Introduction As the summer temperatures soared to their highest ever recorded, Oklahoma experienced its highest disease count ever since the disease had been discovered in New York in 1999. Tulsa County is the second most populous county in Oklahoma and accounted for over onefourth of the West Nile Cases in Oklahoma. Tulsa City County Health Department is also the only funded mosquito control p...

CITE ERflE EXECUTIVE , Erie County chapter of the Civil Service Employees Assn. last weeic aclaiowledged the activities of County Executive Edward A. Rath toward creating a better understanding between civil servants and the public and engenderinga harmonius worthing relationship among the County's woricers and its administration. Mailing the presentation of the citation to Mr. Rath, left, is A...

Although the 1st published record of Ochlerotatus japonicus japonicus in Georgia (Rabun County) occurred in 2004, we report here a 2002 collection and identification in Fulton County, Georgia (metro Atlanta). The finding of Oc. j. japonicus in Fulton County represents the most southern record of this species in the United States to date. Also, subsequent collections in North Carolina and 4 addi...

Agent specialization as a concept of providing expertise closer to program delivery, was introduced by the Minnesota Cooperative Extension Service as a way to improve the county agent’s ability to work across county lines and across program lines. While the extension agent was still to be a resident community educator working with a broad range of county problems, he/she also would be expected ...

Rural areas have always played a significant role in the global economy by providing a variety of foods and raw materials. This role is much more prominent in developing countries. Rural development is also an important part of regional policies, covering agriculture, forestry, natural resource management, land use, and economic diversity in these areas. The present study focused on investigati...

A household interview’s aim was to diagnose a community health problem. The assessment used random sampling of one household from among the households of Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia . Teenage pregnancy is a dominant problem at Fulton County in Atlanta, Georgia . The household comprised a 19 year-old African American girl living with her single mother and two siblings in a small apartment in...

Children Felice C. Adler-Shohet, MD; Antonio Arrieta, MD; Kevin S. Kleis, DO; Elizabeth A. Trent, MD; Andrew Powers Davis; Jasjit Singh, MD; John A. Schlecter, DO; Nathan M. Moroski; Jennifer Le, PharmD, BCPS-ID, FCCP; Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA; Orthopedics, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA; University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA...

The implications of ignoring potential spatial dependence in county-level yield data are discussed. Spatial dependence in a county-level yield data set is identified and methods for correcting the dependence via spatial weighting matrices and generalized least squares regression are performed. The paper also examines how the spatial dependence declines as the distance between observations incre...