The results suggest that the nature of responses to differences in ascriptive characteristics is discernible when we can examine the explicit comparisons that discriminating agents make among those against whom they discriminate.
I have shown that, in the context of choices that discriminating agents make between well-defined small sets of individuals among whom they make simultaneous distinctions, i.e., in the studies of the impacts of beauty, the conclusions are unambiguous.
The superior "performance" of absolute differences is not always large, but taken together the results indicate that future research on the impact of discriminatory tastes should at least proceed from the assumption that discriminating agents care more about absolute than about relative differences in the characteristic against which they discriminate.
It is well known that the growth medium and the preparation the agents will influence the spectral signatures; and thereby distort the ability to discriminate agents [ 17, 18].
Literature turns us away from the simple moral rules that so often prove unhelpful when we are confronted with messy real-life decision making, and gets us ready for the stormy voyage through the social world that sensitive, discriminating moral agents are supposed to undertake.
In contrast, TFL was the least discriminating agent, because only 2 strains, UCD595 and W3, were resistant.
The lawsuit claims that when agents ordered the police in Jacksonville, Ore., to clear the streets around Mr. Bush, the agents discriminated against anti-Bush demonstrators, while leaving alone pro-Bush demonstrators.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the Allstate Insurance Company late yesterday after 15 months of trying to settle accusations that the insurer had discriminated against its agents.
A federal agency has concluded that Allstate Insurance discriminated against about 650 agents, requiring them to convert from employees with benefits into independent contractors.
There is already widespread discrimination against people who use housing benefit to pay at least part of their rent, and a BBC investigation in 2013 found letting agents discriminating in favour of white tenants.
