In this paper, the author contends that in order to produce and capture useful knowledge, early Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects should be local, small, and focused on realistic goals. The importance of cooperative networks that support knowledge acquisition and diffusion is stressed. Additionally, the author promotes the usage of private industry, especially to perform tasks for which they are best qualified.

In this paper I consider the need to rethink existing ethical approaches to the internationalization of higher education. In particular, I consider the risk that the same developmentalist assumptions that reproduce the highly uneven global higher education landscape also shape many of our efforts to address these inequities. To do so, I situate the current moment within a longer history of colonial relations and identify five pressing ethical challenges for higher education scholars and institutions to address. Ultimately, I suggest the need to be more attentive to the harmful investments and colonial frames of reference that keep us from imagining a radically different ethics of internationalization.

Spatial environmental heterogeneity (EH) is considered one of the most important factors promoting species richness, but no general consent about the EH–richness relationship exists so far. This is because research methods and study settings vary widely, and because non-significant and negative associations have also been reported. My thesis provides a comprehensive review of the different measurements and terminologies of EH used in the literature, and presents strong quantitative evidence of a generally positive relationship between biotic and abiotic EH and species richness of terrestrial plants and animals from landscape to global extents. In a meta-analysis and a subsequent case study comparing multiple EH measures and their association with mammal species richness worldwide, I furthermore reveal that the outcome of EH–richness studies depends strongly on study design, including both the EH measure chosen and spatial scale. My research contributes to a better understanding of the EH–richness relationship, while identifying future research needs.

Argentina is the largest lemon producing country in the world and Tucumán province leads in lemon production. Knowing that disease free citrus propagating materials prevent the spread of diseases and are the basis of a profitable industry, the Estación Experimental Agroindustrial Obispo Colombres of Tucumán (EEAOC) established the Citrus Sanitation Center (CSC) in 2004. The goal of the CSC is to provide the important citrus varieties and rootstocks true to type and free of graft-transmissible pathogens as primary sources of propagating material for citrus growers and researchers in northwest Argentina. A national citrus certification program became mandatory in 2010 and enclosure of all commercial nurseries in January 2011.  At present, most of the main citrus varieties and rootstocks of commercial interest have been recovered through the standard procedure of shoot-tip grafting in vitro. Mother trees and increase blocks are maintained in insect proof greenhouses to supply budwood for rapid nursery multiplication. Regular testing of mother trees by biological, serological and molecular methods is performed for different virus, viroids, CVC, citrus canker and now HLB. Current surveys report that Tucuman is free of the vector, Diaphorina citri, and the HLB pathogen. The CSC will also perform HLB testing during quarantine entry of imported varieties to provide a program for safe accession of citrus germplasm and provision of clean budwood.