Members of racial/ethnic minority groups have a lower lifetime prevalence than have Whites of mental disorders, a risk factor for suicide attempts; paradoxically, however, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) ethnic minority youths may be at increased risk for suicide attempts relative to White LGB youths. We found that the increased risk of suicide attempts among racial/ethnic minority LGB respond...

This study explores two reasons for why and when firm innovation may not benefit from the presence of foreign technocrats in top management teams, who represent a ‘minority-in- minority’ status due to their membership minority sub-groups (foreigners technology experts). First, face greater social barriers exert human capital because minority-in-minority brings about twice as much pressure major...

The B–Mode of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP) promises to detect the gravitational wave background left by Inflation and explore this very early period of the Universe. In spite of its importance, however, the cosmic signal is tiny and can be severely limited by astrophysical foregrounds. In this contribution we discuss about one of the main contaminant, the diffuse synchrot...

BACKGROUND In the UK, all ethnic minority groups have higher rates of diabetes than the general population. Although there have been a number of projects to assess diabetic care amongst minority ethnic groups in the United Kingdom, little is known about the extent to which the needs of ethnic minority groups are actually met by the National Health Service (NHS) Scotland. Therefore we conducted ...

CONTEXT People from racial minority backgrounds report less trust in their doctors and have poorer health outcomes. Although these deficiencies have multiple roots, one important set of explanations involves racial bias, which may be non-conscious, on the part of providers, and minority patients' fears that they will be treated in a biased way. Here, we focus on one mechanism by which this bias...

This study uses a multivariate analysis to evaluate the housing and neighborhood characteristics that predict the residential choices made by non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Puerto Rican, and other Hispanic mover households in New York City from 1978 to 1987. This study evaluates minority housing choices in a multigroup context, rather than in a two-group context that implicitly assumes...

In the words of Gary Doern, Ph.D., a colleague, collaborator, and friend, “Few people have made more significant and lasting contributions to the field of clinical microbiology than has Jim Jorgensen, not only as a dedicated practitioner but also as an extremely productive researcher, an uncommonly effective educator, a broad reaching author, and a lifelong advocate for the discipline.” Such se...

How do frequently stigmatized individuals feel about and respond to members of other potentially stigmatizable groups? Four studies demonstrated that perceptions of majority group norms regarding prejudice expression can shape how minority individuals respond to minority individuals from other groups. Study 1 revealed that Black and White men and women have somewhat different perceptions of Whi...

The study examines the association between ethnic-cultural identity and role perception among youth workers (YW) who work with at-risk adolescents in Israel of three minority groups—Arabs, immigrants from CIS, Ethiopia. four acculturation strategies—assimilation, integration, separation, marginalization, manifest an individual’s emphasize preservation culture willingness to adapt components maj...