulnerable sectors of the population, especially children.

Martínez, who is a member of the advocacy group Make the Road New York (MRNY), said that the elderly and the sick figure among the most vulnerable on the U.S. territory devastated by Hurricane Maria.

The study comes at a time when use of electronics is rapidly expanding among this age group and adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that - because of structural differences in their eyes - children may be more vulnerable to the impact light has on sleep and the body clock.

When and how to make contact with isolated tribes is a hotly contested issue among anthropologists and groups that aim to protect these vulnerable people.

For the first time in decades, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity rates declined among low - income preschool children, a particularly vulnerable demographic group.

The large sample size — and additional details provided by users — allowed the researchers to pinpoint which demographics were most vulnerable to search engine manipulation: Divorcees, Republicans, and subjects who reported low familiarity with the candidates were among the easiest groups to influence, whereas participants who were better informed, married, or reported an annual household income between $ 40,000 and $ 50,000 were harder to sway.

Furthermore, findings were similarly protective among important groups who account for a large proportion of deaths or who are particularly vulnerable, including young adult homicide victims, those who died in intimate partner violence - related homicides, and those who died from firearms - related homicides, including murders involving guns.

Widespread access to current HIV prevention technologies is limited among groups most vulnerable to HIV infection such as women and adolescent girls.

Conversations about exclusions are all the rage among politicians, but they tend to focus on three groups: parents, pupils and the headteachers accused of pushing vulnerable students out of their schools.

They're not aiming for the top but for the middle — to be the Center Jenny — reinforcing the group status quo, a common aim among young college - age women: don't stand out too much because it makes you vulnerable.

Through the lessons presented in the document students are expected, among others, to explore climate change, its consequences and possible solutions; work constructively in groups and debate controversial aspects of climate change; learn about individual, community - level, national and international opportunities to mitigate climate change; discover why children are vulnerable to the effects of climate change; and conduct research into climate change.

MP: A project to improve food security among vulnerable rural groups coordinated by Mountain Partnership member the International Potato Centre (CIP) is underway in four Latin American countries.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

My Republica: Despite having been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world, Nepal was not among the first group of countries to write a National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA)-- a prerequisite for accessing international support for climate intervention.

Cyclists are among a group of road users that are particularly vulnerable to injury.

At the 19th annual Christmas demonstration outside the Ministry of Labour, injured workers — among Ontario's most vulnerable groups facing increased poverty and insecurity from benefit reductions due to inflation — wonder if they should hold a bake sale to fill the coffers of the billion dollar WSIB institution?

Equal Justice Works was founded more than 25 years ago by a passionate group of law students who shared the belief that the poorest and most vulnerable among us deserve the same access to justice and quality legal representation as those who are more fortunate.

Similarly, the Tools of the Mind (Tools) is a preschool program intended to promote academic functioning and self - regulation among children from vulnerable families by emphasizing problem solving in small groups, peer collaboration in play, social rules through memory aids and sociodramatic play.

This study examined the size of the differential associations between perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among immigrant youth in the US — a rapidly growing and potentially vulnerable demographic group.

A fuller, more nuanced understanding of the prevalence and correlates of social participation among adolescents with an ASD can support the development and provision of appropriate services to this vulnerable and growing group in several ways.