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Exposing the Probabilistic Causal Structure of Discrimination [PDF]

, 2017
Discrimination discovery from data is an important task aiming at identifying patterns of illegal and unethical discriminatory activities against protected-by-law groups, e.g., ethnic minorities.
Bonchi, Francesco, Hajian, Sara, Mishra, Bud, Ramazzotti, Daniele   +3 more
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Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz, Christopher H. Thompson, Linda C. Laux, Alfred L. George Jr.   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictive Ability of Plasma p‐tau217 for β‐Amyloid Status: A Prospective Multicenter Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Plasma tau phosphorylated at threonine 217 (p‐tau217) measured with fully automated platforms has shown high accuracy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis, but real‐world multicenter data remain limited. We aimed to validate the diagnostic performance of p‐tau217 for identifying AD pathology in a real‐world multicenter cohort ...
Miquel Massons, Nuria Guillen, Jordi Sarto, Neus Falgàs, Sergi Borrego‐Écija, Diana Esteller‐Gauxax, Magda Castellví, Adrià Tort‐Merino, Agnès Pérez‐Millan, Anna Antonell, Josep M. Augè Fradera, Gerard Piñol, Iolanda Riba, Anna Carnes‐Vendrell, Marta Cullell, Maria Teresa Osuna, Lorena Bajo, Teresa Romero, Eva Bonjoch, Joan Bello, Susana Fernández, Marta Balagué, Isabel Gómez‐Ruiz, Anuncia Boltes, Claustre Pont, Raquel Cuevas, Sara Carrillo, Laura Iglesias, Teresa Maria Casadevall Codina, Lorena Grau Guinea, Fernando Jose Espada, Raquel Sánchez‐Valle, Mircea Balasa, Albert Lladó   +33 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Effect of an Anti-Discrimination Program [PDF]

Since 1941, six Executive Orders have been issued forbidding Federal government contractors from discriminating against minority workers. In principle, all prospective contractors are required to demonstrate compliance with the law before a contract is ...
James J. Heckman, Orley Ashenfelter
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Understanding Further the Phenotypic Spectrum of Central Nervous System Inflammatory Demyelinating Disorders Using Unsupervised Clustering

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory demyelinating syndromes, including multiple sclerosis (MS), aquaporin‐4 antibody–positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4 + NMOSD), and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody–associated disease (MOGAD), occasionally overlap.
Bade Gulec, Elif Everest, Melih Tutuncu, Ugur Bilge, Sabahattin Saip, Ugur Uygunoglu, Aksel Siva   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affirmative Action as Earnings Redistribution: The Targeting of Compliance Reviews [PDF]

Affirmative action may be broadly conceived of as pursuing either the goal of reducing discrimination or that of redistributing jobs and earnings. I attempt to infer the ends of affirmative action policy by analyzing the historical record of enforcement.
Jonathan S. Leonard
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Breaking New Ground in Hungary: Summary of Selected Provisions of the Hungarian Labour Legislation [PDF]

, 2006
[Excerpt] Hungarian labour law has gone through significant changes in the last decade and become one of the most developing areas of Hungarian law. Since the end of the communist regime, the labour law legislation has had to cope with the challenges of ...
Baker & McKenzie
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The Renal Activity Index for Lupus Identifies Active Renal Disease and Treatment Response in Adult Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Lupus Nephritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We evaluated the ability of the Renal Activity Index for Lupus (RAIL) to discriminate active lupus nephritis (LN) in adult patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and differentiate LN treatment response. Methods Urine samples from adults with biopsy‐proven active class III and IV LN from TULIP‐LN (active LN group ...
Hermine I. Brunner, Ellen M. Cody, Prasad Devarajan, Bin Huang, Chen Chen, Dominic Sinibaldi, Madhu Ramaswamy, Jacob Knagenhjelm, Frederick Jones, Philip Z. Brohawn, Raj Tummala, Catharina Lindholm, Wendy I. White   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discrimination and Profit [PDF]

In this paper I analyze the relation between anti-discrimination policies applied by a company and its profit. Some authors argue that the problem of discrimination should not be approached at the company level, because this will negatively affect its ...
Dragos BIGU
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Evidence of Employment Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Complaints Filed with State Enforcement Agencies, 1999-2007 [PDF]

, 2008
To more accurately measure the effect of anti-discrimination laws, this report compares sex, race, and sexual orientation complaint rates through a population-adjusted model.
Brad Sears, Christopher Ramos, M. V. Lee Badgett   +2 more
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