Many of the participants' accommodations-related associations to special needs were related to special education or to "special" organizations and activities (e.g., Special Olympics).
On the surface, the firms that represent thousands of businesses, trade associations and special interests are taking a beating.
Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement has long fought an uphill battle, consistently outnumbered in the city's parliament, where only half the seats are directly elected; the others are returned by professional associations and special interest groups.
As Fig. 5 illustrates, participants' affective associations to special needs differed significantly from their affective associations to disability (χ 2(2) = 17.1, p < 0.001).
Similarly, both participants with and without a personal connection to disability produced fewer positive associations to special needs (25 and 14% of the participants' affective associations, respectively) than to disability (32 and 17%, respectively).
Nonetheless, both participants with and without a personal connection to disability produced more negative associations to special needs (41 and 54% of the participants' affective associations, respectively) than to disability (33 and 45%, respectively).
Funding: Many Career Day events are sponsored by the university, often petitioned by department heads or grad student associations for special funds earmarked for educational purposes of this sort.
Some national Scouting associations have special interest programs such as Air Scouts, Sea Scouts, outdoor high adventure, Scouting bands, and rider scouts.
That comes with a caveat: The Chamber, unlike many corporations, trade associations and special interest groups, opts to disclose state- and grassroots-level lobbying, as well as some political organizing costs, alongside its federally focused efforts.
iHop (55 ), Chilibot (56 ), PolySearch (57 ) and Semedico (58 ) are four representative systems that focus on mining associations between special topics (disobey selection criterion #2 which requires systems to handle general topics).
