Sentences with phrase «racial differences at»

There is almost always a division between factions, often based on racial differences at war for global domination or revenge.

«A physician or other clinical staff may not readily identify these racial differences at a single - practice level, but these gaps may be important on a larger scale,» explained Dr. Dotson.

Not exact matches

Economic class differences in the U.S. have caused problems — frequently racial ones — at cheap or free - admission high school events.

But at what age should we begin to help them form a foundation for understanding racial difference?

If there is any genetic basis at all to racial IQ test - score differences, it is indeterminate and poorly quantified, with recent studies estimating IQ heritability to be anywhere from nearly zero to over 80 percent, and strongly countered by other studies showing that environment counts most.

«Other studies have looked at racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

Research out of the nationwide REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study looked at 5,566 workers age 45 and older identified that those in sales, office support or service occupations have more risk factors for heart disease and stroke than workers in management and professional jobs.

To investigate this potential link, a team led by Rakhi Naik, MD, MHS (Johns Hopkins University) and Marguerite Irvin, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) analyzed data from a large population - based study, the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.

The report from the University of Alabama at Birmingham REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study shows this effect is the same for black and white adults, both men and women.

At the same time, differences in socioeconomic status and racial discrimination have also been linked to low birth weights, risk of depression and other ailments.

The research, led by Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, sheds light on the racial and ethnic differences in trends of nonmedical opioid and heroin use over time.

«The higher risk of tumor recurrence that we observed among African American women was reduced when controlling for those factors, suggesting that these genomic differences contribute, at least partly, to the known racial disparity in the survival of African American and Caucasian breast cancer patients.»

«Understanding racial differences in behaviors that affect men's health is an important step toward reducing health disparities among U.S. men,» says study lead author Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Men's Health Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions.

The report, which was recently published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, was one of the first to look at ethnic group differences in overweight children living in Canada.

The researchers looked at several factors that might explain this racial difference, such as whether there were differences in tumor characteristics between black patients and white patients, or differences in a family history of breast cancer — both factors that a doctor must consider before deciding whether a genetic test will likely benefit a particular patient.

«We have long known that men begin to lose their sense of smell some years sooner than women, but this is the first study to point to racial or ethnic differences,» said study author Jayant Pinto, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago.

The movie takes a humorous and serious look at parental expectations, racial / religious prejudice and cultural differences, and how they affect a young couple who are falling in love despite these challenges.

Solondz is the bamboo splinter beneath the fingernail of that shame — his manifesto lies in the decision to confront the ultimate causes behind our embarrassment with fetishism, our horror at the recognition of racial difference (suggested by George Bush Sr.'s boldly insane, «I don't see colour»), and our inability to treat people with physical disabilities as anything other than children or objects of pity.

And although such an approach is promising, as with any instructional reform strategy designed to bolster at - risk students» skills, the key in implementation will be accommodating differences, not only between linguistic and racial groups but also within them, while maintaining relentless attention to quality.

A dissimilarity index at the district level, however, measures the dissimilarity of districts and the overall student population in the area, and provides information on changes over time in racial differences in the distribution of students among districts.

In a conversation, Usable Knowledge asked Warikoo, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to talk about why students in the U.S. need to understand the historical roots of affirmative action and how colleges can become communities where students can talk about racial difference.

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

As Arne Duncan said at the time, «racial discrimination is a major problem today,» and disparities are «not caused by differences in children.»

However, they showed that cross-school differences explained most of this aggregate difference; that is, when the researchers looked only at students attending the same school, the racial differences became much more modest, with black students receiving only about 0.07 more days of punishment than whites.

Many of his studies took him into controversial territory, including his investigation of whether incentives increase academic achievement (in most cases, no), and his investigation with Steven Levitt of whether there are systematic racial differences in mental ability among young children (no, when they're under the age of 1; yes, as they get older, hinting at the importance of environmental differences).

It has been nearly a year since the book The Bell Curve ignited a controversy over alleged racial differences in IQ, but the debate was still going strong at the national meeting of the American Psychological Association here last month.

We found no significant differences between lottery winners and losers on characteristics, including gender, age at high school entry, and the math and reading scores and racial composition of their middle schools.

At the next meeting, the Leadership Team identified numerous explanations for differences in outcomes among students of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

When you look at the problems the Leadership Team identified and the related discussion, you realize that there is apparently no recognition that the racial and ethnic dispositions of the school staff might be related to differences in student performance.

Much, but not all, of the racial and socioeconomic sorting we document is accounted for by differences in achievement, particularly at the high school level.

The difference in the rate at which black, Hispanic, and white students go to school with poor classmates is the best predictor of the racial - achievement gap.

In particular, focusing on college - bound high school students, we use a difference - in - difference methodology to analyze the impact of the end of race - based affirmative action at the University of California in 1998 on both the overall level of SAT scores and high school GPA, and the racial gap in SAT scores and high school GPA.

When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.

The study calls for more data looking at outstanding student loan debt by race and claims that focusing on undergraduate borrowing alone only reveals part of the picture of possible racial differences.

Publications include Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (2007, German 2012), Wege in der Fremde: Deutsch - jüdische Begegnungsgeschichte zwischen New York, Berlin und Teheran (2012), and Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920 - 1950 (1995); co-edited volumes on Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century (2002) and After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (2009), as well as Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union (with M.Edele and S. Fitzpatrick) and The JDC at 100: Essays on the 100th Anniversary of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (with A Patt, L. Levi, M. Maud), both forthcoming 2017, and (with Tamar Lewinsky) the chapter on 1945 - 1949 in Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart (ed.

Other highlights of the exhibition at Bluecoat include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around racial difference; and a series of mixed media works on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.

Even as she was just getting her clinical practice off the ground, she ran a program at New York's 92nd Street Y about cultural identity, with a special focus on helping couples in mixed marriages handle racial, religious, and cultural differences.

At the start of the study, there were no statistically significant differences between the Triple P and control group counties in observable characteristics (e.g., child maltreatment rates over the prior five years, poverty rates, racial composition).

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.