Exploring visions of inclusion: women’s disability activism in Georgia

This thesis aims to investigate the intersection of gender and disability rights activism in The Republic of Georgia by focusing on the narration and gendered experience of women disability activists. Since the ratification of the CRPD, disability in Georgia has been studied by looking at the discrepancy between disability policies and disabled people’s lives, pointing out the poor policy implementations, lack of human rights-based services and negative attitudes towards people with disabilities. These studies have not or only to a limited extent grasped grassroot activism around disability in Georgia. I used in-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 women disability rights activists, researchers, and professionals to investigate the gender implications of disability advocacy. Disability advocacy in Georgia is a feminized sphere, mainly due to mothers of children with disabilities being the strongest voice among disability NGOs. Gendered expectations of women as traditional “carers” of society have not only pushed women into civil society activism and disability service provision, but also made it difficult to disentangle disability rights struggles from the notion of care. Disabled women activists, however, have been marginalized within disability activism in Georgia, experiencing a dual discrimination as women and disabled. Nevertheless, disabled women activists have begun to form a social group consciousness, pointing out their own oppression form both paternalistic and patriarchal practices that prevail within disability rights activism and organisations

Chapel Hill Bicycle And Pedestrian Advisory Board Handbook

Who is this book for, and how should it be used? This handbook is for new and experienced board members alike. It can be read from cover to cover, but more practically is a resource for you to browse through and refer to, as needed. What topics does this handbook cover? This handbook is organized into three parts: Part I: Introduction to the BPAB Part 2: All About Government and the Review Process Part 3: Organizing the Board's Work Each part is organized into subsections that answer a range of questions based on a particular topic; these questions are listed in the Index for easy reference. There are pictures and diagrams for clarity, and links to other documents or websites that address the question in more detail. Browse through the questions listed in the Index. If you do not know the answers, or would like to learn more, then follow the links to the corresponding section.Master of City and Regional Plannin

Patient Characteristics Associated with Return Visits to a Pediatric Emergency Department

Title: Patient Characteristics Associated with Return Visits to a Pediatric Emergency Department Author: Hallam Gugelmann Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to identify and quantify the patient characteristics associated with 72-hour pediatric return visits to a tertiary care center’s emergency department. The hypothesis was that 72-hour return visits would be increased in patients with public insurance or no health insurance when compared to those individuals with private insurance. Methods In order to attain the study’s state objectives, the principal investigator of this study undertook a retrospective review of the hospital’s centralized billing database, specifying only the date range (1/1/2005 through 12/1/2007) and the age range (birth through 18 years of age) in the data extraction request. Data were collated by medical record number and date of visit, and time differences between each visit were calculated in order to identify all 72-hour return visits. Statistical analyses were then conducted, using Microsoft Excel to collate data and Stata version10.0 to perform logistic regression analyses. Results Out of a total of 39,481 recorded patient visits, 1,392 (3.5% of all pediatric visits) were 72-hour return visits. The primary variable of insurance type was not related to the outcome of 72-hour return visit in a statistically significant manner. Of additional variables analyzed, race, age, distance to the emergency department, weekly and annual timing of visits, visit acuity and post-assessment disposition were all significantly correlated to the outcome of 72-hour return visit, as assessed by logistic regression. Conclusions Although long thought to be a predictor of emergency department utilization and 72-hour return visits, insurance status does not appear to determine 72-hour return visits in a statistically significant manner. The additional variables of race and seasonal timing of visits, however, were found to relate to the outcome of 72- hour return visit in a statistically significant manner. Research is needed to further substantiate this relationship at other institutions and to identify means of addressing disparities in emergency department use among pediatric patients.Master of Public Healt

Clustering and the hyperbolic geometry of complex networks

Clustering is a fundamental property of complex networks and it is the mathematical expression of a ubiquitous phenomenon that arises in various types of self-organized networks such as biological networks, computer networks or social networks. In this paper, we consider what is called the global clustering coefficient of random graphs on the hyperbolic plane. This model of random graphs was proposed recently by Krioukov et al. as a mathematical model of complex networks, under the fundamental assumption that hyperbolic geometry underlies the structure of these networks. We give a rigorous analysis of clustering and characterize the global clustering coefficient in terms of the parameters of the model. We show how the global clustering coefficient can be tuned by these parameters and we give an explicit formula for this function.Comment: 51 pages, 1 figur

Racial Disparities Across Provider Specialties in Opioid Prescriptions Dispensed to Medicaid Beneficiaries with Chronic Noncancer Pain

Chronic pain affects both psychological and physical functioning, and is responsible for more than $60 billion in lost productivity annually in the United States. Although previous studies have demonstrated racial disparities in opioid treatment, there is little evidence regarding disparities in treatment of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) and the role of physician specialty

Quantifying Web Adblocker Privacy

Web advertisements, an integral part of today\u27s web browsing experience, financially support countless websites. Meaningful advertisements, however, require behavioral targeting, user tracking and profile fingerprinting that raise serious privacy concerns. To counter privacy issues and enhance usability, adblockers emerged as a popular way to filter web requests that do not serve the website\u27s main content. Despite their popularity, little work has focused on quantifying the privacy provisions of adblockers. In this paper, we develop a quantitative approach to objectively compare the privacy of adblockers. We propose a model based on a set of privacy metrics that captures not only the technical web architecture, but also the underlying corporate institutions of the problem across time and geography. We investigate experimentally the effect of various combinations of ad-blocking software and browser settings on 1000 Web sites. Our results highlight a significant difference among adblockers in terms of filtering performance, in particular affected by the applied configurations. Besides the ability to judge the filtering capabilities of existing adblockers and their particular configurations, our work provides a general framework to evaluate new adblocker proposals

Differential Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics According to Physician Specialty for Medicaid Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain Diagnoses

BACKGROUND: Despite >20 years of studies investigating the characteristics of patients seeking or receiving opioid analgesics, research characterizing factors associated with physicians’ opioid prescribing practices has been inconclusive, and the role of practitioner specialty in opioid prescribing practices remains largely unknown