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Fairness Testing: Testing Software for Discrimination [PDF]
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE, 2017 This paper defines software fairness and discrimination and develops a testing-based method for measuring if and how much software discriminates, focusing on causality in discriminatory behavior. Evidence of software discrimination has been found in modern software systems that recommend criminal sentences, grant access to financial products, and ...
Sainyam Galhotra, Yuriy Brun, A. Meliou
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Perceptions of Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Domestic Violence Among Undergraduates in Sweden [PDF]
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2013 An experimental study of perceptions about gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence in Sweden. Undergraduate students (N = 1009) read one of eight fictitious scenarios of domestic violence in married couple relationships, where sexual orientation,
Ali M. Ahmed +2 more
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Genealogy, 2022 International adoptions have rarely been studied from the angle of racial mixedness in France, as opposed to the way the adoption debate is shaped in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Solène Brun
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Anti-Racism at the United Nations
AJIL Unbound, 2023 Racial injustice and inequality remain contested internationally, and the United Nations remains a prominent site for this contestation. In this essay, we describe the architecture designated by the United Nations to address racism, racial discrimination,
E. Tendayi Achiume, Gay McDougall
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Anthropology & Aging, 2023 In this article we comparatively explore experiences and notions of retirement in two ethnographic sites of Milan, Italy, and Yaoundé, Cameroon, by paying attention to how grandparenting is perceived and practiced in relation to kinship roles and ...
Shireen Walton, Patrick Awondo
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Nepal’s Gender Policies: Achievements and Challenges
Nepal Public Policy Review, 2021 Nepal has experienced extraordinary political and social changes in the last 25 years. Since the Constituent Assembly (CA) election in 2008, progress has been noted in increasing women’s access to literacy, education, and healthcare services.
Bandana Rana, Samiksha Koirala
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AJIL Unbound, 2021 It is the core and intended function of borders to discriminate. Descriptively, their purpose is to differentiate or distinguish among different categories of persons, sorting those who may enter and belong from those who may not.
E. Tendayi Achiume
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Hostile, Benevolent, Implicit: How Different Shades of Sexism Impact Gendered Policy Attitudes
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 Advances in gender equality and progressive policies are often stymied by cultural sexist systems and individual-level sexist attitudes. These attitudes are pervasive but vary in type—from benevolent to hostile and implicit to explicit. Understanding the
Claire Gothreau +2 more
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Modular forms for the Weil representation induced from isotropic subgroups [PDF]
J. Number Theory 263 (2024), 206-233, 2023 For an isotropic subgroup $H$ of a discriminant form $D$ there exists a lift from modular forms for the Weil representation of the discriminant form $H^\bot/H$ to modular forms for the Weil representation of $D$. We determine a set of discriminant forms such that all modular forms for any discriminant form are induced from the discriminant forms in ...
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The invisible victim in criminal policy
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2022 The ideology behind the Finnish criminal policy is described as humane and rational. In line with this policy, efforts are made to reduce the use of the criminal justice system to solve societal problems.
Heini Kainulainen +2 more
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