Unfulfilled promise: social acceptance of the smart grid by Dylan Bugden, Richard Stedman

“…In contrast, we compare two waves of survey data on the social acceptance of smart grid technologies, the first ( n = 609) prior to a local rollout of a smart grid program in upstate New York and the second ( n = 533) two years after the same rollout. …”
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Abstract 154: Training Independent Artificial Intelligence Models for the Detection of Intracranial Pathology by Mahsa Eskian, Vera Sharashidze, Jeremy Heit, Hesham Masoud, Grahame Gould

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Developing patient-centered outcomes research infrastructure in a rural community through patient and stakeholder engagement and education during the COVID-19 pandemic by Carly Lovelett, Michelle Medeiros, Daniel Jaremczuk, Jennie Flanagan, Jennifer Shaver, Elaine LaLone, Eyal Kedar

“…St Lawrence Health, located in rural Upstate New York, established its Clinical and Rural Health Research Department in 2015 to help close this gap. …”
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Foraging and roosting habitat of Eastern Whip-poor-wills in the northeastern United States by Kimberly J. Spiller, David I. King, Jeffrey Bolsinger

“…For this reason, we radio-tracked 10 adult whip-poor-wills using radio telemetry in upstate New York and collected vegetation measurements at a subset at these points where the birds were either foraging at night or roosting during the day, as well as at any identified nest sites. …”
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Relationships among Functional Health Literacy, Asthma Knowledge and the Ability to Care for Asthmatic Children in Rural Dwelling Parents by Evelyn L. Hoover, Carolyn S. Pierce, Gale A. Spencer, Mary X Britten, Martha Neff-Smith, Gary D James, Sarah H. Gueldner

“…The convenience sample of 57 parents and one guardian who cared for asthmatic children was recruited from three rural health districts in the eastern United States (Virginia, North Carolina, and upstate New York). Subjects completed the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) and the Asthma Questionnaire-Parent Survey (AQ-P) and provided additional demographic and health status information. …”
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Quantifying the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Mechanized Shelterwood Harvest Producing Both Sawtimber and Woodchips by Joshua P. Weyrens, Obste Therasme, René H. Germain

“…A life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted on a winter shelterwood harvest occurring in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. Primary data were collected daily throughout the operation and used to model the impact attributed to producing clean chips and logs for delivery to a pulp mill and sawmill, respectively. …”
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Observations and Correlations from a 3-Year Study of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in the Mohawk River in Upstate NY by Kyle J. Lininger, Michael Ormanoski, Carolyn M. Rodak

“…To explore the impact of CSOs on local water quality and FIB presence, sampling was conducted during the summers of 2017–2019 of two cities, one with CSOs and one without, on the Mohawk River in upstate New York, USA. Sampling included in situ physiochemical parameters of pH, temperature, and dissolved oxygen and laboratory tests for <i>E. coli</i>, <i>Enterococci</i>, nitrates, and total organic carbon (TOC). …”
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Attitudes and experiences regarding preventive strategies for the deaf population in Western New York. by Lorne Farovitch, Carol Padden, Edwin vanWijngaarden, Benjamin Miller, Brian Leydet, Timothy Dye

“…Semi-structured qualitative individual and group interviews were conducted with 40 deaf people in upstate New York, to explore factors associated with health literacy and health information accessibility. …”
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Chloride load dynamics along channelized and intact reaches in a northeastern United States urban headwater stream by John R Slosson, Laura K Lautz, Julio Beltran

“…We couple continuous streamflow records with weekly chloride concentration data over two water years to create continuous chloride load estimates at three locations along a degraded, urban stream in upstate New York with contrasting channelized and intact reaches. …”
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Evaluation of fear, anxiety, and knowledge among dental providers during the COVID 19 pandemic by Mayank Kakkar, Abdul Basir Barmak, Sangeeta Gajendra

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the fear/anxiety among dental providers and assess the knowledge and related practice modification in a post-doctoral dental institution in Upstate New York. Materials and methods: An online, anonymous, validated survey was sent to all dental faculty and trainees (n = 358) including general dentists and specialists from various departments between August and October 2020. …”
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Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres’ We the Animals by Marion Christina Rohrleitner

“…A queer coming of age/coming out narrative, We the Animals features a first person narrator, the youngest of three Puerto Rican brothers, who grows up in a working class home in upstate New York and emerges as someone who rejects the very values that strive to “normalize” queer life via assimilation into legally defined and sanctioned coupledom. …”
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Experiences of a Regional Quality Improvement Collaborative to Reduce Unplanned Extubations in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Melissa U. Nelson, Joaquim M. B. Pinheiro, Bushra Afzal, Jeffrey M. Meyers

“…Methods: We formed a regional QI collaborative involving the four regional perinatal center (RPC) NICUs in upstate New York to reduce UEs. The collaborative promoted shared learning and targeted interventions specific to UE classification at each center. …”
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Academic entrepreneurial ecosystem strategy in the New York state capital region by Adsit, Daniel Mark

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Emergency Room Nurses Transitioning from Curative to End-of-Life Care: The Rural Influence by Roberta A. Rolland

“…Registered nurses (N=10; rural n=6, urban n=4) from four hospitals (2 rural and 2 urban) in four different counties in Upstate New York participated in semi-structured interviews. …”
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The Framing and Celebration of the American Local Grain Movement by Matthew Mars

“…Halloran demonstrates, for instance, the value of such relationships in the second chapter of the book through a description of the collaborative efforts of a farmer, miller, and baker, as well as additional local food champions, to enable the opening of a community-based mill in upstate New York. In this case, cross-trade collaboration resulted in the development of a mill that processes grains grown on the farm on which it is located, as well as from other farms across the surrounding region. …”
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Ground Displacements in NY Using Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and Comparison of X- and C-Band Data by Yusuf Eshqi Molan, Rowena Lohman, Matthew Pritchard

“…In this study, we investigated the quality of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data to measure surface displacements in upstate New York, an area with dense vegetation, snowy winters, and strong seasonal signals. …”
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Predicting Table Beet Root Yield with Multispectral UAS Imagery by Robert Chancia, Jan van Aardt, Sarah Pethybridge, Daniel Cross, John Henderson

“…We applied the model to the 2019 full-field imagery and found an average yield of 41,000 kg/ha (~40,000 kg/ha average for upstate New York). This study demonstrates the potential for table beet yield models using a combination of radiometric and canopy structure data obtained at early growth stages. …”
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HTKS-Kids: A tablet-based self-regulation measure to equitably assess young children's school readiness by Claire E. Cameron, Megan M. McClelland, Tammy Kwan, Krystal Starke, Tanya Lewis-Jones

“…For the HTKS-Kids tablet-based assessment, which was facilitated by children's preschool teachers, we examined (1) preliminary reliability and validity; (2) variation in scores predicted by child age and background characteristics; and (3) indication that HTKS-Kids provides different information from teacher ratings of children.MethodParticipants included n = 79 4-year-old children from two urban areas in upstate New York, USA. Average parent education was 12.5 years, ranging 3–20. …”
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Brown midrib mutant and genome‐wide association analysis uncover lignin genes for disease resistance in maize by Judith M. Kolkman, Danilo E. Moreta, Ace Repka, Peter Bradbury, Rebecca J. Nelson

“…Northern leaf blight (NLB) epidemics in upstate New York highlighted the disease susceptibility of commercially grown BMR maize hybrids. …”
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Factors associated with fruit and vegetable consumption among Burmese refugees by Hnin Wai Lwin Myo, Akiko S Hosler, Lawrence M Schell, Marie A Allsopp, Kaydian Reid

“…We selected socio-economics, nutritional knowledge, food shopping frequency, ethnicity of preferred food store owners, perceived neighbourhood food environment and network distance to preferred food stores as potential explanatory variables. Setting: Two Upstate New York counties. Participants: Burmese refugees (n 173) aged ≥18 years. …”
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