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Worldwide, there are 27 million victims of trafficking. With that in mind, this project intended to help students (a) gain an understanding of social issues throughout the world, (b) become activists on behalf of victims of social injustice, and (c) educate others about social injustice and what can be done to reform it. A 26-item survey assessed student knowledge about trafficking. Clemson students correctly answered just over half of the survey questions (M = 16.84; SD = 2.37). The team then designed activities to raise awareness about trafficking. Activities included a venue for students to create Valentine\u27s for trafficking victims, a campus showing of the film Not My Life and an invited speaker an expert on trafficking. At all events bookmarks containing survey results were distributed

The Political Economy of Failure: The Euro as an International Currency

How do international currencies get established and consolidated? What domestic and international political foundations support an international currency? And what kinds of macro-economic flows enable an international currency? In this essay we consider these perennial questions of modern IPE scholarship in reverse order to ask whether the euro could ever have become, or seek to become, a true international currency rivalling the US dollar, used not only for passive foreign exchange reserves but also as a major commercial currency outside the EU. We argue that the EU lacks the will, the ideas and the capacity to promote the euro into the status of an international currency. In this article, we concentrate on this final issue of capacity, as the will and ideas issues have already been well explored. Capacity is an issue coeval with, if not prior to, the first two issues. The EU's current institutional arrangements and its economic geography create macro-economic consequences that diminish the euro's capacity to operate as a top currency. These conflicts go beyond the well-recognized issue that the euro-zone is not an optimum currency area. Examining the euro's debilities sheds light not only on the euro's (in)capacity to rival the dollar as an international currency, but also on the future of both the euro and the dollar in the aftermath of the euro-zone crisis

1 THE PORTER HYPOTHESIS AT 20: CAN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ENHANCE INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS?

on an earlier draft. Funding from INRA, FQRSC and the chair on “Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investments ” is gratefully acknowledged. All errors remain those of the authors.

Optimizing Network Connectivity for Mobile Health Technologies in sub-Saharan Africa

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) technologies hold incredible promise to improve healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings. Network reliability across large catchment areas can be a major challenge. We performed an analysis of network failure fr

Safety and immunogenicity of attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium delivering an HIV-1 Gag antigen via the Salmonella Type III secretion system �

Background: CKS257 (Salmonella typhimurium SL1344 ∆phoP/phoQ ∆ aroA ∆asd ∆strA/strB pSB2131) is a live oral vaccine vector expressing HIV Gag. Methods: HIV Gag was expressed as a fusion protein of a Salmonella Type III secretion system protein SopE, from a balanced lethal asdbased plasmid. Eighteen healthy adults were given single escalating oral doses of 5 × 10 6 to 1 × 10 10 CFU of CKS257 and were monitored for clinical events, shedding and immune responses. Results: Adverse events were mild except at the highest dose. Volunteers shed the organism an average of 5.1 days (range 0–13 days). Eighty-three percent (15/18) of subjects had a mucosal immune response to Salmonella LPS and flagella by IgA ELISPOT assay. Seventy-two percent (13/18) of subjects seroconverted to Salmonella antigens. No volunteer had a response to recombinant Gag as measured by serology, IgA ELISPOT, or immediate ex vivo �-interferon ELISPOT response to Gag peptide pools. Two volunteers responded to Gag peptides by IL-2 ELISPOT, and 4 of 10 volunteers receiving ≥5 × 10 8 CFU had a response to HIV peptides in a cultured �-interferon ELISPOT assay. Conclusions: Although immunogenicity of the HIV antigen needs augmentation, the attenuated Salmonella strain proved to be an excellent platform for vaccine development

Modelling the general circulation of shelf seas by 3Dk-ε models

One examines the modifications which must be made-and the limitations which must be set-to classicalk-ε models to extend their application to the simulation of marine mesoscale, synopticscale and macroscale processes which compose the weather-like and general circulations of the sea. The case of the general circulation—for which sub-grid scale fluctuations include such semi-organized motions as tides and storm surges-is discussed in more detail. A 3Dk-ε model appropriate to the study of the general circulation in a shallow stratified sea is presented and illustrated with the results of a simulation of the general summer circulation in the Northern Bering Sea, made in the scope of the NSF ISHTAR (“Inner Shelf Transfer and Recycling”) Program