For a conic section defined by the real polynomial: ax2 + bxy + cy2 + cx + ey + f= 0, the discriminant is equal to b2 − 4ac, and determines the shape of the conic section. If the discriminant is less than 0, the equation is of an ellipse or a circle. If the discriminant equals 0, the equation is that of a parabola. If the discriminant is greater than 0, the equation is that of a hyperbola. This formula will ...

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There is a substantive generalisation, to quadratic forms Q over any field K of characteristic ≠ 2. These can be written as a sum of terms aiLi2 where the Li are linear forms and 1 ≤ i ≤ n where n is the number of variables. Then the discriminant is the product of the ai, taken in K/K2, and is then well-defined (i.e., up to squares). A more invariant way to say this is as ( ...

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To discriminate is to make a distinction. There are several meanings of the word, including statistical discrimination, or the actions of a circuit called a `discriminator`. This article addresses the most common colloquial sense of the word, invidious discrimination. That is, to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit. Examples include social, racial, religious, sexual, disability, ethnic and age-related discrimination. Discrimination - Government san ...

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Hindu Quotes: Failure to Discriminate

 Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

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Age Discrimination is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of age. Although theoretically the word can refer to the discrimination against any age group, age discrimination usually comes in one of two forms: discrimination against youth, and discrimination against the elderly. In many countries, companies more or less openly refuse to hire people above a certain age despite the increasing lifespans and average age of the population. The reasons for this range from vague feelings that younger people are more "dynamic ...

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Gender discrimination is any action that grants or denies opportunities, privileges, or rewards to a person just on the basis of their sex. The United Nations has concluded that women often experience a "glass ceiling" and that there are no societies in which women enjoy the same opportunities as men. The term 'glass ceiling' describes the process by which women are barred from promotion by means of an invisible barrier. In the USA, the Glass Ceiling Commission has stated that between 95 and 97 per cent of ...

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Today, Muslims widely face job related discrimination in the West, particularly in the United States of America, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Since that attack, the EEOC has received more than 800 charge filings nationwide, alleging backlash discrimination by individuals who are or who are perceived to be Muslim, Arabic, Middle Eastern, South Asian or Sikh. The two most common issues alleged are harassment and discharge. Another example of discrimination against Muslims is occurring in a different hemisphere. ...

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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is a United States non-profit civil rights organization, which describes itself as a "grassroots organization" and is also engaged in lobbying activities. ADC was founded in Washington, DC by U.S. Senator James Abourezk in 1980. The organization maintains to be the largest Arab-American organization of its kind. ADC defines its mission as empowering Arab Americans, defending the civil rights of all people of Arab heritage in the United States, promoting civic participation, encoura ...

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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is a United Nations convention adopted and opened for signature and ratification by United Nations General Assembly resolution 2106 (XX) December 21, 1965, and which entered into force January 4, 1969. Other related archives1965, 1969, December 21, January 4, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, convention

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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. Described as an international bill of rights for women, it came into force on 3 September 1981. The United States is the only developed nation that has not ratified CEDAW. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - The Convention. The Convention defines discrimination agains ...

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In 1978, the U.S. Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, an amendment to the sex discrimination section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act stated that individuals may not be discriminated against "...because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, included receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other pers ...

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Ageism is bias against a person or group on the grounds of age. When that bias is the primary motivation behind acts of discrimination against that person or group, then those acts constitute age discrimination. Ageism - The two most common forms. Although ageism can refer to bias against any age group, ageism (and age discrimination) are usually focused on two targets: Adolescents (Ageism against adolescents is also called "Adultism") The elderly

African American contemporary issues have been of concern to many African Americans and other ethnic groups in the United States. Many African Americans have been discriminated and left impoverished in American society, but many African Americans have also risen to the middle and upper classes recently. African American contemporary issues - Institutional racism and discrimination. Institutional racism is top-down discrimination, usually practiced or approved of by the government. Slavery could be seen as t ...

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Anti-Arabism is prejudice or hostility against Arabs. Anti-Arab sentiment may be expressed in negative stereotypes. This happens, in particular, when Arabs are deindividualized and portrayed as intolerant, backward and violent, while positive aspects of Arab culture are ignored. In the Western world, Anti-Arab feelings are complicated by issues of Middle Eastern politics. As in the case of anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews), hatred of Arabs is different from political opposition to the policies of Arab states. In Europe the percept ...

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By virtue of establishing nationalism (as opposed to globalism) every government has formalized and supported discrimination. Examples of discrimination within countries include: apartheid in South Africa; institutionalized racial segregation in the USA from the Civil War through the 1960s; the "Jewish problem" in Nazi Germany; and re-education camps in some communist countries. Many governments have attempted to control discrimination through civil rights legislation, equal opportunity laws and institutionalised policies ...

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Price discrimination - Travel industry. Airlines and other travel companies use differentiated pricing regularly, as they sell travel products and services simultaneously to different market segments. This is often done by assigning capacity to various booking classes, which sell for different prices and which may be linked to fare restrictions. The restrictions or "fences" help ensure that market segments buy in the booking class range that has been established for them. For example, schedule-sensitive business ...

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The purpose of price discrimination is generally to capture the market's consumer surplus. This surplus arises because, in a market with a single clearing price, some customers (the very low price elasticity segment) would have been prepared to pay more than the single market price. Price discrimination transfers some of this surplus from the consumer to the producer/marketer. Strictly, a consumer surplus need not exist, for example where price discrimination is necessary merely to pay the costs of production. An example is a high-speed inte ...

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Any action that specifically denies opportunities, privileges, or rewards to a person or a group because of their sex. Internationally, the United Nations concludes that women are facing a global glass ceiling and that in no society do women enjoy the same opportunities as men. In the most developed country, the USA, the Glass Ceiling Commission states that between 95 and 97 per cent of senior managers in the country's biggest corporations are men (...)The term 'glass ceiling' describes the process by which wo ...

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Many people assume that when there is discrimination, one group of people is given more favorable treatment than others. This is not always the case. It is possible to have cases where it is not at all clear which group is given the more favorable treatment. Example: A country is under attack during wartime. The war is so ferocious that 80% of the combatants are killed. A law has been passed to forcefully conscript males between 18-24 years of age into the frontline, but females are forbidden to participate.See also:

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