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Assessing the Feasibility of Wearable Devices for Physiological Monitoring and Heat Risk Prediction in Outdoor Agricultural Workers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Outdoor agricultural workers experience significant heat exposure, yet few studies have evaluated whether wearable sensors can reliably measure continuous physiological responses in real field conditions. This pilot study examined the feasibility and predictive utility of core temperature, hydration, heart rate, and movement data ...
Sinan Sousan, Elizabeth Mizelle, Qiang Wu, Rui Wu, Guy Iverson, Ciprian Popoviciu, Dylan Hemedinger, Eliezer Loyola, Takari Hood, Monica Ramirez, Jo Anne Balanay   +10 more
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Overview of the extent of discrimination in Ireland

, 2013
Irish legislation prohibits discrimination in employment and service provision under nine grounds: age, disability, family status, gender, marital status, race/ethnic group/nationality, religious belief, sexual orientation, and membership of the ...
Vasquez del Aguila, Ernesto, Cantillon, Sara   +1 more
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Developmental and Phenotypic Outcomes in Mild Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Deficiency

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Benign hyperphenylalaninemia (bHPA) is defined as elevated phenylalanine (Phe) levels remaining ≤ 360 μmol/L (6 mg/dL) and not requiring medical intervention. Individuals with bHPA may demonstrate a rise in their Phe levels > 360 μmol/L, effectively developing a mild PKU phenotype requiring therapy to prevent neurocognitive complications. This
Aaron Williams, Kristian Divin, Lindsay C. Burrage, William J. Craigen, Fernando Scaglia, Claudia Soler‐Alfonso, V. Reid Sutton, Kevin E. Glinton, Ronit Marom   +8 more
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The symbolic intersecting ableism and racism scale

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
IntroductionIntersectionality recognizes and maps the ways oppressions interact and intersect for multiply marginalized people. This framework is a pushing back against the historical approach to discrimination that has taken a “single-axis” view of ...
Carli Friedman
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Policies to change attitudes to people with disabilities

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2017
Negative attitudes are a major barrier to the equality of people with disabilities. Governments and other organizations have implemented numerous programmes to change attitudes towards people with disabilities.
Karen R. Fisher, Christiane Purcal
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How disability is conceptualized in individual discrimination complaints

, 2016
This article studies how disabilities are conceptualized and used by citizens when theyreport perceived discrimination associated with disability in Sweden.
Engwall, Kristina,
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“It's Not Deterministic and It Will Never Be Deterministic”: A Qualitative Study on Stakeholder Perspectives of Polygenic Risk Score Testing for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes significant mental and physical distress, yet only a small subset of individuals exposed to trauma develop the disorder. Scientists and clinicians are still unable to predict who will get the disorder or how it will manifest.
Brandy M. Fox
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Disability Discrimination: Obesity and the Court of Justice of the European Union’s decision in Karsten Kaltoft v Billund Kommune Case C-354/13 ECJ [PDF]

, 2016
Walker and Karsten are two important decisions in disability discrimination law – not solely on the basis of their legal and practical repercussions for the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), respectively, but because they capture the very ...
Singh, C.
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A Global Prospective Harmonization Framework for Suicidality, Anhedonia, and Obsessive‐Compulsive Symptoms in Psychiatric Genetic Studies: A Cross‐Continental Study Within the Ancestral Population Network

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to prospectively collect harmonized, quantitative, and dimensional psychiatric phenotypes (suicidality, anhedonia, and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms) and information on discrimination, stigma, and unfair treatment in up to 27,500 individuals across diverse ancestries and clinical populations for genetic analysis within the NIMH
Ana M. Diaz‐Zuluaga, Jacey L. Anderberg, Ana M. Ramirez‐Diaz, Andrea Horvath Marques, Catherine E. Rast, Daniel Bustamante, Deborah Jonker, Johanna Valencia‐Echeverry, Joseph Kyebuzibwa, Josselyn S. Muñoz, Kristien van der Walt, Mauricio Castaño Ramirez, Olivia Wootton, Renee M. Frederick, Rocky E. Stroud II, Ruben Gur, Sang Jin Rhee, Shaili C. Jha, Stella Gichuru, Susan Service, Victor I. Reus, Akena Dickens, Carlos Lopez‐Jaramillo, Carrie E. Bearden, Dan J. Stein, Ezra S. Susser, James J. Crowley, Jonathan Flint, Kenneth S. Kendler, Lukoye Atwoli, Michele T. Pato, Nelson B. Freimer, Roel A. Ophoff, Yong Min Ahn, Loes Olde Loohuis, Eric A. Storch, Bizu Gelaye   +36 more
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Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination [PDF]

Studies of the effects of employment protection frequently examine protective legislation as a whole. From a policy reform perspective, however, it is often critical to know which particular aspect of the legislation is responsible for its observed ...
Christine Jolls, J.J. Prescott
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