Effect of Wheat Cover Crop and Split Nitrogen Application on Corn Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency by Oladapo Adeyemi, Reza Keshavarz-Afshar, Emad Jahanzad, Martin Leonardo Battaglia, Yuan Luo, Amir Sadeghpour

“…Overall, our findings suggest including N credit for cereals in MRTN prediction model could help with improved N management in the Midwestern United States.…”
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Survey Confirms Strong Support for Intellectual Freedom in Public Collection Development Librarians by Laura Costello

“…Setting – Public libraries in the Midwestern United States. Subjects – Subjects were 645 collection development library professionals employed in public libraries. …”
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The HOSPITAL score as a predictor of 30 day readmission in a retrospective study at a university affiliated community hospital by Robert Robinson

“…This study aims to determine if the HOSPITAL score is similarly useful in a moderate sized university affiliated hospital in the midwestern United States. Materials and Methods All adult medical patients discharged from the SIU-SOM Hospitalist service from Memorial Medical Center (MMC) from October 15, 2015 to March 16, 2016, were studied retrospectively to determine if the HOSPITAL score was a significant predictor of hospital readmission within 30 days. …”
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A descriptive study of the multidisciplinary healthcare experiences of inpatient resuscitation events by Shelley E. Varner-Perez, Kelly A.L. Mathis, Sarah K. Banks, Emily S. Burke, James E. Slaven, Gregory J. Morse, Myra K. Whitaker, Ann H. Cottingham, Rami A. Ahmed

“…Methods: Multidisciplinary in-hospital healthcare professionals at an adult academic health center in the Midwestern United States completed surveys one and six weeks after a resuscitation event. …”
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Pumpkin Injury and Yield Response to Low Rates of 2,4-D Choline and Dicamba by Xinzheng Chen, Amit Jhala, Stevan Knezevic, Sam E. Wortman

“…The recent release of 2,4-D- and dicamba-tolerant soybean traits has increased the risk of off-target herbicide injury and yield loss for specialty crop growers in the midwestern United States. Most dicotyledonous plants, including many specialty crops like pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo), are susceptible to synthetic auxin herbicides; however, the relationship between off-target herbicide rate, visible crop injury, and eventual yield loss is not well documented. …”
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Feasibility of a Reinforcement Learning–Enabled Digital Health Intervention to Promote Mammograms: Retrospective, Single-Arm, Observational Study by Amy Bucher, E Susanne Blazek, Ashley B West

“…MethodsThe digital health intervention was implemented in a large Catholic health system in the Midwestern United States and targeted the system’s existing patients who had not received a recommended mammogram in 2 or more years. …”
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High-Resolution Soybean Yield Mapping Across the US Midwest Using Subfield Harvester Data by Walter T. Dado, Jillian M. Deines, Rinkal Patel, Sang-Zi Liang, David B. Lobell

“…Here, we assess machine learning models’ capacity for soybean yield prediction using a unique ground-truth dataset of high-resolution (5 m) yield maps generated from combine harvester yield monitor data for over a million field-year observations across the Midwestern United States from 2008 to 2018. First, we compare random forest (RF) implementations, testing a range of feature engineering approaches using Sentinel-2 and Landsat spectral data for 20- and 30-m scale yield prediction. …”
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Within-person associations of cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone, and testosterone hair hormone concentrations and psychological distress in pregnant and non-pregnant women by O.C. Robertson, E.P. Rolan, W. Wang, E.A. Shirtcliff, K. Marceau

“…Participants included 68 women (34 pregnant and 34 non-pregnant; Mage = 29.14 and 83 % White) from the Midwestern United States. Pregnant women were assessed each trimester, at 12, 26, and 38 weeks and non-pregnant women were assessed three times on the same schedule. …”
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Real-world clinical outcomes and treatment patterns in patients with MDD treated with vortioxetine: a retrospective study by Brandon T. McDaniel, Victor Cornet, Jeanne Carroll, Lambros Chrones, Joseph Chudzik, Jeanette Cochran, Shion Guha, Debra F. Lawrence, Maggie McCue, Sara Sarkey, Betty Lorenz, Jay Fawver

“…Methods This retrospective chart review analyzed the care experiences of adult patients with a diagnosis of MDD from Parkview Physicians Group – Mind-Body Medicine, Midwestern United States. Patients with a prescription for vortioxetine, an initial baseline visit, and ≥ 2 follow-up visits within 16 weeks from September 2014 to December 2018 were included. …”
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Utility of a Telephone Triage Hotline in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Observational Study by Benjamin A Y Cher, Eric A Wilson, Alexa M Pinsky, Ryan F Townshend, Ann V Wolski, Michael Broderick, Allison M Milen, Audrey Lau, Amrit Singh, Sandro K Cinti, Carl G Engelke, Anjan K Saha

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to describe and evaluate the COVID-19 telephone triage hotline used by a large academic medical center in the midwestern United States. MethodsMichigan Medicine established a telephone hotline to triage inbound patient calls related to COVID-19. …”
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Rye as an Energy Cover Crop: Management, Forage Quality, and Revenue Opportunities for Feed and Bioenergy by Steph Herbstritt, Tom L. Richard, Sergio H. Lence, Huaiqing Wu, Peter L. O’Brien, Bryan D. Emmett, Tom C. Kaspar, Douglas L. Karlen, Keith Kohler, Robert W. Malone

“…The overall carbon footprint of the integrated system was strongly carbon negative, confirming the potential of this strategy to sustainably intensify land use in the Midwestern United States.…”
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Conservation Genetic Analysis of Blanding’s Turtles across Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan by Daniel Guinto, Matthew Cross, Gregory Lipps, Yuman Lee, Bruce Kingsbury, Daniel Earl, Connor Dempsey, Jessica Hinson, Mark Jordan

“…Several researchers have focused on <i>E. blandingii</i> genetic diversity in the northeastern United States, Canada, and parts of the Midwestern United States; however, little investigation has been carried out on localities within the Great Lakes region of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. …”
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Adapting a Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Improve HIV Prevention Among Young, Black, Sexual Minority Men in Alabama: Protocol for the Development of the Kings Digital He... by Henna Budhwani, B Matthew Kiszla, Angulique Y Outlaw, Robert A Oster, Michael J Mugavero, Mallory O Johnson, Lisa B Hightow-Weidman, Sylvie Naar, Janet M Turan

“…Brothers Saving Brothers (BSB) is a motivational interviewing behavioral intervention that successfully and simultaneously increased community-based HIV testing and prevention counseling and education among BYMSM in the midwestern United States. ObjectiveThe aim of this protocol is to detail the process for the adaption of the BSB intervention for midwestern BYMSM to the Kings intervention for southern BYMSM. …”
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Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Injuries Presenting to an Emergency Department Before and During the Initial COVID-19 Pandemic Surge by Prokopakis KE, Bolotin T, Donley C, Lomasney M, Harter J, Graham J, Chopra Q, Olsen S, Noga J, Gatchel M, Paull B, Greyslak V, Bradford B, Plummer A, Powell C

“…We performed a retrospective chart review of patients who presented with upper extremity injury chief complaints using analysis of the electronic medical record at a single urban tertiary care trauma center in the Midwestern United States. We investigated examination findings, imaging, frequency of surgical procedures and final diagnosis.Results: In the 2019 study period, there were 31,157 ED patients, including 429 with upper extremity injuries, of which 108 patients had significant injuries. …”
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Raccoons contraband – The metazoan parasite fauna of free-ranging raccoons in central Europe by Norbert Peter, Dorian D. Dörge, Sarah Cunze, Anna V. Schantz, Ajdin Skaljic, Sonja Rueckert, Sven Klimpel

“…In its autochthonous range, especially in the Eastern and Midwestern United States, the raccoon has been studied very intensively since the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Shifting agricultural practices to produce sustainable, low carbon intensity feedstocks for biofuel production by Xinyu Liu, Hoyoung Kwon, Daniel Northrup, Michael Wang

“…Here we examined the potential for various agronomic practices to improve the GHG profiles of corn ethanol by performing feedstock-level CI analysis for the Midwestern United States. Our system boundary covers GHG emissions from the cradle-to-farm-gate activities (i.e. farm input manufacturing and feedstock production), along with the potential impacts of soil organic carbon change during feedstock production. …”
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Twenty-First-Century Changes in U.S. Regional Heavy Precipitation Frequency Based on Resolved Atmospheric Patterns by Gao, Xiang, Schlosser, Courtney Adam, O'Gorman, Paul, Monier, Erwan, Entekhabi, Dara

“…Combinations of atmospheric variables for circulation (geopotential height and wind vector) and moisture (surface specific humidity, column and up to 500-hPa precipitable water) are examined to construct analogue schemes for the winter [December-February (DJF)] of the "Pacific Coast California" (PCCA) region and the summer [June-August (JJA)] of the Midwestern United States (MWST). The detection diagnostics of analogue schemes are calibrated with 1979-2005 and validated with 2006-14 NASA Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA). …”
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Influence of manure and tillage on soil carbon and soil organic matter in silt loam soils of corn–soybean–forage systems by Kathleen M. Bridges, Srabani Das, Heather Neikirk, Rattan Lal

“…Materials and Methods This on‐farm study takes place in the temperate climate of the midwestern United States on a silt loam soil. It focuses on the impact of tillage (mouldboard plough [MP], vertical/chisel tillage [VT] and no‐tillage [NT]) and fertilizer (manure included or not) management practices on soil properties. …”
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Assessment of chemical facility ethylene oxide emissions using mobile and multipoint monitoring by Eben D. Thoma, Ali Gitipour, Ingrid George, Peter Kariher, Megan MacDonald, Gustavo Queiroz, Parikshit Deshmukh, Josh Childers, Tim Rodak, Volker Schmid

“…In October 2021, a first of its kind 4-day observational study was conducted at an EtO chemical facility in the midwestern United States. The study had dual objectives to both improve understanding of EtO emission sources within the facility and advance NGEM methods. …”
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Agricultural Nitrogen Budget for a Long-Term Row Crop Production System in the Midwest USA by Sanku Dattamudi, Prasanta K. Kalita, Saoli Chanda, A.S. Alquwaizany, B. S.Sidhu

“…In the Midwestern United States, subsurface drainage (commonly known as tile drains) systems have been extensively used for sustaining agricultural production. …”
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