Sökning: "structural bias"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 73 avhandlingar innehållade orden structural bias.

1. 1. Drugs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child : Fragmentation, Contention and Structural Bias

   Författare :Damon Barrett; Pål Wrange; Allyn Taylor; Manfred Nowak; Rebecca Stern; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child rights; drug control; Convention on the Rights of the Child; structural bias; critical child rights studies; internationell rätt; International Law;

   Sammanfattning : Responding to the harms caused by drug use and the drug trade is one of the most pressing and interdisciplinary challenges of our time, within which the protection of children has become central. But there has been relatively little academic attention to the international legal dimensions of drug policy, despite the existence of a dedicated international legal framework on the issue and a range of other treaties that include drugs in some way. LÄS MER

3. 2. Incumbent Renomination : Accountability and Gender Bias

   Författare :Michal Grahn; Elin Bjarnegård; Johanna Kantola; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political recruitment; party politics; proportional representation; gender; incumbency; re-selection; accountability; representation; delegation; preference voting; flexible lists; Czech Republic; Slovakia.; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : Party recruiters in proportional-representation (PR) systems are forced to do what their majoritarian counterparts are not: they need to rank-order all their candidates on the party ballots based on whom they most wish to get elected. Consequently, new candidates and incumbents alike compete for a limited number of electable ballot slots. LÄS MER

4. 3. Differentiating the Poor : Patterns of Discrimination in Decision-Making on Social Assistance Eligibility

   Författare :Klara Hussénius; Hugo Stranz; Åke Bergmark; Helena Blomberg-Kroll; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; bias; deservingness; discrimination; ethnicity; gender; social assistance assessments; social policy; social workers; street-level bureaucrats; socialt arbete; Social Work;

   Sammanfattning : Access to the Swedish welfare state’s last safety net, social assistance, is ultimately determined through discretionary decision-making by social workers. This dissertation examines intersectional patterns and discriminatory bias in social workers’ assessments about social assistance eligibility. LÄS MER

5. 4. Structured Learning for Structural Bioinformatics : Applications of Deep Learning to Protein Structure Prediction

   Författare :David Menéndez Hurtado; Arne Elofsson; Sergei Grudinin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Biochemistry towards Bioinformatics; biokemi med inriktning mot bioinformatik;

   Sammanfattning : Proteins are the basic molecular machines of the cell, performing a broad range of tasks, from structural support to catalysisof chemical reactions. Their function is determined by their 3D structure, which in turn is dictated by the order of their components, the amino acids. LÄS MER

7. 5. Essays on Savings Behavior, Inflation Measurement, and Growth

   Författare :Markus Peters; Per Krusell; Roine Vestman; Tobias Laun; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Savings; pension reform; inattention; present bias; output growth; inflation; measurement; PPI micro data; input-output; networks; intermediate inputs; structural change; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : The Impact of Pension Reform on Household Income and Savings: A Quantitative Analysis of the Swedish CaseIncreases in life expectancy cause challenges for defined benefit pension systems. Sweden is one of few countries having undertaken a major reform aimed at creating a financially sustainable pension system. LÄS MER