Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form “nationhood,” igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we seek to investigate the nature, role and relationshi...

Twocommercial formulations ofBeauveria bassiana(Balsamo-Crivelli)Vuilleminwere applied to residential sites in Old Lyme, CT, for the control of nymphs of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, in 1999 and 2000. The pyrethroid bifenthrin was applied to other premises for comparison with B. bassiana. A wood chip barrier was installed and maintained at six of the treated properties. In 1999, con...

The alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is a major pest of alfalfa Medicago sativa L. (Fabaceae). While H. postica usually causes the most damage before the first cutting, in summer of 2015 damaging levels of the pest persisted in Montana well after the first harvest of alfalfa. Although conventional insecticides can control H. postica, these chemicals have adverse effec...

This paper examines the potential costs a country faces when it fails to develop domestic arms manufacturing. I examine these costs using the historical example of Canada’s decision to not develop domestic naval shipbuilding capacity prior to World War II. Canada’s primary naval responsibility during the war was to escort convoys between the United Kingdom and North America. However its lack of...

Fitness costs can delay pest resistance to crops that produce insecticidal toxins derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), and past research has found that entomopathogens impose fitness costs of Bt resistance. In addition, entomopathogens can be used for integrated pest management by providing biological control of pests. The western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera...

We used the freshwater protozoan Paramecium tetraurelia to investigate the potential regulation by protein kinase C of calmodulin interactions with binding peptides in intact cells. In these organisms, an action potential results in membrane depolarization and a period of backward swimming; repolarization and a return to forward swimming requires the presence of normal calmodulin. We postulated...

We have studied the potential of mean force of two peptides, one known to adopt a -hairpin and the other an -helical conformation in solution. These peptides are, respectively, residues 41–56 of the C-terminus (GEWTYDDATKTFTVTE) of the B1 domain of protein G and the 13 residue C-peptide (KETAAAKFERQHM) of ribonuclease A. Extensive canonical ensemble sampling has been performedusing aparallel re...

Aim/purpose – This paper aims to examine with new empirical evidence the joint rela- tionships between violence, income inequality, and real per capita in a simulta- neous equation framework using worldwide sample at country level. Design/methodology/approach To several simultaneous relationships variables, this study uses Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) Three-Stage Least Squares (3SLS) tw...

A thin-film transistor (TFT) is a special type of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect (MOSFET) made by coating an insulating substrate with layers active semiconductor layer, metallic contacts, and the dielectric layer. FET transistors consist three main components: source, gate, drain. The objective work to fabricate channel component growing ZnO nanostructure on glass using spin spray pyro...