Understanding the Impact of Immigration in Greater New Haven

"Understanding the Impact of Immigration in Greater New Haven," highlights the rapid demographic transformation of the region driven by immigration in the past two decades and the significant economic contributions, particularly in small business creation, of this diverse population. The report compiles data from federal, state and local government agencies, as well as information generated locally by DataHaven and The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

CSR and the Social Contract: New Lenses for Stakeholder Analysis and Strategic Management

On the macro level of business legitimacy, the terms and conditions of the Business-Society social contract are continually subject to renegotiation. These renegotiations flow from altered expectations of society generally and stakeholder groups specifically as to business’ role in value creation and take place principally in either marketplace or public policy arenas. On the micro level of a firm’s license to operate, it must understand and address stakeholder expectations in order to succeed over the medium and longer term, i.e., to be sustainable. Stakeholder management, as related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, has increasingly been seen as presenting business with strategic opportunities: that a firm that understands and anticipates changes in the legitimate expectations of its stakeholders and is able to significantly meet or negotiate those expectations over time will have a competitive advantage over its rivals in the marketplace. A new classifying perspective is proposed to help explore and understand what social and stakeholder expectations may change and what is subject to renegotiation concerning value creation on both the macro (business-society) and micro (firm) levels. This paper outlines and explores a value-creation centered model for classifying and understanding those expectations and the areas subject to renegotiation in the Business-Society social contract. It is proposed that a firm that uses this model can more ably identify, understand and negotiate the expectations of its stakeholders and refine its strategies to support the creation and maintenance of a sustainable competitive advantage. While virtually all economies seek to promote value creation, as most have focused on business as the primary engine of value creation, this paper looks principally on the business-society relationship. If we start with the proposition that businesses operating in a free market environment are the most efficient means for the maximization of wealth creation, what further social expectations remain for negotiation in the social contract and therefore must be managed as business’ CSR? The construct: CSR is about managing business and stakeholder expectations. Expectations as to: What value to create? How to create that value (what inputs/costs)? Who pays for those inputs/costs? Who shares in the value created and in what proportions? Subject to the overarching question of in what forum these expectations are to be mediated. Through an exploration of these questions, this paper examines the areas wherein changes in societal expectations explain and may presage changes in the terms and conditions of the Business-Society social contract as well as serve as a bellwether for individual firms in optimizing their understanding and management of stakeholders in securing strategic advantage

Entendiendo el Impacto de la Inmigración en la Región Metropolitana de New Haven

Entendiendo el Impacto de la Inmigración en la Región Metropolitana de New Haven explora como la inmigración impacta el desarrollo de ambos, la Región Metropolitana de New Haven y Connecticut. Utilizamos datos recopilados por agencias federales, estatales y gobiernos locales; al igual que información generada localmente por DataHaven y La Fundación Comunitaria para la Región Metropolitana de New Haven (The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven). El Informe fue escrito por Mary Buchanan y Mark Abraham de DataHaven, con asistencia del personal de La Fundación Comunitaria y no debe ser interpretado como representativo de los puntos de vistas oficiales de DataHaven o La Fundación Comunitaria para la Región Metropolitana de New Haven

A Comprehensive PT Program Utilizing An AlterG Treadmill For A Patient With Lower Extremity Fractures And Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: A Case Report

People with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease have a greater risk of falls and subsequent fractures due to lower extremity stiffness, muscle wasting, and balance impairments. Positive pressure treadmill systems, such as the AlterG®, are commonly utilized for orthopedic patients, as they allow for early mobility with decreased symptoms. Minimal research exists that has investigated use of the AlterG® in patients with lower extremity fractures and CMT. The purpose of this case report was to investigate a comprehensive physical therapy program including the use of the AlterG® treadmill for a patient with multiple lower extremity fractures and CMT disease.https://dune.une.edu/pt_studcrposter/1129/thumbnail.jp

Petition for a Writ of Certiorari. Debord v. Mercy Health System of Kansas, Inc., 134 S. Ct. 2664 (2014) (No. 13-1118), 2014 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1120

QUESTION PRESENTED Section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids an employer to retaliate against any employee because that worker opposed unlawful discrimination. The question presented is: Does section 704(a) prohibit retaliation against a worker because of the worker\u27s statements: (1) only when the statements are made to the worker\u27s own employer or to federal or state anti-discrimination agencies (the rule in the Tenth and Fourth Circuits), or (2) also when the worker\u27s statements are made to any other person (the rule in the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits)

Observations on the Natural History of the Mediterranean Gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in Northwest Arkansas

The Mediterranean gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus, is a small nocturnal lizard introduced into the U.S. A stable population on the campus of Westark Community College in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas represents the northernmost U.S. population presently known. We report data on microhabitat usage, feeding behavior, reproduction, and activity patterns. This gecko is active on the outside of buildings during warm months of the year and occasionally inside buildings during the winter. It is most abundant on buildings with many crevices that are used as daytime retreats. It avoids direct illumination of artificial light and usually perches at heights greater than 7.5 meters. Geckos are not territorial during their nocturnal foraging period and employ a sit-and-wait tactic to capture insect prey. Eggs are laid in mid-June and hatch in mid August; this reproductive season is later and shorter than it is in more southern populations. Communal nesting may be employed. A nightly bimodal activity pattern was observed with peaks of activity at 2300 and 0300 after which activity declined rapidly

Test-retest reliability of structural brain networks from diffusion MRI

Structural brain networks constructed from diffusion MRI (dMRI) and tractography have been demonstrated in healthy volunteers and more recently in various disorders affecting brain connectivity. However, few studies have addressed the reproducibility of the resulting networks. We measured the test–retest properties of such networks by varying several factors affecting network construction using ten healthy volunteers who underwent a dMRI protocol at 1.5 T on two separate occasions. Each T1-weighted brain was parcellated into 84 regions-of-interest and network connections were identified using dMRI and two alternative tractography algorithms, two alternative seeding strategies, a white matter waypoint constraint and three alternative network weightings. In each case, four common graph-theoretic measures were obtained. Network properties were assessed both node-wise and per network in terms of the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and by comparing within- and between-subject differences. Our findings suggest that test–retest performance was improved when: 1) seeding from white matter, rather than grey; and 2) using probabilistic tractography with a two-fibre model and sufficient streamlines, rather than deterministic tensor tractography. In terms of network weighting, a measure of streamline density produced better test–retest performance than tract-averaged diffusion anisotropy, although it remains unclear which is a more accurate representation of the underlying connectivity. For the best performing configuration, the global within-subject differences were between 3.2% and 11.9% with ICCs between 0.62 and 0.76. The mean nodal within-subject differences were between 5.2% and 24.2% with mean ICCs between 0.46 and 0.62. For 83.3% (70/84) of nodes, the within-subject differences were smaller than between-subject differences. Overall, these findings suggest that whilst current techniques produce networks capable of characterising the genuine between-subject differences in connectivity, future work must be undertaken to improve network reliability

Legal and Ethical Implications of Newspaper Web Privacy Policies

This study summarizes the legal and ethical implications of the privacy policies of the top ten newspapers in the United States. The papers have created policies using language that is more complicated than a typical readerwould read. They have allowed themselves to collect data from a wide variety of sources and send the information to third parties can use the information for a variety of purposes. These policies exist in the context of the FourthAmendment, Electronic Monitoring Communications Act, Wiretap Statutes, and other laws and court cases