Queer Patients: An underserved and at risk population

Queer patients in America have faced a history of discrimination as both a community and as individuals. As such, this marginalization acts as a barrier to resources, including healthcare. Clinicians must be aware of said barrier and actively work towards dismantling it within their interactions with queer patients. This article makes a case for increasing sexual health conversations in order to assess queer patients and encourage a stronger patient-provider relationship for a community that is reluctant to seek medical attention, and also more likely to participate in higher risk behaviors

Strategic business models: opportunities for business model innovation in the automotive industry - evaluation of car subscription models and development of recommendations

Digitization and changing customer preferences have an impact on the determinants of sales and ownership in the automotive industry. In this context it is crucial to understand the new, disruptive business models and their potential for market players. The purpose of this report is to evaluate different business models that exist in the automotive industry in Germany and develop recommendations for improving key components of the recently emerged business model of car subscriptions, wherein a customer gains access to a car in return for a flat rate in the medium-term without the transfer of legal ownershi

Duckling survival and incubation behaviors in common goldeneyes in Interior Alaska

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2004The lack of research on the common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) in Interior Alaska prompted this study. My objectives were to estimate duckling survival relative to several explanatory variables and to characterize incubation behaviors in a subset of females nesting in the Chena River State Recreation Area. My estimates of duckling survival were higher than previously reported for this species: 0.65 (95% CI 0.49 to 0.82) and 0.68 (95% CI 0.58 to 0.79) for 2002 and 2003 respectively. Seasonally, duckling survival increased linearly throughout 2002, remained nearly constant in 2003, and was negatively related to daily precipitation in both years. Nest attendance patterns and incubation behaviors were not related to weather, female experience, clutch size, or day of incubation. Average number of recesses per day (2.9 ± 0.05), length of recesses (100.7 ± 1.5 min), and incubation constancy (79.8 ± 0.3%) were similar to values previously reported for this species (mean ± SE). I observed nocturnal recesses in this population. Although not previously reported for this species, these recesses may occur due to extended daylight hours during the incubation period.Survival of common goldeneye ducklings in Interior Alaska -- Incubation behaviors and patterns of nest attendance in common goldeneyes in Interior Alaska -- Conclusions -- Appendices

Increasing public skepticism in the face of imminent dangers from climate change: A call for science to repair rifts between society and academia

This project is a composition of a literature review, our learning process, and an attached experimental project. The project as a whole sought to understood how and why policies/corporations resist environmentally sustainable practices/laws and makes suggestions for how to convince people to change their behaviors and utilize their power as consumers. Overall, our goal was to investigate and understand the relationship between science and the public by composing a literature review of environmental science, sociology, and psychology papers, and then compose a presentation that would communicate the threat of climate change. The interdisciplinary nature of climate change made this research necessary because prior to this project, we understood climate change solely on a scientific level, without fully understanding the other spheres involved in environmental science. The literature review outlines instances of when environmental science has effectively engaged non-scientists and other areas of the field that have failed to connect to the public. The subsequent sections and text explain our thought process and our attempts to begin addressing the public successfully and creatively

Human Resource Management Practices and Voluntary Turnover: A Study of Internal Workforce and External Labor Market Contingencies

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The International Journal of Human Resource Management on March 30, 2016 (advance online publication), available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1165275.This research was funded in part by the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (# 430-2014-00383).We tested relationships between employee quit rates and two bundles of human resource (HR) practices that reflect the different interests of the two parties involved in the employment relationship. To understand the boundary conditions for these effects, we examined an external contingency proposed to influence the exchange-based effects of HR practices on subsequent quit rates—the local industry-specific unemployment rate—and an internal contingency proposed to shape employees’ conceptualization of their exchange relationship—their employment status (i.e., full-time, part-time, and temporary employment). Analyses of lagged data from over 200 Canadian establishments show that inducement HR practices (e.g., extensive benefits) and performance expectation HR practices (e.g., performance-based bonuses) had different effects on quit rates, and the former effect was moderated by unemployment rate. The effects of HR practices on quit rates did not differ between FT and PT employees, but a different pattern of main and interactive effects was found among temporary workers. These findings suggest that employees’ exchange-based decisions to leave may be less affected by the number of hours they expect to work each week, and more by the number of weeks they expect to work

Direct and indirect effects of temperature and prey abundance on bald eagle reproductive dynamics

Understanding the mechanisms by which populations are regulated is critical for predicting the effects of large-scale perturbations. While discrete mortality events provide clear evidence of direct impacts, indirect pathways are more difficult to assess but may play important roles in population and ecosystem dynamics. Here, we use multi-state occupancy models to analyze a long-term dataset on nesting bald eagles in south-central Alaska with the goal of identifying both direct and indirect mechanisms influencing reproductive output in this apex predator. We found that the probabilities of both nest occupancy and success were higher in the portion of the study area where water turbidity was low, supporting the hypothesis that access to aquatic prey is a critical factor limiting the reproductive output of eagles in this system. As expected, nest success was also positively related to salmon abundance; however, the negative effect of spring warmth suggested that access to salmon resources is indirectly diminished in warm springs as a consequence of increased glacial melt. Together, these findings reveal complex interrelationships between a critical prey resource and large-scale weather and climate processes which likely alter the accessibility of resources rather than directly affecting resource abundance. While important for understanding bald eagle reproductive dynamics in this system specifically, our results have broader implications that suggest complex interrelationships among system components