Russische Juden : (aus der "Contemporary Review")

Theodor Herzl

Paths to Power: The Ascendance of Contemporary Democratic Congressional Leaders

Congressional leadership is a constantly changing phenomenon. New factors and actors are constantly affecting and altering which members ascend to positions of leadership and how that leadership is exercised. A critical change that has occurred in recent times is the inclusion of women in the congressional leadership for the first time. While there has been a great deal of theoretical work on gender and on congressional leadership, there have not been enough actual female leaders in Congress to perform a study until now. The present study examines the impact of gender, committee/legislative performance, ideology, and fundraising ability on leadership ascendancy. The variables are investigated through a comparative case study of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Harry Reid.

Rahel Morpurgo and contemporary hebrew poets in Italy

by Nina Salaman

Foodborne illness - An age old problem requiring contemporary solutions

Foodborne illness has always been with us, and food safety is an increasingly important public health issue affecting populations worldwide. In the United States of America, foodborne illness strikes millions of people and kills thousands annually, costing our economy billions of dollars in medical care expense and lost productivity. The nature of food and foodborne illness has changed dramatically in the last century. The regulatory systems have evolved to better assure a safe food supply. The food production industry has invested heavily to meet regulatory requirement and to improve the safety of their products. Educational efforts have increased public awareness of safe food handling practices, empowering consumers to fulfill their food safety role. Despite the advances made, none of the Healthy People 2010 targets for reduction of foodborne pathogens has been reached. There is no single solution to eliminating pathogen contamination from all classes of food products. However, irradiation seems especially suited for certain higher-risk foods such as meat and poultry and its use should advance the goal of reducing foodborne illness by minimizing the presence of pathogenic organisms in the food supply. This technology has been studied extensively for over 50 years. The Food and Drug Administration has determined that food irradiation is safe for use as approved by the Agency. It is time to take action to educate consumers about the benefits of food irradiation. Consumer demand will compel industry to meet demand by investing in facilities and processes to assure a consistent supply of irradiated food products. ^

"Contemporary Art and Anthropology". De Arnd Schneider y Christopher Wright (Editores). En: Avá, nº 9

Entre Arte e Antropologia: diálogos e apropriações A relação entre Arte e Ciência é um dos temas dos mais complexos e evolutivos, sempre dependendo do contexto histórico e do objetivo desta "relação". Por isto, resolvi começar esta resenha do livro ContemporaryArt and Anthropology com uma visão ampla e clássica deste problema epistemológico .

Poetry for export : Contemporary Argentine Poetry (1969), de William Shand, una antología poética argentina en inglés

La traducción se planta como el medio para que un público ajeno a la lengua de origen de un texto pueda acceder a él. En el caso de la poesía, debido a su difícil traducción y a su escasa publicación, la problemática de la traducción se torna doble. A partir de entonces, la presentación de una antología poética argentina en inglés como carta de presentación de la literatura nacional en el mundo resulta una obra interesante en cuanto a sus contenidos y repercusiones en el canon internacional

Stausberg, M. Contemporary Theories of Religion. A Critical Companion, New York, Routledge, Nueva York, 2009, 309 pp. ISBN: 978-0415463478

Fil: Bogdan, Guillermina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Contemporary genetic, historical genetic and morphological data sets for the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops

Understanding the evolutionary history of threatened populations can improve their conservation management. Re-establishment of past but recent gene flow could re-invigorate threatened populations and replenish genetic diversity, necessary for population persistence. One of the four nominal subspecies of the common yellow-tufted honeyeater, Lichenostomus melanops cassidix, is critically endangered despite substantial conservation efforts over 55 years. Using a combination of morphometric, genetic and modelling approaches we tested for its evolutionary distinctiveness and conservation merit. We confirmed that cassidix has at least one morphometric distinction. It also differs genetically from the other subspecies in allele frequencies but not phylogenetically, implying that its evolution was recent. Modelling historical distribution supported the lack of vicariance and suggested a possibility of gene flow among subspecies at least since the late Pleistocene. Multi-locus coalescent analyses indicated that cassidix diverged from its common ancestor with neighbouring subspecies gippslandicus sometime from the mid-Pleistocene to the Holocene, and that it has the smallest historical effective population size of all subspecies. It appears that cassidix diverged from its ancestor with gippslandicus through a combination of drift and local selection. From patterns of genetic subdivision on two spatial scales and morphological variation we concluded that cassidix, gippslandicus and (melanops + meltoni) are diagnosable as subspecies. Low genetic diversity and effective population size of cassidix may translate to low genetic fitness and evolutionary potential, thus managed gene flow from gippslandicus is recommended for its recovery.