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Argues for a pedagogy of the posthuman that meets the needs of student writers in computer classrooms. Suggests that educators now fail to serve the needs of posthuman students whose subjectivities emerge at the conjuncture of consumer culture and cyberspace and emerge as commodities. Proposes that critically oriented compositionists should design curricula suited to the needs of posthuman students. (PM)

Discusses the role of ethics in the public relations curriculum. Notes textbooks used in ethics courses. Discusses how the topic of ethics fares in the most popular public relations texts (basic and advanced). (SR)

Robert Benchley's press criticisms that he wrote for The New Yorker in 1927-39 have been unjustly neglected. Benchley, who had worked in advertising, public relations and as a writer for various publications before becoming The New Yorker's drama critic in 1927, also began writing his 'The Wayward Press' column that year at the urging of editor Harold Ross. Benchley used this column to attack bad journalistic writing and to uphold high standards for newspapers. His humorously effective prose enabled these columns to stand the test of time.

Abstract Background Mosquitoes are important vectors of diseases but, in spite of various mosquito faunistic surveys globally, there is a need for a spatial online database of mosquito collection data and distribution summaries. Such a resource could provide entomologists with the results of previous mosquito surveys, and vector disease control workers, preventative medicine practitioners, and health planners with information relating mosquito distribution to vector-borne disease risk. Results A web application called MosquitoMap was constructed comprising mosquito collection point data stored in an ArcGIS 9.3 Server/SQL geodatabase that includes administrative area and vector species x country lookup tables. In addition to the layer containing mosquito collection points, other map layers were made available including environmental, and vector and pathogen/disease distribution layers. An application within MosquitoMap called the Mal-area calculator (MAC) was constructed to quantify the area of overlap, for any area of interest, of vector, human, and disease distribution models. Data standards for mosquito records were developed for MosquitoMap. Conclusion MosquitoMap is a public domain web resource that maps and compares georeferenced mosquito collection points to other spatial information, in a geographical information system setting. The MAC quantifies the Mal-area, i.e. the area where it is theoretically possible for vector-borne disease transmission to occur, thus providing a useful decision tool where other disease information is limited. The Mal-area approach emphasizes the independent but cumulative contribution to disease risk of the vector species predicted present. MosquitoMap adds value to, and makes accessible, the results of past collecting efforts, as well as providing a template for other arthropod spatial databases.

Focuses on the disagreement between social scientists Richard S. Rudner and Peter Winch on the idea of reflective and unreflective knowledge. Rudner's criticism on Winch's reproductive fallacy or the mistaken belief that the function of science is to reproduce reality; Emphasis of Rudner's argument his attempt to restrict the notion of reflective understanding to the category of scientific knowledge.

Focuses on the article contributions of journalist Robert Benchley to the periodical `The New Yorker,' from 1927 to 1939. Subjects and topics of Benchley's press criticism; Circumstances leading Benchley to contribute to the periodical; Criticisms against his work from editors.

The method of dietary exposure assessment currently used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Dietary Residue Evaluation System (DRES), combines a consumption distribution derived from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1977-1978 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey (NFCS) with a single estimate of residue level. The National Academy of Sciences recommended that EPA incorporate both the distribution of residues and the distribution of consumption into their exposure assessment methodology and proposed using a Monte Carlo approach. This paper presents an alternative method, the Joint Distributional Analysis (JDA), that combines the consumption and residue distributions, without relying on random sampling or fitting theoretical distributions like the Monte Carlo method. This method permits simultaneous analysis of the entire diet, including assessing exposure from residues in different foods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]