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Algorithms for Affirmative Action

INFORMS Transactions on Education
This paper illustrates how fundamental concepts from optimization—such as greedy algorithms, matroids, maximum weight matching, and NP-completeness—arise in domains where policymakers wish to select a set of applicants while ensuring representation for specific groups.
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Grounds of Affirmative Action

Human Rights Quarterly
ABSTRACT: On what grounds is affirmative action permissible? The apex courts of two of the world's largest democracies have recently answered this question in seemingly diametrically opposite ways. In the case of India, the Supreme Court expanded the list of grounds of affirmative action to include economic status.
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Minimal Important Change and Minimal Clinically Important Difference in Pain and Function With Exercise in Hip Osteoarthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objective of this study was to estimate the minimal important change (MIC) and minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for pain and physical function in individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA) following a physiotherapist‐guided exercise intervention.
Yareni Guerrero, Fiona Dobson, Venkatesha Venkatesha, Kim Allison, Gabrielle Knox, Libby Spiers, Travis Haber, David J Hunter, Michelle Hall   +8 more
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Black middle managers' experience of affirmative action in a media company

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2006
Affirmative action remains one of the most highly sensitive, emotive and hotly debated subjects in South Africa. It is nevertheless an important legislated strategy that needs to be thoroughly researched and constructively debated to bring change to the
Barnard B Motileng, Claire Wagner, Nafisa Cassimjee   +2 more
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Diversifying the Medical Pathway in a Post-Affirmative Action World. [PDF]

JAMA, 2023
Essien UR, Agbafe V, Norris KC.
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Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G. Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H. Humphreys   +6 more
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Affirmative Action - obrácená forma diskriminace?

Časopis pro Právní Vědu a Praxi, 2001
V posledních několika letech je česká veřejnost zahlcena debatami o možnostech zavedení programů tzv. affirrnative action - politiky narovnávání příležitostí, jejímž cílem by bylo odstranění či snížení míry vlivu institucionální diskriminace a zajistit ...
Tomáš Kamín
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Equity initiatives for sustainable development: A comparative study of affirmative action in the USA and India

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
The primary objective of this paper is to analyze the affirmative action programs in India and the USA, exploring their similarities, differences, structures, and outcomes. Despite formal and structural disparities, both nations share a similar intent in
Neeraj Pant, Alka Sharma
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Clinical Significance of Therapeutic Drug Level Monitoring for Mycophenolate in Patients With Extrarenal Systemic Lupus Erythematosus—A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Clinical response to mycophenolic acid (MPA) is highly heterogeneous; thus, therapeutic drug level monitoring (TDM) may help improve treatment efficacy. This systematic review and meta‐analysis examined therapeutic ranges for MPA levels associated with better outcomes and safety in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE ...
Zahraa Qamhieh, Dalia Sriwi, Callie Saric, Tripti Singh, Christie M. Bartels, Shivani Garg   +5 more
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Developing and Evaluating a Laboratory‐Based Frailty Index for the Prediction of Long‐Term Health Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical FI. Methods We used data from a single‐center prospective cohort of adult patients with SLE whose baseline visit ...
Grace Burns, Samuel D. Searle, Alexandra Legge   +2 more
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