“…For doctor visits, horizontal equity was assessed, i.e. the extent to which adults in equal need of physician care appear to have equal rates of utilisation. …”

“…This year's XXII edition of the APARIUZ series, entitled "Unter Gleichen" ("Among Equals"), programmatically takes up the fiftieth anniversary, scheduled for 2021, of one of the most significant legal-historical and political events in Switzerland: the introduction of universal women's suffrage and voting rights. …”

“…It does so by looking at gender equality policies and the EU legal system concerning gender equality, women’s representation within diff erent institutions (and more particularly in the European External Action Service), gender rights as a type of human rights and the EU’s role in the external promotion of womens’ rights in third countries. …”

“…Women's movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. …”

“…All stress is not created equal, and stress is not always negative…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.6 Tutorial 7.1: Image Cropping, Resizing, Flipping, and Rotation / 138 -- 7.7 Tutorial 7.2: Spatial Transformations and Image Registration / 142 -- 7.8 Problems / 149 -- 8 GRAY-LEVEL TRANSFORMATIONS 151 -- 8.1 Introduction / 151 -- 8.2 Overview of Gray-level (Point) Transformations / 152 -- 8.3 Examples of Point Transformations / 155 -- 8.3.1 Contrast Manipulation / 155 -- 8.3.2 Negative / 157 -- 8.3.3 Power Law (Gamma) Transformations / 157 -- 8.3.4 Log Transformations / 159 -- 8.3.5 Piecewise Linear Transformations / 160 -- 8.4 Specifying the Transformation Function / 161 -- 8.5 Tutorial 8.1: Gray-level Transformations / 163 -- 8.6 Problems / 169 -- 9 HISTOGRAM PROCESSING 171 -- 9.1 Image Histogram: Definition and Example / 171 -- 9.2 Computing Image Histograms / 173 -- 9.3 Interpreting Image Histograms / 174 -- 9.4 Histogram Equalization / 176 -- 9.5 Direct Histogram Specification / 181 -- 9.6 Other Histogram Modification Techniques / 184 -- 9.6.1 Histogram Sliding / 185 -- 9.6.2 Histogram Stretching / 185 -- 9.6.3 Histogram Shrinking / 186 -- 9.7 Tutorial 9.1: Image Histograms / 188 -- 9.8 Tutorial 9.2: Histogram Equalization and Specification / 191 -- 9.9 Tutorial 9.3: Other Histogram Modification Techniques / 195 -- 9.10 Problems / 200 -- 10 NEIGHBORHOOD PROCESSING 203 -- 10.1 Neighborhood Processing / 203 -- 10.2 Convolution and Correlation / 204 -- 10.2.1 Convolution in the One-Dimensional Domain / 204 -- 10.2.2 Convolution in the Two-Dimensional Domain / 206 -- 10.2.3 Correlation / 208 -- 10.2.4 Dealing with Image Borders / 210 -- 10.3 Image Smoothing (Low-pass Filters) / 211 -- 10.3.1 Mean Filter / 213 -- 10.3.2 Variations / 213 -- 10.3.3 Gaussian Blur Filter / 215 -- 10.3.4 Median and Other Nonlinear Filters / 216 -- 10.4 Image Sharpening (High-pass Filters) / 218 -- 10.4.1 The Laplacian / 219 -- 10.4.2 Composite Laplacian Mask / 220 -- 10.4.3 Directional Difference Filters / 220 -- 10.4.4 Unsharp Masking / 221 -- 10.4.5 High-Boost Filtering / 221 -- 10.5 Region of Interest Processing / 222.…”

“…Insights from India, consistently ranked as one of the most gender-biased countries, are compared with similar situations in the ostensibly gender-equal Sweden. Arora-Jonsson also analyzes how dominant ideas about the environment, development and gender equality shape the spaces in which women and men take action through global discourses and grassroots activism.Questioning the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and more efficient environmental management, this volume scrutinizes how environmental imaginations are key to crafting gender relations. …”
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“…Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the Lahu society in Southwest China where practical gender equality has become the byproduct of a potent ideology of gender unity, vividly expressed by the proverb, "chopsticks only work in pairs."…”

“…The veto privilege endows all EU members with equal power in treaty negotiations…”

“…Businesses rely on modern infrastructure to remain competitive, while society depends on good infrastructure to ensure equal opportunity and equal access to services for citizens. …”

“…In far too many organizational meetings, equal speaking opportunity seldom results in equal say. …”

“…These comparisons have been used to argue that countries with more inequality are less healthy, less democratic, more crime-infested, less happy, less mobile and less equal in economic opportunity, but such comparisons implicitly presume that current levels of inequality are steady state outcomes. …”

“…It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship more generally. …”