The Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD) develops positive discrimination aimed at indigenous peoples; however, it still reproduces practices called institutional racism.This work presents results of a research whose main objective was to collect narratives of indigenous higher education students at UFGD regarding their experiences with ins
We ucsb gaucho blue present the R package BASS as a tool for nonparametric regression.The primary focus of the package is fitting fully Bayesian adaptive spline surface (BASS) models and performing global sensitivity analyses of these models.The BASS framework is similar to that of Bayesian multivariate adaptive regression splines (BMARS) from Deni
This study analysed acceptability and perceived barriers to reactive focal mass drug administration (rfMDA) among community members exposed to community engagement campaigns and malaria elimination interventions in Magude district, following mass drug administration (MDA) in the same district.The study used a formative qualitative study design, con
The gap between the social classes, especially between the higher classes and the lower social classes is one of the factors that cause satire to emerge.Satire shows its power by placing through social gaps, and as one of its ends it tries to reform the roles of social groups so as to decrease the gaps.Although satire is the apparent protest and hi
Message sticks are wooden objects once widely used in Indigenous Australia for facilitating important long-distance communications.Within this tradition an individual wishing to send a message would carve a stick and apply conventional symbols to its surface.The stick was entrusted to a messenger who carried the object into the territory of another