An Action Research Approach helps Develop GIS Programs in Humanities and Social Sciences by Laura Costello

“…Setting – A public research university serving an annual enrollment of over 41,500 students in the Midwestern United States.   Subjects – Faculty members and students in the humanities and social sciences that expressed interest in GIS services.   …”
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Relative Influence of Land Use, Mosquito Abundance, and Bird Communities in Defining West Nile Virus Infection Rates in <i>Culex</i> Mosquito Populations by James S. Adelman, Ryan E. Tokarz, Alec E. Euken, Eleanor N. Field, Marie C. Russell, Ryan C. Smith

“…We examined this question in central Iowa, representative of the midwestern United States, across a land use gradient consisting of suburban interfaces with natural and agricultural habitats. …”
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Evaluation of Agricultural BMPs’ Impact on Water Quality and Crop Production Using SWAT+ Model by Shailendra Singh, Soonho Hwang, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Rabin Bhattarai

“…However, the continuous expansion of drained agricultural lands and reliance on synthetic fertilizer in the Midwestern United States have increasingly facilitated nitrate transport from agricultural fields to surface water bodies. …”
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Estimation of flood-damaged cropland area using a convolutional neural network by Rehenuma Lazin, Xinyi Shen, Emmanouil Anagnostou

“…Then we demonstrate the model’s performance for the period 2008–2019 over corn and soybean fields in the midwestern United States, which suffer frequent damage from recurrent flooding. …”
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African American Undergraduate Students’ Perceived Welcomeness at a Midsized University Library by Kirstin Duffin, Ellen Corrigan

“… Objective – This project assessed African American students’ feelings of comfort and belonging about engaging with library resources and services at a public regional comprehensive university in the midwestern United States. Methods – This study used an explanatory sequential design. …”
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Performance of a Small-Scale, Variable Temperature Fixed Dome Digester in a Temperate Climate by Juan M. Castano, Jay F. Martin, Richard Ciotola

“…To assess this potential, a 1.14 m3 (300 gallon) modified fixed-dome digester was installed and operated, at variable temperatures (5.3 to 27.9 °C) typical of the Midwestern United States, from March 2010 to March 2011 (363 days). …”
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Improving Predictability of Wind Power Generation by Zhang, Vivienne Jiao

“…To address this lack of empirical study, this thesis uses actual generation data between 2016 to 2021 from seven anonymized wind farms in Midwestern United States that range from 50MW to 235MW in size. …”
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Cold waves are getting milder in the northern midlatitudes by Van Oldenborgh, G, Mitchell-Larson, E, Vecchi, G, De Vries, H, Vautard, R, Otto, F

“…The strong two-day cold wave in the midwestern United States in January 2019 again ignited the discussion as to whether cold waves are getting more severe or not as a result of Arctic amplification due to climate change. …”

Experiences, Benefits, and Challenges of Virtual Teamwork for Public Libraries in the US Midwest during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Eugenia Opuda

“…Setting – Public libraries in the midwestern United States. Subjects – Eight leaders of public libraries or library systems and a state library. …”
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Cross Validation of GOES-16 and NOAA Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) QPE over the Continental United States by Luyao Sun, Haonan Chen, Zhe Li, Lei Han

“…In addition, it was found that the GOES-16 QPE product significantly overestimated rainfall induced by the mesoscale convective systems in the midwestern United States, which must be addressed in the future development of GOES satellite rainfall retrieval algorithms.…”
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Machine learning to operationalize team cognition: A case study of patient handoffs by Emma Mayes, Jonathan A. Gehlbach, Paul M. Jeziorczak, Abigail R. Wooldridge

“…We conducted a secondary analysis of five simulations of the handoff of a pediatric trauma patient from the operating room (OR) to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at a high-fidelity simulation center in the Midwestern United States using practicing clinicians as participants. …”
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Childcare Issues and the Pandemic: Working Women’s Experiences in the Face of COVID-19 by Cecilia Obeng, Mary Slaughter, Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi

“…Method: Data collection occurred in the midwestern United States, in the State of Indiana, from August 2020 to August 2021. …”
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Perceptions of vaccine safety and hesitancy among incarcerated adults and correctional staff in the rural midwest by Kelli E. Canada, Ashley Givens, Beth M. Huebner, Janet Garcia-Hallett, Elizabeth Taylor, Victoria Inzana, Daniel Edwards, Jr., Clark M. Peters, Dana Plunkett Cafourek

“…Objectives: This project assessed vaccine hesitancy among staff and incarcerated adults in one rural medium-security prison in the Midwestern United States and identified differences in hesitancy across sociodemographic and work-related variables. …”
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Effects of cattle manure and soil parent material on shallow groundwater quality by Matthew T. Streeter, Keith E. Schilling, Christopher S. Jones, Marty St. Clair

“…Abstract Livestock are a critical agricultural commodity in the Midwestern United States and are directly linked to row crop production. …”
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Clarification of adverse drug reactions by a pharmacovigilance team results in increased antibiotic re-prescribing at a freestanding United States children's hospital. by Keith Feldman, Sarah L Suppes, Jennifer L Goldman

“…To address this, our work presents a retrospective cohort study assessing if clarification of antibiotic ADRs by a hospital-wide PV team was associated with future, safe, re-prescribing at a freestanding pediatric hospital in the midwestern United States. First, we compared the likelihood of future prescribing in an antibiotic class with an active ADR, as compared to alternative drug classes, between PV-clarified and non-clarified patients. …”
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Balancing cost, water, emissions, and reliability in power systems operations by Jacob Kravits, Joseph R Kasprzyk, Kyri Baker, Ashlynn S Stillwell

“…We first create a case study representative of the thermoelectric-dominated water/energy systems in the Midwestern United States. Through this case study, our analysis investigates the tradeoffs of cost, water, emissions, and reliability in thermoelectric-dominated water/energy systems via policy analysis. …”
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Babesiosis and Theileriosis in North America by Consuelo Almazán, Ruth C. Scimeca, Mason V. Reichard, Juan Mosqueda

“…In North America (NA), the most common species affecting humans is <i>B. microti</i>, which is distributed in the Northeastern and Upper Midwestern United States (US), where the tick vector <i>Ixodes scapularis</i> is established. …”
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No Mow May lawns have higher pollinator richness and abundances: An engaged community provides floral resources for pollinators by Israel Del Toro, Relena R. Ribbons

“…While our findings cannot conclusively attribute increases in bee abundances and richness to the No Mow May efforts, our data does show that bee pollinators make use of no mow spaces as key floral resources during early spring in the upper midwestern United States. A post-No Mow May survey revealed that the participants were keen to increase native floral resources in their yards, increase native bee nesting habitat, reduce mowing intensities, and limit herbicide, pesticide, and fertilizer applications to their lawns. …”
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Mining Fiskeby III and Mandarin (Ottawa) Expression Profiles to Understand Iron Stress Tolerant Responses in Soybean by Jamie A. O’Rourke, Michael J. Morrisey, Ryan Merry, Mary Jane Espina, Aaron J. Lorenz, Robert M. Stupar, Michelle A. Graham

“…Conversely, Mandarin (Ottawa) is highly susceptible to disease and suffers severe phenotypic damage and yield loss when exposed to abiotic stresses such as iron deficiency, a major challenge to soybean production in the northern Midwestern United States. Using RNA-seq, we characterize the transcriptional response to iron deficiency in both Fiskeby III and Mandarin (Ottawa) to better understand abiotic stress tolerance. …”
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Impact of demographics on human gut microbial diversity in a US Midwest population by Jun Chen, Euijung Ryu, Matthew Hathcock, Karla Ballman, Nicholas Chia, Janet E Olson, Heidi Nelson

“…Here, we present the Midwestern Reference Panel (MWRP), a resource for comparative gut microbiome studies conducted in the Midwestern United States. We analyzed the relationships between demographic and health behavior-related factors and the microbiota in this cohort, and estimated their effect sizes. …”
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