SRG Action: Impact/Priority Score: 30 Human Subjects: 30-Human subjects involved Certified, no SRG concerns Animal Subjects: 30-Vertebrate animals involved no SRG concerns noted Gender: 3A-Only men, scientifically acceptable Minority: 1A-Minorities and non-minorities, scientifically acceptable Children: 1A-Both Children and Adults, scientifically acceptable Clinical Research not NIH-defined Pha...

The study aims to examine the livelihood of Sambalpuri handloom weavers Western Odisha, India. By using primary field survey data and analysing both qualitative quantitative data, it presents socio-economic conditions weavers. A binary choice model is used analyse analysis shows that although price product quite high, almost all are not satisfied with amount emoluments they receive. middleman p...

OBJECTIVE To understand if patient-provider race-concordance is associated with improved health outcomes for minorities. DESIGN A comprehensive review of published research literature (1980-2008) using MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, and CINAHL databases were conducted. Studies were included if they had at least one research question examining the effect of patient-provider race-concordance on minority ...

The recruitment of respondents belonging to ethnic minorities poses important challenges in social and health research. This paper reflects on the enablers and barriers to recruitment that we encountered in our research work with persons belonging to ethnic minorities. Additionally, we applied the Matching Model of Recruitment, a theoretical framework concerning minority recruitment, to guide o...

Although there is a growing support for the use of psychedelics to improve health marginalized groups, are some critical gaps. First, no empirical studies have examined effects on Black Americans. Second, little research population psychedelics. Third, has tested how cultural set and setting may affect relationship between health. Specifically, could economic inequality or criminal justice syst...

This paper reports results from social learning experiments where subjects choose between two options and each subject has a small chance of being perfectly informed about which option is correct. In treatment “sequence,” subjects observe the entire sequence of predecessors’ choices while in treatment “no-sequence” they only observe the number of times each option has been chosen. The theoretic...