Encyclopedia - Discrimination: Encyclopedia - Discrimination
To discriminate is to make a distinction. There are several meanings of the word, including statistical discrimination, or the actions of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discriminant: Encyclopedia Ii - Discriminant - Discriminant Of A Polynomial
The discriminant of a polynomial is a number which can be easily computed from the coefficients of the polynomial and which is zero if an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discriminant: Encyclopedia Ii - Discriminant - Discriminant Of A Conic Section
For a conic section defined by the real polynomial: ax2 + bxy + cy2 + cx + ey + f= 0, the discriminant is equal to b2 − 4ac, and de...   » Read the article

Article - Hindu Quotes: Failure To Discriminate
Hindu Quotes: Failure to Discriminate    Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zambo: Encyclopedia Ii - Zambo - Discrimination
These populations of mixed Amerindian and African ancestry are generally marginalized and discriminated against, with color bias being pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Reconstructionism: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Reconstructionism - Discrimination
see also Persecution of Ancient Greek Religion Ancient Greek religion was historically a community religion. Due to the vagaries of histo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Invisible Disability: Encyclopedia Ii - Invisible Disability - Discrimination
Whereas with a visible disability, people may be too willing to "help" or interfere, those with invisible disabilities must seek out any ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muhajir Urdu: Encyclopedia Ii - Muhajir Urdu - Discrimination
Most Muhajirs who originally immigrated to Pakistan are relatively more educated and skilled than most of their Pakistani counterparts. D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israeli Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Israeli Arab - Discrimination
According to the 2004 U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Israel and the occupied territories, the Israel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Discrimination - Government Sanctioned Discrimination
By virtue of establishing nationalism (as opposed to globalism) every government has formalized and supported discrimination. Examples of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Discrimination - Religious Discrimination
Today, Muslims widely face job related discrimination in the West, particularly in the United States of America, following the terrorist ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Discrimination: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Discrimination
discrimination: Viveka.   Act or ability to distinguish or perceive differences. In spirituality, the ability to distinguish bet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American-arab Anti-discrimination Committee: Encyclopedia - American-arab Anti-discrimination Committee
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is a United States non-profit civil rights organization, which describes itself as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination: Encyclopedia - Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is a United Nations convention adopted and opened for sign...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women: Encyclopedia - Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international convention adopted in 1979 by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ageism: Encyclopedia - Ageism
Ageism is bias against a person or group on the grounds of age. When that bias is the primary motivation behind acts of discrimination ag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Contemporary Issues: Encyclopedia - African American Contemporary Issues
African American contemporary issues have been of concern to many African Americans and other ethnic groups in the United States. Many Af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-arabism: Encyclopedia - Anti-arabism
Anti-Arabism is prejudice or hostility against Arabs. Anti-Arab sentiment may be expressed in negative stereotypes. This happens, in part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990: Encyclopedia - Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is the short title of United States Public Law 101-336, signed into law on July 26, 1990 by P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan
A Cash balance plan is a defined benefit retirement plan that maintains hypothetical individual employee accounts like a defined contribu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alabama Constitution: Encyclopedia - Alabama Constitution
The Alabama Constitution is the basic governing document of the U.S. state of Alabama. It was adopted in 1901 and is the sixth constituti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Discrimination: Insurance Terms Dictionary - Discrimination
Definition and meaning of Discrimination :   Discrimination: Refusal of an insurer to provide comparable insurance or use compa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Discrimination: Insurance Terms Dictionary - Discrimination
Definition and meaning of Discrimination :   Discrimination: Refusal of an insurer to provide comparable insurance or use compa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Discrimination: Oceanography Dictionary - Discrimination
  Definition and meaning of discrimination:   discrimination - differential response to different stimuli (Source: US ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discriminant: Encyclopedia Ii - Discriminant - Discriminant Of A Quadratic Form
There is a substantive generalisation, to quadratic forms Q over any field K of characteristic ≠ 2. These can be written as a sum of te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reverse Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Reverse Discrimination - Effects And Criticism
Proponents of such policies argue that they bring about a closer equality of opportunities among groups by creating an increase in opport...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reverse Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Reverse Discrimination - Criticism Of The Term Itself
The term reverse discrimination has been criticized by advocates of affirmative action as casting affirmative action in a negative light,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pregnancy Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Pregnancy Discrimination - Pregnancy Discrimination Act
In 1978, the U.S. Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, an amendment to the sex discrimination section of the Civil Rights Ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Price Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Price Discrimination - Examples Of Price Discrimination
Price discrimination - Travel industry. Airlines and other travel companies use differentiated pricing regularly, as they sell travel p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Price Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Price Discrimination - Explanation
The purpose of price discrimination is generally to capture the market's consumer surplus. This surplus arises because, in a market with ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rate Discrimination: Insurance Terms Dictionary - Rate Discrimination
Definition and meaning of Rate Discrimination :   Rate Discrimination: The use of different rates for insureds or risks of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rate Discrimination: Insurance Terms Dictionary - Rate Discrimination
Definition and meaning of Rate Discrimination :   Rate Discrimination: The use of different rates for insureds or risks of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Discriminant Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Discriminant Analysis - Fisher's Linear Discriminant
The terms Fisher's linear discriminant and LDA are often used interchangably, although Fisher's original article The Use of Multiple Meas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Price Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Price Discrimination - Modern Taxonomy
The first/second/third degree taxonomy of price discrimination is due to Pigou (Economics of Welfare, 4th edition, 1932). However, these ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Encyclopedia Ii - Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Principles
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) departs from the fundamental principles of older UK discrimination law (the Sex Discriminati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Encyclopedia Ii - Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Other Jurisdictions
See Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 for corresponding USA legislation - though this does not have a positive equality duty. See O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Encyclopedia Ii - Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Background
The Disability Discrimination Act is a UK parliamentary act of 1995, which makes it unlawful to discriminate against people in respect of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Encyclopedia Ii - Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Amending Legislation
The Act was amended by the following legislation: The Disability Rights Commission Act 1999, which replaced the National Disability Coun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Discriminant Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Discriminant Analysis - Practical Use
In practice, the class means and covariances are not known. They can, however, be estimated from the training set. Either the maximum lik...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wicca: Encyclopedia Ii - Wicca - Discrimination And Persecution Of Wiccans
edit Since Wicca was first publically revealed in 1954, it has not had a long history of persecution. However, some Wiccans claim a histo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wicca: Encyclopedia Ii - Wicca - Discrimination And Persecution Of Wiccans
edit Since Wicca was first publically revealed in 1954, it has not had a long history of persecution. However, some Wiccans claim a histo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adolescence: Encyclopedia Ii - Adolescence - Discrimination Against Adolescents
Some adolescents and adults believe that people between the ages of 10 and 18 (or 21 or 25) are subjected to unjust discrimination. This ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women - The Convention
The Convention defines discrimination against women in the following terms: Any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women - The Committee
Convention oversight is the task of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which is made up of 23 experts on w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese American: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese American - Racial Discrimination
Two incidents have energized some Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans, particularly American-born Chinese in recent years -- the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Salient Teachings: Encyclopedia Ii - Salient Teachings - Against Caste Discrimination
Akilattirattu projected to the imagination of the followers of Ayyavazhi an ideal society where the caste discrimination did not exist. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia Ii - Cash Balance Plan - The Age Discrimination Cases
Age discrimination is not the US pension law's highly compensated employee nondiscrimination which requires that any plan which covers bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-arabism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-arabism - Groups That Fight Against Discrimination
There are a number of Arab American groups in the USA and Europe that work to protect the civil rights of Arabs, and fight against anti-A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Female Bodybuilding: Encyclopedia Ii - Female Bodybuilding - Standards And Sexist Discrimination
It is argued by some that the way female body builders are often treated is a form of sexism. Whereas male bodybuilders are typically jud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Weierstrass's Elliptic Functions: Encyclopedia Ii - Weierstrass's Elliptic Functions - Modular Discriminant
The modular discriminant Δ is defined as This is studied in its own right, as a cusp form, in modular form theory (that is, as a func...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia Ii - Cash Balance Plan - The Age Discrimination Cases
Proponents of cash balance plans advocate that these plans do not violate the age discrimination statutes applicable to defined benefit p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Main Teachings Of Ayya Vaikundar: Encyclopedia Ii - Main Teachings Of Ayya Vaikundar - Against Caste-discrimination
Akilattirattu projected to the imagination of the followers of Ayyavazhi an ideal society where the caste discrimination did not exist. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Contemporary Issues: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 the beginni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Discriminant Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Discriminant Analysis - Lda For Two Classes
Consider a set of observations x (also referred to as features or measurements) for each sample of an object or event having known class ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classism: Encyclopedia Ii - Classism - Individual Versus Structural
Like racism, classism can be divided into (at least) individual classism and structural classism. Individual classism is a matter of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persecution Of Christians: Encyclopedia Ii - Persecution Of Christians - Discrimination And Persecution In The Soviet Union
After the Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks undertook a massive program to remove the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church from the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Status Of Religious Freedom In Afghanistan: Encyclopedia Ii - Status Of Religious Freedom In Afghanistan - Discrimination Against Hazara Shia Muslims
Repression by the Taliban of the Hazara ethnic group, which is predominantly Shia Muslim, was particularly severe. Although the conflict ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Rights In North Korea: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Rights In North Korea - Political Discrimination And Food Distribution
North Korea's society is highly stratified by class, according to a citizen's family and political background.[16] Refugees International...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2004 U.s. Election Voting Controversies: Encyclopedia Ii - 2004 U.s. Election Voting Controversies - Racial Discrimination And Other Bias
Some of the issues described above have created problems for voters generally. Others, however, by accident or (it is charged) by design,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Rights In Japan: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Rights In Japan - Discrimination Based On Race Sex Disability Language Or Social Status
The Constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, creed, gender, social status, or family origin, and the Government genera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criticism Of Government Response To Hurricane Katrina: Encyclopedia Ii - Criticism Of Government Response To Hurricane Katrina - Accusations Of Discrimination Against Non-u.s. Citizens
Some British tourists trapped in a New Orleans hotel have accused the authorities of preferential treatment for Americans during the evac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ageism: Encyclopedia Ii - Ageism - Examples
overwhelmingly Ageism - Ageism. An example of ageism is thinking that all teenagers like rock music, are immature and insubordinate, us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zambo: Encyclopedia Ii - Zambo - Outside Latin America
In the United States, a term growing in use for Latin Americans of African descent, whether of mixed ancestry or not, is Afro-Latino. U.S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ephebiphobia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ephebiphobia - Ageism Against Teenagers
Ageism is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of age. Although theoretically the word can refer to the discrimination...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia Ii - Cash Balance Plan - Lump Sum Calculation Cases
In 1993, the Third Circuit decided in Goldman v. First National Bank of Boston that the terminated worker did not demonstrate that the ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ageism: Encyclopedia Ii - Ageism - Responses
Ageism - Grass-roots activism. Many groups have been set up in various countries to combat age discrimination, including: United Kingd...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phases Of The Holocaust: Encyclopedia Ii - Phases Of The Holocaust - Identification And Definition
Before the Nazis could actually make laws that discriminated against Jews, the law needed to identify the range of persons to be targeted...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ephebiphobia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ephebiphobia - Definitions
Ephebiphobia can manifest in the following main categories : the irrational fear of being near, among or in the company of teenager...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Status Of Religious Freedom In Afghanistan: Encyclopedia Ii - Status Of Religious Freedom In Afghanistan - Status Of Religious Freedom Under The Taliban
When it was in power, the Pashtun-dominated Taliban vigorously enforced its interpretation of Islamic law. Status of religious freedom i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia Ii - Cash Balance Plan - Congressional Developments
Because of the troublesome age discrimination suits and misunderstanding and frustration by older workers covered by such plans. Congress...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hessian Matrix: Encyclopedia Ii - Hessian Matrix - Mixed Derivatives And Symmetry Of The Hessian
The mixed derivatives of f are the entries off the main diagonal in the Hessian. Often, the order of differentiation does not matter. For...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrophobia: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrophobia - Afrophobia In Africa
Africa's colonial past preserved many effects of European Afrophobia. In countries such as Ian Smith's Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and pre-19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hessian Matrix: Encyclopedia Ii - Hessian Matrix - Second Derivative Test
The following test can be applied at a non-degenerate critical point x. If the Hessian is positive definite at x, then f attains a local ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asian Argentine: Encyclopedia Ii - Asian Argentine - History
Argentina's Asian population is descended from several waves of Asian immigration that have occurred in the last century. Asian-Argentine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia Ii - Cash Balance Plan - Lump Sum Calculation Cases
In 1993, the Third Circuit decided in Goldman v. First National Bank of Boston that the terminated worker did not demonstrate that the ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-arabism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-arabism - Anti-arabism In Polls
In March 1990, according to a poll reported in Le Monde: 76% of those polled said that there were too many Arabs in France (46% said the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase Pardhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase Pardhi - History
The criminal branding of the tribe goes back to 1871 after the British passed the "Criminal Tribes Act." About a hundred and fivty tribes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patricia Hewitt: Encyclopedia Ii - Patricia Hewitt - Parliamentary Career
In parliament she served for a year as a member of the social security select committee from 1997 before becoming a member of the governm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persecution Of Muslims: Encyclopedia Ii - Persecution Of Muslims - Secular Western Persecution Of Muslims
Persecution of Muslims - Discrimination and persecution in the former Yugoslavia. See History of Bosnia and Herzegovina#19th and 20th ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-arabism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-arabism - Terminology
Owing to the etymology of the term anti-Semitism, some argue that anti-Arabism, as well as miso-Judaism, constitutes anti-Semitism. To ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia Ii - Cash Balance Plan - Types Of Pensions
The ubiquitous 401(k) plan is an example of a defined contribution plan because the Internal Revenue Code §414(i) states [t]hat the term...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia Ii - Cash Balance Plan - Design Of Plans
Some cash balance plans communicate to workers that these “actuarial present values” are “hypothetical accounts” because upon ter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United Nations Commission On Human Rights: Encyclopedia Ii - United Nations Commission On Human Rights - Sub-commissions
United Nations Commission on Human Rights - Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. The Sub-Commis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persecution Of Muslims: Encyclopedia Ii - Persecution Of Muslims - Communist Persecution Of Muslims
Persecution of Muslims - Discrimination and persecution in the former Soviet Union and in former East Bloc nations. See Pomak, Bulgaria...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Masculism: Encyclopedia Ii - Masculism - Masculist Concerns
Masculists cite one-sided legislation, selective enforcement, and neglected civil rights as examples of discrimination against men (and b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Weierstrass's Elliptic Functions: Encyclopedia Ii - Weierstrass's Elliptic Functions - The Constants E1 E2 And E3
Consider the algebraic equation 4t3 − g2t − g3 = 0, and name its roots e1, e2, and e3. It can be shown from the non-vanishing of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990: Encyclopedia Ii - Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 - Controversy
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Inherent flaws. Some critics argue that enactment of the ADA has resulted in little progress ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Civil Rights: Encyclopedia Ii - Civil Rights - Civil Rights Movement
Historically, the process of moving toward equality under the law was long and tenuous. But after a status had been reached where every c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Civil Rights: Encyclopedia Ii - Civil Rights - Civil Rights Movement
Historically, the process of moving toward equality under the law was long and tenuous. But after a status had been reached where every c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maggie Gallagher: Encyclopedia Ii - Maggie Gallagher - Quotations
Maggie Gallagher - On Euthanasia. "Legal approval of suicide amounts to a declaration to the old, sick and vulnerable that others consi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cash Balance Plan: Encyclopedia Ii - Cash Balance Plan - Design Of Plans
Some cash balance plans communicate to workers that these “actuarial present values” are “hypothetical accounts” because upon ter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monopsony: Encyclopedia Ii - Monopsony - Static Monopsony In A Labour Market
The standard textbook monopsony model refers to static partial equilibrium in a labour market with just one employer who pays the same wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zionism And Racism: Encyclopedia Ii - Zionism And Racism - Un Resolution 3379
Main article: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 The Soviet Union began the "Zionism is racism" campaign in the United Natio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hellenic Polytheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Hellenic Polytheism - Modern Revivalist Movements
Hellenic polytheism - Naming. Modern revivalist or reconstructionist Hellenic polytheism exists in several forms, both in Greece and in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alabama Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - Alabama Constitution - Notable Features
The inordinate length is both because of and the cause of heavy centralization of government power in the state capital, Montgomery, leav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Discrimination - The Paradox Of Discrimination
Many people assume that when there is discrimination, one group of people is given more favorable treatment than others. This is not alwa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Discrimination - Age Discrimination
Age Discrimination is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of age. Although theoretically the word can refer to the di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Discrimination - Gender Discrimination
Gender discrimination is any action that grants or denies opportunities, privileges, or rewards to a person just on the basis of their se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Discrimination - Ageism
Ageism is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of age. Although theoretically the word can refer to the discrimination...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Discrimination: Encyclopedia Ii - Discrimination - Gender Discrimination
Any action that specifically denies opportunities, privileges, or rewards to a person or a group because of their sex. Internationally, t...   » Read the article