Sentences with phrase «racial group at»

Even when examining only one racial group at a time, the researchers found wide variation in donation rates across the nation's donor service areas: consent rates among Caucasian patients, for example, ranged from 72 to 92 percent across the 58 donor service areas.

The 2012 preterm birth rate among non-Hispanic black infants remains the highest of all the racial groups at 16.5 percent, down from 18.5 percent in 2006 and the lowest in more than 20 years.

Not exact matches

Last month, the company said it was temporarily disabling the ability of advertisers to exclude racial groups from the intended audience of ads, and promised to «do better» at policing discriminatory practices.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

The poll basically breaks white Americans down into three categories: white people who believe they face discrimination and have personally experienced it (NPR spoke with an individual who fell into this category, although he struggled to think of specific examples for some reason); white people who believe they face discrimination but have not personally experienced it (NPR also spoke with a man who fell into this group, who hastened to say he believed other racial and ethnic groups faced discrimination as well), and white people who don't believe they face any discrimination at all.

When people feel that a group they value — be it racial, religious, regional or ideological — is under attack, they rally to its defense, even at some cost to themselves.

These characteristics include at least the following three kinds — physical features, psychological or personality traits, and cultural patterns — and they combine to make a racial stereotype, a standardized picture of the typical member of a particular racial group.

The fundamental notion of dividing society into saints and sinners, separating the saints from the sinners as much as possible, and then instituting a system of external controls to bring the sinners into at least outer conformity with the moral expectations of the saints, originally had nothing to do with the relations between ethnic and racial groups.

At first sight the parable teaches a radically new concept of neighbourliness — in terms of need as over against mutual membership in a racial or religious group — and that it does this is, of course, true enough.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

♦ A colleague at Harvard passes on this broadsheet issued by the «Coalition for Civil Rights,» a group made up of «spokespersons» for myriad ethnic and racial minorities, plus gays, lesbians, and assorted lifestyle liberationisms.

Debriefing revealed that many of the participants had become aware of race - related feelings — shock, fear, expectation of rejection, vulnerability, confusion, inferiority as a Black, relief at being White again, and guilt about these responses.5 This group was relatively free of conscious prejudices and was dedicated to racial justice.

Jackson should realize that genetic - selection programs of this sort traditionally have been aimed at eliminating or reducing the population of various ethnic and racial groups, including blacks.

In 1 national survey, 45 % of parents responded that they had shared a bed with their infant (8 months of age or younger) at some point in the preceding 2 weeks.19 In some racial / ethnic groups, the rate of routine bed - sharing might be higher.18, — , 20 There are often cultural and personal reasons why parents choose to bed - share, including convenience for feeding (breastfeeding or with formula) and bonding.

As an african - american woman I and my child have the highest risks of death out of all racial groups despite my education and financial status, so I will be staying as far as possible from a hospital, and I'd rather do it at home as the vast majority of my ancestors did.

The home secretary's new «extremism disruption orders», unveiled at the 2014 Conservative party conference, look to tackle the «full spectrum of extremism», targeting a wider group of individuals than those falling under the 2006 Racial and Religious Hatred Act.

Two volunteers for City Council candidate Kevin Kim have filed a police complaint that they were harassed last week by a group of youths, who shouted racial slurs and tossed a football at them as they campaigned along Francis Lewis Boulevard, a spokesman for Kim said.

There has been a 60 % reduction in tribunal claims relating to racial and sexual orientation, highlighting once again how this measure causes harm to groups who are most at risk of discrimination in the workplace.

Contrary to such claims, they are part of an overall regime imbed at preserving demographic superiority of one racial group over another in certain areas.

Some 86 percent of people arrested on marijuana charges last year were black or Latino even though all racial groups use the drug at similar rates, officials have said.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting was scheduled to begin at approximately 5:30 p.m. and once it did start, a group of protesters from the group «Queers for Racial Justice» began shouting for about 30 minutes, highlighting controversial Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito assembled a coalition of female activists today to launch the Young Women's Initiative — a group she said would combat racial and gender inequality and be the first of its kind in a nation with many similar initiatives aimed at young men of color.

• protections for racial and language minority groups in the drawing of district lines consistent with the Voting Rights Act, ensuring those protections remain regardless of what happens at the federal level; and

When the researchers looked at whether alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use predicted suicidality, they found that for all racial groups, except Pacific Islanders, using alcohol in the past month was linked to 1.5 - 2.1 times greater odds for having attempted suicide in the past year.

Diabetes brings a wide array of complications that can harm the cardiovascular system and other organs, and it has been found to affect some groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities and people with low incomes, at a disproportionate rate.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

«There were only a handful of studies for each of the 19 instruments, and very few looked at anything that could give us insight into potential bias against racial or minority groups.»

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

«Colorectal cancer more likely to affect minorities at younger age: Study shows US racial, ethnic groups under the age of 50 have increased risk.»

Although CRC affects all racial and ethnic groups, African Americans carry an excessive burden of disease with the highest overall incidence, highest incidence of advanced stage at presentation, highest mortality, and lowest survival rates compared to any other ethnic or racial group.

In 2004 Anthony Lising Antonio, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, collaborated with five colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and other institutions to examine the influence of racial and opinion composition in small group discussions.

Now, another research group has examined the possible role of racial bias at NIH by comparing head - to - head the productivity and funding of black and white medical researchers at the same institutions.

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.

«We believe we are the first to compare adolescent blood pressures to body mass index in these four major ethnic / racial groups,» said Joshua Samuels, M.D., M.P.H., the study's senior author, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School and an attending pediatric nephrologist at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.

The program is open to individuals from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences at the career stages targeted by this program, including those individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Research suggests that Neanderthals can be divided into at least 3 «racial» groups (western European, Mediterranean / Middle Eastern and western Asian).

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

For instance, some sites aim at linking one to particular individuals from a certain racial group.

An inclusion rider means that those working on a production can request at 50 percent diversity within a production, meaning that in front of and behind the camera, more women, members of the LGBTQ community and people of different racial or ethnic groups must be hired.

His feature debut, «Dear White People,» is a pointed satire about race relations in the age of Obama that turns familiar stereotypes on their heads as it follows an eclectic group of African American students navigating campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college.

At a prestigious, predominantly white university, a group of students are forced to confront prejudices about their own and other people's cultures — racial, sexual and socio - economic — when a party meant to target an on - campus faction goes out of control.

Logline: At a prestigious, predominantly white university, a group of students are forced to confront prejudices about their own and other people's cultures — racial, sexual and socio - economic — when a party meant to target an on - campus faction goes out of control.

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.

For smaller American Indian / Alaskan Native and Hawaiian Native / Pacific Islander subgroups, the majority of students in the subgroup remain uncovered if only students in that subgroup are pooled: the «super subgroup» strategy of aggregating across racial / ethnic groups is the only way to account for most students in these groups, although their data are not identifiable at the subgroup level.

It is possible that different racial, ethnic, and economic groups demand different curricular approaches: for example, bilingual education, arts, vocational instruction, or programs for gifted or at - risk students.

Anthologies of reading for schoolchildren now carefully select stories to include all the major ethnic and racial groups; to ensure that girls and women are portrayed in a positive, nonsexist manner; and to include at least one selection dealing with a disabled person.

A new report looks in - depth at the U.S. dropout rate as it applies to students from various racial - ethnic groups and from different income levels and geographic regions.

They begin by looking at the likelihood that young people from different racial and ethnic groups would be in a position to potentially become teachers.

Despite the wide disparities in expulsions and suspensions across racial groups, most people oppose policies that would require schools to suspend black and Hispanic students at the same rate as other students.

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.