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An examination of human rights, anti-racism, and affirmative action policies in Brazil [PDF]

Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
This article sets out to provide an analysis of the relationship between human rights, public policies and ethnic-racial inequality in Brazil from a contemporary perspective.
Luciana de Oliveira Dias
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Public Law by Private Bargain: Title VII Consent Decrees and the Fairness of Negotiated Institutional Reform [PDF]

, 1984
Large-scale Title VII remedies are typical of public law litigation, which differs in kind from the conventional compensatory lawsuit. Title VII remedies are commonly adopted by way of consent decrees. By approving these consent decrees, federal courts
Schwarzschild, Maimon
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Women and Affirmative Action [PDF]

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1989
This paper reviews evidence indicating that, as it has been enforced so far, affirmative action has contributed negligibly to women's progress in the workplace. Affirmative action can be modeled as a tax on employers whose female employment growth falls below a certain rate.
openaire   +1 more source

Immune‐Driven Expression in Inclusion Body Myositis With T‐Cell Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives T‐cell large granular lymphocytic leukemia (T‐LGLL), reported in up to 58% of inclusion body myositis (IBM) patients, is a rare leukemia of cytotoxic or less commonly helper T cells. The range of myopathies in T‐LGLL and the impact of coexisting T‐LGLL in IBM are not well understood. Our objectives are to investigate the spectrum of
Pannathat Soontrapa, Iago Pinal‐Fernandez, Pritikanta Paul, Michael P. Skolka, Margherita Milone, Min Shi, Mithun V. Shah, Maria Casal‐Dominguez, Katherine Pak, Andrew L. Mammen, Teerin Liewluck   +10 more
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O multiculturalismo e a dialética do universal e do particular

Estudos Avançados
resumo Após a Revolução Francesa de 1789 o Estado democrático estabeleceu os direitos universais do cidadão. Os movimentos sociais, inicialmente, encamparam esse ideal universalista e lutaram pelo reconhecimento de seus direitos: as mulheres obtiveram o ...
CELSO FREDERICO
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Grip Force Reveals the Context Sensitivity of Language-Induced Motor Activity during “Action Words [PDF]

, 2012
Studies demonstrating the involvement of motor brain structures in language processing typically focus on \ud time windows beyond the latencies of lexical-semantic access.
A Martin, A Raposo, AD Friederici, AM Glenberg, Anne Cheylus, B Kaup, B Kaup, B New, B Tomasino, BA Goldfield, BZ Mahon, D Jirak, F Pulvermuller, F Pulvermuller, F Pulvermüller, F Pulvermüller, G Fauconnier, G Vigliocco, J Lüdtke, K Hoenig, K Patterson, Kevin Paterson, L Papeo, LW Barsalou, M Jeannerod, M Oliveri, M Tettamanti, M Tettamanti, MC MacDonald, MG Gaskell, MH Fischer, MT Liuzza, O Hauk, P Aravena, P Ruby, Pia Aravena, PM Rossini, RA Zwaan, RC Oldfield, RM Willems, Tatjana Nazir, V Boulenger, V Boulenger, V Frak, V Gallese, Victor Frak, Viviane Deprez, Yves Paulignan, Yvonne Delevoye-Turrell, ZW Pylyshyn   +49 more
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Ketogenic Diet as an Epigenetic Therapy in SETD1B‐Related Epilepsy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Histone lysine methyltransferases such as SETD1B regulate chromatin structure and gene transcription. Ketone bodies, including butyrate, act as histone deacetylase inhibitors. We report a 4‐year‐old boy with SETD1B‐related absence epilepsy, refractory to conventional medications, who achieved sustained > 90% seizure reduction on the Modified ...
Erica Tsang, Brian S. Gloss, Jessica P. Hayes, Andrew J. A. Holland, Manoj P. Menezes, Joceline A. Branson, Shekeeb S. Mohammad, Jingya J. Yan, Shrujna Patel, Velda X. Han, Russell C. Dale   +10 more
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Mujeres, acciones afirmativas y capacidades humanas

Eleuthera
This article seeks to determine argumentative elements within the discussions of feminist studies. Mainly, regarding the scope of affirmative actions, the theory of human capabilities and the internationalist feminism of ...
Luz Mireya Mendieta Pineda, Wilmar Niño Hernández, Edson Romario Pérez Martínez   +2 more
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O Globo and the racial quotas: an analysis of the newspaper editorials (2003 - 2012)

Revista Eletrônica História em Reflexão, 2017
This paper consists on an analysis of newspaper editorials from O Globo on the issue of racial affirmative actions in the access towards public universities in Brazil.
Matheus de Carvalho Leibão
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Longitudinal Assessment of Biomarkers in ALS: Discriminative Biomarkers for Disease Progression and Survival

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the association and discriminative performance of serum biomarkers with clinical disease progression and survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods This retrospective study, conducted at Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, used longitudinal serum samples collected between January 2018 and ...
David R. Beers, Yueh‐Yun Lin, Jason R. Thonhoff, Aaron D. Thome, Alireza Faridar, Weihua Zhao, Shixiang Wen, Stanley H. Appel   +7 more
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