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Local alcohol prohibition, police presence and serious injury in isolated...
Reference Number: DSW2201, Year of Publication: 2006 Authors: Gruenewald, Paul; Wood, Darryl Keywords: Alcohol Regulation, Injury, Native Americans Citation: Wood, D.S. and Gruenewald, P.J. “Local...
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Google news proxy measure — H5N1 public involvement
This Googled search was an effort to measure the types of information, and source, for use in disaster planning. So far, as mentioned in another post, [link to come] the birds count for more than the...
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Richest cities in the U.S. (Bethel)
Forbes.com issued a list of America’s 10 richest cities last week and Anchorage is No. 2. Really. It’s based on census median household income figures, and Anchorage is second only to San Jose, Calif....
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RE: Google news proxy
RE: Google news proxy this was published today– More News Outlets, Fewer Stories: New Media ‘Paradox’ By James Rainey, Times Staff Writer March 13, 2006 A “new paradox of journalism” has emerged in...
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Getting Results from Your Experts
I put this list together for the USDA Natural Resources & Conservation Service in 2002 from my earlier handouts. It is a listing of references I recommend to communities and other professionals...
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Jay Hammond formula for evaluating development
“a simple formula for calculating the value of a development. ‘Is it environmentally sound? Does it pay its own way? And do the people want it? ‘Because he subjected proposals to those three tests,...
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Complex Bird Flu Testing summary
Read Ann Potempa’s article to find out where the swabbing begins. Experts will test birds for signs of avian flu and read Sampling Bird Cloaca USDA Madison, Wisconsin laboratory...
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NZ research on birdflu spread
This is a nice experiment. The information is needed in the overall understanding of pandemic infections and of emerging infections. People are part of the environment, but we mediate our interactions...
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What he knew in 1918 could save millions of lives today
This is an interesting read about a previous pandemic of avian influenza. Note the impact of behavioral change on the epidemiology of the disease and why the disease would affect people differently in...
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Where is… duckie invasion
click to enlarge Published: July 24, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/rwplc or http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/8000614p-7893688c.html Scientists of tub toy fame will tell their tale in Sitka BEACHCOMBERS...
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Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A/(H5N1)...
2003 0304, 0304 cases, deaths 2004 46, 32 2005 95, 41 2006 8990, 59 60 Total to date 233 235135137 revised 2006aug08 The updates are too many. Check the page at...
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2005 Census Stats Released
2005 American Community Survey (ACS) data are now being released. The 2005 ACS data include demographic and social information such as race, Hispanic origin, age, education, marital status,...
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Swans and planes
two from Science in the News, an E-mail newsletter from Sigma Xi, mentioned previously as a source especially for science teachers (ΣΧ FYI for Sci TEK teachers, linked in sidebar) Thought experiments —...
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655,000 or 48,000 Iraqi deaths
Here is the original article (in pdf) http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/ lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf Here is how one newspaper headlined it— Survey says 600,000 have died in Iraq war...
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Another health ranking
The entire report can be downloaded as a pdf file or viewed in sections on-line. This is the 17th year of this particular report. New Mexico’s health ranking slipped from 38th to 40th in the nation...
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Flu history and research database
This was on my to-do list and moved to my past-due list to post regarding some significant resources. What the university has posted is suitable for students to do their own original research into...
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results, maybe
Officials confirm no sign of bird flu from Alaska tests The Associated Press Published: January 9, 2007 Last Modified: January 9, 2007 at 04:24 PM JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – There were no signs of the...
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Stats basics at Good Math Bad Math
Good Math, Bad Math Finding the fun in good math; Shredding bad math and squashing the crackpots who espouse it. Basics: Mean, Median, and Mode Statistics is something that surrounds us every day –...
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Will masks stop bird flu? US students experiment
This would be such an incredibly interesting and valuable experiment for our villages to do. We have the unique situation of genuine communities (not ad hoc ones like a dormitory), manageably small,...
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Where is… Bethel timepiece
The original map allows clicking on each zone for specific information. Alaska has two time zones and evidently used to have 4. But the state is so big that whenever the clock indicates noon, the...
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