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Jeremy Atack, Robert A Margo
During the 1850s, land in U.S. farms increased by more than a third?100 million acres?and almost 50 million acres, an area almost equal to that of the states of Indiana and Ohio combined, were converted from their raw, natural state into productive farm...
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Yongping Yuan, Megan H. Mehaffey, Ricardo D. Lopez, Ronald L. Bingner, Randy Bruins, Caroline Erickson and Michael A. Jackson
The Future Midwest Landscape (FML) project is part of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?s new Ecosystem Services Research Program, undertaken to examine the variety of ways in which landscapes that include crop lands, conservation areas, wetla...
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Hui Shao, Yuxin Miao, Fabián G. Fernández, Newell R. Kitchen, Curtis J. Ransom, James J. Camberato, Paul R. Carter, Richard B. Ferguson, David W. Franzen, Carrie A. M. Laboski, Emerson D. Nafziger, John E. Sawyer and John F. Shanahan
Plant N concentration (PNC) has been commonly used to guide farmers in assessing maize (Zea mays L.) N status and making in-season N fertilization decisions. However, PNC varies based on the development stage. Therefore, a relationship between biomass an...
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Luke Bergmann, Luis Fernando Chaves, David O?Sullivan and Robert G. Wallace
The spread of COVID-19 is geographically uneven in agricultural regions. Explanations proposed include differences in occupational risks, access to healthcare, racial inequalities, and approaches to public health. Here, we additionally explore the impact...
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Drought vulnerability analysis of crops can build a bridge between hazard factors and disasters and become the main tool to mitigate the impact of drought. However, the resulting disagreement about the appropriate definition of vulnerability is a frequen...
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Agroforestry represents a solution to land degradation by agriculture, but social barriers to wider application of agroforestry persist. More than half of all cropland in the USA is leased rather than owner-operated, and the short terms of most leases pr...
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Maher Shehadi
This paper investigates various building material effects on the cooling load requirements of a typical two-floor house located in the Midwest region in the USA. A survey was done for various building materials along with their prices in the US market. V...
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Louise J. Slater, Gabriele Villarini
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Streamflows have increased notably across the U.S. Midwest over the past century, fueling a debate on the relative influences of changes in precipitation and land cover on the flow distribution. Here, we propose a simple modeling framework to evaluate th...
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Louise J. Slater and Gabriele Villarini
Streamflows have increased notably across the U.S. Midwest over the past century, fueling a debate on the relative influences of changes in precipitation and land cover on the flow distribution. Here, we propose a simple modeling framework to evaluate th...
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Victor Hugo de Morais Danelichen,Nadja Gomes Machado,Marcelo Sacardi Biudes,Maísa Caldas Souza
Rainfall is the key element in regional water balance, and have direct influence over economic activity. In this study, we evaluate the estimates of precipitation by TRMM satellite (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) on the Midwest region of Brazil. Th...
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Timothy Moffit, Michelle Gigowski
Melanie Griffin is a recent college graduate who has been asked by her supervisor to evaluate the consumption of snacks and pop at the ambulatory surgery center for which she works. Immediately, Melanie is confronted with the cultural complexities of a s...
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Raida Abuizam
The Midwest Trauma centers case illustrates how the application of set covering can be used in locating trauma centers in the Midwest region. It shows the students how to develop a linear programming spreadsheet model with binary variables to find the mi...
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John S. Schwartz
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Stream restoration practice typically relies on a geomorphological design approach in which the integration of ecological criteria is limited and generally qualitative, although the most commonly stated project objective is to restore biological integrit...
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John S. Schwartz
Stream restoration practice typically relies on a geomorphological design approach in which the integration of ecological criteria is limited and generally qualitative, although the most commonly stated project objective is to restore biological integrit...
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Nirajan Dhakal and Richard N. Palmer
Climate change is likely to impact precipitation as well as snow accumulation and melt in the Northeastern and Upper Midwest United States, ultimately affecting the quantity and seasonal distribution of streamflow. The objective of this study is to analy...
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Nate Mitchell, Karthik Kumarasamy, Se Jong Cho, Patrick Belmont, Brent Dalzell and Karen Gran
Climate change, land clearing, and artificial drainage have increased the Minnesota River Basin?s (MRB) stream flows, enhancing erosion of channel banks and bluffs. Accelerated erosion has increased sediment loads and sedimentation rates downstream. High...
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Joshua S. Kastman, Patrick S. Market, Neil I. Fox, Alzina L. Foscato and Anthony R. Lupo
There are differences in the character of surface-based and elevated convection, and one type may pose a greater threat to life or property. The lightning and rainfall characteristics of eight elevated and eight surface-based thunderstorm cases that occu...
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Prachi Kulkarni, Nathan D. Olson, Greg A. Raspanti, Rachel E. Rosenberg Goldstein, Shawn G. Gibbs, Amir Sapkota and Amy R. Sapkota
Reclaimed water has emerged as a potential irrigation solution to freshwater shortages. However, limited data exist on the persistence of antibiotics in reclaimed water used for irrigation. Therefore, we examined the fate of nine commonly-used antibiotic...
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Christian F. Lenhart, Jason R. Naber and John L. Nieber
There have been significant increases in stream flow in many rivers of the Upper Midwestern United States since 1980. Increased summer flows may negatively impact ecological processes, including aquatic organisms? life cycles. The smooth softshell (Apalo...
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