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Informing soil compaction research priorities with farmer focus groups in the United States
Soil SecuritySoil compaction is a widespread form of soil degradation that impacts soil functions and ecosystem services by limiting plant growth, reducing farm profitability, and impeding efforts to improve soil health.
Natalie Sturm +10 more
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The Complex Dynamic Between Sexual Concurrency and Pregnancy Desire
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how sexual concurrency, when an individual engages in multiple sexual relationships that intersect in time, is associated with pregnancy desire. Background Research on sexual concurrency often overlooks its relationship to broader familial processes.
Lauren Newmyer +2 more
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Stoichiometry and Homeostasis of Sodium and Potassium Underpins Growth Adaptation of <i>Suaeda salsa</i> in the Yellow River Delta Wetland. [PDF]
Ecol EvolNa‐K stoichiometry significantly affected by soil and plant tissues of S. salsa; robust plant tissue Na‐K homeostasis contrasts with weak soil–plant ion coupling; coordinated Na‐K regulation underlies salt adaptation in Suaeda salsa. ABSTRACT Sodium (Na) and potassium (K), along with their physiological trade‐offs, play essential roles in maintaining ...
Dongjie Z +6 more
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White Brothers Coal Mine, Adams Township, Iowa, late 1800's; Mahaska County
, 2008 This is a picture taken at the White Brothers coal mine in Adams Township, Iowa, in the late 1800's. Many communities, like the ones in Adams Township, have little or no presence in Mahaska County today. Once the coal industry diminished, the people in
Mahaska County Historical Society
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Telecom Expansion and Internal Migrants in Indian Cities
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates the impact of mobile phone service expansion on migration to and between cities of India during 2001–2011. We show that the number of cross‐state migrants living in urban areas of India increased significantly due to telecommunications infrastructure growth. The increased migration reflects better labor and marriage market
Arnab Dutta, Gregory Randolph
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Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In the United States, emergency departments aren't supposed to turn anyone away. They are the safety‐net of the safety‐net providing life‐saving care. Yet, what happens to healthcare when conditions are so strained that patients and staff lash out at each other? What happens when the safety net becomes a carceral net?
Fabián Luis C. Fernández
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Design and Test of Rotary Envelope Combing-Type Tobacco Leaf Harvesting Mechanism
智慧农业[Objective]China is a big tobacco producer in the world, where tobacco significantly contributes to the national economy. Among all production stages, the leaf harvesting process requires the most labor.
WANG Xiaohan +6 more
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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
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