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Equity is central to sustainable development. Yet the vast majority of urban sustainability assessment tools do not address equity concerns. One notable exception is the United States' environmental equity assessment process. However, in many countries no analogy exists. Accordingly, research was undertaken to develop a prototype framework, which would help examine the local environmental equity implications of proposed urban developments within the UK. This paper briefly introduces the role of equity in sustainable development in order to contextualize a discussion on the concept of environmental equity and its assessment. The paper then provides an overview of the framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A picture is worth a thousand words. If this is true of a still photograph, how much more of a moving image? A television broadcast? A streaming webcast? Interpreting the theological meaning of mass-produced visual imagery, then, can pose an analytical problem for theologians. This essay offers the theoretical insight of the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies as a helpful hermeneu-tic tool and methodological corrective for Black liberation theologians con-cerned with interpreting the intersections of theology and culture in general, and pop culture forms of religious expression such as televangelism in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The CREA gene has been implicated in glucose repression in several fungi. The product of this gene, CreA, binds to the promoter region of several enzymes and down-regulates gene expression. An ortholog of CREA was isolated and characterized from the maize pathogenic fungus, Cochliobolus carbonum . The deduced amino acid sequence of the C. carbonum CREA gene is very similar to the CreA proteins of Aspergillus niger , Gibberella fujikuroi , Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Trichoderma reesei , as well as the Mig1 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae . And like the other fungal proteins, C. carbonum CreA has two zinc finger regions and a nuclear localization signal. Putative CreA binding sequences were also identified in the 5′ region of three C. carbonum cell wall degrading enzyme genes suggesting that the protein may play a role in the regulatory process that controls these enzymes expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]