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Language, Culture and Maternity Care: '‘Troubling’ Interpretation in an Institutional Context'
This article analyses language interpretation in the context of maternity health care. By scrutinising how maternity health care staff reflects upon their experiences from the everyday institutional setting, the article shows that they are caught between
Anna Bredström, Sabine Gruber
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Potts-like model for ghetto formation in multi-cultural societies [PDF]
In a Potts-like model of $Q$ ethnic groups, we follow Schelling (1971) and Meyer-Ortmanns (2003) and simulate the formation of ethnic ghettos as well as their prevention by an increasing social temperature.
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IndoFashion : Apparel Classification for Indian Ethnic Clothes [PDF]
Cloth categorization is an important research problem that is used by e-commerce websites for displaying correct products to the end-users. Indian clothes have a large number of clothing categories both for men and women. The traditional Indian clothes like "Saree" and "Dhoti" are worn very differently from western clothes like t-shirts and jeans ...
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Ethnicity and the Multicultural City: Living with Diversity
In the wake of the race disturbances in Oldham, Burnley, and Bradford in Summer 2001, the author explores the possibilities for intercultural understanding and dialogue.
A. Amin
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Race/Ethnicity and Arts Participation: Findings from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts [PDF]
This report analyzes data from the 1982, 1985, 1992, 2002, and 2008 Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). Analyses focus on differential arts participation by race/ethnicity and the effect of race/ethnicity on arts participation ...
Vincent Welch, Yonghyun Kim
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Family Socioeconomic Status at Birth and Youth Impulsivity at Age 15; Blacks’ Diminished Return
Minorities’ Diminished Return theory suggests that health effects of socioeconomic status (SES) are systemically smaller for racial and ethnic minorities compared to Whites.
Shervin Assari+2 more
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Gender Differences in Abuse: The Case of Dutch Politicians on Twitter [PDF]
Online abuse and threats towards politicians have become a significant concern in the Netherlands, like in many other countries across the world. This paper analyses gender differences in abuse received by Dutch politicians on Twitter, while taking into account the possible additional impact of ethnic minority status.
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Abstract Purpose To promote diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), an educational presentation and hands‐on session was organised to raise awareness of STEM career opportunities among high school girls to introduce the students to the field of medical physics. Materials and Methods The study involved 65 first‐year Senior
Afua A. Yorke+7 more
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This article examines the emergence of new forms of Islam in Britain between the 1990s and the present, and in particular the role played by the New Labour government (1997–2010) in encouraging new expressions of Islam.
Stephen H. Jones
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Unequal Gain of Equal Resources across Racial Groups [PDF]
The health effects of economic resources (eg, education, employment, and living place) and psychological assets (eg, self-efficacy, perceived control over life, anger control, and emotions) are well-known. This article summarizes the results of a growing
Shervin Assari
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