Person to Person in Hong Kong

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Conner Pope describes his observations during his study abroad program at Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong, China

A Proposed Music Therapy Protocol for Trauma-Informed, Culturally Aware Practice with Migrants at the US-Mexico Border

This paper reviews current literature surrounding therapeutic work done with the migrant population and considers it through the lens of future music therapy interventions to be done at the United States (US)-Mexico border. The migration process across the US-Mexico border is often filled with danger and treachery, leading to trauma responses, such as depression, anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder. These traumatic experiences are augmented even further if there is a detention period or separation of families. In work reported by psychotherapists, counselors, and expressive arts therapists, there is often a focus of building empowerment, resilience, and coping skills. Yet in this work, there is also a disparity of power, often situating the migrant participants as victims of their circumstances without giving voice to other unique labels that may lie within the population. Within the music therapy field, there is concern in the literature that cultural competency is not being met, with most music experiences often using improvisation still based in Western music as opposed to culturally specific music trends. Through the research, these gaps are identified and a loose framework for future music therapy interventions is introduced. The hope of this research is that clinicians will consider their work and their findings through a more culturally-sensitive lens, working to empower the participants through other facets than just the experienced trauma. With this in mind, the field can advance its culturally humble practices in ways that then help our future clients with more competency, grace, and understanding

Dynamic Logistics Enabled by IoT

The implementation of Internet of Things technology is becoming increasingly popular in the logistics industry due to its promise of valuable payoffs. The benefits will span across the entire logistics value chain, and benefits from IoT implementation will also impact areas such as operational efficiency, safety, security, and customer experience, while redesigning traditional business models. This report specifically focuses on creating a dynamic logistics system using the Internet of Things. The findings of this report focus on the associated cost savings between traditional logistics systems, and a daily dynamic model enabled by IoT technology. By applying IoT to logistics operations we can begin to approach difficult operational and business questions in smart, innovative ways. Optimizing how people, systems, and assets work together through the implementation of IoT will further redefine business processes and ultimately, advanced analytics will be applied to the entire value chain to identify wider improvement opportunities and best practices

Transition to Practice: Perceptions of Nursing by Foreign Educated Physicians Enrolled in an FNP Program

This study explores changes in the perceptions of nursing of the FNP students as they progressed through the 27 month FNP program. Literature revealed a limited number of studies of this unique population, including the barriers to role transition; citing language, understanding the U.S. healthcare system, cultural transitions, and discrimination as concerns

The two components of the SO(3)-character space of the fundamental group of a closed surface of genus 2

We use geometric techniques to explicitly find the topological structure of the space of SO(3)-representations of the fundamental group of a closed surface of genus 2 quotient by the conjugation action by SO(3). There are two components of the space. We will describe the topology of both components and describe the corresponding SU(2)-character spaces by parametrizing them by spherical triangles. There is the sixteen to one branch-covering for each component, and the branch locus is a union of 2-spheres or 2-tori. Along the way, we also describe the topology of both spaces. We will later relate this result to future work into higher-genus cases and the SL(3,R)-representations

Brief Motivational Intervention for Substance Use may Decrease Violence among Heavy Alcohol Users in a Jail Diversion Program

Rates of harmful alcohol use are high among justice-involved individuals and may contribute to violent recidivism. Robust treatments for alcohol-related violence in criminal justice systems are thus a public health priority. In this analysis of existing randomized controlled trial data (N = 105), we examined the impact of a brief motivational intervention (BMI) for harmful substance use on violent recidivism among individuals in a pretrial jail diversion program. Results indicated that, after controlling for violence history, the intervention’s impact on violent recidivism was moderated by baseline harmful alcohol use. Specifically, among people with severe alcohol problems at baseline, the BMI+standard care group had less violent recidivism at a 1-year follow-up than participants randomized to standard care alone. This finding was unchanged when we accounted for psychopathic traits. Our study provides preliminary evidence that a BMI may be useful for decreasing violent recidivism among heavy drinkers in criminal justice systems

Generalizations of Tucker-Fan-Shashkin lemmas

Tucker and Ky Fan's lemma are combinatorial analogs of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem (BUT). In 1996, Yu. A. Shashkin proved a version of Fan's lemma, which is a combinatorial analog of the odd mapping theorem (OMT). We consider generalizations of these lemmas for BUT-manifolds, i.e. for manifolds that satisfy BUT. Proofs rely on a generalization of the OMT and on a lemma about the doubling of manifolds with boundaries that are BUT-manifolds.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure