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Current and potential impacts of mosquitoes and the pathogens they vector in the Pacific Region.
Mosquitoes and the pathogens they transmit are ubiquitous throughout most of the
temperate and tropical regions of the world. The natural and pre-European distribution
and diversity of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases throughout much of the Pacific region, however, depicts a depauperate and relatively benign fauna reinforcing the dream of âparadise regainedâ. In the central and South Pacific few mosquito species were able to colonize the remotest islands and atolls. Native mosquitoes are limited to a few far-ranging species and island endemics are typically restricted to the genera of Aedes and Culex. Only
lymphatic filariasis appears to have been present as an endemic mosquito-borne disease
before European contact.
In nearby Australia, however, some 242 species of mosquitoes are known to occur and
more than 70 arboviruses have been identified (Mackenzie 1999). In this regard Australia
is more similar to the rest of the tropic and subtropical world than the smaller islands of
Oceania. In our ever-shrinking world of global commerce, military activity and travel, the nature of mosquito-borne disease in the Pacific was bound to change. This paper is a brief summary of introduced mosquitoes in the Pacific and their potential impacts on human and wildlife health
Alien Registration- Lapointe, Rose A. (Winslow, Kennebec County)
https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/16356/thumbnail.jp
Intégration du marché Nord-Américain de l'énergie
Les donnĂ©es sur les flux commerciaux dâĂ©nergie entre le Canada, le Mexique et les Ătats-Unis montrent que lâintĂ©gration est une rĂ©alitĂ© et quâelle est en constante progression. Cette intĂ©gration est particuliĂšrement importante dans le cas du Canada et des Ătats-Unis alors que des contraintes majeures subsistent encore Ă une pleine intĂ©gration du secteur Ă©nergĂ©tique mexicain. En effet, la Constitution mexicaine rĂ©serve Ă lâĂ©tat le monopole de la propriĂ©tĂ© et de lâexploitation des ressources naturelles. Ainsi, la dĂ©rĂ©glementation nâa pas suivi le rythme quâelle a connu chez les deux autres partenaires. Pour ces raisons, le Mexique nâa pas Ă©tĂ© en mesure dâexploiter le plein potentiel de ses ressources et souffre dâun problĂšme de sous investissement chronique dans ses infrastructures Ă©nergĂ©tiques, ce qui lâempĂȘche de participer pleinement aux Ă©changes commerciaux dâĂ©nergie.-
Alien Registration- Lapointe, Joseff A. (Brunswick, Cumberland County)
https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/31519/thumbnail.jp
Gay-Straight Alliances and Student Activism in Ontario Public Secular and Catholic High Schools
This study provides an in-depth examination of the educative and activist function of GSAs in two public secular and two public Catholic Ontario secondary schools. Queer theory, as elaborated by Foucault (1978), Sedgwick (1990/2008), Butler (1990, 1993a/b/c), Warner (1991), and Britzman (1995), provides a foundation for critiquing the heteronormative underpinnings of schooling, and the trans-informed insights of Namaste (2000), Stryker (2006), Serano (2007/2016, 2013), Malatino (2015), and Connell (2009) offers a lens to scrutinize cisnormative infrastructure, pedagogy, and practice as they pertain to the role and educative function of GSAs in selected Ontario schools. To generate knowledge on the particularities of the four GSAs (Patton, 2002), a multi-sited case study approach was undertaken (Patton, 2002; Stake, 2005). Data were gathered by completing semi-structured interviews with 14 youth and five educators across the school sites, observing and participating in GSA meetings, collecting semi-structured diaries from 13 youth, and analyzing club-related visual materials - all of which were made sense of by employing queer and trans-informed theoretical perspectives. There was a concerted effort to speak with trans and gender diverse GSA members in order to (de)subjugate their embodied knowledges and understandings (Stryker, 2006), authorize their voices (Cook-Sather, 2002, 2006), and document their agency in schooling by way of their club-inspired education and activism (see Elliott, 2015, Schindel, 2005, 2008). Three prominent themes emerged within the data: 1: each GSA was a student-driven democratizing space that enabled youth to explore and circulate anti-hetero/cisnormative discourses (Fraser, 1990); 2) all GSAs served as a proxy in the absence of an ongoing systemic commitment to queer and trans-informed education; and 3) pastoral care and its regulatory moral authority within Catholic education impeded GSA development and functioning (Martino, 2014). The implications of the study are outlined in terms of the need for systemic support for anti-heteronormative and anti-cisnormative education so that the burden and responsibility for this education does not just fall on the shoulders of GSA members and gender and sexual minority youth in particular
Teen Relationship Violence and Wellbeing among LGBTQ+ Youth
Many LGBTQ+ youth experience mental health challenges (e.g., depression, anxiety, self-harm, attempting or dying by suicide, etc.) due to homophobia, heterosexism, heteronormativity, transphobia, cissexism, and cisnormativity, and other interlocking oppressions (e.g., racism, colonialism, ableism, sexism, etc.). Due to prejudicial attitudes and beliefs, LGBTQ+ youth may experience interpersonal issues with family members, peers, classmates, co-workers, etc. The HRP for LGBTQ+ Youth was designed to support queer, trans, and gender diverse youth as they navigate and cope with LGBTQ+-based oppression. Since youth groups and GSAs are âsaferâ venues for LGBTQ+ youth to find support and develop relationships with like-minded folks, they are ideal sites to administer a program that seeks to bolster positive mental health and relationship development among queer, trans, and gender diverse youth
MPD thruster technology
MPD (MagnetoPlasmaDynamic) thrusters demonstrated between 2000 and 7000 seconds specific impulse at efficiencies approaching 40 percent, and were operated continuously at power levels over 500 kW. These demonstrated capabilities, combined with the simplicity and robustness of the thruster, make them attractive candidates for application to both unmanned and manned orbit raising, lunar, and planetary missions. To date, however, only a limited number of thruster configurations, propellants, and operating conditions were studied. The present status of MPD research is reviewed, including developments in the measured performance levels and electrode erosion rates. Theoretical studies of the thruster dynamics are also described. Significant progress was made in establishing empirical scaling laws, performance and lifetime limitations and in the development of numerical codes to simulate the flow field and electrode processes
Coherent Transport Through a Quadruple Point in a Few Electron Triple Dot
A few electron double electrostatic lateral quantum dot can be transformed
into a few electron triple quantum dot by applying a different combination of
gate voltages. Quadruple points have been achieved at which all three dots are
simultaneously on resonance. At these special points in the stability diagram
four occupation configurations are possible. Both charge detection and
transport experiments have been performed on this device. In this short paper
we present data and confirm that transport is coherent by observing a Pi phase
shift in magneto-conductance oscillations as one passes through the quadruple
point.Comment: To be published in ICPS Conf. Proceedings 200
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