What Would It Take to Overcome the Damaging Effects of Structural Racism and Ensure a More Equitable Future?

This report calls on civic leaders, advocates, elected officials, and philanthropists to address the legacy of structural racism in the United States and advance racial equity by taking steps to close four large equity gaps between people of color and white people.Based on interviews and discussions with experts, advocates, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of wealth building, public education, employment, and justice policy, the report outlines solutions for each of the four interrelated disparities — in wealth, education, employment and earnings, and policing practices — arguing that greater equity in one area could lead to gains in others

Making Connections: How Do Immigrants\u27 Social Networks Influence Their Employment Outcomes?

This paper examines the relationship between the size of local ethnic networks and immigrants’ likelihood of being self-employed in 11 metropolitan areas in the U.S. I use American Community Survey data from 2005 to 2011. A two-stage discrete choice logistic specification models agents’ decisions to have a job or not, and if so, to work for wages or be self-employed. Generally, the likelihood of being self-employed decreases with network size, but the opposite holds true for salaried employment. I also interview self-employed Hmong in Saint Paul to explore the effect immigrants’ attitudes toward different employment options have on their work outcomes

State Immigration Enforcement Policies: How They Impact Low-Income Households

Over seven million U.S. children live with at least one noncitizen parent – and 80 percent of these children are US-born citizens. Close to 5 million US-citizen children live with an unauthorized immigrant parent, potentially subject to deportation. Research has shown that the deportation of a parent has serious deleterious effects on families—emotional distress, behavioral issues, and economic hardship for children—and that even the threat of deportation can hurt a family’s well-being by causing fear that restricts mobility, access to jobs, and use of public and private supports in times of need. The election of President Trump, with his plans to increase efforts to identify and deport unauthorized immigrants, has signaled a harsher policy environment for immigrant families than in recent years. In State Immigration Enforcement Policies: How They Impact Low-Income Households , researchers at NCCP, Urban Institute, and Migration Policy Institute looked at how the changing immigration policy environment is likely to affect immigrant families. Specifically, the report examines whether immigrant families living in states that ramped up enforcement of federal policy saw any changes in their material hardship, or how often fear of deportation affected their ability to pay for essentials (such as rent, utilities, or food). The report highlights important connections between immigration policy enforcement and well-being in immigrant households

Remediation of atrazine in irrigation runoff by a constructed wetland

Due to its frequent use in agriculture and its frequent detection in surface water, atrazine was chosen as a model compound to study the treatment capability of a surface flow wetland used to remediate irrigation runoff at a container nursery near Portland, Oregon. Further evaluation of treatment of atrazine was performed under controlled conditions using static wetland microcosms. The potential to enhance microbial degradation of atrazine in the constructed wetland was investigated using bioaugmentation with an atrazine spill-site soil containing a large population of atrazine-degrading microorganisms. For the first five field experiments conducted in 1998 and 1999, the percent atrazine recovered at the outlet of the constructed wetland during a 7-d period ranged from 16 to 24% and several degradation products (deethylatrazine (DEA), deisopropylatrazine (DIA)) were detected in runoff water. Changes in total flow or frequency and intensity of runoff events did not affect treatment. However, for a sixth experiment, when runoff events were longer in duration treatment was compromised. Static water-sediment column experiments suggested that sorption is an important mechanism for atrazine loss from water passing through the constructed wetland. Less than 12% of the atrazine applied to static wetland microcosms remained in the water column after 56 d. Atrazine degradates were observed in water and sediment, with hydroxyatrazine (HA) the predominant degradate. The presence of a large population of atrazinedegrading organisms was not observed in wetland sediment, suggesting that microbial degradation of atrazine in the constructed wetland was inconsequential. Wetland sediment bioaugmented with spill-site soil (1: 100 w/w) was shown to rapidly degrade 30% of atrazine added, and most probable number (MPN) assays confirmed growth of microorganisms in bioaugmented wetland sediment. Enhanced atrazine degradation using bioaugmentation into static wetland microcosms was successful when atrazine treatment in the water column of microcosms was employed. Results of these studies indicated that this constructed wetland effectively reduced overall atrazine concentration in irrigation runoff by sorption, abiotic degradation, and possibly by plant uptake. Due to the limited presence of atrazine-degrading microorganisms in wetland sediment, bioaugmentation provides the best opportunity for enhancing microbial degradation of atrazine in sediment in this wetland system

Ganando Confianza: Research Focus Groups with Immigrant Mexican Mothers

Immigrant families with children with developmental disabilities must be served using culturally sensitive approaches to service and research to maximize treatment benefits. In an effort to better understand cultural issues relevant to the provision of parenting programs for immigrant Mexican mothers of children with developmental disabilities, we conducted sustained focus groups through which we could learn more about our participants and thereby improve services. This paper reports on the challenges and lessons learned from these groups. We characterize the key lessons as (a) recruitment and retention is more than agreement to participate; (b) confidentiality is not just a word but an activity; (c) the complicated nature of language; (d) cultural norms shape the group process; (e) appreciating the value of taking time; and (f) gender issues and group interaction. Service providers and researchers who work with Mexican families may benefit from our experiences as they promote and develop programs and projects in the developmental disabilities field

Ganando Confianza: Research Focus Groups with Immigrant Mexican Mothers

Immigrant families with children with developmental disabilities must be served using culturally sensitive approaches to service and research to maximize treatment benefits. In an effort to better understand cultural issues relevant to the provision of parenting programs for immigrant Mexican mothers of children with developmental disabilities, we conducted sustained focus groups through which we could learn more about our participants and thereby improve services. This paper reports on the challenges and lessons learned from these groups. We characterize the key lessons as (a) recruitment and retention is more than agreement to participate; (b) confidentiality is not just a word but an activity; (c) the complicated nature of language; (d) cultural norms shape the group process; (e) appreciating the value of taking time; and (f) gender issues and group interaction. Service providers and researchers who work with Mexican families may benefit from our experiences as they promote and develop programs and projects in the developmental disabilities field

Vent burst pressure effects on vented gas explosion reduced pressure

The overpressure generated in a 10 L cylindrical vented vessel with an L/D of 2.8 was investigated, with end ignition opposite the vent, as a function of the vent static burst pressure, Pstat, from 35 to 450 mb. Three different Kv (V2/3/Av) of 3.6, 7.2 and 21.7 were investigated for 10% methaneeair and 7.5% ethylene eair. It was shown that the dynamic burst pressure, Pburst, was higher than Pstat with a proportionality constant of 1.37. For 10% methaneeair Pburst was the controlling peak pressure for K Pburst in the literature and in EU and US standards. For higher Kv the overpressure due to flow through the vent, Pfv, was the dominant overpressure and the static burst pressure was not additive to the external overpressure. Literature on the influence of Pstat at low Kv was shown to support the present finding and it is recommended that the influence of Pstat in gas venting standards is revised

Hasil Final _Jurnal Analisis Rasio Youtube 5 Vendor Brand Perhiasan Terkenal Di Dunia.pdf

Youtube is a video sharing website created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. The company is headquartered in San Bruno, California. Youtube allows users to create videos of minimum duration from 10 minutes to 8 minutes, accompanied by a variety of user/creator-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos. In addition, amateur content such as video blogs, and several other creative features. In Indonesia, there are 93.8 percent of the 170 million active users, making Indonesia the country with the largest Youtube users in the world. The number of active Youtube users in Indonesia can certainly provide an opportunity for brands to make the Youtube platform a social media marketing platform. There are 5 world-famous jewelry brand vendors that use Youtube as a marketing platform, namely: Dior, Tiffany & Co, Mikimoto, Cartier, and Buccellati. The purpose of this study is to calculate the credibility of the Youtube account performance of the Top 5 Famous Jewelry Brand Vendors in the World. The method used in this study is an exploratory quantitative method. The results of this study indicate that the vendor of a well-known jewelry brand in the world. Indonesia is ranked first and has good account performance credibility