Economic Development Causing a Shift in Crime Hot Spots in Minneapolis?

In 2018, Minneapolis Minnesota hosted Super Bowl LII (52), prompting significant infrastructure renovations in the Central Business District (CBD). This thesis investigates whether these development projects have attracted crime and potentially caused shifts in crime patterns within the CBD. Using Hot Spot and Regression Analysis tools in ArcGIS Pro, the study examines whether these revitalization efforts are causing crime to move into areas that had previously experienced lower crime rates. Additionally, the mean locations of crime were calculated to identify and analyze any significant shifts within the CBD. The objectives of this thesis are to map crime data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), identify and visualize crime hot spots and analyze the relationship between urban economic development and crime shifts through regression analysis. Although slight shifts in crime hot spots were detected throughout the study area, there is insufficient evidence to conclusively link urban economic development to the shifting hot spots. Notably, the mean crime location shows a slight northwestern shift within the CBD, from the Minneapolis City Center toward Target Field

When Do We Ask for Help? An End-of-life Experience in a Level III NICU

Nearly one million pregnancies will end with fetal demise in either the peripartum or antepartum period annually with a suspected 34% of all recorded pediatric deaths occuring during the neonatal period, highlighting the significant role that neonatologists play in bridging the line between critical care and end-of-life medicine. As such, Palliative Care has been shown to help provide family members and healthcare providers alike support in navigating these arduous decisions regarding care for critical patients. Herein we present a narrative medicine piece highlighting the case of a newborn diagnosed with Necrotizing Enterocolitis and sepsis in a severely premature infant and the conversations and medical decisions that ensued

St. Cloud State Magazine [Spring/Summer 2025]

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Wondering how it got to this

In this piece, I discuss how the relationship with my family doctor was detrimental to my diagnosis and how my health, both physical and mental, suffered because of it. Although I discuss my experience of obtaining a diagnosis to what turned out to be an uncommon response to a common virus, I am certain that others will relate to the universality of struggling to gain an accurate diagnosis

The Impact of Post-Partum Depression on Mothers and their Babies

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a severe, long-lasting form of depression following childbirth that affects a substantial number of new mothers (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2022). Research shows that, in fact, one in seven women suffer from PPD, with an unknown number of women going undiagnosed (Bianciardi et al., 2020). This mental illness is filled with feelings of intense sadness, hopelessness, and fatigue. PPD can disrupt a mother’s ability to bond with her new bundle of joy, manage self-care, and participate in routine daily activities (O\u27Hara & McCabe, 2013). This illness not only has a significant emotional and psychological weight on the mother, but it can also have wide-ranging consequences for the baby’s development and general welfare. Infants of mothers with postpartum depression are at a higher risk for issues such as impaired cognitive and emotional development, attachment difficulties, and behavioral problems (Bennett et al., 2004). Given the vital early years of life for a child’s developmental milestones, understanding the full scope of the dual impact of postpartum depression is essential. Therefore, this Starred Paper aims to understand the psychological, physiological, and developmental effects of PPD on both mothers and their babies while also considering researched strategies for intervention and/or care to alleviate these potential negative outcomes

A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF JITTER, SHIMMER, AND HNR: LINGUISTIC AND PARALINGUISTIC APPLICATIONS

Jitter, shimmer, and Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio (HNR) are three acoustic parameters that provide information about sub-phonetic characteristics of a speaker’s voice. They have been deemed invaluable in pathological voice diagnoses, speech synthesis, voice biometrics, speech signal processing, and animal bioacoustics. There are even claims that one of them or a combination of the three plays a significant role in infant cry bioacoustics. Linguists are yet to tap into the potential that these three parameters offer for the classification of phonation types. This paper reviews the expansive literature and provides objective Just Noticeable Difference (JND) thresholds that can be leveraged to account for linguistic analyses of non-pathological voice qualities

The Point of Encounter: Choosing Picturebooks for Conscientization Read-Alouds

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I can\u27t do this anymore: Two sisters\u27 route through addiction

This narrative explores the uneasy disconnect exposed during a long-distance phone call: a health researcher\u27s professional commitment to the harm reduction model and her personal struggle to apply that approach to caring for her sister who struggles with a life-threatening addiction

Archival Collection Management Systems: Lessons from the Field

This presentation focused on determining the need for an archives collection management system (CMS), questions to ask if a CMS is appropriate for an institution, and questions regarding CMS functions and capabilities. It discussed the implementation of two CMS for the St. Cloud State University Archives, including to Archon and from Archon to Access to Memory (AtoM). The presentation also covers how data was extracted, transformed, and loaded (migrated) into AtoM

Developing a Theoretical Methodology for Assessing Phishing Susceptibility in an Academic Context

The objective of this paper is to summarize the findings of earlier phishing susceptibility research in the academic context. It will further use these findings to create a theoretical methodology to obtain better results that can verify the statement that university students are more tech savvy and thus less susceptible to phishing than the general population. Since the proposed methodology has a negative goal (debunk earlier statements), it is also important that other parameters are included in the research methodology (e.g. sex, race, age, background, technical environment, social aspects, etc.). When executed, the research results could contribute to the creation of a new or better phishing awareness program for college students