Exploring the Impact of Immigrants\u27 Views of Public Sentiment

Immigration is an issue that has become increasingly important in American society. An understanding of the issue of immigration, as well as the various issues related to it, is essential in the social work profession. It is apparent through recent changes in national immigration policies that the “pathway to citizenship” is becoming increasingly difficult. The literature reveals that public sentiment about immigration strongly influences the development of these policies. In addition to the influence that public sentiment has on policy-making, it is equally important to understand the ways in which public sentiment impacts immigrants’ perceptions of themselves. This research study provides an overview of the issue of immigration, with a specific focus on the internalization of immigrants’ perceptions of public sentiment. The researcher hypothesized a relationship between immigrants’ views of public sentiment and the ways in which they view themselves. Seventeen immigrants from six different countries participated in this exploratory study. Data was analyzed by comparing participants’ responses to questions about perceived feelings of Americans with responses to questions about their views of themselves. The results did not support the hypothesized relationship. The research study demonstrates the need for social workers to increase their knowledge about the issue of immigration, as well as their awareness of the influence of public sentiment

MULTI-ISSUE BARGAINING UNDER BUDGET-CONSTRAINTS

We analyze a multi-issue bargaining model where the joint production of public goods is budget-constrained. The players must decide the part of the budget that is dedicated to produce any public good. We model the decision process as an alternating offer bargaining game with random proposers. The utilities of the players are assumed separable in any public issue. We show that multiple sophisticated outcomes are (generically) attained when a complete agreement is required for a subset of public projects to be implemented, either if the players bargain globally over the sizes of different public goods or sequentially through partial agreements. However, when public projects are immediately implemented after partial agreements, then uniqueness (which is a necessary condition for efficiency) is generically achieved.Multilateral bargaining, Sophisticated equilibrium, Issue-by-issue bargaining

The school-housed public library

Discusses the issue of school-housed public library. Some basic considerations in public libraries; Role and function of public libraries; Importance of advance planning for joint operations of public libraries; Importance of the location of the public library; Significance of personnel selected to operate the public library; How the funding of public library can affect the operation; How the collection of material should be develop in the library; Importance of constant evaluation

Students Engineer Solution to Public Health Issue in Dominican Republic

Student chapter of Engineers Without Borders dispatches to rural village to build invention that replaces open-fire cooking

HOW TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE’S DISCIPLINARY IN FACULTY MEDICINE OF DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY

Human Capital plays an important role in organization. It is the heart of the organization strategy. Many factors embeded in it. Public Service employees as government human capital instead of the contract employees. The quality of the Public Service Employee has recently become a major issue. It is widely known that Public Service employee is lacking of disciplin. The issue discuss most in Public service employee’s disciplinary is absentheeism. This study presents factors that influence the Public Service employee’s disciplinary in Faculty of Medicine of Diponegoro University. This research purposes will support the decision – making process to increase the Faculty of Medicine of Diponegoro University employee’s disciplinary, this study proposing some models analyzed by SEM. The study population is administration staffs in Faculty of Medicine of Diponegoro University for both Public Service employees and contract employees. The respondents are 120 employees whose given some questionaires related to the study. The result of the data analysis shows that the human capital is influenced by knowledge sharing, empowerment and workplace environment. Whilst human capital influences employee’s disciplinary positively

Immersive learning research

Editorial. Material for the special issue "Immersive Learning Research" of the Journal of Universal Computer Science.Welcome to the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) special issue organized by the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) following the 2017 iLRN conference. This issue includes eight papers on the focused topic "Immersive Learning Research", including extended versions of papers presented at iLRN 2017 and articles from the public call for papers.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Introduction Maulana Karenga, Guest Editor

This special issue on Ethnicity and Public Policy explores critical issues in public policy from various vantage points. Its scope is wide-ranging and aims at delineating and analyzing discourse and practices which both inform and constitute public policy on ethnic questions. It includes theoretical, historical and practical studies and represents a variety of approaches to both the definition and discourse of ethnicity and public policy on the national and international level

Medicines that Kill

The prevalence of counterfeit drugs on the African continent has been increasing at an alarming rate. “Medicines that Kill” is a research paper that attempts to analyze the factors that make African countries particularly susceptible to this global threat. Nigeria, a country that has had some of the highest rates of counterfeit drugs in the world, is the main case study for this paper. Its efforts to combat the issue are compared and contrasted with those of Tanzania and Kenya in an attempt to understand what aspects of the issue are unique to Africa and the methods that have been successful in combating the issue. To provide further insight on the impact that drug counterfeiting has had on African public healthcare systems, their struggles to overcome this issue will be discussed. Particular attention is paid to the successful efforts of Dora Akunyili, the head of the Nigerian Drug and Food Agency, in reducing drug counterfeiting in Nigeria. The role of mobile phones in helping combat this issue is also examined. The efforts of African leaders and legislators, who have come together, to form continent wide legislation to persecute drug counterfeiters is included. Finally, based on these efforts and the analysis of leading experts like Roger Bates, a Harvard professor on public health, whose research is used extensively in this paper, Dora Akunyili and the World Health Organization future predictions about counterfeit drugs and their effects on public healthcare systems in Africa are made

The evolution of evaluation – the accelerating march towards the measurement of public relations effectiveness

The measurement and evaluation of public relations effectiveness has long been a major professional and research issue (White and Blamphin 1994; Synnott and McKie 1997). Recently Watson (2008) found that it still ranked third in an international study of public relations research priorities. In the first half of the last century, there was little reference to it. The first major scholarly reference came in Cutlip and Center’s first edition of Effective Public Relations (1952) which implies there was some prior discussion but there is little evidence. It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s that the first US conference and professional publications on the topic were evidenced. The first scholarly journal special issue devoted to it, ‘Measuring the Effectiveness of Public Relations’ was published as the Winter 1977 edition of Public Relations Review. There was a burgeoning of academic and professional discussion from the mid-1980s onwards. Also the major consultancy groups started to introduce proprietary media measurement systems (e.g. Hill and Knowlton, 1979; Ketchum, 1982; CARMA, 1984). By the end of the decade there was a growing body of knowledge from academic and professional sources which led into a wide, international expansion of publications and services in the 1990s. Professional bodies in Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and United States, as well as the International Public Relations Association, all formed task forces and prepared publications. Measurement and evaluation had at last arrived as a central professional issue. Document analysis will be the main research method to prepare the timeline of the development of public relations measurement evaluation through. This paper will also explore the theoretical and professional themes that have characterised the development of theory and methodology in this important public relations practice

Watching Big Brother: A Citizen’s Right to Record Police

Due to growing technological advances and the ubiquity of mobile phones, it has become increasingly common for citizens to use these devices to photograph and record events. Though largely uncontroversial, when used to record public police activity, some citizens have been arrested and charged under state wiretapping r eavesdropping statutes. Over time, various circuit courts have held that this right to record public police actions is a protected activity. Most recently, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision, which held that this act of recording is unprotected, thereby exemplifying how circuit courts are split on the issue. Given the importance and timeliness of this issue, this Note agrees with the majority of circuit courts and argues that recording public police activity receives constitutional protection. Part I discusses the First and Fourth Amendment protections surrounding this right to record police activity, further supplemented by the common law right to acquire information. Part II reviews the current circuit split, providing a brief synopsis of the various cases dealing with this issue. Part III, siding with the majority of circuit courts, argues that the citizen right to record is entitled to constitutional protection and advocates for its legality as a matter of public policy