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St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 24, No. 1 - Podcast
No full textSt. Cloud State University School of Public Affairs Dean King Banaian provided an in-person and virtual review of the March 2022 Quarterly Business Report at the Davidson Opera House in St. Cloud Minnesota. The report shows that as the pandemic subsides, the new year has ushered in a long awaited broad-based area economic expansion. Virtually all sectors of the area economy experienced employment growth as the area added more than 3,600 jobs over the year ending January 2022. Firms’ future outlook remains very strong, but is clouded by accelerating inflation (and accompanying wage pressures) and persistent labor shortages.https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/scqbr_video/1009/thumbnail.jp
Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Events in Transgender Patients Undergoing Hormone Therapy
Get PDFThe number of transgender individuals currently being prescribed cross-sex hormone replacement therapy (CSHRT) is currently at an all-time high, but the short- and long-term effects that those medications have upon the cardiovascular system remains largely unknown. To examine the effect that CSHRT has on the cardiovascular system, this review synthesizes the results of five different studies on CSHRT and cardiovascular outcomes in transgender individuals. The report also examines differences in cardiovascular outcomes associated with different dosages and preparations of CSHRT. This review notes that transgender women are at highest risk of adverse cardiovascular events, with those taking high-dose oral estrogen being up to 45 times more likely to experience a thromboembolitic event. The evidence surrounding transgender men is less conclusive, but does suggest a slightly increased risk of acute and chronic cardiovascular issues. These results suggest that transgender individuals taking CSHRT may be at an increased risk for adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Healthcare providers working with transgender patients should be aware of dosages and routes of CSHRT that carry fewer risks yet achieve similar patient outcomes. Patients must also be educated on these risks while being guided to develop healthy cardiovascular habits
Putin and the Czar: Autocracy and Dissent
Get PDFThis project will explore the analogies between Russian foreign and domestic policies from contemporary times and from the late Russian Empire of the early 20th century. Both Czar Nicholas II and Vladimir Putin are leaders committed to autocratic rule and repression of internal dissent. Both leaders have a track record of intensifying repression as their time in power progresses. A further link is the impact that foreign policy plays on the internal politics of Russia, with success or failure in foreign conflict providing either solidification of power or the spark for popular unrest. We will explore topics such as the similarities between the crackdowns on socialist and Jewish dissidents in Imperial Russia and Putin’s expansion of the surveillance state and increased attack on political dissidents such as Alexie Navalny’s democratic reformers. The progression of Nicholas II’s rule and the impact of failed foreign policy tied with a disregard for dissatisfaction at home could give us insight into how Putin’s future decisions and outcomes may play out, as well as provide a warning for the instability and suffering that may come with said endgame. We will also take into consideration key differences between the two rulers, such as personal political aptitude or competence, an empire trying to maintain its power versus a country trying to reassert lost prestige, and a Russia that is interconnected with the wider world versus one retreating further into isolation
Considering Bias Through the Mirror/ Window of Art and Literature
Get PDFAlthough narrative medicine has become an established tool in teaching reflection, empathy, among other critical skills in medical education, its use in promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion has not yet been thoroughly explored. Educators in narrative medicine in a medical school setting reflect upon creating and implementing a curriculum that highlights voices of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and persons living with disability. Narrative tools to promote self-reflection and examination of personal biases are explored and considered as a method of fulfilling our collective call to action for increased equity in medical education
Factoring the Human into Health
Get PDFHow often we\u27ve felt the need be a human more than anything else? Can this be the case also for self care, and delivery of healthcare? Value based care to connect and cater for one’s whole being could help go a long way. For, the person walking into a health facility might often have underlying unmet needs than apparent through the visible symptoms. While it might be a genuine challenge to meet them all, adopting a more holistic approach to health certainly helps identifying and addressing them through person centered care. Complementing treatment with healing, it facilitates patient activation and benefits provider - patient relationship; both have a potential impact on the coping strategy and process
Wordsworthian Prospect Revolution and the Disciples of Secular Romanticism/Some of My Own
Get PDFThe legacy of William Wordsworth’s authorial influence is often minimized when examined in the writing of his second generation contemporaries (Percy Shelley and John Keats). While scholars frequently demonstrate these poets’ shared transcendence of the subject/object paradox, they ultimately fail to credit Wordsworth with the revolutionary moral applicability of secular Romanticism. Instead, academic criticism generally overemphasizes the confounding impact of Wordsworth’s post-Ballads fundamentalism, thereby overlooking the enduring impetus of the young Romantics’ initial call to discipleship in Lyrical Ballads. When closely examining the authors’ poetry and prose, their extensive combination of unique personal experience and inner passion as a means of depicting objective reality can be directly attributed to Wordsworth\u27s observations concerning the universal Truth of reflective and individualized prospects. Thus, the poetic ideals of these young Romantics are based significantly on Wordsworth’s rather revolutionary understanding of prospect poetry, particularly as described in the new travel narrative of Lyrical Ballads. Moreover, Wordsworth\u27s unique perspective serves as the fundamental basis of Shelley and Keats\u27 poetic depictions, rather than a simple source of their inspiration. Through the development of Wordsworth’s secular poetic doctrines, and the second generation discipleship of Shelley and Keats, the metaphysical relationship between object and subject is forever psycho-functionally expanded by the sublime possibilities of morally reformative poetic influence. The subjective-objectivity of Wordsworth’s prospect poetry thereby comes to characterize an important niche in British Romanticism, creating a period-wide legacy for which he will never be forgotten.
“Some of My Own” serves as modern verse tribute to Wordsworth’s ameliorative legacy
Elder Financial Exploitation and Scam Activities Targeting Elderly Victims
Get PDFElder Financial exploitation is being referred to as the “crime of the 21st century due to its yearly increase in losses and rate of victimization, with the estimated loss ranging from 36.5 billion annually. This research was conducted to better understand the type of scams that elders fall victim to, what is being done to help stop these crimes and assist elders, as well as the prevalence of victimization and limitations of current laws and legislation. This integrative research was conducted utilizing online databases and peer-reviewed research to obtain the relevant details of this thesis. Results from research using online methods revealed that the true scope of elder financial exploitation is not known. This is especially relevant in the amount of annual losses, as well as rates of victimization which indicate that only 1 in 24 cases of elder abuse are even reported
A Study on Nonnative English-Speaking Teachers’ Perceptions of Intercultural Communicative Competence
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to identify nonnative English-speaking teachers’ diverse intercultural experiences and what influenced their perceptions to other cultures. The researcher conducted interviews with nine participants to collect the data. Semi-structured interviews adapted from Zhou (2011) and background surveys were used. The participants were nonnative English-speaking teachers in South Korea and the U.S. They shared their unique experiences in intercultural situations and provided the causes of their intercultural experiences and how their experiences had affected their teaching and learning culture. The findings are as follows: 1) the participants’ intercultural experiences were related to language (English) and/or culture regardless of whether their experiences were positive or embarrassing. 2) They could learn culture in diverse ways such as culture learning in school, their own experiences of teaching culture to students, and their in-person and/or indirect experiences. 3) Most of them showed positive views to each way they had learned other cultures. The findings pointed to the prominence of first- and second-hand experiences to develop one’s level of ICC
DISPARITIES IN BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONS FOR BLACK, INDIGENOUS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR IN SCHOOLS
Get PDFInvestigating teacher response to student behaviors in the classroom, focusing on the disparity between BIPOC student referral rates and that of White students. Discussions include removal discipline, PBIS, the definition of problem behavior, and unconscious bias