On some terrestrial isopods in the United States National Museum

Proceedings of United States National Museum

Having recently been asked by Victor Ritter von Tschusi-Schmidkoften to express au opiniou in regard to the races of Nucifraga caryocatactes, I shall not attempt a full analysis of the whole question, but only review the material in my hands, as it may throw some light on the subject. Brehm was the first to clearly define the two races of Nutcrackers, which most ornithologists who have studied ...

New Terrestrial Isopods of the Genus Miktoniscus from Eastern United States (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscoidea)

Wolbachia in Neotropical terrestrial isopods.

Despite Wolbachia being widespread among terrestrial isopods, studies on this symbiotic relationship are still incipient in the Neotropical region. The aims of the present study were to investigate the presence and prevalence of Wolbachia in natural populations of terrestrial isopod species in South America, and to analyze the diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Wolbachia strains. A tot...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

The United States National Security Strategy under Bush and Obama: Continuity and Change

The foreign policy of states determines the way they behave in the international arena. Accurate analysis of official foreign policy documents of a country is helpful in that it shows what the international priorities of a country are at specific periods. This article reviews the U.S. National Security Strategy documents published in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2015 from the perspective of the percept...