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Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yesACL 2020, 2020
Building equitable and inclusive NLP technologies demands consideration of whether and how social attitudes are represented in ML models. In particular, representations encoded in models often inadvertently perpetuate undesirable social biases from the data on which they are trained. In this paper, we present evidence of such undesirable biases towards
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Meeting the home-care needs of disabled older persons living in the community: does integrated services delivery make a difference?

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2011
BackgroundThe PRISMA Model is an innovative coordination-type integrated-service-delivery (ISD) network designed to manage and better match resources to the complex and evolving needs of elders.
N. Dubuc   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Breaking barriers for people with voice disabilities: Combining virtual keyboards with speech synthesizers, and VoIP applications [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2006
Text-to-speech technology has been broadly used to help people with voice disabilities to overcome their difficulties. With text-to-speech, a person types at a keyboard, the text is synthesized, and the sound comes out through the computer speakers.
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TELEWORK ORGANIZATION MODEL AS METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT OF DISABLED PERSONS’ EMPLOYMENT QUALITY

open access: yes, 2010
Problem of employment for disabled persons is partly connected with permanent changes and technical achievements in labour market. Telework in particular circumstances creates for disabled persons positive opportunity of choice.
Tatjana Bilevičienė   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Income differences between disabled and non-disabled; Age-, cohort- or period effects?

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
This article compares the income distribution among disabled and non-disabled persons in Norway. Based on the level of living surveys covering the period from 1980 to 1995, the analysis shows a large and increasing income gap between the two groups.
Jan-Inge Hanssen, Trond Bliksvær
doaj   +1 more source

Exercise training upregulates CD55 to suppress complement-mediated synaptic phagocytosis in Parkinson’s disease

open access: yesJournal of Neuroinflammation
The primary pathological change in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Additionally, excessive microglial activation and synaptic loss are also typical features observed in PD samples.
Hongkai Yao   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disability for HIV and Disincentives for Health: The Impact of South Africa's Disability Grant on HIV/AIDS Recovery [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
South Africa's disability grants program is tied to its HIV/AIDS recovery program, such that individuals who are ill enough may qualify. Qualification is historically tied to a CD4 count of 200 cells/mm3, which improve when a person adheres to antiretroviral therapy.
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Mental health and psychiatry in Japan

open access: yesBJPsych International
Mental health services in Japan are fully integrated into the broader healthcare system, and patients have access to a wide range of services and specialists.
Kanna Sugiura   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Refund of Social Insurance Contributions of Disabled Persons Conducting Non-agricultural Economic Activity

open access: yesPrawo Budżetowe Państwa i Samorządu, 2014
Disabled persons conducting non-agricultural economic activity may apply for the refund of social insurance contributions from the State Fund for Rehabilitation of the Disabled Persons.
Marzena Szabłowska-Juckiewicz
doaj   +1 more source

Disability data futures: Achievable imaginaries for AI and disability data justice [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Data are the medium through which individuals' identities and experiences are filtered in contemporary states and systems, and AI is increasingly the layer mediating between people, data, and decisions. The history of data and AI is often one of disability exclusion, oppression, and the reduction of disabled experience; left unchallenged, the current ...
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