LGBT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: SOCIAL WORK AND THE FIGHT AGAINST THE LGBTPHOBIC DISCOURSE OF “GAY CURE” by Leonardo Mozdzenski, Albert de Albuquerque

“…More particularly, this study turns its attention to the rhetorical appeals of ethos and pathos observed in those statements that were favorable to the proposition of therapies for sexual (re)orientation ("gay cure"), thus reproducing the hate speech, stigmatization and discrimination against the human rights of the members of the gender and sexuality diverse community. …”
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The development and validation of a C-test and a pseudo-character test for online CFL assessment by Yang Xuan, Osborne Caitríona

“…Then, based on the test results collected from 53 university learners and using statistical tools, analyses were conducted on its content validity, construct validity, criterion-related validity, difficulty, discrimination power, and reliability. Results indicate that this new achievement test has relatively satisfactory reliability and validity, with only minor issues that need to be addressed in future studies. …”
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Sikh Community Between Integration and Assimilation: A Case Study of Belgium by Muhammad Usman Ali

“…The research identifies various challenges, including the preservation of identity, experiences of discrimination, and the effects of Belgium’s integration policies on the community. …”
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Kjøpesentervakthold: Privatisering av kontroll? by Mette Irmgard Snertingdal

“…I explore two such consequences: Social discrimination and new social needs brought into focus. …”
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Recherche d’indices lexicosyntaxiques de segmentation et de liage par une analyse automatique de corpus by Yves Bestgen

“…The most useful indices for discrimination are for the most part interpretable in the context of the linguistic theory on segmentation and linking marks. …”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…Both reflect the debates within lesbian feminist groups, the tensions between lesbian and straight feminists, and the strategies that can be deployed in the face of discrimination. They create utopian (Bechdel) and dystopian (DiMassa) universes that parallel and question contemporary US realities. …”
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Multiscale Feature Learning Based on Enhanced Feature Pyramid for Vehicle Detection by Hoanh Nguyen

“…To generate more discriminative feature representations, this paper introduces multilayer enhancement module to reweight feature representations of feature maps generated by the backbone network to increase the discrimination of foreground objects and background regions in each feature map. …”
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WORKPLACE GENDER INEQUALITY: ASSESSING INTERSECTIONAL BARRIERS EXPERIENCED BY WOMEN OF COLOUR IN REACHING UPPER MANAGEMENT POSITIONS IN THE WORKPLACE by IFEOMA CLARE OKORONTA, DYMYTRO KYLYMNYUK

“…The findings show that women of colour - Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Black or African women, face unique challenges due to the double jeopardy of experiencing gender and racial discrimination simultaneously, which can hinder their progression to upper management positions and they are significantly underrepresented in senior leadership positions. …”
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Consent to tattooing by Radulović Srđan

“…Copyright restrictions, health and safety concerns, licensing and even discrimination issues (to name just a few) have drawn special attention of legislators and legal experts. …”
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Kualitas Pelayanan Pajak Kendaraan Bermotor Pada Kantor Sistem Administrasi Manunggal Satu Atap Putri Hijau Medan Utara by Fadlan Minallah, Lusiana Andariani Lubis, Nurman Achmad

“…Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the service quality of the Motor Vehicle Tax (PKB) at the SAMSAT Putri Hijau can be assessed from five dimensions, namely Tangibel, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, and Emphaty, however, there are several indicators. which have not been fulfilled properly, such as regarding the comfort of the place of storage and the existence of discrimination or prioritizing relatives in the motor vehicle tax collection process.…”
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Flow Cytometric Immunophenotyping of Mature Lymphatic Neoplasias Using Knowledge Guided Cluster Analysis by Stefan Barlage, Gregor Rothe, Ruth Knuechel, Gerd Schmitz

“…Flow cytometry is widely used for the immunological characterization of hematopoietic malignancies. Discrimination of normal and malignant cellular immunophenotypes is the most critical step in data analysis, especially if multi‐color analysis is performed on highly heterogenous cell suspensions. …”
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Development of a Multi-DOF Electromyography Prosthetic System Using the Adaptive Joint Mechanism by A. Hernandez Arieta, R. Katoh, H. Yokoi, Y. Wenwei

“…The other subject is the recognition of the EMG signal. For the discrimination of many patterns and nonlinear properties of the EMG signal, we propose a controller based on a simple pattern recognition information process. …”
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L’insertion professionnelle des personnes en situation de handicap issues de l’enseignement postsecondaire : une étude de la portée by Ruth Philion, Jesse Schnobb, Isabelle St-Pierre, Josée Grenier, Christiane Bergeron-Leclerc, Audrey Le Tellier, Caroline St-Jacques, Simon Bouisset

“…With 35 scientific articles, this scoping review reveals, among other things, discrimination issues expressed by four main categories of obstacles to professional integration of people with disabilities. …”
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FACTORS AFFECTING WOMEN’S ENROLLMENT IN CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION IN NIGERIA by Joshua Oluwasuji DADA

“…The results validate the fact that women were not at the fore front and their impact on or participation in construction sector is not been felt. Gender discrimination was also revealed as one of the problems confronting the very few women in the sector. …”
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Application of Common Components Analysis to Mid-Infrared Spectra for the Authentication of Lebanese Honey by Rita El Hajj, Wadih Skaff, Nathalie Estephan

“…In addition, honey samples collected from the Bekaa plain region were differentiated from the other honey samples collected from all the other Lebanese geographical regions. This discrimination between the groups of honey samples is based essentially on their sugar composition.…”
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APPLICATION OF COMPRESSIVE SENSING AND IMPROVED DEEP WAVELET NEURAL NETWORK IN BEARING FAULT DIAGNOSIS by DU XiaoLei, CHEN ZhiGang, ZHANG Nan, XU Xu

“…Finally,unsupervised pre-training of DWNN was performed using a large amount of unlabeled compressed data and supervised and fine-tuned with a small amount of tagged data to realize fault discrimination. The experimental results show that the method can effectively identify the bearings with multiple fault types and multiple fault severities,which is less affected by prior knowledge and subjective knowledge and avoids complex artificial feature extraction process. …”
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Orientalist Encounters at School: Security and Inclusion in the Education of Syrian Refugee Children in Istanbul by Şule Can Sayar, Taha Baran

“…Second, this study examines the roles that ethno-religious and political identities play in relations between teachers and refugee students by focusing on ethno-religious identity and discrimination. Drawing on the debates on orientalism and securitization in migration, it explicates the ways in which teachers justify their judgments and impressions of the refugee students through orientalist codes. …”
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Credit Index Screening Model of Family Farms and Family Ranches Based on Fuzzy Bayesian Theory of Depth Weighting by Zhanjiang Li, Qinjin Zhang

“…Second, based on the insensitive characteristic of ROC curve to skewness samples, the depth weighting of characteristic indexes in nondefault, low default and high-default states was completed by constructing multiclassification ROC curve, which solved the practical problem of sample imbalance in different default states of family farms and ranches, and selected the index system with significant discrimination ability for default states by integrating default identification ability.…”
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The Implications of Non-Domestication of Kampala Convention to the Protection of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria by Tasiu Magaji

“…However, the convention has not been domesticated into Nigerian law, leaving IDPs particularly vulnerable to extreme challenges such as forced displacement, loss of shelter and assets and discrimination. Using a qualitative research approach where primary and secondary data are utilized. …”
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Dose-Dependent Differentiation of Gamma-Irradiated Hazelnut Samples by Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy Coupled with Chemometrics by Ayca Dogan, Mete Severcan, Feride Severcan

“…Furthermore, dose-dependent discrimination was also achieved. In conclusion, FTIR spectroscopy combined with multivariate statistical analysis has potential for the development of a reliable and fast methodology for separation of high-dose irradiated food samples.…”
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