Bronx Health REACH is a coalition of 40 community-and faith-based organizations founded in 1999 that is focused on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities in the southwest Bronx. As part of its community education effort, the coalition produced a video, titled Voices for Health Equality, which depicts the reality of health disparities from the perspective of both community members and ...

Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender equality in educational achievement. There are several and very recent international s...

This paper provides a lexical entry schema for exclusives covering the adverbs only, just, exclusively, merely, purely, solely, simply, and the adjectives only, sole, pure, exclusive and alone. We argue, on the basis of inter-paraphrasability relations among these exclusives and entailments involving at least and at most, that all of these items make an at-issue contribution of an upper bound o...

The language Prolog has been extended by allowing the in­ clusion of assertions about equality. When a unification of two terms that do not unify syntactically is attempted, an equality theorem may be used to prove the two terms equal. If it is possible to prove that the two terms are equal the unification succeeds with the variable bindings introduced by the equality proof. It is shown that th...

The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics feminist peer support in context online chat counseling. Based on 15 interviews with female lay supporters associated a branch Swedish women's shelter movement targeting young women, we explore how digital setting—characterized by distance and anonymity—affects meaning doing support. Our results show that core principles support—striving f...