Blastomycosis in Man after Kinkajou Bite

We report transmission of Blastomyces dermatitidis fungal infection from a pet kinkajou to a man. When treating a patient with a recalcitrant infection and a history of an animal bite, early and complete animal necropsy and consideration of nonbacterial etiologies are needed

Ideological Differences Between Female and Male County Party Chairs

This study compares the ideologies of female and male county party chairs. The data, which are drawn from a 2000 survey of county Democratic and Republican party leaders, show modest gender differences. Women in both parties tend to be more liberal than men on a variety of issues. These gender differences, however, are minor. Women and men in both parties have about the same levels of partisan experience, and, it is speculated, they tend to converge towards organizational norms

Political Culture and the Partisan Style of State Party Activists

Daniel J. Elazar\u27s classification of political subcultures is used to explain cross-state variation in the partisan style of political party activists. It is hypothesized that party activists are more ideologically purist in moralistic states and more pragmatic in individualistic states. A survey of the partisan style of state party-committee members in twenty states supports this hypothesis. Although the majority of committee members tends toward the purist model of party activism, activists in the moralistic states are significantly more purist than their counterparts in the individualistic states

Alternative Measurements and Processing for Extracting Seabed Information from Sea-surface Noise Correlations

In recent years, both theoretical and experimental results have shown that the noise generated at the sea-surface from wind and waves contains valuable information about the seabed. A verticalhydrophone array together with beamforming has been a particularly useful configuration for estimating seabed properties. By cross-correlating a vertically upward looking beam with a downward looking beam (the endfire directions), the bathymetry and seabed layering can be determined. However, there may be additional information about the seabed found by cross-correlating beams in directions away from vertical endfire. In this presentation, two new measurement and processing configurations will be considered: noise cross-correlation of beams from a vertical array in directions away from endfire and cross-correlation on a towed horizontal array. For the vertical array, data andmodeling show the existence of strong beam correlations coming from a direction consistent with the seabed critical angle. The towed horizontal array configuration, if possible, would provide an alternative to the vertical array for seabed surveying using noise. Measurements from data collected at several sites along with modeling will be used to explain the results from these new measurement and processing configurations