Correlates of the Eysenck personality profiler

In this two part study, 811 participants completed the Eysenck Personality Profiler (EPP) and the Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) and 263 adults completed the EPP and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). As predicted there were many significant correlations which add to the concurrent validity of the EPP. When the overlap of the EPP with the MBTI and LSQ is compared with the overlap of the NEO-PI with the MBTI and LSQ (derived from Furnham, 1996a,b) it appears that the EPP has greater similarity with the LSQ, but the NEO-PI has greater similarity with the MBTI. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

First published record of the pathogenic monogenean parasite Neobenenenia melleni (Capsalidae) from Australia

The monogenean Neobenedenia melleni (Mac- Callum, 1927) Yamaguti 1963 is a well-known and virulent pathogen in culture conditions recorded from the skin of many teleost fish species worldwide. Until now, N. melleni has not been reported from wild or cultured fish in Australian waters. This study documents a recent outbreak of N. melleni that occurred on Lates calcarifer (barramundi) cultivated in sea cages in Hinchinbrook Channel between Hinchinbrook Island and mainland Queensland, Australia, which resulted in the loss of 200 000 fish (50 tonnes). The origin of this outbreak is unclear because N. melleni has not been recorded from any wild host species in Australia and strict quarantine regulations exclude the possibility of its introduction on imported fish. We propose that N. melleni occurs naturally on wild populations of some teleost species in Australian waters and that the few surveys of wild fish conducted along the eastcoast have failed to report this species. The possibility that uncharacteristically low water temperatures led to the outbreak is discussed.

Development of disabled, replication-defective gene transfer vectors from the Jembrana disease virus, a new infectious agent of cattle

Jembrana disease virus (JDV) is a newly isolated and characterised bovine lentivirus. It causes an acute disease in Ball cattle (Bos javanicus). which can be readily transmitted to susceptible cattle with 17% mortality. There is as yet no treatment or preventive vaccine. We have developed a gene transfer vector system based on JDV that has three components. The first of the components is a bicistronic transfer vector plasmid that was constructed to contain cis-sequences from the JDV genome, including 5 '- and 3 ' -long terminal repeats (LTRs), 0.4 kb of truncated gag and 1.1 kb of 3 ' -env, a multiple cloning site to accommodate the gene(s) of interest for transfer, and an internal ribosome entry site plus the neomycin phosphotransferase (Neo) gene cassette for antibiotic selection. The second element is a packaging plasmid that contains trans-sequences. including gag, pol. vif, tar and rev: but without the env and packaging signals. The third is a plasmid encoding the G glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV-G) to supply the vector an envelope for pseudotyping. Cotransfection of 293T cells with these three plasmid components produced VSV-G pseudotyped. disabled, replication defective, bicistronic JDV vectors encoding the green fluorescent protein (EGFP) and the Neo resistance selection maker simultaneously with a titre range of (0.4-1.2) x 10(6) CFU/ml. Transduction of several replicating primary and transformed cells from cattle, primate and human sources and importantly growth-arrested cells with the JDV vectors showed high efficiency of EGFP gene transfer at 35-75%, which was stable and the expression of EGFP was long term. Furthermore, these JDV vectors were designed to suit the inclusion and expression of genes corresponding to JDV specific proteins, such as gag or env, for the development of vaccines for Jembrana disease. This strategy should also be applicable to other bovine diseases as wall. The design and construction of the JDV vector system should facilitate the study of the lentivirology and pathogenesis of the diseases associated with JDV or other bovine virus infections. To our knowledge, this is the first such vector system developed from a cattle virus. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Comparative influence of forest management and habitat structural factors on the abundances of hollow-nesting bird species in subtropical Australian eucalypt forest

We examined the impact of single-tree selective logging and fuel reduction bums on the abundance of hollow-nesting bird species at a regional scale in southeastern Queensland, Australia. Data were collected on species abundance and habitat structure of dry sclerophyll production forest at 36 sites with known logging and fire histories. Sixteen bird species were recorded with most being resident, territorial, obligate hollow nesters that used hollows that were either small (18 cm diameter). Species densities were typically low, but combinations of two forest management and three habitat structural variables influenced the abundances of eight bird species in different and sometimes conflicting ways. The results suggest that habitat tree management for biodiversity in production forests cannot depend upon habitat structural characteristics alone. Management histories appear to have independent influence (on some bird species) that are distinguishable from their impacts on habitat structure per se. Rather than managing to maximize species abundances to maintain biodiversity, we may be better off managing to avoid extinctions of populations by identifying thresholds of acceptable fluctuations in populations of not only hollow-nesting birds but other forest dependent wildlife relative to scientifically valid forest management and habitat structural surrogates.

Patterns of governance: The curious case of non-profit community services in Australia

Community has taken on a new significance in Australian social policy discourse. Seemingly sound and morally justifiable, in the context Of neo-liberalism the language of community positions non-profit delivery of services as superior to state-provided services. As a consequence, non-profit community services are being centrally positioned to mediate the relationship between the state and citizen subjects. In the first part of this paper we trace some of the key historical developments in Australia's welfare state and patterns of governance that are propelling the non-profit sector firm the margins to the centre. The second section examines the relationship between Australia's shifting political landscape and the emerging welfare regime. One key feature of this new regime is the attempt to relocate citizenship away from the domain of the state and into that of civil society. The article concludes by sketching out some research themes, focusing, for example, on the impact of devolution of governance in terms of client rights and public accountability.

Rural lines of flight: Telecommunications and post-metro dreaming

Information and communications technologies hold a prominent place in the cultural imagination of many people living outside the Australian metropolis, especially recent émigrés. A vision of a wired pastoral conjures up the possibilities of city work, connections and pleasures accompanying the flight to the country. Such aspirations have given a twist to one of the great topos of Australian post-invasion communications history, communications ameliorating the perceived isolation in the bush. This article examines important changes to rural telecommunications in the 1990s coinciding with post-metro dreaming and digital convergence, namely the rise of local telecommunications. Neo-Foucauldian accounts of citizenship hold some promise for explaining the criss-cross of tangled lines of flight in regional communications in the twenty-first century: emergent subjectivities, utopian digital modes of becoming, new politics of infrastructure, reconfigured relationships among state, market and citizen.

The intuitive basis of implicature: relevance theoretic implicitness versus gricean implying

The notion of implicature was first introduced by Paul Grice (1967, 1989), who defined it essentially as what is communicated less what is said. This definition contributed in part to the proliferation of a large number of different species of implicature by neo-Griceans. Relevance theorists have responded to this by proposing a shift back to the distinction between "explicit" & "implicit" meaning (corresponding to "explicature" & "implicature," respectively). However, they appear to have pared down the concept of implicature too much, ignoring phenomena that may be better treated as implicatures in their overgeneralization of the concept of explicature. These problems have their roots in the fact that explicit & implicit meaning intuitively overlap & thus do not provide a suitable basis for distinguishing implicature from other types of pragmatic phenomena. An alternative conceptualization of implicature based on the concept of "implying" with which Grice originally associated his notion of implicature is thus proposed. From this definition, it emerges that implicature constitutes something else inferred by the addressee that is not literally said by the speaker. Instead, it is meant in addition to what the speaker literally says & is consequently defeasible like all other types of pragmatic phenomena. 1 Figure, 60 References. Adapted from the source document

Early pregnancy factor treatment suppresses the inflammatory response and adhesion molecule expression in the spinal cord of SJL/J mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and the delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction to trinitrochlorobenzene in normal BALB/c mice

Early pregnancy factor (EPF) is a secreted protein, present in serum during early pregnancy and essential for maintaining viability of the embryo. It is a homologue of chaperonin 10 (Cpn10) but, unlike Cpn10, it has an extracellular role. EPF has immunosuppressive and growth regulatory properties. Previously we have reported the preparation of recombinant EPF (rEPF) and shown that treatment with rEPF will suppress clinical signs of MBP-EAE in Lewis rats and PLP-EAE in SJL/J mice. In the present study, these findings have been extended to investigate possible mechanisms involved in the action of EPF. Following treatment of mice with rEPF from the day of inoculation, there were fewer infiltrating CD3+ and CD4+ cells in the parenchyma of the spinal cord during the onset of disease and after the initial episode, compared with mice treated with vehicle. Expression of the integrins LFA-1, VLA-4 and Mac-1 and of members of the immunoglobulin superfamily of adhesion molecules ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 was suppressed in the central nervous system (CNS) following rEPF treatment. The expression of PECAM-1 was not affected. To determine if rEPF suppressed T cell activation in the periphery, the delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction of normal BALB/c mice to trinitrochlorobenzene (TNCB) following treatment with rEPF was studied. The results showed that treatment with rEPF suppressed the DTH reaction, demonstrating the ability of EPF to downregulate the cell-mediated immune response. These results indicate that suppression of immunological mechanisms by rEPF plays a major role in the reduction of clinical signs of disease in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Desafios da constru????o de uma pol??tica intersetorial de cultura e educa????o

A transi????o paradigm??tica vivenciada pela gest??o p??blica no Brasil tem provocado a busca por arranjos institucionais capazes de romper com a in??rcia institucional e responder ?? complexidade das novas demandas sociais. O presente estudo busca analisar a intersetorialidade a partir de fatores pol??ticos e institucionais que influenciaram o Programa Mais Educa????o, com foco na articula????o entre as ??reas de educa????o e cultura. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa realizada a partir do estudo sistem??tico da literatura sobre pol??ticas intersetoriais, analisada ?? luz do modelo sist??mico de Easton. Aborda conceitos como agendamento e implementa????o de pol??ticas p??blicas, centrando-se no debate contempor??neo sobre intersetorialidade. Analisa, a partir dos dados levantados sobre o Programa Mais Educa????o e entrevistas semi dirigidas com gestores dos diferentes minist??rios que o integram, mecanismos existentes na gest??o p??blica para que essa intersetorialidade se efetive. Constata a centralidade do papel das ideias na burocracia de governo em resposta a demandas sociais hist??ricas, contudo sorganizadas. O estudo reconhece a educa????o integral como um campo de atua????o complexo e interdisciplinar, cujo desenvolvimento de pol??ticas p??blicas mais efetivas, eficientes e eficazes, exige abordagens distintas e somat??ria de esfor??os entre as ??reas. A complexidade do modelo de gest??o do Programa reflete-se em um arranjo institucional inovador em que a intersetorialidade otimiza recursos e esfor??os das ??reas envolvidas, exigindo coordena????o intersetorial centralizada e coopera????o entre os ??rg??os

Associativismo intergovernamental: experi??ncias brasileiras

O oitavo volume da s??rie Inova????o na Gest??o P??blica apresenta o resultado de uma pesquisa desenvolvida entre os anos de 2010 e 2011, na qual foram realizados onze estudos de caso sobre formas de arranjos associativos intergovernamentais existentes no Brasil, e contou com o apoio do Projeto Brasil Munic??pios. A expectativa com essa discuss??o ?? que se possam trazer ?? tona novos temas ou abordagens sobre associativismo, problematizar alguns importantes desafios, captar poss??veis funcionamentos das l??gicas de articula????o intergovernamental e possibilitar a reflex??o sobre alternativas para coordena????o e coopera????o intergovernamentais no Brasil. Dessa forma, o livro inicia-se por uma discuss??o te??rica com o objetivo de real??ar a import??ncia dos modelos de entrela??amento e coopera????o entre os n??veis de governo, sem que estes percam a autonomia e mesmo a capacidade de ???competir por agendas de pol??ticas???. Por outro lado, busca mostrar que formas de parceria e de atua????o em rede do governo para com a sociedade t??m se acoplado ao associativismo territorial. O federalismo ?? apresentado tamb??m sob uma perspectiva internacional, sobretudo fazendo um apanhado geral dos mecanismos de associativismo territorial em pa??ses federativos ou semifederativos, com destaque principal para os casos dos Estados Unidos, da Alemanha, da Espanha, do Canad?? e da Austr??lia, buscando ressaltar, principalmente, dos aspectos: o primeiro deles ?? apresentar a diversidade de possibilidades de coopera????o intergovernamental. O livro apresenta ainda uma an??lise do federalismo brasileiro contempor??neo, come??ando com um hist??rico resumido sobre a Federa????o brasileira, com foco no estudo dos processos de coordena????o e coopera????o intergovernamental existentes. Adicionalmente, apresenta-se um mapeamento das experi??ncias de associativismo territorial no Brasil, a partir de uma tipologia de arranjos que foram vinculados a dez diferentes l??gicas de articula????o intergovernamental: l??gica setorial; l??gica metropolitana; l??gica de desenvolvimento regional contra a desigualdade; l??gica de desenvolvimento regional baseada na identidade territorial; l??gica de atua????o regional da uni??o e dos governos estaduais; l??gica de atua????o microrregional; l??gica econ??mica de parceria p??blico-privado; l??gica social de parceria p??blico-privado; l??gica de associativismo de advocacy e coopera????o intergovernamental; e l??gica ad hoc de coopera????o intergovernamental. Por fim, apresenta-se uma s??ntese de onze estudos de caso sobre associativismo territorial no Brasil, com o intuito de demonstrar as poss??veis a????es que estariam ligadas as tipos de l??gica de articula????o intergovernamental, bem como propor a????es e incentivos nos plano institucional, da pol??ticas p??blicas e da governan??a territorial ampliada, a fim de buscar poss??veis solu????es para os problemas e dificuldades abordados por essas experi??ncias associativas

Apresenta????o sobre a administra????o p??blica no Brasil e os desafios da gest??o p??blica contempor??nea

Administra????o P??blica Brasileira: transforma????es e desafios para a gest??o p??blica no Brasil contempor??neo: desempenho, governan??a, rela????es intersetoriais.

Disciplina 1.2: democracia e cidadania no Brasil

A disciplina teve como conte??dos: conceitos de cidadania, sociedade civil e democracia no pensamento pol??tico contempor??neo e mapeamento de suas diferentes interpreta????es. As principais experi??ncias de participa????o social em curso no Brasil: or??amentos participativos e conselhos de pol??ticas

Estado e administra????o p??blica no Brasil

Estado contempor??neo e suas transforma????es. Administra????o P??blica Brasileira: transforma????es e desafios para a gest??o p??blica no Brasil contempor??neo: accountability, desempenho, governan??a, rela????es intersetoriais. Princ??pios da Administra????o P??blica

Disciplina 1.2: democracia e cidadania no Brasil

Conceitos de cidadania, sociedade civil e democracia no pensamento pol??tico contempor??neo de forma a mapear suas diferentes interpreta????es. As principais experi??ncias de participa????o social em curso no Brasil: or??amentos participativos e conselhos de pol??ticas

Prospectiva estrat??gica: instrumento para a constru????o do futuro e para a elabora????o de pol??ticas p??blicas

A prospectiva estrat??gica aparece como ferramenta que, apoiada nos instrumentos de an??lise econ??mica e social existentes e em t??cnicas espec??ficas, como o Delphi, a constru????o de cen??rios, a matriz de impactos cruzados e outras, possibilita ???vis??es de futuro???, que permitir??o a elabora????o de pol??ticas p??blicas que visem ?? constru????o de futuro desej??vel. Este trabalho pressup??e um Estado formulador de pol??ticas p??blicas e detentor de instrumentos de planejamento, o que nos remete a um vi??s ideol??gico: de que, no capitalismo contempor??neo, Estado e mercado coordenem os sistemas econ??micos, conforme explicitado no Plano Diretor da Reforma do Aparelho de Estado (Governo Federal, Brasil, 1995). S?? a aceita????o dessa hip??tese pode supor a exist??ncia e a necessidade de pol??ticas p??blicas, remetendo-nos o campo da ideologia e contrapondo-nos ao liberalismo.