43 research outputs found
Immigrants in the U.S. Economy: Overcoming Hurdles, Yet Still Facing Barriers
There are 45 million immigrants living in the United States. Making up 14 percent of the national population, immigrants are a vital part of the social, economic, and cultural life of all American communities.The economic role of immigrants has frequently been misunderstood. On the one hand, immigrants are a big and important part of the economy. And, on the other hand, immigrants are disproportionately concentrated in low-wage jobs. Both things are true at the same time
Immigrants in the Long Island Economy: Overcoming Hurdles, Yet Still Facing Barriers
There 550,000 immigrants living on Long Island, according to an analysis of the most recent census data by Immigration Research Initiative (IRI). This includes all people born in another country and living on Long Island: people who are undocumented, have green cards, or are naturalized citizens; adults, and children; refugees, asylum seekers, agricultural workers, people with high-skill visas, and more. Making up 19 percent of the population, immigrants are a vital part of the social, economic, and cultural life of all communities in Nassau and Suffolk counties
Effects of hospital facilities on patient outcomes after cancer surgery: an international, prospective, observational study
Background Early death after cancer surgery is higher in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) compared with in high-income countries, yet the impact of facility characteristics on early postoperative outcomes is unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the association between hospital infrastructure, resource availability, and processes on early outcomes after cancer surgery worldwide.Methods A multimethods analysis was performed as part of the GlobalSurg 3 study-a multicentre, international, prospective cohort study of patients who had surgery for breast, colorectal, or gastric cancer. The primary outcomes were 30-day mortality and 30-day major complication rates. Potentially beneficial hospital facilities were identified by variable selection to select those associated with 30-day mortality. Adjusted outcomes were determined using generalised estimating equations to account for patient characteristics and country-income group, with population stratification by hospital.Findings Between April 1, 2018, and April 23, 2019, facility-level data were collected for 9685 patients across 238 hospitals in 66 countries (91 hospitals in 20 high-income countries; 57 hospitals in 19 upper-middle-income countries; and 90 hospitals in 27 low-income to lower-middle-income countries). The availability of five hospital facilities was inversely associated with mortality: ultrasound, CT scanner, critical care unit, opioid analgesia, and oncologist. After adjustment for case-mix and country income group, hospitals with three or fewer of these facilities (62 hospitals, 1294 patients) had higher mortality compared with those with four or five (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 3.85 [95% CI 2.58-5.75]; p<0.0001), with excess mortality predominantly explained by a limited capacity to rescue following the development of major complications (63.0% vs 82.7%; OR 0.35 [0.23-0.53]; p<0.0001). Across LMICs, improvements in hospital facilities would prevent one to three deaths for every 100 patients undergoing surgery for cancer.Interpretation Hospitals with higher levels of infrastructure and resources have better outcomes after cancer surgery, independent of country income. Without urgent strengthening of hospital infrastructure and resources, the reductions in cancer-associated mortality associated with improved access will not be realised
Turning Movements into Markets: How Corporations Co-Opt Cultural Values for Profit
In this dissertation, I explore how corporations engage in values-based marketing in the 21st Century. It is hardly a new phenomenon for corporate advertising to co-opt popular cultural values and trends. With the rise of platform capitalism — under which digital platforms generate wealth by cultivating our online data and resell it to advertisers — as well as the political and social context of the Trump Administration, however, major corporations have entered a new phase in the marketing framework that aims to attract consumers based specifically on their cultural and political values. Using a mixed methods approach I explore the current trends in advertising at the highest levels, including major media events like the Super Bowl and digital advertisements that litter our social media feeds daily. In the first methodology, I created a data set of 316 Super Bowl commercials from 2016 to 2021 and employed a Natural Language Processing tool called Latent Dirichlet Allocation to identify 12 key thematic elements across all 3026 commercials. Then, I conducted a qualitative textual analysis of each commercial to confirm and analyze the themes identified in my topic modeling method. Finally, I conducted nine target interviews with corporate leaders and advertising workers to uncover the processes by which corporations produce and disseminate values-based advertising. What I found is that while corporations are extremely adept at co-opting shifting cultural values in the consumer landscape, most advertisements are not exactly political outside of a specific socio-cultural context. That is, it’s true that advertisers want to appeal to your habits, likes, and dislikes, but the narrative of an overwhelmingly “woke” consumer marketplace is largely a myth created by the right-wing media ecosystem to weaponize white male rage
3D Spatial Distribution of Arsenic in an Abandoned Mining Area: A Combined Geophysical and Geochemical Approach
Evaluación de la factibilidad de un sistema de entrenamiento combinado en el desarrollo de la fuerza explosiva de los miembros inferiores de los taekwondocas
The research focused on assessing the impact of a combined training system to develop the explosive strength of the lower
limbs of the taekwondoins. It wants to reinforce the approach of capacity development through a methodological logic that starts from
the creation of morphological and functional conditions to ensure the enhancement of a sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, as a basis for the
development of sarcomeric hypertrophy, and finally, favor the conversion to power and the development of the explosive force. At the
same time, it went through a diagnosis, elaboration and data validation, using propper methods and techniques such as: interview, survey,
observation, testing, measurement, expert criteria, descriptive and inferential statistics, and the pre-experiment. The last one with three
stages (pre-test / 16-week intervention / post-test) Twenty senior category university taekwondoins and two coaches participated. The
evaluation of the maximum force (1RM) of the muscular planes that directly influence in the kicking techniques was considered. As it was
associated to the quality of motor fiber recruitment; The evaluation of the explosive force was performed using the vertical jump test:
Squat Jump (SJ) extracted from the Bosco test protocol. For this, it was necessary to use a digital contact platform. The data were
compared using a T-test, the results of which showed significant changes (p = .000) between the pre and post treatment, verifying Hi.
Concluding that the combined training system improved the development of the explosive strength of the limbs lower of the taekwondoinst.La investigación se centró en evaluar el impacto de un sistema de entrenamiento combinado para desarrollar la fuerza
explosiva de los miembros inferiores de los taekwondocas, viene a reforzar el enfoque del desarrollo de la capacidad mediante una lógica
metodológica que parte de la creación de las condiciones morfológicas y funcionales para asegurar la potenciación de una hipertrofia
sarcoplasmática, como base del desarrollo de la hipertrofia sarcomérica y finalmente favorecer la conversión a potencia y el desarrollo de
la fuerza explosiva, en concordancia se transitó por un diagnóstico, elaboración y validación, utilizando convenientemente métodos y
técnicas como: entrevista, encuesta, observación, la prueba, la medición, el criterios de experto, la estadística descriptiva e inferencial y
el pre-experimento, este último con tres momentos (pre-test/ intervención de 16 semanas/ post-test), participaron 20 taekwondocas
universitarios Categoría Sénior y dos entrenadores. Se consideró la evaluación de la fuerza máxima (1RM) de los planos musculares que
intervienen directamente en las técnicas de pateo, por estar asociada con la calidad del reclutamiento de la fibras motoras; la evaluación de
la fuerza explosiva se realizó mediante el test de salto vertical: Squat Jump (SJ) extraído del protocolo del test de Bosco, para ello fue
necesario emplear una plataforma de contacto digital. Los datos se compararon mediante una prueba T de diferencias de medias, cuyos
resultados mostraron cambios significativos (p= .000) entre el pre y post tratamiento, verificándose Hi, concluyendo que el sistema de
entrenamiento combinado mejoró el desarrollo de la fuerza explosiva de los miembros inferiores de los taekwondocas