He has also studied international legal and cultural issues at the University of Amsterdam and the International Center
for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka.
Describing Dr. Sonia Nieto as «a highly valued and respected friend and professional colleague,» Dr. James Banks first approached her to request that she prepare a prepublication review of a chapter on Puerto Ricans in the United States in his book, Teaching Strategies
for Ethnic Studies (first published in 1975 and now in its 8th edition).
Scapp is also a former president of the National Association
for Ethnic Studies (2011 - 2015) and a current member of the International Committee for Kappa Delta Pi.
Not exact matches
But she stresses that
study groups show that investors have an affinity
for advisers of a similar gender or
ethnic background — those «who «get them» and share common experiences,» she says.
Companies in the top quartile
for racial and
ethnic diversity are 35 % more likely to have returns above national industry medians, SAP chief diversity and inclusion officer Anka Wittenburg wrote in a piece
for Fortune, quoting a McKinsey
study.
A 2015 McKinsey
study of 366 companies found that corporate leadership in the top quartile
for racial and
ethnic diversity were 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their national industry median.
Special programs have been established in
ethnic studies and in women's
studies,
for example, that address the needs of some students and support certain social movements.
* And in the largest and possible most systematic
study to date, conducted on five different
ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes
for individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all
ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.
In addition, some
studies have reported
ethnic differences — that
for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homes.
For example, a study of adolescents in the San Francisco Bay Area found that the authoritarian parenting style was linked with lower school grades for all ethnic groups (Dornbusch et al 198
For example, a
study of adolescents in the San Francisco Bay Area found that the authoritarian parenting style was linked with lower school grades
for all ethnic groups (Dornbusch et al 198
for all
ethnic groups (Dornbusch et al 1987).
Before coming to Doha, he held a prestigious research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute
for the
Study of Religious and
Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany.
(A recent
study there is a small penalty effect
for a minority
ethnic candidate when first standing, which disappears when seeking re-election).
At the last General Election, more than two thirds of voters from Britain's black and
ethnic minority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted for us (source: Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDF)
ethnic minority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted
for us (source:
Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDF)
Ethnic Minority British Election
Study (PDF)-RRB-.
For example, in his 2011 meta - analytic
studies, Hickman recounts that the primordial political cleavage in Kenya maps membership in three
ethnic blocs — «Kikuyu / Embu / Mem, Kalenjin / Maasai / Turkana / Samburu, and Luo»; «none of which comprises a majority of the national population».
In San Francisco, Carranza pushed
for reduced suspensions and bolstered LGBT and
ethnic studies curriculums while managing to avoid any major scandals.
My wide research &
study about the people of Southern Nigeria, their culture & tradition, Amaechi's
ethnic nationality are not known
for house servants / maids.
The authors provide a comprehensive review of all forty identified scientific
studies of the effects of psychological therapies
for survivors of torture and trauma (e.g., refugees from
ethnic violence).
They said the key messages from the
study were that stroke is a highly preventable disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or
ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional research on stroke risk factors is needed
for countries and
ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.
«We saw that prevalence rates
for depression and anxiety diagnoses were lower among racial and
ethnic minorities compared to non-Hispanic whites,» said Owen - Smith, who worked at the Kaiser Permanente Georgia Center
for Clinical and Outcomes Research when the
study was conducted.
These are some of the findings of a recent
study published in the journal Psychiatric Services, which reported significant racial -
ethnic differences in diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions across 11 private, not -
for - profit U.S. healthcare delivery systems.
The key innovation in the
study is a method
for measuring internet density in the settlement regions of the individual
ethnic groups.
Lee is hoping to do further work in countries such as South Korea to reveal any differences between
ethnic groups, as well as to
study more women who drink higher amounts of alcohol, to investigate whether the possible difference between genders holds up
for heavier drinkers.
The objective of the
study was to evaluate the feasibility of sending supportive text messages to low - income mothers of racial and
ethnic minority backgrounds with postpartum depression and gauge the perception of receiving such message
for depression.
In fact, there have been relatively few
studies on the racial and
ethnic composition of populations that apply
for federal research funding.
A new
study examining the role of ethnicity in determining the age of onset and severity of ALD, and comparing risk factors
for its progression among
ethnic groups, has found that ethnicity is a major factor affecting the age and severity of different subtypes of ALD.
«Although we do not know the reasons
for the racial and
ethnic differences we saw, one explanation could be that the black and Hispanic patients had surgery when they are much heavier and sicker than the non-Hispanic white patients,» said
study lead author, Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research & Evaluation in Pasadena, Calif. «Our
study highlights that surgery may be an important intervention tool
for people earlier in their weight gain trajectory.
These
studies, performed on cells from Caucasian Americans and African Americans, yielded similar results
for both
ethnic groups.
«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and
ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent
for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the
study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..
The committee called
for detailed
study of 15 to 20 different
ethnic groups in the US.
For his part, he says that
studying H. pylori may allow scientists to circumvent mistrust of their research by certain
ethnic groups, particularly Native Americans and Aborigines in Australia, who may be reluctant to provide blood or saliva samples.
«Our
studies highlight the need
for college prevention and treatment programs to focus efforts on sexual, gender, racial and
ethnic minority groups.»
Even fewer interventions are tailored
for racial and
ethnic minorities, and not one intervention has been evaluated with sexual - and gender - minority people,» said Robert Coulter, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and lead author of both
studies.
Inga Peter of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and her team looked
for genes involved in the disorder by
studying DNA from Ashkenazi Jews — an
ethnic group in which Crohn's disease is up to three times more common.
Studies by the Burchard group and others have found that using genetic ancestry rather than
ethnic self - identification significantly improves diagnostic accuracy
for certain diseases.
My grades suffered, and it didn't help matters when an advisor told me during my freshman year that «science isn't
for everybody» and that it might be better if I tried majoring in Spanish or
Ethnic Studies if I wanted to be successful.
The city of Vienna is growing increasingly diverse in both religion and ethnicity, according to a new Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
study by Markus Speringer from the Vienna Institute
for Demography (VID) / OeAW and IIASA and Ramon Bauer from VID / OeAW, which explored how Vienna's
ethnic and religious diversity has developed from 1970 to 2011.
Although differences in the environments in which people live often are suspected when asthma risks among populations differ, the new findings illustrate the importance of also considering genetic differences among
ethnic groups in diagnosing and treating disease, said Esteban Burchard, MD, professor of bioengineering
for the UCSF School of Pharmacy and the senior scientist
for the
study.
The MRC Centre
for Genomics and Global Health (CGGH) and the MRC Unit in The Gambia are working in partnership to generate genome sequence data on 500 individuals sampled across different
ethnic groups that will underpin the next generation of
studies into the causes and prevention of common diseases in West Africa.
The participants were European and overwhelmingly white,
for instance, so other
studies will be needed to confirm the link between waist size and diabetes in people of other
ethnic backgrounds.
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The
study concludes that «Although our findings indicate that biracial individuals are more likely to seek potential partners outside of their same racial /
ethnic identity, their dating preferences also reflect a distinct racial hierarchy that may account
for why some racial /
ethnic categories are more desirable than others».
I can't summarize her immense impact in such a short space, but I can say that her class content [in
Ethnic Studies and Education] was inspiring and thought - provoking, and she epitomizes an educator who loves, cares
for, and helps heal her students.
According to more than 40
studies of elementary, middle, and high school English classrooms, discussion - based practices improve comprehension of the text and critical - thinking skills
for students across
ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic contexts (Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Applebee, Langer, Nystrand, Gamoran, 2003).
Controlling
for this allowed us to
study whether the narrowing of the gaps among racial and
ethnic groups on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was comparable to changes on the highly regarded NAEP exams.
Today, students from every definable race and
ethnic category
study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic
for the debate team.
The second cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Education
Study (ICCS) has recorded an increase in student support of gender equality and equal opportunities
for all
ethnic and racial groups.
The second cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Education
Study has recorded an increase in student support of gender equality and equal opportunities
for all
ethnic and racial groups.
Michele Moses is Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, faculty fellow of the Center
for Values and Social Policy and the National Center
for Education Policy, and affiliate faculty of
Ethnic Studies and of Women's and Gender
Studies.
Our call
for more
studies on racial /
ethnic subgroup disparities echoes a recommendation published 15 years ago by the AAP Task Force on Minority Children's Access to Pediatric Care that more attention be paid to the heterogeneity of API populations.24
The American high school, once an austere brick building serving a few hundred children, mostly white boys, who
studied reading, writing, and arithmetic, has grown into a sprawling mall complex
for thousands of boys and girls, of various
ethnic groups, offering something — from algebra to band and basketball —
for everyone.