But figures of speech that involve infection are usually used to project on to hated minorities characteristics that are not really theirs.
The predicted probabilities were formed using the estimated coefficients for Specification 4 of (5) for minorities and were predicted using the characteristics of minority students that enrolled at one of the UC campuses in the years 1995 1997.
In addition to differences in disease severity, comorbidity, and socio-economic characteristics, minorities also have a lower willingness to undergo the operation.
In particular, we focus here on minorities whose physical characteristics are distinct from those of the "norm" population and are underrepresented in powerful positions in the majority society.
We note that the changes in the characteristics of minority enrollees post-209 are not all in the same direction.
The participants' mean age was 51 years and mean BMI was 34.0 kg/m, 68% were women, and 45% belonged to U.S. ethnic minority groups; their demographic characteristics are shown in Table 1.
Still, the possibility that differences in recruitment strategies or other characteristics differentiating minority, low-income households from nonminority, higher income households may have influenced these findings is an acknowledged limitation of this study.
In addition, we hypothesized an increased risk of unplanned readmissions and excess LOS among first-generation ethnic minority patients, because patient characteristics such as cultural distance to the host population and low proficiency of the language of the host country tend to be more pronounced in first than in second-generation ethnic minority patients.
Accordingly we study ethnicity through practices and places of consumption characteristic of minority culture in order to understand consumers' inner dialogue and the interactions experienced and to take into account the reciprocity of cultural exchange.
