The context in which the IBoD study was commissioned was characterised by widespread recognition of Indigenous disadvantage and inequities in health and its determinants.
Confer on me, great angel, the glory of White manhood, so that henceforth I may feel unlimited freedom.'" The correspondence between the friends and peers shows their early recognition of the disadvantages women of all races faced in the U.S.
Contextual features which led to commissioning the IBoD study included widespread recognition of longstanding Indigenous disadvantage, lower life expectancy than non-Indigenous Australians, and the lack of an adequate evidence base upon which to determine priorities for interventions.
A recognition that even within the category of "disadvantage" there are subtle differences seems vital.
We speak of reconciliation, recognition, ending disadvantage but platitudes are easy: our record is failure.
The success of convergent agency, however, is dependent on the full recognition of the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, over different temporal and spatial scales, in order to develop a transdisciplinary knowledge that minimizes trade-offs and maximizes synergies and complementarities.
Evidence from studies applying multiple approaches to the same benefit-harm question, together with recognition of their advantages and disadvantages, would make it possible to identify approaches that are consistently superior over others, and to develop recommendations for specific approaches.
In protein fold recognition, the main disadvantage of hidden Markov models (HMMs) is the employment of large-scale model architectures which require large data sets and high computational resources for training.
I gained from them the benefit of not being treated as different due to my disability, the recognition that disadvantage was real in our wealthy Australian society, and the strong will to challenge that disadvantage.
The act is a bold one and represents a legislative recognition of the link between poverty and social disadvantage and characteristics such as race and sex.
