alongside national minorities, who raise similar demands. ~ a n g u a ~ e rights are commonly defined as rights that protect the use of particular languages, namely one's mother tongue or native language.' Language rights are regarded as minority rights because in a heterogeneous linguistic society, it is only the minority groups whose language requires legal protection. As opposed to members o...

Marked disparities in health indicators exist between White men and racial/ethnic minority men in the United States. These disparities begin early in life and persist through the life course until advanced ages. Not only do minority men have poor outcomes across a broad variety of health conditions when compared with White men, but they are also less likely to interact and engage with the healt...

In this paper, we review two different determinations of the minority impurity scattering in silicon. We show that an improper determination of minority impurity scattering can lead to potential errors in the modeling of carrier mobilities in compensated silicon. Early experimental results show that the effect of minority impurities may be underestimated in Klaassen’s commonly used model.

Human Resource Management, Winter 2002, Vol. 41, No. 4, Pp. 405–421 © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/hrm.10051 Correspondence to: Raymond A. Friedman, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, 401 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN; telephone: 615-322-3992; e-mail: [email protected] For...

OBJECTIVE To explore the prevalence rates of disabilities among the ethnic minority people in China. METHODS Utilizing stratified, multiphase, and cluster probability sampling design, 2 526 145 persons were investigated and screened by trained interviewers, including 297 761 persons with ethnic minority backgrounds. Respondents scoring positive for potential problems were referred to physicia...

IN A QUALITATIVE STUDY, the researchers documented the perceptions of deaf and hearing ethnically diverse university faculty and staff regarding issues related to the education of ethnic-minority deaf college students. These experienced educators commented on the importance of ethnic-minority role models for deaf college students, the academic preparedness of ethnic-minority deaf students, thes...

Abstract Introduction Peyronie’s disease (PD) is a fibrotic of the penile corpora leading to curvature. PD prevalent in up 9% males, but epidemiological and demographic data not well understood. Prior studies suggest primarily impacts older, white, non-Hispanic males; however, this likely due population homogeneity those studies. Our tertiary care center serves unique, Hispanic minority-majorit...

K nowledge of the image of minority nurses that is projected to the public via the mass media is crucial to the advancement of these groups. To determine the image of minorities in nursing as it was expressed in American newspapers in 1978, we asked the following questions: • Where and to what extent are minority nurse groups made visible to the public through the newspapers? • To what extent d...