In support of a large, combined Australia-United States of America military exercise at Shoalwater Bay in south-eastern Queensland during March 1997 (TANDEM THRUST 97), the United States Navy sent the Deployed Public Health Laboratory (DPHL) into the field with the forces. The purpose of this was preventative medicine as well as disease and vector surveillance. Among the numerous potential thre...

Laboratory methods and questionnaires to assess the relative reinforcing value of food (RRV-F) have been developed, but this is the first study to validate an online questionnaire measure of the RRV-F. Participants (281 college students) completed an online survey assessing demographic variables, food preferences, and the RRV-F. A subsample (n=21) also completed a laboratory food choice session...

Ivan Havel remembers when in the late 1970s the Czechoslovakian state police began watching his apartment. For months he had been hosting unofficial science seminars, and the police didn't like it. "It politicized me, says the soft-spoken computer scientist and brother of Czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel. "The police would check the people who came and ask them to identify 'themselves. Th...

Water quantity and quality joint operation is a new mode in the present dams' operation research. It has become a hot topic in governmental efforts toward integrated basin improvement. This paper coupled a water quantity and quality joint operation model (QCmode) and genetic algorithm with Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). Together, these tools were used to explore a reasonable operation o...

Dla Europy integracja migrantów jest dużym wyzwaniem. Zarządzanie migracją stwarza odpowiednie warunki do pełnego wykorzystania potencjału wykształconych, aktywnych i przedsiębiorczych osób, którymi nierzadko są migranci. Różne modele integracji proponowane przez państwa członkowskie UE pozwalają różnie korzystać z potencjału, jaki oni za sobą niosą. W artykule opisano główne postaw państw czło...

[1] The ratio of monthly median foF2 values between the ionosondes at Maui (20.8 N, 156 E geographic; 21.2 N, 90.4 E geomagnetic) and Yamagawa (31.2 N, 130.6 E geographic; 20.6 N, 160.9 E geomagnetic) from January 1960 to June 1993 are used to investigate interannual variability in the wave-4 longitudinal structure of the low-latitude F region ionosphere. Analysis of Global Positioning System t...

We describe a new El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) index that we call the Ensemble Oceanic Niño Index (Ensemble ONI). ONI uses monthly sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in Niño3.4 region from 32 input SST datasets as basis for ensemble, and our ENSO extends present back to year 1850. use quantify uncertainty values. The is calculated are not completely independent each other, but other...