Identity and Racial Harassment In a 1996 survey of U.S. military personnel, more than 65 percent experienced racially offensive behavior, and approximately one-in-ten reported threatening incidents or careerrelated racial discrimination. Perceived racial harassment is driven by social classifications that extend beyond racial group membership. While race clearly matters, there is also diversity...

Background Civic identity is considered a kind of organizational identity, which value-semantic experience the individual’s with themself as citizen state. It manifested in institutional, community, and individual dimen-sions. Each mentioned dimensions civic can be differently developed (actualized) particular individual, suggests existence certain types identity. The article aims to empiricall...

The “crowd” in online crowdfunding is no longer just comprised of retail investors; in fact, debt-based crowdfunding or peer-to-peer lending has long attracted the interest of institutional investors. Given their expertise, institutional investors are often referred to as “smart money” in traditional financial markets. It is not clear however how they may behave in this nascent market, and more...

Studies of patient safety and comparative effectiveness entail unique methodologic challenges. These studies may be susceptible to systematic error, including selection bias, exposure misclassification, and outcome misclassification. They may also be vulnerable to random error, or confounding by a variable such as another drug, a disease, or the drug indication itself. Finally, special logistic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine mentoring relationships involving minority graduate students in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors take a multifaceted approach to providing strategies to improve the opportunities of minority students to acquire mentors by directing attention to institutional practices, faculty development, and the behaviors of students themselv...

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The view that academic writing is purely objective, impersonal and informational, which is often reflected in English for Academic Purposes materials, has been criticized by a number of researchers. By now, the view of academic writing as embodying interaction among writers, readers and the academic community as a whole has been established. Following this assumption, the present study focused ...