T elimination of health disparities in the United States is a national priority and overriding goal for Healthy People 2010 (HP 2010). Surveillance of health indicators among minority populations is essential to eliminating disparities. Surveillance is critical for program planning, policy making, evaluating population-based strategies, and tracking progress toward national and state objectives.

One new species of Riethia Kieffer, Riethia manauara n. sp., is described and figured as male, pupa and larva. The generic diagnosis for pupae and larvae are emended. The specimens were collected from water systems in the Amazon Rainforest in northern Brazil.

Abstract. The operational advantages of electrodynamic tethers of moderate length are becoming evident from studies of collision avoidance. Although long tethers (of order of 10 kilometers) provide high efficiency and good adaptability to varying plasma conditions, boosting tethers of moderate length (~ 1 kilometer) and suitable design might still operate at acceptable efficiencies and adequate...

Highlights Best paper award IEEE Int. Middle Eastern Multiconf. on Simul. & Model. Beirut, Lebanon Creation of the Regional network on healthcare engineering (RIS) Members of the board of the French CNRS national research group GDR MACS Co animation of the IMS2 “Intelligent Manufacturing and Services Systems” GDR MACS PPF project with LAMIH, LAGIS and the University Politehnica of Bucharest Int...

Graduate Student Name: Zhang, Yi Worked for more than 160 Hours: Yes Contribution to Project: Since the project's conception Yi Zhang has been the main student contributor. He has been involved in most of the research and development efforts, including the RIOT-DB system (CIDR 2009) and the next generation RIOT system (ICDE 2010, PVLDB 2011). Yi is currently focusing on RIOT execution and optim...