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Universities are important drivers for transnational migration to Australia, especially for students who are economically mobile, or who might be seeking to convert a transitory study experience into a more permanent migratory one. The economic growth experienced in a number of Latin American countries in the twenty-first century introduced new cohorts of Latin American students into Australian tertiary education institutions, including some from countries that may have had minimal prior presence in Australia. This includes students working towards research degrees. This article presents the autoethnographic accounts of four doctoral candidates from Latin America studying in Australia. It considers their motivations for undertaking graduate research, and the factors that brought them to choose Australia as a study destination, and the benefits and challenges they have experienced in coming here. While the candidates are all from different research fields, their experiences reveal commonalities around three key themes: opportunity, safe exploration and the role of family in enabling decisions about transnational doctoral education.

Education as investment in human capital is an economic growth generator, to achieve that for a country it is needed to analyze those components of a national educational system in our analysis about the Mexican educational system, we have considered information that let us to visualize the results on the application of those programs aligned with the OECD, ISCED-UNESCO standards, which let us have a perspective of the no satisfactory results shown in the text of this publication, doing the comparative analysis of national indicators vs. the OECD as a whole, considering variables as annual PIB assignation of resources, the PISA evaluation results, the salaries paid to teachers and the annual government expense by student. Our sources of information are from confident international institutions (OECD and UNESCO), therefore our analysis is also confident and for that we made it by using the qualitative focus (Hernández, 2010), defining our extent in this article as an interpretation of how some variables as application and resources allocation to educational programs and other factors have addressed to the nondesired results exposed in the text of this article ; La educación considerada como inversión en capital humano es un generador de crecimiento económico; para que en un país pueda lograrse, es necesario el análisis de los componentes que integran un sistema educativo nacional. En nuestro análisis sobre el sistema educativo mexicano, hemos considerado información que permite visualizar resultados de la aplicación de programas educativos alineados con los estándares internacionales CINE-UNESCO y OCDE básicamente, que nos ha permitido evaluar desde nuestra perspectiva los resultados no satisfactorios que mostramos, comparando los indicadores nacionales con el conjunto de países de la OCDE, en variables como la asignación anual del porcentaje del PIB a la educación, la evaluación PISA, el salario a profesores y el gasto gubernamental por alumno en base anual. Debido a que los datos son provenientes de publicaciones de organismos internacionales confiables (OCDE y UNESCO), consideramos que nuestro análisis es acertado y para ello utilizamos el enfoque cualitativo (Hernández, 2010), lo cual nos permite definir el alcance en el presente artículo como una interpretación de lo que variables como la aplicación y asignación de recursos a los programas educativos y otros factores, han generado resultados no deseados que exponemos en el contendio del presente artículo

Background A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (known as COVID-19), spread rapidly around the world, affecting all and creating an ongoing global pandemic. In the United States, Latinx, African American, and Indigenous populations across the country have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 cases and death rates. An examination of the perceptions and beliefs about the spread of the virus, COVID-19 testing, and vaccination amongst racial/ethnic minority groups is needed in order to alleviate the widespread disparity in new cases and deaths. Methods From November to December 2020 the research team conducted focus groups with members of Latinx farm-working communities in the Eastern Coachella Valley, located in the inland southern California desert region. A total of seven focus groups, six in Spanish and one in Purépecha, with a total of 55 participants were conducted. Topics covered include knowledge of the coronavirus, COVID-19 testing and vaccination. Results Using theme identification techniques, the findings identify structural factors that underly perceptions held by immigrant, migrant, and indigenous Latinx community members about COVID-19, which, in turn, shape attitudes and behaviors related to COVID-19 testing and vaccination. Common themes that emerged across focus groups include misinformation, lack of trust in institutions, and insecurity around employment and residency. Conclusions This racial/ethnic minority population is structurally vulnerable to historical and present-day inequalities that put them at increased risk of COVID-19 exposure, morbidity, and mortality. Findings from the focus groups indicate a significant need for interventions that decrease structural vulnerabilities by addressing issues of (dis)trust in government and public health among this population.

The ability to interpret daily and seasonal alterations in light and temperature signals is essential for plant survival. This is particularly important during seedling establishment when the phytochrome photoreceptors activate photosynthetic pigment production for photoautotrophic growth. Phytochromes accomplish this partly through the suppression of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTORS (PIFs), negative regulators of chlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis. While the bZIP transcription factor LONG HYPOCOTYL 5 (HY5), a potent PIF antagonist, promotes photosynthetic pigment accumulation in response to light. Here we demonstrate that by directly targeting a common promoter cis-element (G-box), HY5 and PIFs form a dynamic activation-suppression transcriptional module responsive to light and temperature cues. This antagonistic regulatory module provides a simple, direct mechanism through which environmental change can redirect transcriptional control of genes required for photosynthesis and photoprotection. In the regulation of photopigment biosynthesis genes, HY5 and PIFs do not operate alone, but with the circadian clock. However, sudden changes in light or temperature conditions can trigger changes in HY5 and PIFs abundance that adjust the expression of common target genes to optimise photosynthetic performance and growth. ; GTO and KPL are funded by a UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) grant BB/F005237/1 (ROBuST project) awarded to KJH and the European Union FP7 (TiMet, contract 245143). GTO is also supported by a Marie Curie Actions FP7-CIG (PCIG11-GA-2012-321649) award. HJ received a Postgraduate Award provided by the BBSRC and the Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance (SULSA). MRC and JBT are funded by grants from the Spanish Dirección General de Investigación (BIO2011-23680 and PIM2010IPO-00660), Generalitat de Catalunya (2009SGR-26 and XRB), Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo (IBERCAROT), and European Union FP7 (TiMet, contract 245143) awarded to MRC. ; Peer reviewed