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Residential Irrigation Water Costs in Osceola County and Orange County, Florida

EDIS, 2020
Interest in understanding water use and irrigation costs has risen in recent years. This case study is a 5-page evaluation of water use and associated costs for residential landscape irrigation in Osceola County and Orange County, Florida. Homeowners in
Nick Taylor, Tricia Kyzar, Pierce Jones, Kaitlin O. Robb Price   +3 more
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Association between multi-component initiatives and physical activity-related behaviors: interim findings from the Healthy Schools Healthy Communities initiative

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Although successful, assessment of multi-component initiatives (MCIs) prove to be very challenging. Further, rigorous evaluations may not be viable, especially when assessing the impact of MCIs on long-term population-level behavior change (e ...
Tamara Vehige Calise, Natalie Spitzer, Laura Ruggiero, Amanda Ryder, Chloe Wingerter, Ashley Hatcher   +5 more
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Connecting structure to function with the recovery of over 1000 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes from activated sludge using long-read sequencing

Nature Communications, 2021
Microbes play key roles in wastewater treatment. Here, Singleton et al. use long-read and short-read sequencing to recover 1083 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes from 23 wastewater treatment plants, and combine this information with amplicon data,
Caitlin M. Singleton, Francesca Petriglieri, Jannie M. Kristensen, Rasmus H. Kirkegaard, Thomas Y. Michaelsen, Martin H. Andersen, Zivile Kondrotaite, Søren M. Karst, Morten S. Dueholm, Per H. Nielsen, Mads Albertsen   +10 more
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Operationalizing risk-appropriate perinatal care in a rural US State: directions for policy and practice

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Risk-appropriate care improves outcomes by ensuring birthing people and infants receive care at a facility prepared to meet their needs. Perinatal regionalization has particular importance in rural areas where pregnant people might not live in
Carly Holman, Annie Glover, Kaitlin Fertaly, Megan Nelson   +3 more
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The Signal and the Noise: Characteristics of Antisense RNA in Complex Microbial Communities

mSystems, 2020
High-throughput sequencing has allowed unprecedented insight into the composition and function of complex microbial communities. With metatranscriptomics, it is possible to interrogate the transcriptomes of multiple organisms simultaneously to get an ...
Thomas Yssing Michaelsen, Jakob Brandt, Caitlin Margaret Singleton, Rasmus Hansen Kirkegaard, Johanna Wiesinger, Nicola Segata, Mads Albertsen   +6 more
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MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

Nature Communications, 2022
Microbial communities are responsible for biological wastewater treatment. Here, Dueholm et al. generate more than 5 million high-quality, full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences from wastewater treatment plants across the world to construct a database with ...
Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm, Marta Nierychlo, Kasper Skytte Andersen, Vibeke Rudkjøbing, Simon Knutsson, MiDAS Global Consortium, Mads Albertsen, Per Halkjær Nielsen   +7 more
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Healthy Native Community Fellowship: An Indigenous Leadership Program to Enhance Community Wellness

International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2016
The Healthy Native Communities Fellowship (HNCF) is a grassroots evidence-based mentorship and leadership program that develops the skills and community-building capacities of leaders and community teams to improve health status through several ...
Rebecca Rae, Marita Jones, Alexis J. Handal, Marge Bluehorse-Anderson, Shelly Frazier, Kristine Maltrud, Chris Percy, Tina Tso, Frances Valera, Nina Wallerstein   +9 more
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Influence of biofilm growth age, media, antibiotic concentration and exposure time on Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm removal in vitro

BMC Microbiology, 2020
Background Biofilm is known to be tolerant towards antibiotics and difficult to eradicate. Numerous studies have reported minimum biofilm eradication concentration (MBEC) values of antibiotics for many known biofilm pathogens.
Xiaofeng Chen, Trine Rolighed Thomsen, Heinz Winkler, Yijuan Xu   +3 more
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A comprehensive overview of the Chloroflexota community in wastewater treatment plants worldwide

mSystems, 2023
Filamentous Chloroflexota are abundant in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) worldwide and are occasionally associated with poor solid-liquid separation or foaming, but most of the abundant lineages remain undescribed.
Francesca Petriglieri, Zivile Kondrotaite, Caitlin Singleton, Marta Nierychlo, Morten K. D. Dueholm, Per H. Nielsen   +5 more
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Exploring the lives of women smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea through a collaborative mixed methods approach

Cogent Social Sciences, 2016
This paper analyzes the design, implementation, and challenges associated with mixing methods within a baseline study involving the collaboration of rural women smallholders and their families in three regions of Papua New Guinea.
Katja Mikhailovich, Barbara Pamphilon, Barbara Chambers, Lalen Simeon, Julio Romero Zapata   +4 more
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