Sentences with phrase «lowest status groups»

Pulayas or Cheramar (Cherumas), the agricultural labour outcastes, and one of the lowest status groups in old Kerala, rate themselves a rung above the Parayas.

For instance, one study found that Jewish college students» pet dislike was fair - skinned groups with a dominant majority; Catholics disliked non-Christians, particularly Orientals; Protestant students disfavored people in lower status groups.

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They know to be inclusive and polite about all the groups in America except for low - status Republican voters.

This is especially so in low - income or less educated population groups, who must be considered a major focus of any front - of - pack nutrition labelling systems because of the link between socioeconomic status and lifestyle diseases.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

Forty percent of the high - status group sent the $ 10 versus 12 percent of the low - status group.

«Young females have a lower social status than males, but protection from older females seem to let young females join the group without fear of being attacked by males.

Some of the biggest success stories of the online learning revolution «are from emerging economies, low socioeconomic status groups, and those without a bachelor's degree,» Koller suggested in her plenary address.

«The greater pressure to conform to gender roles that North African French boys feel may be a response to contrasting messages about social status they are exposed to - one from their ethnic and cultural groups that says masculinity has greater power and prestige, the other from the broader social context that says their ethnic and cultural groups have lower status and are discriminated against.»

So high social status in this group of snow monkeys has a trade - off between the costs of high rank position and the benefits from a hot spring, which is advantageous for conserving energy by reducing loss of body heat, and lowering stress levels.

DAILY DOSE Although folate was required for all enriched grain products in the late 90s, and other foods are naturally folate rich, some women — especially those in minority groups and of low socio - economic status — still aren't getting enough.

The NSF program seeks to enhance U.S. leadership in science and technology while increasing participation by underrepresented groups, including women, members of racial and ethnic groups, persons with disabilities, and persons with low socio - economic status.

Relative to the comparison group receiving the usual services, program participation was independently linked to higher educational attainment, income, socioeconomic status (SES), and health insurance coverage, as well as lower rates of justice - system involvement and substance abuse.

To examine whether or not lower status is more benign in small - scale, relatively egalitarian societies in which group members frequently share food and other resources, lack coercive authority, and where people have little wealth to contest, the investigators studied the relationship between status and biomarkers of stress and disease among Tsimane men.

When they controlled for factors such as age, body mass index, smoking status, and alcohol consumption, the researchers found that people in the low physical - activity group were 10 % less likely to have had an infection than those in the sedentary group.

It appears that the body does not have a way to regulate the B6 content of the milk when the mother's intake is low (as it does for some nutrients such as calcium), so mothers who do not eat sufficient B6 - rich foods and do not make up the shortfall by supplementing with B6 will produce breast milk with inadequate levels of B6 for their infants.33 One group of researchers concludes that a minimum of 3.5 to 4.9 mg of vitamin B6 equivalents (from diet and supplements) are needed to maintain saturated levels of B6 in the mothers» breast milk, about double the RDA.34 Irritability in the infant may be a sign of less than adequate vitamin B6 status.35

«Our data revealed several differences in the neuroendocrine and metabolic status of centenarians, compared with other age groups, including the lowest serum concentrations of leptin, insulin and T3...»

Minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status — often subject to lower expectations — tend to be overrepresented in remedial groups.

The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.

At four - year institutions, students from the second and third income groups have made up as much as 38.1 percent of Pell Grant recipients (2003 - 04), a surprisingly high share given that the Pell proxy is supposed to measure low - income status.

The authors conducted four focus group sessions with: white parents of low socioeconomic status; white parents of high socioeconomic status; African American and Latino parents of low socioeconomic status; and African American and Latino parents of high socioeconomic status.

Even in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, minority children from families of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are less likely to attend schools that provide computer access in their classrooms than children in the highest SES groups.

Partnering with local community groups and with other county personnel has been a necessity for district leaders in North White Pine County because of its low - wealth status.

Similarly, a DFE report published last year found that «lower socio - economic status groups may look for [factors that]... may lead [them] to select themselves out of high performing schools».

The children in Group 1 were African American children of lower socioeconomic status (SES).

The districts were also promising to lower the number of students enrolled necessary to trigger special disaggregated reporting for sub-group status from 100 to 20, which was seen as an important protection for minority or historically marginalized student groups.

There are two kinds of supergroups that are dominating state plans so far: 1) «high - need» groups, which lump together students who have been historically underserved, including students of color, low - income students, students with disabilities, and English learners; and 2) «lowest performing» groups, which include students in the bottom 25 percent or 30 percent of achievement within their school, regardless of demographics, English language proficiency, or disability status.

Many Bay Area schools show a large gap in performance not only between low - income students and more affluent peers, but between different racial / ethnic groups within the same economic status.

It's frequently the case that students attend classes that correlate highly with learners» race and socioeconomic status, with less privileged students in lower learning groups or tracks and more privileged students in more advanced ones (Darling - Hammond, 2010).

The Red Cross Home Fires campaign is dedicated to serving the local community by installing smoke alarms in the homes of at - risk groups like single parents and those of low socioeconomic status in order to lower the rate of injury and loss of life from home fires in these groups.

- the 18 returning classes were chosen by seeing which popular classes would fit with the game - they also wanted to include classes to cover roles that the roster was lacked - the Pugilist class was added because the first group of classes selected did not include any with bashing and binding attacks - War Magus was added because the Medic was the only healer class in the roster at that point - they couldn't simply include all popular classes as that would have skewed the balance of the game - as for the Hero class, they with balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, but this made things to similar to other classes - this was rectified by adding after - images and other skills with good synergy - when an after - image appears, it does the same skills as the Hero, except on the following turn - it becomes possible for skills that usually can not be used multiple times in a row to be activated multiple turns in a row - it also means skills that only have an effect for one turn can be extended to two - after - images use not only the Hero's own class skills, but also their subclass skills - if the subclass is an Imperial, the Drive skill can be used multiple times in a row - when using Hero as a subclass to Nightseeker, the character can cover the Nightseeker's weaknesses of having low defense - after - images can also help increase the chances of inflicting status ailments - subclasses can be used to make up for weakness - Swordsman, a class that can learn speed and accuracy boosting skills, would be a good subclass for the Gunner - Reaper as a subclass for War Magus would allow that character to use the scythe's skills to inflict status ailments - the skill tree is slowly unlocked as a character grows - there are more skills that make jobs» individual styles stand out more, or expand the player's choices - the skill tree is also made so that there are less requirements to learn specific skills as compared to 5 - this makes it easier for players to get the skill they want without spending large numbers of skill points on lower skills - it's now easier to put points into skills, which makes re-specing easier - the team faced difficulty in balancing classes that were never meant to be alongside each other - they are doing their best to ensure that they keep the individual classes» identities intact

The character design is excellent as it brings a vast array of fairytale characters to life such as the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White, the Woodsman, Beauty and the Beast, Mr. Toad, Colin from the Three Little Pigs, Ichabod Crane, Bufkin, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, the Magic Mirror, the Little Mermaid and many more besides as well as non-Fables referred to in short as mundies for mundane as they go about their own business, but if suspicion were to be raised for a large group of mundies, then the glamours would fail which is why the Fabletown community need to maintain a low profile, while every character has their own status from Fabletown Sheriff to Fallen Hero and even Slum Lord, amongst just a few of the titles given.

While another group was protesting the museum's acceptance of funding from Sotheby's, in light of the low status of art handlers, the petition never once mentioned the issue or even called for a boycott now, in 2012.

Important themes since 1960, such as the formal and contextual extension of the term «art», the «upgrading» of the trivial, and the ensuing related debate on whether low - brow and high - brow are equal in status are at the center of extensive groups of works by Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Georg Baselitz, Jeff Wall, Rosemarie Trockel, and Anselm Kiefer.

«The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) should have been disbanded in 1996, the year polar bears were down - graded from a status of «vulnerable to extinction'to «lower risk — conservation dependent» (now called «least concern») on the IUCN Red List,» Professor Crockford writes.

The group of students who won «Best Iron Tech Lawyer 2016» developed an app called iHeal to «help low - income immigrant and mixed citizenship status families determine health care coverage eligibility.»

But I wonder whether another factor is the relatively low status of the legal profession among certain immigrant groups, by comparison with, for instance, the practice of medicine.

Temporary foreign workers, like other marginalized groups in Canada, are unable to access the justice system to enforce their legal rights because of the disadvantages they face resulting from their lower social and economic status.

His last employer offered low premium group life insurance benefits because of his full - time status.

On the other side of the argument, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a non-profit organization that brings together almost 300 other non-profit groups, stated in an analysis conducted in mid-2013, that some of the major auto insurance companies were engaged in charging higher rates to drivers who were considered to have lower job and educational status.

The low self - esteem group was more likely to be jealous and was also more likely to post images or status updates that proved their relationship happiness to others.

Some studies show higher rates of overweight and obesity in people from a lower socioeconomic status [42], suggesting that these groups should be targeted for research and interventions.

Group status (maltreatment vs. CC), 5 - HTTLPR genotype (l / l vs. l / s vs. s / s), and social supports (high vs. low) were all significant predictors of children's depression scores in the GEE analysis (P < 0.05, all main effects).

Given that cultural background undoubtedly impacts feeding practices and that rates of childhood obesity are elevated in groups with lower socio - economic status and some ethnic groups in the US, it is of high importance to validate this measure with additional samples.

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

Bridging the GAPP ® has demonstrated applicability to special student groups with low socioeconomic status and disadvantaged.

Although there was a lower response among families of minority groups (70 %) than among white families (84 %), (p <.01), t - tests and chi - square analyses indicated that minority - group respondents did not differ from minority - group nonrespondents on any birth status or sociodemographic variable (p >.05).

-- Adolescents born to women who received nurse visits during pregnancy and postnatally and who were unmarried and from households of low socioeconomic status (risk factors for antisocial behavior), in contrast with those in the comparison groups, reported fewer instances (incidence) of running away (0.24 vs 0.60; P =.003), fewer arrests (0.20 vs 0.45; P =.03), fewer convictions and violations of probation (0.09 vs 0.47; P <.001), fewer lifetime sex partners (0.92 vs 2.48; P =.003), fewer cigarettes smoked per day (1.50 vs 2.50; P =.10), and fewer days having consumed alcohol in the last 6 months (1.09 vs 2.49; P =.03).

Individual identifiers were not returned in the abstraction of these data, although the children's treatment group, sex, and risk status (ie, whether they were born to an unmarried mother from low SES) were returned.