Green Card Research Articles

Application of "Green Channel Card" in Critical Patients in Emergency Department

Objective To explore the effect of "green channel card" in critically ill patients in emergency department. Methods Seventy-five critically ill patients in the emergency department of our hospital from August 2019 to April 2021 were selected as the experimental group, and 63 critically ill patients from June 2018 to July 2019 were selected as the control group. The experimental group was admitted by using the "green channel card", and the control group was admitted by the green channel signed by the general administrative duty in the hospital. The success rate of emergency rescue, patient satisfaction, waiting time, effective complaints and other related conditions were compared between the two groups. Results The success rate of rescue in the experimental group increased, but there was no statistical significance; while the waiting time in the experimental group was significantly higher than that in the control group (P < 0.05), the patient satisfaction was also higher than that in the control group (P < 0.05); the complaint rate was lower than that in the control group (P < 0.05). Conclusion The use of "green channel card" in emergency critically ill patients can significantly shorten the waiting time for rescue, improve patient satisfaction, reduce the complaints of patients and their families, and make the green channel more efficient, usual and rapid. It is worthy of being widely popularized in the clinical application.

Investigation of Seasonal Female and Child Labor Use in Cotton Agriculture: The Case of Mardin Province

In the study, it has been tried to determine the dimensions of seasonal female and child labor employed in cotton agriculture in Mardin province and the factors that are effective in the seasonal agricultural workers working in cotton harvesting themselves and their children. For this purpose, the data obtained by face-to-face interviews with 150 seasonal female workers in the cotton-producing villages of Mardin province were determined by simple random sampling method. It was used in the analysis of the probit model with the LIMDEP statistical program. In the study, according to the results of the CART analysis, it was determined that the most important factor affecting the annual income level of female working in the cotton harvest is the annual working period and the education level of the children. In the probit model, which predicts whether female working in the cotton harvest business have children under the age of 18, the employee's nationality other than the Turkish Republic, the number of children under the age of 18 working in the cotton harvest business, and the probability of the children of those with social security other than SSI (green card, etc.) increases, the probability of being married decreases. It can be suggested that female working in the cotton harvest in Mardin and their children under the age of 18 can become SSI employees, raise their living standards, and improve social, accommodation and nutrition education conditions.

Comparing the Effectiveness of Assignment Strategies for Estimating Likely Undocumented Status in Secondary Data Sources for Latino and Asian Immigrants

Researchers are increasingly interested in the role of undocumented status in immigrant economic, social, and health outcomes. A major obstacle to this work is that detailed immigration status is not widely collected in representative data sources. Some secondary data sources collect enough information to identify immigrants without a green card (non-LPRs), and researchers take different approaches to assign undocumented status to immigrants within this population. These approaches have not been compared to one another, nor do we know if they work equally well for Latino and Asian immigrants. In this research note, we test the validity of several assignment strategies using the 2001, 2004, and 2008 panels of the restricted version of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to measure differences in health-related outcomes (e.g., health insurance coverage and self-rated health) by immigration status. We compare results when immigration status is directly measured using the detailed information in the SIPP to several strategies to assign undocumented status among non-LPRs. The probabilistic approach produced the smallest biases, but Asian immigrants had larger biases compared to Latinos across all strategies.

Marriage based green card timeline

marriage based green card timeline

Evaluation, Satisfaction, and Loyalty in the Context of Green Credit Card Services: Green Ethics as a Moderator

This research aims to examine the relationships among evaluation of green credit card services, overall satisfaction with green credit card services, and loyalty to green credit cards.In addition, this search examines whether consumers’ green ethics moderates the relationship between evaluation of green credit card services and loyalty to green credit cards. An online survey (N = 2,000) was conducted to test the hypotheses. Consistent with all the hypotheses, the results indicate that (1) evaluation of green credit card services has a positive effect on overall satisfaction with green credit card services (hypothesis 1); (2) evaluation of green credit card services has a positive effect on loyalty to green credit cards (hypothesis 2); (3) overall satisfaction with green credit card services has a positive effect on loyalty to green credit cards (hypothesis 3); (4) overall satisfaction with green credit card services mediates the relationship between evaluation of green credit card services and loyalty to green credit cards (hypothesis 4); and (5) the magnitude of the positive effect of evaluation of green credit card services on loyalty to green credit cards increases as individuals’ green ethics decreases (hypothesis 5).

Is there any merit to the merit‐based immigration system? What Sub‐Saharan African immigrant labor and housing market outcomes tell us about U.S. economic and immigration systems

AbstractFor decades, U.S. immigration policy debates have centered on creating a merit‐based system limiting entry to high‐skilled immigrants. Yet the emphasis on merit‐based immigration ignores the fact that high‐skilled immigrants already enter the United States in merit‐based immigration assume high‐skilled immigrants benefit the U.S. economy because they are better able than low‐skilled immigrants to translate skills into economic success. Using Sub‐Saharan (Black) African immigrants' labor and housing market outcomes, I show that meritocracy only partially explains U.S. labor and housing outcomes, leaving a merit‐based system unlikely to address America's economic needs. The majority of immigrants to the U.S. are non‐White, and racial discrimination in the labor market results in occupational and wage disadvantages in the U.S. Due to the public charge rule, high skilled immigrants may be less likely to get their visas renewed or green card applications approved because of these labor market disadvantages. Without stable visa status, high‐skilled immigrants will be less likely to make long‐term economic investments in the United States—an important way of contributing to the U.S. economy. Together, research indicates that U.S. immigration reform will not work without first enacting policy addressing racial disparities in economic systems.

Stressed? Depressed? You are not alone

Many physicists find that establishing work–life balance is crucial to battling the COVID-related stresses of isolation, low productivity, and despondency.

Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) does not support "Public Charge Rule" changes affecting immigrants' food security.

Federal nutrition assistance programs, especially the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), are an important safety net for households in the USA. Although few immigrant households are eligible for SNAP, those who need the program are less likely to participate than nonimmigrant households. Documented barriers to participation include language challenges and anti-immigrant rhetoric. However, previous research indicates that when immigrant households do participate in SNAP, their young children experience less food insecurity and the household as a whole makes fewer tradeoffs between food and other necessities. The Public Charge Rule limits ability to obtain a green card based on participation in public assistance programs. A recent change to this rule added programs to include some noncash programs, including SNAP. Although the vast majority of immigrants who are subject to the Public Charge Rule are not eligible for SNAP, misunderstanding of the rule and fear threaten to reduce SNAP enrollment and consequently increase food insecurity in immigrant families. Spillover effects may occur for families not targeted by changes in the Public Charge Rule as well as decreasing access to other safety net programs that are not impacted by the proposed changes, such as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and school meals programs. In order to support the food security of immigrant families in the USA, we recommend that the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State remove all non-cash safety net programs from the Public Charge Rule.

Skilled Labor Mobility and Firm Value: Evidence from Green Card Allocations

Abstract This paper studies how the labor market frictions of skilled workers affect corporate valuation. The analysis features immigrant workers’ mobility constraints imposed by the U.S. green card application process and exploits exogenous variations caused by imperfections in the current immigration system. The study finds that relaxing mobility constraints negatively influences firm value. This effect is stronger for firms with higher labor adjustment costs. Reductions in investments and increases in labor costs are channels through which labor mobility adversely affects firm value. The findings suggest that monopoly rent over skilled workers is an important economic determinant of corporate valuation.

Rethinking immigration policies for STEM doctorates.

Many Ph.D.'s follow an inefficient path to green cards through visas aimed at entry-level workers

Examining the Collateral Effects of Reducing Voice Level on Vocal Stereotypy and Functional Speech

The current study examined the collateral effects of an antecedent intervention for decreasing speech volume on vocal stereotypy. After teaching the participant to use a conversational voice level by providing visual feedback from a decibel meter app, conversational voice levels were differentially reinforced in the presence of a green card. Differential effects in voice magnitude during a green-card condition and a no-card condition were demonstrated using an alternating-treatments design. Results showed a decrease in volume of speech during the green-card condition, an overall decrease in vocal stereotypy, and a decrease to zero levels in loud stereotypical vocalizations. The implications of these findings on the treatment of vocal stereotypy are discussed.

Effect of Visual Cues and a Fermentation-Based Attractant Blend on Trap Catch of Two Invasive Drosophila Flies in Berry Crops in Mexico.

Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) and Zaprionus indianus (Gupta) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) are invasive pests of economic importance worldwide. This study was undertaken as a first step to investigate the interaction between visual and chemical cues on the captures of D. suzukii and Z. indianus under field conditions. Specifically, we evaluated the effect of color cardboards and their combinations on the capture of these drosophilids by attractant-baited multihole traps in blackberry and blueberry crops. Color had a significant effect on the captures of D. suzukii and Z. indianus by attractant-baited traps in both crops. Overall, attractant-baited traps with yellow and yellow + green cards captured the highest number of flies compared to attractant-baited traps using cards of other colors or without cards. Multihole traps without attractant and color cardboards caught very few flies of both species. In general, more females than male D. suzukii were captured, but no sexual differences were found in the captures of Z. indianus. The results obtained will be useful for the development of a monitoring or mass trapping system for the management of D. suzukii and Z. indianuspopulations in Mexico.

Violence toward emergency physicians: A prospective-descriptive study.

The highest rate of workplace violence occurs in the health sector, although most cases remain unreported. Emergency services face the majority of these incidents for many reasons, such as the patient profile, long waiting time, and overcrowding. We aimed to determine the characteristics and causes of violence toward emergency physicians. The acts of violence toward emergency physicians over a one-year period were prospectively recorded. After a violent incident took place, a third party separately interviewed the physician exposed to the violent behavior and the perpetrator who displayed this behavior. We examined the perpetrator's reasons for violence, their demographic characteristics, and the medical complaints of patients involved in such events to determine the characteristics and causes of violence. Of the violent acts investigated, 85.1% were verbal, and most were directed toward male doctors by the young male relatives of the patients. More than half of the violent acts occurred within the 15 minutes of presentation to emergency service (60.5%) and at off-hours (69.4%). Concerning the health insurance, 20.4% of the cases were covered by the free green card system, and a small number of the perpetrators of violence lived in rural areas (38.2%). The most common reason for violent behavior was the patients' or their relatives' dissatisfaction with the examination or treatment method (38.2%). Appropriate communication should be established with the patients, and they should be adequately informed about the treatments and interventions to be performed in order to prevent possible acts of violence.

The Essential Nonessentialized Brown Girl

The Essential Nonessentialized Brown Girl Christine Imperial (bio) Letters to a Young Brown Girl Barbara Jane Reyes BOA Editions LTD www.boaeditions.org/products/letters-to-a-young-brown-girl 72 Pages; Print, $17.00 "Brown Girl Fields Many Questions," the first poem of Barbara Jane Reyes's sixth full-length collection of poetry Letters to a Brown Girl, confronts the reader with the brutal reality of Filipino brownness. It begins: If you want to know what we are whose body parts are scattered to the winds, dispersed as heirloom seeds into the beaks, stomachs, and dropping of migratory birds, broken through our clear film of rage to leaf and fruit, no matter what territory or terrain. Reyes does not allow this eloquently rendered lyric to dissolve into a universal reading that allows anyone to take on the persona of the poem. She immediately deconstructs her own lyric to expose the ways in which the New Critical mode of close reading widely used to understand a poem devalues the subjectivity the poem is birthed from. "iii. In which English 'we' is crude lacking in the specific exclusive and inclusive distinctions of the Tagalog 'tayo' and 'kami'" stands out for it illustrates the persona's awareness of what English lacks as a means of expressing the specificity of the Filipinx identity. Reyes recognizes that the brown girl must work harder when writing in English for what can be in one word in Tagalog must be stretched out and re-articulated. What follows after this deconstruction of language is a decompression of the opening lyric through a long list of images and experiences that exposes the conditions surrounding the brown girl's subjectivity: what it's like when they ask whether your mother was a green card hunting whore,a nudie dancer near the military base, a drug addict, a welfare cheatwhat it's like when they say you are an illegal, when they say fucking monkey, when they ask why you eat dog, when they call you a dirty Filipino.What it's like when they tell you you should be grateful. Here we see that the brown girl cannot be a blank slate. She cannot be a universal figure. Her lyric is not everyone's lyric. Knowing her poems are going to be read by a white audience, Reyes exhausts the reader by showing the ugly reality of oppression against brown bodies. Instead of allowing the white reader to feel sympathy and passively consume, she forces them to confront the ways in which their privilege has come at the cost of bodies of color. By listing down these experiences, Reyes lays the framework for the brown girl's reclamation of her identity. Throughout the collection, Reyes's language is direct and unflinching as it rallies against disguising language in the figurative. In "Brown Girl Manifesto: #AllPinayEverything," Reyes writes, "Because so much depends upon vacuous speech" she is reminding the reader of the power of voice. She asserts her writing is not metaphor. It is not a tropical fantasy nor is it wholly an experience of laborious subservience. It is who the brown girl is, and the brown girl is not afraid to scream. The brown girl who must tell her own story, because nobody else can. As Reyes writes in "Track: 'You're the One,' Fanny (1971)," "Hell yeah, let this Brown Girl be, ruby rock and roll gypsy in a big man's dirty world. I make ovaries of stone. I make the hottest blood. I'm the one. I'm my own thing." Throughout the collection, the poems take on the form of lists that name the collective experience of brown girlhood. The list simultaneously accumulates and de-accumulates experience. It allows for the reader to process each item both as individual experience and part of a larger one. This is significant for it reflects the text's tension of trying to illustrate the collective experience of the brown girl while also recognizing the individual character and narrative of every brown girl. The text's final poem "Dear Brown Girl" is a massive list where this tension is most palpable. She writes: 37...

Has Household Purchasing of Confectionery Products in Turkey Changed in the Last Decade?

Although consumption of confectionery and chocolate products per capita in Turkey is considerably lower than that of the developed counties, there has recently been a rising trend in sugar consumption. The purpose of this study was to identify how and to what extent the significant changes in socio-demographic and economic structures of households in Turkey during the period of 2002-2013 influence monthly real spending on sugar, jam-marmalade, and confectionery products. The data was obtained by the annual household budget surveys of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) between 2002 and 2013. These surveys are annually conducted by TURKSTAT with nearly varying ten thousand randomly selected households throughout the nation for the period between January 1 and December 31. A multivariate Tobit model was used to determine factors affecting Turkish monthly household expenditure on three foods. Cross correlation coefficients among food pairs and marginal impacts of exogenous variables were also estimated. Almost 79% of households spend on confectionery foods, followed by 73% on sugar products and low 20% on jam-marmalade foods. According to results compared to the 2002 reference year, spending on sugar and jam-like food has declined over the years, while more spending on confectionery was emerging. Over the course of twelve years period, the sample households monthly spend 13.84, 3.73 and ₺ 12.91 on sugar, jam-marmalade and confectionery foods, respectively. The correlation coefficients among the food items were all positive and statistically significant, indicating that after controlling the role of independent variables in our model, uncontrolled variables along with measurement errors and any other functional forms induce both the spending on the two food pairs. Impacts of many socio-demographic and economic factors on monthly household spending of confectionery products including sugar were identified, and also years’ impacts on spending patterns were confirmed. By years, the age variable had different effects on the food spending of the three categories. Nonetheless, it has been identified that the families whose household heads have a green card spend different amounts both for sugar and confectionery products annually. It has also been identified that while only confectionery food product spending of the families who receive in-kind and financial aids differs annually, all three categories of food spending differ significantly as the numbers of working individuals changes yearly. Results permitted us to draw relevant policy implications and to shape policy formation for future effective food programs or policies.

Skilled Labor Mobility and Firm Value: Evidence from Green Card Allocations

This paper studies how the labor market frictions of skilled workers affect corporate valuation. The analysis features immigrant workers’ mobility constraints imposed by the U.S. green card application process and exploits exogenous variations caused by imperfections in the current immigration system. The study finds that relaxing mobility constraints negatively influences firm value. This effect is stronger for firms with higher labor adjustment costs. Reductions in investments and increases in labor costs are channels through which labor mobility adversely affects firm value. The findings suggest that monopoly rent over skilled workers is an important economic determinant of corporate valuation.

Juntos en la pandemia de COVID-19 (together in the COVID-19 pandemic): health-care professionals and the Latinx community

Juntos en la pandemia de COVID-19 (together in the COVID-19 pandemic): health-care professionals and the Latinx community

Optimizing Communication in Schools and Other Settings During COVID-19

Optimizing Communication in Schools and Other Settings During COVID-19

Let us stand with Julia!

Julia Iafrate, a Canadian-born immigrant medical doctor, who now works at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, shared her personal story with CNN’s Chris Cuomo that her green card was denied. She received the news of denial while she was treating critically ill coronavirus patients in the ICU in early May 2020. Julia earned all her medical degrees and credentials from American universities-- Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Mayo Clinic, and the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics. She is one of millions of former international students or immigrant workers in the United States. Currently, there are more than 44,728,721 immigrants living and working in the United States. This short essay reviews the contributions of former international students or immigrants in the United States who have contributed significantly to U.S. health and medicine, science and technology, education and business, government and military, and job creation and innovation.

Ethical Behavior in the Context of Green Credit Card Services: The Role of Individuals' Regulatory Focus

Green credit card is the card service to revitalize the eco-friendly life of the people, offering a variety of benefits to card users for supporting environment. The present research aims to examine the effect of individuals’ regulatory focus (promotion focus vs. prevention focus) on their ethical behavior in the context of green credit/debit card services. This research examines whether green credit/debit card users behave ethically according to their regulatory focus. The results indicate that green credit/debit card users with a prevention focus are more likely to behave ethically compared to those with a promotion focus. The findings imply that regulatory focus may be an effective marketing and segmentation tool in facilitating individuals’ ethical behavior.