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Minimum-Weight Edge Discriminators in Hypergraphs [PDF]
The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2014 In this paper we introduce the notion of minimum-weight edge-discriminators in hypergraphs, and study their various properties. For a hypergraph $\mathcal H=(\mathcal V, \mathscr E)$, a function $\lambda: \mathcal V\rightarrow \mathbb Z^{+}\cup\{0\}$ is said to be an edge-discriminator on $\mathcal H$ if $\sum_{v\in E_i}{\lambda(v)}>0$, for all ...
Bhattacharya, Bhaswar B +2 more
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Attitudes of Medical Professionals Towards Discrimination of Patients with Obesity
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2021 Krzysztof Sobczak, Katarzyna Leoniuk Department of Sociology of Medicine and Social Pathology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, PolandCorrespondence: Krzysztof Sobczak Email krzysztof.sobczak@gumed.edu.plPurpose: Many studies show that ...
Sobczak K, Leoniuk K
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People with excess body weight and weight discrimination in the labour market
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2020 This article addresses issues associated with the perception of obesity and being overweight in the labour market, and the issue of weight discrimination. Excess body weight has become a very serious social problem.
Martyna Krogulec
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Eating disorder symptoms (EDs) have been discussed as a prominent problem among late adolescent girls with serious health risks and long-term consequences.
Caroline Cohrdes +3 more
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Weighted Distance Weighted Discrimination and Its Asymptotic Properties [PDF]
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2010 While Distance Weighted Discrimination (DWD) is an appealing approach to classification in high dimensions, it was designed for balanced datasets. In the case of unequal costs, biased sampling, or unbalanced data, there are major improvements available, using appropriately weighted versions of DWD (wDWD).
Qiao, Xingye +4 more
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Canadian Journal of Law and SocietyCet article examine la problématique de la grossophobie en discutant de ses racines comme de ses impacts sur les personnes qui en sont victimes ainsi que sa manifestation au sein du droit.
Josiane Rioux Collin +1 more
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Pervasiveness, impact and implications of weight stigma
EClinicalMedicine, 2022 Summary: Evidence has accumulated to demonstrate the pervasiveness, impact and implications of weight stigma. As such, there is a need for concerted efforts to address weight stigma and discrimination that is evident within, policy, healthcare, media ...
Adrian Brown +2 more
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Obesity, Weight Stigma and Discrimination [PDF]
Journal of Obesity & Eating Disorders, 2016 Rises in obesity prevalence over recent decades have corresponded with increasing stigmatisation of, and discrimination against, individuals living with obesity. Widespread stereotypes characterise people with obesity as lazy, less competent, lacking in self-discipline, non-compliant, sloppy, and worthless.
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Distribution of perceived weight stigma and its psychological impact on obese people in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2023 Background: Worldwide, obesity prevalence has nearly tripled since 1975, with about 13% of adults being obese and about 39% overweight. Overweight and obese persons are vulnerable to frequent stigmatization and discrimination because of their weight, an ...
Wafi F Albalawi +7 more
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Young adults' BMI and changes in romantic relationship status during the first semester of college.
PLoS ONE, 2020 PurposeIdentify how higher Body Mass Index (BMI) and weight discrimination are associated with romantic relationship formation and termination in young adults, and if the association was consistent for males and females.MethodsFirst-year students (N ...
Irene van Woerden +5 more
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