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With this book is completed a trilogy of works begun in 2005 with This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class Past, and continuing with Clydeside; Red Orange and Green in 2009. The three books have all had similar aims in trying to raise the profile of forgotten or neglected areas and aspects of Glasgow and its history, in a small way trying to boost the esteem in which such places are held by the people who live in there and by those who visit.Moving away slightly from the working class focus, this third instalment presents a broad view of Glasgow's industrial, social and intellectual hist

The holding of elections in Kosovo is a key step in the realization of a rule of law regime in the province. Elections have been assessed by means of a range of critical analyses that can be grouped into broad schools: liberal, conservative, & autonomist. Each of them has a different understanding of the purpose of the democratization project, the role of elections within it, & their validity as indicators of the sovereignty of the polity in question. In Bosnia, the political stalemate arising from the electoral victories of nationalist parties has led to increasing international intervention at a policy level, the value of which is contested by the liberal & autonomist schools. Learning the lessons of Bosnia, the schools have achieved a consensus on the importance of local political involvement in the pre-electoral period in Kosovo, but are divided on the importance of autonomy for the process of democratization. Given the conditions in Kosovo, the contribution of holding elections to the establishment of a human rights based regime is ambiguous. Nonetheless, the safe conduct of elections can serve as an indicator of the extent to which key democratic & human rights have been realized. Adapted from the source document.

Two outbreaks of epidemic polyarthritis occurred among Australian Defence Force personnel during and following short military exercises in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area, northeastern Australia, in 2016 and 2017. Ross River virus (RRV) IgM was detected in acute-phase serum samples from most patients (28/28 in 2016 and 25/31 in 2017), and RRV was recovered from 4/38 serum samples assayed (1/21 in 2016 and 3/17 in 2017). Phylogenetic analyses of RRV envelope glycoprotein E2 and nonstructural protein nsP3 nucleotide sequences segregated the RRV isolates obtained in 2016 and 2017 outbreaks into 2 distinct sublineages, suggesting that each outbreak was caused by a different strain of RRV. The spatiotemporal characteristics of the 2016 outbreak suggested that some of the infections involved human-mosquito-human transmission without any intermediate host. These outbreaks highlight the importance of personal protective measures in preventing vectorborne diseases for which no vaccine or specific prophylaxis exists.