The nuclear sector finds itself at a critical juncture, in part because recent large power plant projects Europe and the United States have suffered from what some scholars called megaproject “pathologies,” that is, chronic failure of large, complex infrastructure to fulfill “iron triangle” criteria project performance: cost, timetable, predefined prescriptions. To explore framings such problem...

Despite the extensive literature on nexus between civil society and democratization in non-democratic regimes, most existing scholarship focuses politically oriented claim-making organizations. While these accounts provide useful insights, they appear to rely Western-centric understandings of society. Undoubtedly, little space exists regimes within which organizations may engage overt political...

Current findings on gender and age differences in health trajectories in later life are equivocal and largely based upon data derived from Western developed nations. This study examines gender and age variations in the trajectory of functional status among older adults in Taiwan, a non-Western newly industrialized society. Data came from a sample of some 3500 Taiwanese aged 60 and over, initial...

aMERICaN METEOROLOGICaL SOCIETy | 611 AffiliAtions: Durkee, Campbell, berry, JorDan, GooDriCh, mahmooD, anD Foster—Meteorology Program, Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky Corresponding Author: Joshua D. Durkee, Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd., Bowling Green, KY 42101 E-mail: joshu...

The new species Tongorchestia borabora sp. nov. is described from Vaitape in Bora Bora, Leeward Islands, Society Islands. This is the first talitrid amphipod reported from Bora Bora and the third species of Tongorchestia from the Western Pacific oceanic islands. Currently Tongorchestia is endemic to oceanic islands in the Western Pacific.