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- Angela Chesler, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Debra Javeline
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As climate changes, coastal homeowners are potentially crucial actors in reducing the risks to property and human life from rising seas and increased hurricane activity. Absent strict, enforceable regulations mandating retrofitting of existing homes or major changes in homeowner insurance requirements, coastal resilience in a changing climate will largely reflect private, voluntary decisions of millions of individuals. However, research is scarce on the current risk level of U.S. coastal home…
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- 2021-10-07
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- Author(s):
- Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Debra Javeline, Angela Chesler
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As climate changes, coastal homeowners are potentially crucial actors in reducing the risks to property and human life from rising seas and increased hurricane activity. Absent strict, enforceable regulations mandating retrofitting of existing homes or major changes in homeowner insurance requirements, coastal resilience in a changing climate will largely reflect private, voluntary decisions of millions of individuals. However, research is scarce on the current risk level of U.S. coastal home…
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- 2021-10-07
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- Appiah, Lambert T., Moore, Spencer, Merchant, Anwar T., Davis, Rachel E., Botchway, Marian
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Objective: We applied a social network approach to examine if three types of diabetes-related stigma (self-stigma, perceived stigma and enacted stigma) moderated associations between social network characteristics (network size, kin composition, household composition, and network density), social support, and blood glucose among Ghanaians with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods: Data were obtained through a cross-sectional survey of 254 adults at a diabetes clinic in Ghana that assessed…
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- Chin, Natalie, Bowling, Laura C., Lee, Charlotte I., Hamlet, Alan F., Pignotti, Garett W., Byun, Kyuhyun, Chaubey, Indrajeet, Kines, Stephen J., Singh, Sarmistha, Neupane, Ram, Ficklin, Darren L., Cherkauer, Keith A., Rahman, Sanoar, Femeena, Pandara Valappil, Williamson, Tanja N.
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Changes to water resources are critical to all sectors of the economy. Climate change will affect the timing and quantity of water available in the environment as well as have an adverse effect on the quality of that water. Floods, droughts, and changing patterns of water scarcity-when water is not available in sufficient enough quantities or of a suitable quality at the right time to fulfill demand-are all critical factors when considering how and where Indiana will be able to economically d…
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- 2021-03-17
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- Harwood, Valerie J., Rohr, Jason R., Civitello, David J., Nguyen, Karena H., Boersch-Supan, Philipp H., Mendiola, Sandra Y., Hartman, Rachel B.
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Temperature constrains the transmission of many pathogens. Interventions that target temperature-sensitive life stages, such as vector controlmeasures that kill intermediate hosts, could shift the thermal optimum of transmission, thereby altering seasonal disease dynamics and rendering interventions less effective at certain times of the year and with global climate change. To test these hypotheses, we integrated an epidemiological model of schistosomiasis with empirically determined temperat…
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- 2021-03-16
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- Trouet, Valerie M., Heilman, Kelly A., Belmecheri, Soumaya, Pederson, Neil, McLachlan, Jason S., Berke, Melissa A.
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Both increases in temperature and changes in precipitation may limit future tree growth, but rising atmospheric CO2 could offset some of these stressors through increased plant Water Use Efficiency (WUE). The net balance between the negative impacts of climate change and positive effects of CO2 on tree growth is crucial for ecotones, where increased climate stress could drive mortality and shifts in range. Here, we quantify the effects of climate, stand structure, and rising CO2 on both annua…
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- Pence, Julia T., Goodson, Holly, V, Molik, David C., Shepherd, Heather A. M., Ong, Joseph Y.
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Continuous culture systems allow for the controlled growth of microorganisms over a long period of time. Here, we develop a novel test for mutagenicity that involves growing yeast in continuous culture systems exposed to low levels of mutagen for a period of approximately 20 days. In contrast, most microorganism-based tests for mutagenicity expose the potential mutagen to the biological reporter at a high concentration of mutagen for a short period of time. Our test improves upon the sensitiv…
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- 2021-03-17
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- Bolster, Diogo, Sherman, Thomas, Sole-Mari, Guillem, Sweeney, Matthew R., Vassallo, Daniel, Hyman, Jeffrey
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While several studies have linked network and in-fracture scale properties to conservative transport behavior in subsurface fractured media, studies on reactive transport cases remain relatively underdeveloped. In this study, we explore the behavior of an irreversible kinetic reaction during the interaction of two solute plumes, one consisting of species A and the other species B. When the plumes converge, these species react kinetically to form a new species C via A + B -> C. This reactiv…
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- Davies, Peter A., Fernando, Harindra Joseph S.
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Don Lamar Boyer, a pioneer of physical modeling of rotating and stratified topographic flows, passed away in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 19, 2020. A visionary in and champion for geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics research, a dedicated mentor and a skilled administrator, he played an influential leadership role in the evolution of laboratory-based research in environmental flows as well as the growth of this journal itselfby providing learned advice to the editors and, on occasion, ac…
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- 2021-04-01
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- Verhagen, Rory, O'Brien, Jake W., Thomas, Kevin, V, Sherman, Paul, Ahmed, Warish, Simpson, Stuart L., Dwyer, Jason, Choi, Phil, Mueller, Jochen F., Clarke, Leah, Thi Minh Hong Nguyen, Bibby, Kyle, Tscharke, Ben, Bivins, Aaron, Zaugg, Julian, Bertsch, Paul M., Edson, Janette
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus which causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has spread rapidly across the globe infecting millions of people and causing significant health and economic impacts. Authorities are exploring complimentary approaches to monitor this infectious disease at the community level. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approaches to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in municipal wastewater are being implemented worldwide as an environmental surv…
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- 2021-03-20
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- Goeckede, Mathias, Natali, Susan M., Boike, Julia, Abermann, Jakob, Hjort, Jan, Cahoon, Sean M. P., Loranty, Michael M., Blume-Werry, Gesche, Blok, Daan, Rocha, Adrian, V, Abbot, Benjamin W., Mamet, Steven D., Elberling, Bo, Blanc-Betes, Elena, Lafleur, Peter M., Euskirchen, Eugenie S., Breen, Amy L., Kropp, Heather, Smith, Sharon L., O'Donnell, Jonathan A., Kholodov, Alexander L., Jorgenson, M. Torre, Salmon, Verity G., Heijmans, Monique M. P. D., Myers-Smith, Isla, Tape, Ken D., Mauritz, Marguerite, Phoenix, Gareth K., Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela, Jones, Benjamin M., Laundre, James, Williams, Mathew, Humphreys, Elyn R., Vaughn, Lydia Smith, Lund, Magnus, Langley, Kirsty, Epstein, Howard E., Sannel, A. Britta K., Frost, Gerald, V, Christiansen, Casper T., Sonnentag, Oliver, Iwata, Hiroki, Olefeldt, David, Lee, Bang-Yong, Kim, Yongwon, Michelsen, Anders, Gough, Laura, Gruenberg, Inge, Douglas, Thomas A., Ueyama, Masahito, Hoye, Toke T.
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Soils are warming as air temperatures rise across the Arctic and Boreal region concurrent with the expansion of tall-statured shrubs and trees in the tundra. Changes in vegetation structure and function are expected to alter soil thermal regimes, thereby modifying climate feedbacks related to permafrost thaw and carbon cycling. However, current understanding of vegetation impacts on soil temperature is limited to local or regional scales and lacks the generality necessary to predict soil warm…
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- 2021-01-01
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- Author(s):
- Severson, David W., Kang, David S., Chadee, Dave D., Cunningham, Joanne M., Lovin, Diane D.
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Efforts directed at genetic modification of mosquitoes for population control or replacement are highly dependent on the initial mating success of transgenic male mosquitoes following their release into natural populations. Adult mosquito phenotypes are influenced by the environmental conditions experienced as larvae. Semifield studies conducted to date have not taken that under consideration when testing male mating fitness, and have compared mating success of males reared under identical en…
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- 2020-11-01
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