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Rheumatologic Manifestations of Patients With Type B Insulin Resistance

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objectives of this study were to identify laboratory and clinical features associated with type B insulin resistance (TBIR), a rare condition caused by autoantibodies that inhibit the insulin receptor, most frequently occurring in the setting of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and to increase awareness of this rare, life‐threatening ...
S. Amara Ogbonnaya, Sandra G. Williams, Raphael A. Kirou, Marissa Lightbourne, Rebecca J. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

RAÇA E GÊNERO NO CAMPO PÚBLICO DE FOMENTO AO AUDIOVISUAL BRASILEIRO: mapeamento de policy makers

Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2018
The aim of this paper is to draw up a framework of “policy analysis” for the implementation of affirmative actions in Brazilian Audiovisual Industry, taking into account three dimensions of policy — institutional, procedural and mate- rial.
Eloiza Mara Silva
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Prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Australia, 2010–2022: A Population‐Based Study Using Linked National Administrative Health Data

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogenous inflammatory condition with widely varying global prevalence estimates. The frequency of SLE in the general population of Australia has been reported to be notably lower than contemporary estimates in countries such as the United States or United Kingdom, at 19 to 39 per 100,000 as opposed ...
Lucinda Roper, Rachel Black, Joanna Tieu, Winnie Chen, Matthew Parker, Catherine Hill, Natasha Nassar, Mandana Nikpour   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A neutralização das discriminações por meio da educação da criança

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos
Discorre brevemente, a partir de pesquisa bibliográfica e etnográfica, sobre as ações afirmativas implantadas no Brasil a partir dos anos 90 e discute os diversos olhares que as perpassam, com o objetivo de apontar, com auxílio das teorias culturais ...
Klondy Lúcia de Oliveira Agra
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Affirmative Action: An International Human Rights Dialogue [PDF]

Journal of Constitutional Law, 2020
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the first international instruments urging states to take specific action to ensure equality. Throughout the years, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been a leading activist for women’s rights and equality.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Deborah Jones Merritt   +1 more
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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.
openaire   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting Away from Normative/Hegemonic Language Assessment in Graduate Programs in Brazil and Espousing a Social Justice Agenda: Insights from Assessment Practices with Indigenous and Deaf Students in Two Universities [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
: This article analyzes the language ideologies that underpin the assessment of the foreign language proficiency of Indigenous and Deaf graduate students in two federal universities in Brazil. It draws on recent theory-building about language ideologies,
Simone da Costa Carvalho, Margarete Schlatter   +1 more
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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.
openaire   +2 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source