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How Securitization, Changing Migration Patterns, and Gendered Physical & Social Attributes Affect the Crossing Experiences of Migrant Women at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Get PDFThis thesis draws from literature at the intersection of human rights, migration, gender, and borders. It analyzes migration as a gendered experience at the U.S.-Mexico border over the last ten years, looking at how the crossing experience of migrants varies by gender, as well as considering migrant deaths by sex. This paper gleans insights from interviews with migration-related agencies, and analyzes border patrol records and human rights reports. The main aim of this paper is to examine the differential impact that trends toward securitization, and its effect on the policies at the border, have on female migrants, looking at the southern Arizona and southern Texas areas.
Findings illustrate that female migrants are vulnerable at the intersection of social and physical factors. Analyses indicate that female migrant death rates have been increasing at an especially sharp rate, and that female migrants are more likely to die of harsh environmental effects, with an especially strong difference between sexes in southern Texas. Migrant females were also found to undertake fewer crossing attempts and die closer to the border, especially in southern Arizona. Migrant females are also found to be more likely to travel in a family unit, which poses additional difficulties for their crossing. Finally, females are more likely to experience sexual assault before and during their crossing, which can have profound psychological impacts during crossing. Overall, findings illustrate that female migrants are vulnerable due to social and physical factors, suggesting their experiences should be analyzed across the whole border through these lenses
The Aachen Inscription: A Draft Dedication Written in Hebrew on an Early Modern Ream Wrapper
Get PDFThis annotation is about a newly cataloged manuscript at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries with an inscription about leaders and institutions in Aachen, Germany during the first decades of the 18th century. Some historical background and manuscript material cited. Includes photos and script analysis
Penn Library\u27s Ms. Codex 1660 - Axiomes de medicinne. (Video Orientation)
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Penn Library\u27s LJS 382 - [Alchemical compendium]. (Video Orientation)
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Environmental Impacts of Increased Circularity in Bicycle Sharing Service
Get PDFAlthough bike-sharing services have gained tremendous popularity in China by presenting themselves as champions of sustainable urban transportation and an example of a sharing economy, the lack of a sufficient recycling and maintenance process has been pointed to as one of the main contributors to its environmental impact and has called the sustainability of bike-sharing into question. The adoption of a circular economic model for this service is proposed to remediate these impacts. This Life Cycle Assessment study will estimate the effects of a circular economy model adoption through increased recycling rates and recycling efficiency of bike-sharing services. The results find that increase in circularity of the bicycle sharing system does bring reduction to nearly all environmental impact categories; however, it is inconclusive if the rise in circularity brings an overall reduction in environmental impact. The current reduction is limited by existing recycled materials and environmental impacts caused by the recycling process. Further research is needed to confirm the finding in this study
Demolition and Reconstruction as Urban Preservation in China: The Case of LiaoCheng City
Get PDFThis thesis studies the large-scale “oxymoron” projects/policies (demolition and reconstruction activities) that occurred in China, especially in LiaoCheng City to understand the design of the policies/projects, the factors at play, and their effects on preservation efforts in historic Chinese cities. This study shows that large-scale “oxymoron” projects/policies are mainly affected by four aspects. Firstly, how to maintain the authenticity of historical heritage during the preservation process is still controversial due to China\u27s unique cultural background. Secondly, the land finance, the rapid economic development, and the continuous expansion of the cities have made the land value of the historical centers rise rapidly. Governments and developers carried out large-scale demolition and reconstruction of historic cities for profits. In addition, local governments have too much power over the protection of historical cities. The third reason is that China\u27s current preservation legal systems and regulations for historical cities are not complete. Fourthly, the awareness of the values of historical heritage is not enough under the influence of the idea of breaking the old and establishing the new in the Cultural Revolution
Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
No full textIn the past three decades, cosmic microwave background (CMB) has provided a wealth of information on the origin and the history of the universe. From motivating the theory of the Big Bang, to providing tests for the standard model of cosmology; from measuring the Hubble constant, to constraining the mass of the neutrino; from testing the matter composition of the universe, to shedding light on the cluster evolution, CMB has truly become one of the most critical subjects of modern cosmology. However, to fully realize its potential and to achieve a level of accuracy that none has achieved before, large observatories equipped with ten times the detectors as the current generation experiments are needed. Such is the time that Simons Observatory (SO) collaboration came together, and proposed a Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) and an array of Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) that met such criteria. Built upon the expertise from the current generation ground-based telescopes such as the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the South Pole Telescope (SPT), SO will initially deploy a total of 60,000 detectors, split about evenly between the LAT and SATs, with the potential to double the detector count in the LAT. Naturally, it is no easy undertaking to build a receiver capable of such feat for the LAT. In this thesis, I will recount the science cases put forth by SO, and walk through our journey in the designing, making, and testing of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR)
On Remembering, Ceasing to Be: For String Quartet & Chamber Ensemble
No full textOn remembering, ceasing to be is a four movement work for large chamber ensemble featuring string quartet. The work focuses on the act of remembering and the disorienting sensation this act can produce. The form intends to question, critique, and reconcile the existential detachment of examining one’s present against the romanticized past and memories of the present imagined in the past. The piece centers the string quartet, both as a genre and ensemble, within this form and tasks the quartet with pervasive elements of what I call “group virtuosity:” a virtuosity that is a focused objective (and also a natural result) of countless hours practicing and performing with the same people. Throughout the work the quartet is asked to periodically abandon the temporality and intonation of the winds and harp and cling to their identity as a single instrumental unit. These episodes come in the forms of insertions of historically important and personally meaningful string quartet literature, sudden shifts between disparate performance practice styles, and long, focused timbral and harmonic juxtapositions against the winds and harp. In these ways, On remembering, ceasing to be musicalizes the moments of separation from the present, both brief and lingering, that occur when remembering the past self and the present self the past imagined
The Impact of Value-Based Reimbursement on Patient Care
Get PDFThis paper aims to perform initial research on the impact of value-based reimbursement on the quality of patient care. I will apply descriptive and exploratory data analysis methods on patient claims data to understand the change in length of stay over time as value-based payment models became a larger proportion of reimbursement structures. I also provide descriptive evidence of the obstacles to the implementation of value-based reimbursement based on physician perspectives. Initial findings show that diagnoses related to pregnancies decreased in mean and standard deviation of length of stay, which points to increased patient quality. There may be some correlation with increased value-based reimbursement and decreased length of stay, but there is no clear pattern to draw firm conclusions and it appears as a whole that shifts in reimbursement models result in small impacts
