Wildlife agency responses to chronic wasting disease in free‐ranging cervids by Noelle E. Thompson, Miranda H. J. Huang, Sonja A. Christensen, Stephen Demarais

“…We sought to summarize and characterize management experiences and actions from 30 U.S. states, 4 Canadian provinces, and 3 European countries that have direct experience with CWD. …”
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Illuminating a Path Forward for Tobacco Nation: Projected Impacts of Recommended Policies on Geographic Disparities by Michael V. Maciosek, Emily M. Donovan, Amy B. LaFrance, Barbara A. Schillo

“…Conclusions The simulations indicate that the simulated policies could substantially reduce cigarette smoking disparities between Tobacco Nation and other U.S. states. These findings can inform tobacco control advocacy and policy efforts to advance policies that align with evidence and Tobacco Nation residents’ wishes.…”
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JAK LUDOBÓJSTWO ZOSTAŁO UZNANE ZA ZBRODNIĘ – DZIEDZICTWO RAFAŁA LEMKINA by Sam MCFARLAND, Katarzyna HAMER

“…Until his death in 1958, Lemkin lobbied tirelessly to get other U.N. states to ratify the Convention. His legacy is that, as of 2015, 147 U.N. states have done so, 46 still on hold. …”
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Costs of cannabis testing compliance: Assessing mandatory testing in the California cannabis market. by Pablo Valdes-Donoso, Daniel A Sumner, Robin Goldstein

“…Most U.S. states that have regulated and taxed cannabis have imposed some form of mandatory safety testing requirements. …”
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Increases in obstetric interventions and changes in gestational age distributions of U.S. births by Masters, RK, Tilstra, AM, Coleman-Minahan, K

“…The changes were observed among all racial/ethnic groups and all maternal ages, and across all U.S. states. The same changes were also observed among U.S. women at low risk for interventions.…”

Direct Democracy on Election Day: Ballot Measures as Measures of American Democracy by Donna Kesselman

“…Re-energizing voters in the 38 U. S. states where they raise grassroots and often controversial “wedge issues”, they also have spill-over effects in other areas of politics and civil engagement. …”
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Identifying latent comorbidity patterns in adults with perceived cognitive impairment: Network findings from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system by Cristian Ramos-Vera, Jacksaint Saintila, Angel García O'Diana, Yaquelin E. Calizaya-Milla

“…BackgroundPeople with cognitive impairment may be exposed to an increased risk of comorbidities; however, the clustering of comorbidity patterns in these patients is unclear.ObjectiveTo explore the network structure of chronic comorbidity in a U.S. national sample spanning all 50 U.S. states with more than 170,000 participants reporting perceived cognitive impairment.MethodsThis is a cross-sectional study conducted using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) secondary data collected in 2019 and covering 49 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. …”
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Reframing the banning of flavored tobacco in unprecedented times- an example from California’s Senate bill 793 by Jasmine Tang Ker, Natalie Delgadillo, Dania Amiri, David S. Timberlake

“…Several cities, but only two U.S states, have passed a law banning the sales of flavored tobacco products. …”
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Estimates of state-level chronic hepatitis C virus infection, stratified by race and sex, United States, 2010 by Eric W. Hall, Eli S. Rosenberg, Patrick S. Sullivan

“…This analysis quantified the HCV burden stratified by sex and race (and associated disparities) for each U.S. state. Methods Building on our previous method, we used three publicly available data sources to estimate HCV RNA prevalence among noninstitutionalized adults stratified by sex and race group. …”
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The impact of civil commitment laws for substance use disorder on opioid overdose deaths by Phillip Cochran, Peter S. Chindavong, Jurian Edelenbos, Amy Chiou, Haylee F. Trulson, Rahul Garg, Robert W. Parker

“…We used t-tests and two-way ANOVA to compare the OODR between the U.S. states with the law as compared to those without by using GraphPad Prism 10.0.ResultsWe found no significant difference in the annual mean age-adjusted OODR from 2010–21 between U.S. states with and without CC SUD laws. …”
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Emergency Department Utilization by Children in the USA, 2010–2011 by Tadahiro Goto, Kohei Hasegawa, Mohammad Kamal Faridi, Ashley F. Sullivan, Carlos A. Camargo Jr.

“…Results: In 2011, 2.9 million children with a patient identifier presented to EDs in the six U.S. states. At the patient-level, 15 out of every 100 children presented to an ED at least once per year. …”
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U.S. cannabis laws projected to cost generic and brand pharmaceutical firms billions. by Ziemowit Bednarek, Jacqueline M Doremus, Sarah S Stith

“…Legalization of cannabis by U.S. states is likely increasing the use of cannabis as an alternative to conventional pharmaceutical drugs. …”
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Blue carbon, red states, and Paris Agreement Article 6 by Adam D. Orford

“…Coastal U.S. states, including many that have opposed proactive U.S. climate policies, are contemplating entrance into the supply side of the international carbon credit markets by, among other things, hosting revenue-generating blue carbon projects on their submerged lands. …”
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Government-mandated warnings on cannabis legally sold for recreational use by John M. Malouff, Ben P. Schutte-Malouff

“…The search revealed that 11 U.S. states and two countries allow the recreational use of cannabis and that 10 U.S. states and Canada mandate warnings on legally sold recreational cannabis. …”
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<i>Theileria orientalis</i> Ikeda in Cattle, Alabama, USA by Nneka Iduu, Subarna Barua, Shollie Falkenberg, Chance Armstrong, Jenna Workman Stockler, Annie Moye, Paul H. Walz, Chengming Wang

“…Continued investigations are necessary for the surveillance of <i>T. orientalis</i> Ikeda and <i>Haemaphysalis longicornis</i> ticks in Alabama and other U.S. states, along with assessing the pathogenicity of <i>T. orientalis</i> Ikeda infections in cattle.…”
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Aggregated occurrence records of invasive European frog-bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L.) across North America by Sara Hansen, Blake Cahill, Rachel Hackett, Michael Monfils, Ryan Goebel, Shannon Asencio, Anna Monfils

“…Our EFB dataset contains 12,037 preserved specimen and observation-based occurrence records, including 9,994 presence records spanning two Canadian provinces and ten U.S. states and 2,043 absence records spanning five U.S. states. …”
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Animal Welfare, Ideology, and Political Labels: Evidence from California's Proposition 2 and Massachusetts's Question 3 by John Bovay, Daniel A. Sumner

“…We use our regression results to predict how voters in other U.S. states would have voted had they faced similar referendums in 2008 and 2016.…”
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GM Labeling Regulation by Plebiscite: Analysis of Voting on Proposition 37 in California by John Bovay, Julian M. Alston

“…Many U.S. states have been considering proposals to introduce mandatory labeling requirements for foods containing GMOs. …”
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The United States and the (Non-)Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Julien Zarifian

“…Indeed, although many American leading personalities, associations, U.S. States and institutions have done so, the U.S. …”
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Policies and practices of promise in teacher evaluation: The introduction to the special issue by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

“…This introduction to the special issue on “Policies and Practices of Promise in Teacher Evaluation,” (1) presents the background and policy context surrounding the ongoing changes in U.S. states’ teacher evaluation systems (e.g., the decreased use of value-added models (VAM)s for teacher accountability purposes); (2) summarizes the two commentaries and seven research papers that were peer-reviewed and ultimately selected for inclusion in this special issue; and (3) discussess the relevance of these pieces in terms of each paper’s contribution to the general research on this topic and potential to inform educational policy, for the better, after the federal government’s passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2016).…”
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