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Examining Needs and Opportunities for Supporting Students Who Experience Discrimination [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Perceived discrimination is common and consequential. Yet, little support is available to ease handling of these experiences. Addressing this gap, we report on a need-finding study to guide us in identifying relevant technologies and their requirements.
arxiv  

Perceived weight discrimination and obesity.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Weight discrimination is prevalent in American society. Although associated consistently with psychological and economic outcomes, less is known about whether weight discrimination is associated with longitudinal changes in obesity.
Angelina R Sutin, Antonio Terracciano
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an understanding of how humans perceive stiffness during bimanual exploration [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
In this paper, an experimental testbed and associated psychophysical paradigm are presented for understanding how people discriminate torsional stiffness using wrist rotation about their forearm. Featured in the testbed are two 1-DoF rotary kinesthetic haptic devices.
arxiv  

Methodological considerations in the study of perceived discrimination at work and its association with workers health and occupational outcomes: A scoping review

open access: yesMedwave
Introduction Perceived workplace discrimination is a complex phenomenon involving unfair treatment in the workplace based on personal characteristics such as age, ethnicity, gender, or disability. The objective of this study is to explore the association
Gonzalo Bravo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceived discrimination among tuberculosis patients in an urban area of Kolkata City, India

open access: yesJournal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2020
Context and Aims: Tuberculosis (TB) in India is a leading public health problem plagued by social determinants such as stigma and discrimination, which may affect treatment seeking, adherence, and possibly treatment outcome.
Sitikantha Banerjee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A One-Shot Texture-Perceiving Generative Adversarial Network for Unsupervised Surface Inspection [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Visual surface inspection is a challenging task owing to the highly diverse appearance of target surfaces and defective regions. Previous attempts heavily rely on vast quantities of training examples with manual annotation. However, in some practical cases, it is difficult to obtain a large number of samples for inspection.
arxiv  

Perceive, Excavate and Purify: A Novel Object Mining Framework for Instance Segmentation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Recently, instance segmentation has made great progress with the rapid development of deep neural networks. However, there still exist two main challenges including discovering indistinguishable objects and modeling the relationship between instances. To deal with these difficulties, we propose a novel object mining framework for instance segmentation.
arxiv  

Perceived Neighborhood Crime Safety Moderates the Association Between Racial Discrimination Stress and Chronic Health Conditions Among Hispanic/Latino Adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Little is known about the link between perceived neighborhood walkability and prevalence of chronic disease. Even less is known regarding this association among Hispanic/Latino adults, despite exhibiting high rates of chronic diseases. Stress
Elizabeth L. Budd   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceived Discrimination and Aggression Among Chinese Migrant Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Previous research has showed that Chinese rural-to-urban migrant adolescents are at high risk for discrimination, negative emotions, and aggression. However, little is known about how discrimination, negative emotions, and aggression are interrelated and
Ruoshan Xiong, Yiwei Xia, Spencer D. Li
doaj   +1 more source

The immunological interface: dendritic cells as key regulators in metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects nearly one‐third of the global population and poses a significant risk of progression to cirrhosis or liver cancer. Here, we discuss the roles of hepatic dendritic cell subtypes in MASLD, highlighting their distinct contributions to disease initiation and progression, and their ...
Camilla Klaimi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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