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Is Primatology an equal-opportunity discipline? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2012
The proportion of women occupying academic positions in biological sciences has increased in the past few decades, but women are still under-represented in senior academic ranks compared to their male colleagues. Primatology has been often singled out as
Addessi E, Borgi M, Palagi E.
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Equal Opportunity Interference: Both L1 and L2 Influence L3 Morpho-Syntactic Processing. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2021
We investigated cross-language influences from the first (L1) and second (L2) languages in third (L3) language processing, to examine how order of acquisition and proficiency modulate the degree of cross-language influences, and whether these cross ...
Abbas N, Degani T, Prior A.
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Medical students' experiences with sexual discrimination and perceptions of equal opportunity: a pilot study in Germany. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Med Educ, 2020
Background Data is available on sexual discrimination and subjective perceptions of equal opportunity in medical education for many countries. Surveys focussing on sexual harassment have not yet been conducted at German medical schools. Methods A student
Jendretzky K   +3 more
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Equal opportunity for all. [PDF]

open access: yesEMBO J, 2012
By sequencing tens of millions of TCRα transcripts from naive mouse CD8 + T cells, Genolet et al (2012) show that the TCRα repertoire is at least as diverse as the TCRβ repertoire. This overturns a long held view in the field that recombination of the Tcra locus occurs in a co‐ordinate sequential bidirectional manner that relies on proximity of Vα
Chaumeil J, Skok JA.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Enabling Equal Opportunity in Logistic Regression Algorithm

open access: yesManagement, 2023
Research Question: This paper aims at adjusting the logistic regression algorithm to mitigate unwanted discrimination shown towards race, gender, etc. Motivation: Decades of research in the field of algorithm design have been dedicated to making a better
Sandro Radovanović, Marko Ivić
doaj   +1 more source

L’égalité des chances à l’épreuve de la massification à l’université Omar Bongo de Libreville. Du discours politique à la réalité de l’offre universitaire

open access: yesÉducation et Socialisation, 2022
This contribution is intended to test the rhetoric of equal opportunity at Omar Bongo University in Libreville with regard to the conditions of study and life of students.
Dany Daniel Bekale
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Gender equality and equal opportunity mechanisms in Italy [PDF]

open access: yesTemida, 2007
As a country of Southern European mentality Italy may be taken as the nearest-to-the-Balkans model of the gender equality mechanisms and necessity of their existence. Italy also might be taken as a model of domain and methods of functioning of the gender
Mršević Zorica
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Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities which are unfair and should be compensated.
Peragine, Vito, Ferreira, Francisco H.G.
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Disability in Higher Education: Explanations and Legitimisation from Teachers at Leipzig University

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2018
In 2009, Germany ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) and committed itself to allow for “the full and effective participation [of people with disabilities] in society” (United Nations, 2006, §3), especially in ...
Robert Aust
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling Equal Opportunity

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016
We examine the themes of equal opportunity, intergenerational mobility, and inequality. We address the normative and definitional questions of selecting measures of mobility and summarize the current state of intergenerational mobility in the United ...
Isabel V. Sawhill, Richard V. Reeves
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