Tong et al. [ 2005] found rightward asymmetries in the middle frontal gyrus (MFG) in both Chinese and English subjects during the discrimination of sentence-level prosodic phenomena in Mandarin Chinese.
A moratorium would give legislators time to consider the results of a $225,000 state study of whether racial discrimination influences death sentences in Maryland.
In an attempt to restore integrity to the state's criminal-justice system, Mr. Cornyn, a Republican, acknowledged then that Texas' exploitation of racial fears and stereotypes was unconstitutional and he promised that all six men — including Mr. Buck — would be given new sentencing hearings free of racial discrimination.
At ProPublica the duo's scoops included the revelation of discriminatory advertising practices at Facebook; algorithmic bias in criminal risk scores used in bail, sentencing and parole decisions; price discrimination toward minorities in car insurance rates; and cybersecurity holes in the President's home-away-from-home, the Mar-A-Lago country club.
The results of this analysis suggest that both the left posterior STS and the left middle frontal gyrus contained the information, which permitted reliable discrimination between meaningful sentences and nonwords across different ROI sizes.
Yet, when the text was presented subliminally out of those 5 temporal regions only one of them (left posterior STS) afforded successful discrimination of meaningful sentences from nonwords, while in the other temporal ROIs performance did not differ from chance level.
Dutch prosecutors have demanded that the anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders be fined €5,000 £4,3000) for hate speech and discrimination, though no prison sentence was sought.
Last autumn, many women and human rights advocates criticized the committee drafting a new constitution for not including the concept of gender equality in a sentence in the document that barred discrimination "on grounds of race, language or religion".
She cited several sentences in the report acknowledging that discrimination against women persists, and said the older G.A.O.
A previous study investigating the sibility of discrimination in patterns of sentencing was carried out by Roger Hood in the West Midlands in 1992.
