121 research outputs found
Why stop there? Mexican migration to the U.S. border region
The transformation of the U.S. border economy since the 1980s provides a fascinating backdrop to explore how migration to the U.S-side of the Mexican border has changed vis-a-vis migration to the U.S. interior. Some long-standing patterns of border migrants remained unchanged during this period while others underwent drastic changes. For example, border migrants are consistently more likely to be female, to have migrated within Mexico, and to lack migrant networks as compared with migrants to the U.S. interior. Meanwhile, the occupational profile of border migrants has changed drastically from being predominately agricultural work to being largely made up of service-sector and sales-related work. Border migration is more sensitive to Mexican and U.S. business cycles than migration to the U.S. interior throughout the period and, while the data suggest border migrant wages may have caught up to other migrants' wages by the early 2000s, multivariate analysis indicates that border migrants who are female and/or undocumented continue to earn far less than such migrants who work in the U.S. interior.Emigration and immigration
Using Artificial Neural Networks for Gravitational-Wave Glitch Identification in Advanced LIGO
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Get on Your Feet and Up To Speed: Ways to Start-Up or Scale-Up an OER Initiative
How can you get started with or âscale-upâ OER practices at your institution? And how will the library fit in? Two or three years ago, âOER Librarianâ wasnât even a title, but in a relatively short time librarians at all 24 campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY) have taken on a multitude of different roles to support OER initiatives. Each campus has come on board with its own timeline and developed its own structure and workflows to accomplish this work, in alignment with campus culture. While many have taken positions in support of individual faculty OER developers and become fierce advocates for open initiatives, the full range of how librarians contribute plays out very differently on each campus. At the same time, librarians collaborate across the campuses via an OER committee/working group overseen by the CUNY Office of Library Services, uniquely positioning us to observe and discuss best practices as well as the varying models of OER support. Join us for a panel featuring individual case studies and a facilitated conversation among CUNY OER librarians about developing, evolving, and scaling up OER initiatives at community colleges, four-year colleges, and graduate research institutions. We will explore questions such as: Which entity on campus is in the driverâs seat? How does intra-campus collaboration play out? What are the labor implications of these new initiatives for librarians and other faculty? Where do definitions of OER, ZTC (zero-textbook cost), and open pedagogy intersect and overlap
Best Practices for Community Gardening
Report, presentation and poster completed by students enrolled in PA 5242: Environmental Planning, Policy, and Decision Making, taught by Dr. Carissa Schively Slotterback in spring 2014.This project was completed as part of the 2013-2014 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of North St. Paul. Hoping to increase community involvement and encourage healthy eating, the City of North St. Paul was interested in developing community gardening opportunities. To facilitate this, project lead Jon Fure partnered with students in PA 5242: Environmental Planning, Policy, and Decision Making, taught by Dr. Carissa Schively Slotterback, to create a guide of community gardening best practices. The students developed best practices for preparation and selection of a community garden, management practices for a community garden, and logistics of the garden and produce. The final report, presentation, and poster are available.This project was supported by the Resilient Communities Project (RCP), a program at the University of Minnesota whose mission is to connect communities in Minnesota with U of MN faculty and students to advance community resilience through collaborative, course-based projects. RCP is a program of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA). More information at http://www.rcp.umn.edu
Building H.O.U.S.E (Healthy Outcomes Using a Supportive Environment): Exploring the Role of Affordable and Inclusive Housing for LGBTQIA+ Older Adults
Little is known about how permanent, inclusive, affordable, and supportive longâterm housing may affect the health of lowâincome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and/or another identity (LGBTQIA+) older adults. Focus group interviews were conducted with 21 older adults to explore the lived experiences and potential health benefits of living in a new LGBTQIA+âwelcoming senior housing. Participants reported that moving into the housing was associated with benefits for health and wellâbeing, especially for psychological health. Community, social support, and inâhouse services were particularly important. However, the combined nature of LGBTQIA+âwelcoming and older adult only housing evoked mixed feelings. Appropriate and accessible housing solutions are essential for LGBTQIA+ older adults and may help address health disparities for these populations
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The GstLAL Search Analysis Methods for Compact Binary Mergers in Advanced LIGO's Second and Advanced Virgo's First Observing Runs
After their successful first observing run (September 12, 2015 - January 12,
2016), the Advanced LIGO detectors were upgraded to increase their sensitivity
for the second observing run (November 30, 2016 - August 26, 2017). The
Advanced Virgo detector joined the second observing run on August 1, 2017. We
discuss the updates that happened during this period in the GstLAL-based
inspiral pipeline, which is used to detect gravitational waves from the
coalescence of compact binaries both in low latency and an offline
configuration. These updates include deployment of a zero-latency whitening
filter to reduce the over-all latency of the pipeline by up to 32 seconds,
incorporation of the Virgo data stream in the analysis, introduction of a
single-detector search to analyze data from the periods when only one of the
detectors is running, addition of new parameters to the likelihood ratio
ranking statistic, increase in the parameter space of the search, and
introduction of a template mass-dependent glitch-excision thresholding method.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D, comments
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