Exploring Shared And Unique Barriers To Housing Stability For Spanish Speakers In Connecticut

Throughout the United States, rent costs and eviction increases leave low-income people of color more rent-burdened than their white counterparts; these challenges may result in further complex barriers to housing stability for Spanish speakers. In this explorative study, I examined the shared and unique barriers to housing stability for Spanish speakers in Connecticut. I conducted a rapid qualitative analysis of semi-structured individual interviews and focus groups with (N = 14) participants from three larger research projects (Right to Counsel Evaluation, Project ReSIDe, and Tenant Energy Advocacy). This study included Spanish-speaking individuals living in CT who had participated in at least one of the above projects; eligibility criteria including facing challenges paying utilities, being on waitlists for housing assistance, having experienced eviction, and/or identifying as low-income renters. The findings suggest multiple shared and unique barriers to understanding and prioritizing their tenant rights and accessing resources. I explore how these manifested in the participant\u27s experiences using 1) shared barriers with English-speaking tenants but with nuance in how these manifest for Spanish speakers and 2) unique barriers. Collectively, the findings show how unique and shared barriers disconnect Spanish-speaking tenants from their power to uphold their tenant rights. The results suggest a need to increase targeted outreach for existing programs supporting Spanish speakers, increase funding for existing services, and create protections for undocumented tenants

microRNA pattern in tumoral lung tissues from former- and non-smokers: a possible footprint for environmental and genetic risk factors evaluation.

For the last decade the interest of microRNA as a possible early biomarker for lung-cancer has increased. Less attention has been focused in using microRNA as a biomarker to study the contribution of environmental exposure to air pollutants in non-smokers lung cancer patients. The aim of this thesis is the identification of environmental related microRNA pattern in collected tissues from a total of 64 formal- and non- smoker patients recruited in a three-year observational study. The identified patterns may be used as early predictors of lung cancer, as well as environmental-related footprints. Through microRNA-chip array analysis of lung tissue, it was studied the expression of 2549 microRNAs. A differential analysis between healthy and tumoral tissue showed the presence of 273 microRNA differentially regulated, 222 were down-regulated and 51 up-regulated. Differential analysis was also applied to identify environmental pollution related microRNAs and finding microRNA deregulation in Passive Smoking at home (n=8), Passive smoking at work (n=1), Vehicle traffic at home (n=53), home distance from Etna Volcano (n=21), and home Type radon risk (n=19) exposures. A second biomarker, Benzo(a)Pyrene-DNA adducts levels in blood, was also studied to understand its correlation to the above-mentioned environmental factors. The specificity of this biomarker was minor than microRNA pattern biomarker, but it was strongly correlated to vehicle traffic pollution. The analysis of the microRNA environmental signatures indicates the contribution of environmental factors to the analysed lung cancers in the following decreasing rank: (a) vehicle traffic, (b) passive smoke, (c) radon, and (d) volcano ashes. These results provide evidence that microRNA analysis can be used to investigate the contribution of environmental factors in human lung cancer occurring in non-smoker

Pseudo + quasi SU(3): Towards a shell-model description of heavy deformed nuclei

The pseudo-SU(3) model has been extensively used to study normal parity bands in even-even and odd-mass heavy deformed nuclei. The use of a realistic Hamiltonian that mixes many SU(3) irreps has allowed for a successful description of energy spectra and electromagnetic transition strengths. While this model is powerful, there are situations in which the intruder states must be taken into account explicitly. The quasi-SU(3) symmetry is expected to complement the model, allowing for a description of nucleons occupying normal and intruder parity orbitals using a unified formalism.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, invited talk at Computational and Group Theoretical Methods in Nuclear Physics, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, February 18-21, 200

Gendered Trajectories Through Education, Work and Parenthood in Peru

This paper explores young people’s inter-related transitions and pathways through schooling, work and parenthood, with a special focus on the way gender affects trajectories into adulthood among a sample of young people growing up in poverty. The authors report on the outcomes and trajectories of those members of the Older Cohort who participated in Young Lives longitudinal qualitative research between 2007 and 2014, when they were aged between 13 and 20, and we combine this analysis with descriptive survey statistics from the wider Young Lives sample of Older Cohort children: according to Round 4 of the Young Lives survey, at the age of 19, 70 per cent of the young people in the Older Cohort had completed secondary education and 39 per cent of the cohort had started tertiary education. Young people from poorer families or rural areas were less likely to have completed school than their peers, but we find no evidence of gender or ethnic differences in school completion rates; the results from the qualitative analysis show that gender mattered in young people’s trajectories when families had limited economic resources, in both rural and urban scenarios. In addition, the study shows that role of the family seems to be very important in decisions about young people’s futures; with regard to education trajectories, although gender differences were not observed during primary and secondary school, this study found that low-income families tended to prioritise boys’ education at post-secondary level. Moreover, results show that in rural areas young people who wished to pursue post-secondary education might also decide to work; however, these temporary jobs exposed them to risky situations and maltreatment, especially girls; in rural areas, social norms regarding gender are important to an understanding of why work is the most common trajectory among young men in early adulthood. Working is a positive thing for young men because it positions them as providers. In urban areas young men’s involvement in work and families’ expectations of males are different; parents try to postpone their offspring’s access to money, in order to keep them away from drugs, alcohol and gangs that might lead them astray; the results about the transition into parenthood show that there was a clear difference between the experiences of boys who became parents at a young age or were waiting to have a child and those of girls. The situation was worse for girls. Boys were more protected by their parents, who supported them emotionally and financially in the experience of becoming a parent and starting a new family

Gendered trajectories through education, work and parenthood in Peru

Este documento explora las transiciones y caminos interrelacionados de los jóvenes a través de la escolarización, el trabajo y la paternidad, con un enfoque especial en la forma en que el género afecta las trayectorias hacia la edad adulta entre una muestra de jóvenes que crecen en la pobreza. Informamos sobre los resultados y las trayectorias de los miembros de la cohorte mayor que participaron en la investigación cualitativa longitudinal de Young Lives entre 2007 y 2014, cuando tenían entre 13 y 20 años, y combinamos este análisis con estadísticas de encuestas descriptivas de la muestra más amplia de Young Lives de niños de la cohorte mayor

Estructura, estrategias y poder de mercado de Genomma Lab: caso de estudio

En el presente trabajo de investigación se abordó el tema de la estructura, estrategias y poder del mercado de Genomma Lab, para lo que se realizó un estudio descriptivo y explicativo donde se describen los conceptos relacionados con los elementos antes mencionados y se exploran los índices de Herfindahl-Hirschman (IHH) y Pascual. La metodología que se utilizó es la aplicación de los índices los cuales son una medida del nivel de concentración existente en una industria. El índice IHH es la suma del cuadrado de las cuotas de mercado de las distintas empresas que operan en una industria y se ha aplicado para delimitar a la industria farmacéutica mexicana en una estructura de mercado. En los resultados principales se identificó que Genomma es una empresa diversificada, que toma lo mejor de cada empresa y lo potencializa. Por esta razón encaja en la mayoría de los modelos, ya que se ve obligada a actuar como monopolio. En un estudio llevado a cabo en el año 2012 esta empresa obtuvo en el índice de IHH 0.01690 y en el índice Pascual 0.00127, ubicándola dentro del liderazgo representativo del sector empresarial, seguida de Bayer con 0.0086 y 0.00033 respectivamente. Por su parte, el índice de inestabilidad se ubicó en 0.0235, lo que significa que la participación de mercadoha cambiado muy poco. Los tres índices aplicados demuestran que el mercado es bastante competitivo, sin importar el número de empresas. // In the present research work the subject of the structure, strategies and market power of Genomma Lab was addressed, so a descriptive and explanatory study was carried out describing the concepts related to the aforementioned elements and explaining the indexes of Herfindahl -Hirschman (IHH) and Pascual. The methodology used is the application of the indices which are a measure of the level of concentration existing in an industry. The IHH index is the sum of the square of the market shares of the different companies that operate in an industry. This is to delimit the Mexican pharmaceutical industry in a market structure. In the main results, it was identified that Genomma is a diversified company, that takes the best of each company and potentiates it, for that reason it fits in the majority of the models, since it is forced to act like monopoly, that is why in the Year 2012 was obtained in the index of IHH 0.01690 and in the Paschal index 0.00127, which is why it is the most representative of the companies, followed by Bayer with 0.0086 and 0.00033 respectively. In addition, you get the instability index is 0.0235 small, which means that market share has changed very little, all three indices show that the market is quite competitive, regardless of the number of companies

Aprovechamiento de los lodos de la planta de tratamiento de aguas residuales del municipio de Funza, como insumo de cultivo y mejoramiento del suelo

Trabajo de InvestigaciónEn este proyecto se muestra una alternativa para la disposición de lodos generados en la planta de tratamiento de agua residual del municipio de Funza. Se realizaron y analizaron los resultados de laboratorio de las muestras de lodo en condiciones óptimas teniendo en cuenta el control de temperatura y hermeticidad y se evaluaron sus propiedades físicas y químicas permitiendo la determinación de un posible aprovechamiento como subproducto de cultivo de lechuga y zanahoria.1. INTRODUCCION 2. ANTECEDENTES 3. PLANTEAMIENTO Y FORMULACIÓN DEL PROBLEMA 4. OBJETIVOS 5. JUSTIFICACIÓN 6. DELIMITACIÓN 7. MARCO REFERENCIAL 8. METODOLOGÍA 9. DISEÑO METODOLÓGICO 10. CONCLUSIONES 11. RECOMENDACIONES 12. BIBLIOGRAFÍA 13. ANEXOSPregradoIngeniero Civi

La danza como recurso didáctico para el estudio de la cultura estética en la educación básica.

La Nueva Reforma Curricular de la Educación Básica en el Ecuador contempla la necesidad de reorientar la formación de los niños y niñas de un llamado enciclopedismo a un desarrollo de la inteligencia a través del arte, la comprensión, creatividad y educación en valores, todas sustentadas en la realidad ecuatoriana y en las necesidades crecientes de un mundo globalizado. Si nos remontamos un poco en la historia, la principal influencia para la educación fue El Liberalismo que cambió las antiguas concepciones de la enseñanza, evolucionando de una formación religiosa a una laica. Con la proclamación de la Revolución Liberal se da paso al desarrollo industrial y como consecuencia se modifica el sistema educativo, el mismo que priorizar las ciencias técnicas de formación profesional. Sin embargo no se olvida del valor de la libertad y dentro de esta se impulsa el arte en la educación, así se crean Escuelas de Bellas Artes en Guayaquil y Cuenca se revitaliza la de Quito, que forma generaciones de artistas (especialmente pintores)

Relationships between soil physicochemical properties and nitrogen fixing, nitrifying and denitrifying under varying land-use practices in the northwest region of Argentina

The aim of this study was to evaluate the response pattern of diazotrophic microbes, denitrifiers and nitrifiers to different types of land use management, such as soybean monoculture (M) during 5 and 24 years (M5 and M24) and soybean-maize rotation (R) during 4 and 15 years (R4 and R15) in two subsequent years at the time point of flowering. Soil samples from a site recently introduced into agriculture (RUA) and a pristine soil under native vegetation (NV) were used as controls. Abundances of different functional groups of microbes were assessed using the direct quantification of marker genes by quantitative real-time PCR using extracted DNA from rhizosphere samples. In addition, soil chemical and physical properties were analysed and correlated with the abundance data from the functional microbial groups under investigation. Overall, the results indicate that the abundance of nifH genes was higher under R treatments compared to M treatments. The abundance of ammonium monooxygenase genes amoA (AOA) was generally higher under rotation systems and decreased under M24. RUA evidenced a negative effect on the establishment and development of AOA communities. The influence of land use on nirS abundance was inconsistent. However, R treatments showed a high abundance of nirK genes compared to M treatments. In both growing seasons, the abundance of nosZ genes was higher under NV compared with the other treatments. Furthermore, M24 treatment was related to strongly changed chemical and physical soil properties compared with the other sites. As expected, soil samples from RUA showed the strong dynamics of measured parameters indicating the high sensitivity of soils under transition to environmental parameters. Our results also indicated that the long-term crop rotation modified the abundance of the investigated microbial groups compared to the monoculture and increased soil chemical and physical quality. Therefore, our results provide evidence for a stimulatory effect of the long-term crop rotation on the abundance of microbes involved in N transformation.Fil: Perez Brandan, Carolina Gabriela. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria; ArgentinaFil: Meyer, Annabel. Helmholtz Center Munich German Research Center For Environmental Health; AlemaniaFil: Meriles, Jose Manuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; ArgentinaFil: Huidobro, Jorgelina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria; ArgentinaFil: Schloter, Michael. Helmholtz Center Munich German Research Center For Environmental Health; AlemaniaFil: Vargas Gil, Silvina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin