This paper reviews 138 empirical quantitative population-based studies of self-reported racism and health. These studies show an association between self-reported racism and ill health for oppressed racial groups after adjustment for a range of confounders. The strongest and most consistent findings are for negative mental health outcomes and health-related behaviours, with weaker associations ...

This empirical research is about strengths-based leadership practices that seek to explore leadership for social justice and equity in New Zealand’s culturally and linguistically diverse educational and social landscape. Similar to the diversity in other countries, where leaders demonstrate culturally responsive leadership practices in their quest to educate diverse democracies. This inquiry ex...

It is the goal of this paper to extend the Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) paradigm, from a practical perspective, to the situation where a natural estimate of the risk is of the form of a K-sample U -statistics, as it is the case in the K-partite ranking problem for instance. Indeed, the numerical computation of the empirical risk is hardly feasible if not infeasible, even for moderate sampl...

Semiempirical molecular orbital calculations have been performed for the first step in the alkaline hydrolysis of the neutral benzoylester of cocaine. Successes, failures, and limitations of these calculations are reviewed. A PM3 calculated transition state structure is compared with the PM3 calculated structure for the hapten used to induce catalytic antibodies for the hydrolysis of cocaine. I...

In statistical learning the excess risk of empirical risk minimization (ERM) is controlled by ( COMPn(F) n )α , where n is a size of a learning sample, COMPn(F) is a complexity term associated with a given class F and α ∈ [ 1 2 , 1] interpolates between slow and fast learning rates. In this paper we introduce an alternative localization approach for binary classification that leads to a novel c...

ACCLAIM's mission is the cultivation of indigenous leadership capacity for the improvement of school mathematics in rural places. The project aims to (1) understand the rural context as it pertains to learning and teaching mathematics and (2) articulate in scholarly works, including empirical research, the meaning and utility of that learning and teaching among, for, and by rural people. 011967...

Micro-blogging has emerged as a powerful social medium in spotlight since Twitter launched in the US in 2006, it has already changed the transmission mode of heterogeneous information, and even the interaction patterns both in human behavior and thoughts. More and more companies have launched micro-blogging marketing to communicate with customers, to achieve brand promotion and to form a gorgeo...

El Niño—Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is regarded as the main driver of phytoplankton inter-annual variability. Remotely sensed surface chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), has made it possible to examine phytoplankton variability at a resolution and scale that allows for the investigation of climate signals such as ENSO. We provide empirical evidence of an immediate and lagged influence of ENSO on SeaWiFS and...