Essays about: "Ethnicities"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 56 essays containing the word Ethnicities.

  1. 21. Youth workers experiences of how adolescence in the suburbs can be included in society

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för pedagogik och lärande (PEL)

    Author : Anna Abou Abboud; [2020]
    Keywords : youth worker; youth; segregation; risk factor; protection factor; suburb; Fritidsledare; exkludering; utanförskap; förorten; ungdomar; inkludering; diskriminering; skyddsfaktor; riskfaktor;

    Abstract : The purpose of the study is to increase knowledge about leisure leaders' experiences of and opportunities to counteract exclusion and crime among young people in socially disadvantaged suburban areas, and what risk and protection factors they perceive to be important for exclusion and crime. The study is of a qualitative method based on hermeneutic theory of science. READ MORE

  3. 22. Early Stratification of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) by building and evaluating machine learning models

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Vibhor Sharma; [2020]
    Keywords : GDM; machine learning algorithms; binary classification; treebased models; XGBoost; performance metrics;

    Abstract : Gestational diabetes Mellitus (GDM), a condition involving abnormal levels of glucose in the blood plasma has seen a rapid surge amongst the gestating mothers belonging to different regions and ethnicities around the world. Cur- rent method of screening and diagnosing GDM is restricted to Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT). READ MORE

  4. 23. Perceiving Terrorism: A survey experiment about how Swedish students define terrorism based on the perpetrator’s ethnicity

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Niklas von Mentzer Marcev; [2019-02-20]
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    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to analyze how students perceive the concept of terrorism based on the ethnicity ascribed to the perpetrator. Studies conducted in the US have shown that the public defines political violence differently depending on the language used to describe the event, white perpetrators are more often called mass shooters while perpetrators of other ethnicities are more frequently called terrorists. READ MORE

  5. 24. Ethnic Discrimination in London’s Housing Market – Are Bangladeshi women worse off applying for housing compared to White women?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Matilda Fredholm; Sonja Stanicic; [2019-02-15]
    Keywords : Taste-based discrimination; Statistical discrimination; London housing market; Bangladeshi; Correspondence testing design; Ethnic discrimination;

    Abstract : This study investigates ethnic discrimination for sublets in London’s rental housing market. By applying an experimental design, four female fictitious characters were created to apply for housing advertisements on the website Gumtree. READ MORE

  6. 25. The perceptions of young South Africans to the land reform : -A qualitative study of young people in Stellenbosch

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Julia Nilsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Land reform; South Africa; Stellenbosch; Relative deprivation theory; Inequality; Historical injustices; Redistribution of land;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine the opinions of the land reform by the young population in Stellenbosch, South Africa. So far, the land reform that was implemented already in 1994, has not proven to be effective on the country’s huge inequality of land ownership between the black and white population. READ MORE