As companies seek new sources of revenue in developing economies, they will find that gender disparities pose an obstacle.
Such health challenges and disparities pose a significant threat not just to individual health, but to the freedoms and life chances of whole communities.
Low rates of primary school completion and high gender, geographic and wealth disparities pose enormous challenges to the development of South Sudan.
The disparity could pose difficulties for researchers who use warming data to build climate models that also predict how ecosystems will change, says Johanna Schmitt, a plant ecologist at Brown University who was not involved with the work.
Under normal circumstances, this age disparity might pose a problem, but not in the magical world of television, where even the hardest historical facts can bend to the whims of fantasy and entertainment.
Commissioner Selig, who came into office after owning the low budget (and current National League Central Division member) Milwaukee Brewers since 1970, has been a long-time alarmist on the threat posed by payroll disparity to the league's competitive balance.
Since the disparity estimation is an ill-posed problem, use of global stereo matching makes it better posed by incorporating a regularization prior in the energy function.
China's new senior leaders, having risen, unlike their predecessors, during years of strong growth, were concerned less with the threat posed by a stunted financial system than with widening income disparities and the possibility of social unrest.
Mr. Thompson said some disparity was justified, because "higher penalties for crack offenses appropriately reflect the greater harm posed by crack cocaine".
Supporters of the House bill said such data would help reduce "health disparities," but critics said they feared the government could assemble a database that posed a threat to personal privacy.
