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Where is the Digital Divide?: A Survey of Security, Privacy, and Socioeconomics
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017The behavior of the least-secure user can influence security and privacy outcomes for everyone else. Thus, it is important to understand the factors that influence the security and privacy of a broad variety of people. Prior work has suggested that users
Elissa M. Redmiles +2 more
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, 2018
Despite widespread perceptions of elite US sport as meritocratic, there is little empirical research on the social origins of those who play college and professional sports in the US or how these vary by race.
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Despite widespread perceptions of elite US sport as meritocratic, there is little empirical research on the social origins of those who play college and professional sports in the US or how these vary by race.
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2011
Publisher Summary The choice of energy systems is a product of historical development, of prevailing social value systems, and often of the role of influential individuals from various layers of society: political decision-makers, industrialists, or intellectual figures. This chapter presents the tools available for analysis and comparative assessment
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Publisher Summary The choice of energy systems is a product of historical development, of prevailing social value systems, and often of the role of influential individuals from various layers of society: political decision-makers, industrialists, or intellectual figures. This chapter presents the tools available for analysis and comparative assessment
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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2016
For students and schools, the current policy is to measure success via standardized testing. Yet the immutable factors of socioeconomic status (SES) and race have, consistently, been implicated in fostering an achievement gap. The current study explores,
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For students and schools, the current policy is to measure success via standardized testing. Yet the immutable factors of socioeconomic status (SES) and race have, consistently, been implicated in fostering an achievement gap. The current study explores,
Gwyne W. White +6 more
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Socioeconomics of biodiversity conservation in the protected areas: a case study in Bangladesh
, 2017Kaptai National Park (KNP) was declared a protected area (PA) in 1999 to protect its degrading biodiversity. This created conflicts between the forest-dependent communities and the KNP managers since in a PA everything is prohibited unless permitted. For
M. M. Rahman +2 more
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Associations between school absence and academic achievement: Do socioeconomics matter?
, 2017This study examined the extent to which the association between increased student absence and lower achievement outcomes varied by student and school-level socioeconomic characteristics.
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SOCIOECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF DYSMENORRHEA
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 1979Abstract. Dysmenorrhea constitutes only a small fraction of the causes of absence from work among women of childbearing age. Nevertheless, every second woman in two Norwegian industrial companies experienced pain during menstruation and one in three had to stay in bed at least one day per month.
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Socioeconomic Biological Weapons
Science, 2001The addition of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus to the list of potential biological weapons agents in the draft of the Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ([1][1]) highlights changing perceptions of what is a biological weapon.
Johannes Rath, Jochen L Bürgel
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2007
The past two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity in the US population. Although increasing obesity was observed in every sociodemographic group, at every point in time groups with lower education, African Americans and Native Americans, and women in lower income households had higher rates of obesity and related chronic ...
Yuhua Bao, Roland Sturm
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The past two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity in the US population. Although increasing obesity was observed in every sociodemographic group, at every point in time groups with lower education, African Americans and Native Americans, and women in lower income households had higher rates of obesity and related chronic ...
Yuhua Bao, Roland Sturm
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Socioeconomic deprivation and burns
Burns, 2010Burns are a complex phenomenon with multiple interactive factors. Age, ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation have been identified in the literature as important determinants of this form of injury.The primary objective of this study was to undertake a descriptive analysis of the socioeconomic factors associated with burn injuries in New Zealand. This
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