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Abstract Community service is a core activity for Australian universities. Therefore, the effectiveness with which universities interact with the communities they seek to serve has become a critical success factor [...]

In New South Wales, Australia, the school year begins in early February, and children are eligible to enroll in school (the first year of which is called kindergarten) if they [...]

Objective: To describe Queenslanders' awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards mosquito-borne diseases and their transmission, and to determine which factors influence the adoption of effective individual prevention strategies. Methods: In 1995-6, cross-sectional surveys of adult residents in the western suburbs of Brisbane and registered voters in Cairns were conducted. Forced entry logistic regression was used to predict use of personal protection and elimination of domestic breeding sites in the two cities. Results: Final sample sizes were 347 in Cairns and 165 in Brisbane with response rates of approximately 70%. RRVD awareness was nearly universal in both cities. A majority of residents (60% in Brisbane and 65% in Cairns) report they are careful to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes. 25% of Cairns residents and 18% of Brisbane residents report always using some method of personal protection. Cairns residents are also more likely to say that they actively prevent mosquitoes from breeding in their yards (76% in Brisbane and 87% in Cairns). Knowledge of mosquitoes and disease transmission was slightly higher in Cairns. In Brisbane, dislike of mosquitoes and being regularly bitten were significant in the multivariate model predicting personal protection, whereas concern for disease and being female were significant in Cairns. Concern about disease was a significant predictor of eliminating breeding sites in both cities. Conclusions: Raising concern about mosquito-borne disease can increase use of personal prevention strategies. However, providing information on prevention strategies may not be effective. The most effective strategies are not practiced or seen by the public to be related to minimising risk of disease. Implications: Greater emphasis in health promotion campaigns should be placed on encouraging permanent alterations to the domestic environment rather than temporary methods that are difficult to sustain and not effective against the common vectors for mosquito-borne diseases in Queensland. Educational messages should explicitly link preventive behaviours with the reduction in the likelihood of contracting a serious disease.

When Estonia wanted to transform its Soviet-era army into a modern military force, the U.S. European Command turned to the Maryland National Guard to provide the model of an effective [...]

The idea that heritage is an industry was most influentially postulated by Hewison (1987) almost a decade ago, and his condemnations of that industrialism were largely supported by academics who [...]

International relations theory has difficulty explaining how similar policies produce different outcomes. Iraq and North Korea have been identified as members of the 'axis of evil' with weapons of mass destruction programs that threaten the United States. Yet in late 2002, the United States prepared to attack Iraq whereas it chose to negotiate with North Korea, even after North Korea admitted to a secret nuclear program in direct violation of its 1994 agreement with the United States. Moreover, a direct comparison with Iraq shows North Korea to possess the greater material capability to threaten the United States. I argue that a language-based constructivist approach can explain these differences in U.S. foreign policy where other theoretical approaches cannot. By examining the U.S. entanglement in intersected language games - the implementation of the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea and the enforcement of United Nations Resolutions in Iraq - it becomes possible to show how the United States could construct North Korea's nuclear program as a manageable threat that could be dealt with diplomatically.