scholarly journals Territorial traps in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenglong Wang ◽  
Sainan Zou ◽  
Yungang Liu
Keyword(s):  
International Travel ◽  
National Context ◽  
State Coordination ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Inter State

The COVID-19 pandemic is global in scope, yet responses to the pandemic have varied considerably by national context, thereby reinforcing what Agnew (1994) has called the ‘territorial trap’. This commentary extends geographical scholarship by considering three territorial traps at play in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly pertaining to the governance of international travel and migration, inter-state coordination, and territorial thinking.

Australia budget places growth over fiscal discipline

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Debt ◽  
Credit Rating ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Fiscal Discipline ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
Skills Shortage ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
And Migration

Significance The strategy should support the economic recovery that is already underway following a year of pandemic-related restrictions. There will be more spending on infrastructure and additional tax relief for businesses and workers, with the result that public debt will remain high for at least a decade. Impacts The skills shortage affecting business investment is likely to continue until international travel and migration normalise in 2022. Australia will hold onto its AAA credit rating despite the growing debt load, but the outlook has become more negative. The coalition’s expanded social agenda will weaken the opposition Labor Party ahead of the pending general election.

scholarly journals Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Špela Drnovšek Zorko ◽  
Miloš Debnár
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
National Context ◽  
East European ◽  
Ethnic And Racial Studies ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ambiguous Position

AbstractThe article deploys the lens of the race-migration nexus (Erel et al., Ethnic and Racial Studies 39:1339–1360, 2016) to compare the racialization of migrants in the UK and Japan. It draws on qualitative data on the experiences of Central-East European (CEE) migrants in the two countries to unpack how whiteness is constructed in relation to different histories and patterns of immigration in each national context. While CEE migrants in Japan benefit from being perceived as implicitly white and Western ‘foreigners’, their whiteness represents a form of enduring exclusion from the ethno-nationalist Japanese society. In the UK, changing political contexts and internal European hierarchies of whiteness contribute to CEE migrants’ ambiguous position in an increasingly anti-migrant society. By comparing the mechanisms of racialization in each country through the analytics of visibility and exclusion, the article furthers ongoing debates about the intersections of race and migration. It furthermore extends the comparative analysis of whiteness to a non-Western setting, making a significant contribution to the study of local/global articulations of race.

scholarly journals Determinants of anti-hepatitis A antibody seroprevalence in 2- to 19-year-olds in the USA using NHANES 2007–2008

2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. VELASCO-MONDRAGON ◽  
I. LINDONG ◽  
F. KAMANGAR
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Hepatitis A ◽  
Hepatitis A Virus ◽  
Vaccination Status ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Seroprevalence Data ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Migration

SUMMARYThe aim of the study was to describe the epidemiology and determinants of anti-hepatitis A seroprevalence in 2- to 19-year-olds in the USA for 2007–2008. This study was conducted in a sample of 2621 individuals aged 2–19 years in the USA using data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2008. The overall seroprevalence of anti- hepatitis A virus (HAV) in this population was 39% (95% confidence interval 32·6–45·3). HAV seroprevalence was higher in Mexican Americans than other ethnic groups, in younger persons, and in those who reported previous vaccination compared to those who did not. We concluded that anti-hepatitis A seroprevalence rates are increasing in younger individuals in the USA, indicating a shift of seroprevalence over time due to vaccination status. Findings are consistent with a persistent influx of infection through international travel and migration and highlight the need to discern hepatitis A infection from vaccination status when assessing the effectiveness of vaccination using seroprevalence data.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Hannah Holtschneider
Keyword(s):  
Local Context ◽  
National Context ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Jewish Migration ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Issues ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Migration

The introduction places the book in the context of migration research, including that of the expanding field of transnationalism research. Britain, as a desired or accidental destination of Jewish migrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, then takes centre stage for an investigation of the religious history of British Jews. The focus is sharpened again with the introduction of Scotland as a specific British context of migration and the locus of the case study in chapters 1, 3 and 4, with chapter 2 providing the wider national context of the discussion about Jewish leadership and authority. The contribution this book seeks to make is the exploration of international trends and themes in Jewish migration and migration research in a specific, local context. The aim is to observe local consequences of wider – national and international – issues of Jewish migration at the time.

scholarly journals The 2018–2020 Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Better Response Had Been Achieved Through Inter-State Coordination in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 14 ◽  
pp. 4923-4930
Author(s):  
Raoul Emeric Guetiya Wadoum ◽  
Stephen Sevalie ◽  
Antonella Minutolo ◽  
Andrew Clarke ◽  
Gianluca Russo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
State Coordination ◽  
Inter State

Demonstration of Retinal Glycogen with Silver Methenamine

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 564-565
Author(s):  
A. W. Sedar ◽  
G. H. Bresnick
Keyword(s):  
Lactic Acid ◽  
Chromic Acid ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Müller Cell ◽  
External Limiting Membrane ◽  
Electron Microscope Level ◽  
Reactive Process ◽  
Inner Limiting Membrane ◽  
Muller Cell ◽  
And Migration

After experimetnal damage to the retina with a variety of procedures Müller cell hypertrophy and migration occurs. According to Kuwabara and others the reactive process in these injuries is evidenced by a marked increase in amount of glycogen in the Müller cells. These cells were considered originally supporting elements with fiber processes extending throughout the retina from inner limiting membrane to external limiting membrane, but are known now to have high lactic acid dehydrogenase activity and the ability to synthesize glycogen. Since the periodic acid-chromic acid-silver methenamine technique was shown to demonstrate glycogen at the electron microscope level, it was selected to react with glycogen in the fine processes of the Müller cell that ramify among the neural elements in various layers of the retina and demarcate these cells cytologically. The Rhesus monkey was chosen as an example of a well vascularized retina and the rabbit as an example of a avascular retina to explore the possibilities of the technique.

Structure and migration of planar defects in crystals observed in atomic scale

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Hashimoto ◽  
Y. Sugimoto ◽  
Y. Takai ◽  
H. Endoh
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Rotation Angle ◽  
Crystal Surface ◽  
Electron Gun ◽  
Atomic Scale ◽  
Present Observation ◽  
Twist Boundary ◽  
Optical Magnification ◽  
Zinc Crystal ◽  
And Migration

As was demonstrated by the present authors that atomic structure of simple crystal can be photographed by the conventional 100 kV electron microscope adjusted at “aberration free focus (AFF)” condition. In order to operate the microscope at AFF condition effectively, highly stabilized electron beams with small energy spread and small beam divergence are necessary. In the present observation, a 120 kV electron microscope with LaB6 electron gun was used. The most of the images were taken with the direct electron optical magnification of 1.3 million times and then magnified photographically.1. Twist boundary of ZnSFig. 1 is the image of wurtzite single crystal with twist boundary grown on the surface of zinc crystal by the reaction of sulphur vapour of 1540 Torr at 500°C. Crystal surface is parallel to (00.1) plane and electron beam is incident along the axis normal to the crystal surface. In the twist boundary there is a dislocation net work between two perfect crystals with a certain rotation angle.

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