T he U.S. government reports on minority business ownership as part of the regular economic census performed every 5 years in years ending in 2 or 7. For the purposes of this census, minority-owned businesses are all those not owned by nonminority (Caucasian) business owners. By this definition, minority-owned businesses make up approximately 15% of all U.S. firms. Between 1992 and 1997, minori...

Knowledge extraction from data streams has received increasing interest in recent years. However, most of the existing studies assume that the class distribution of data streams is relatively balanced. The reaction of concept drifts is more difficult if a data stream is class imbalanced. Current oversampling methods generally selectively absorb the previously received minority examples into the...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To describe the ethnic and demographic composition of staff and patients on acute psychiatric wards in England. BACKGROUND A significant proportion of the UK population (7.6%) belong to an ethnic minority and there are concerns that ethnic minority patients are not well served by psychiatry, in particular that they are subject to excessive force and coercion. DESIGN Surv...

OBJECTIVE Sexual minority girls (lesbian/bisexual) and girls with overweight/obesity experience high rates of discrimination and mental distress. This study explored whether BMI or perceived weight status might compound sexual minority girls' risk for harassment and mental distress. METHODS Data on female students from the national 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (n = 7,006) were analyzed. Lo...

Previous research established that norms describing the behaviour of a majority (e.g. 'many people consume too much alcohol') can have ironic and unwanted effects on health behaviour. To date, no research has addressed the effects of minority descriptive norms (e.g. 'only few people use sunscreen'), while such minority norms are frequently communicated to the public. The current studies investi...