Ecoregional Dominance in Spatial Distribution of Avian Influenza (H5N1) Outbreaks

Recent articles in Emerging Infectious Diseases (1,2) and elsewhere (3,4) have highlighted the role of Anatidae migration in dispersal of the H5N1 subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus. Although these articles point out that identifying the geographic origin of migrating waterfowl is needed to understand and predict pathogen dispersal, study analyses have been limited to pathways with nominal reference to climatic and vegetation patterns that control spatiotemporal patterns of this migration

Low Temperature Physics

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Diversity and Burglary: Does Community Differences Matter?

Diversity within a population has been linked to levels of both social cohesion and crime. Neighborhood crimes are the result of a complex set of factors, one of which is weak community cohesion. This article seeks to explore the impacts of diversity on burglary crime in a range of neighborhoods, using Leeds, UK as a case study. We propose a new approach to quantifying the correlates of burglary in urban areas through the use of diversity metrics. This approach is useful in unveiling the relationship between burglary and diversity in urban communities. Specifically, we employ stepwise multiple regression models to quantify the relationships between a number of neighborhood diversity variables and burglary crime rates. The results of the analyses show that the variables that represent diversity were more significant when regressed against burglary crime rates than standard socio‐demographic data traditionally used in crime studies, which do not generally use diversity variables. The findings of this study highlight the importance of neighborhood cohesion in the crime system, and the key place for diversity statistics in quantifying the relationships between neighborhood diversities and burglary. The study highlights the importance of policy planning aimed at encouraging community building in promoting neighborhood safety

A very small hemisphere

A Very Small Hemisphere explores the connection between the personal and the\ud political in how it relates to the traveler. The work weaves the language of my personal\ud travel experience, in the form of diary entires, letters, personal experiences, reflections\ud and people, with the language of the political in the form declassified State\ud Department, CIA, Secret Service documents and other found language. I intend to\ud show that recalling the personal leads us to recall the political. Our national history\ud follows us wherever we go and when we search for the language to recall the\ud experience of travelling we must inevitably wind up using the language of the political\ud experience

Geohydrology of Pleistocene Deposits and Sustained Yield of Principal Pleistocene Aquifer, Lake County, Indiana

100 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1967.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD