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A Meta-Analysis of Field Bindweed Convolvulus arvensis Management in Annual and Perennial Systems
(2018-07)Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis L.) is a persistent, perennial weed species that infests a variety of temperate habitats around the globe. To evaluate the efficacy of general management approaches and impacts on crop ... -
A Meta-analysis of Canada Thistle Cirsium arvense Management
(2018-07)Although stand-alone and integrated management techniques have been cited as viable approaches to managing Canada thistle [Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.], it continues to impact annual cropping and perennial systems worldwide. ... -
A Survey of Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens in Native and Introduced Mountain Goats ( Oreamnos americanus)
(2018-06)In contrast to broad range expansion through translocations, many mountain goat ( Oreamnos americanus) populations have shown signs of decline. Recent documentation of pneumonia in mountain goats highlights their susceptibility ... -
Presupposition as investigator certainty in a police interrogation: The case of Lorenzo Montoya's false confession
(2018-07)This article presents an analysis of the use by police investigators of presupposition-bearing questions (PBQs) in interrogation as a process for communicating certainty of guilt. Among the techniques of interrogational ... -
Bulk Phosphorus-Doped Graphitic Carbon
(2018-07)A direct synthetic route to a tunable range of phosphorus-doped graphitic carbon materials is demonstrated via the reaction of benzene and phosphorus trichloride in a closed reactor at elevated temperatures (800-1050 degrees ... -
IFNAR2 Is Required for Anti-influenza Immunity and Alters Susceptibility to Post-influenza Bacterial Superinfections
(2018-11)Influenza virus infections particularly when followed by bacterial superinfections (BSI) result in significant morbidities and mortalities especially during influenza pandemics. Type I interferons (IFNs) regulate both ... -
CD103 (aE integrin) undergoes endosomal trafficking in human dendritic cells, but does not mediate epithelial adhesion
(2018-12)Dendritic cell (DC) expression of CD103, the α subunit of αEβ7 integrin, is thought to enable DC interactions with E-cadherin-expressing gastrointestinal epithelia for improved mucosal immunosurveillance. In the stomach, ... -
Factors Affecting Farmer Willingness and Ability to Adopt and Retain Improved Varieties of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato in Mozambique: A Qualitative Approach
(2018-10)The addition of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) to the food environment is an effective nutrition-sensitive agricultural approach to improve vitamin A intakes. However, the adoption of this biofortified crop merits ... -
Strategies for conducting health research with Latinos during times of political incivility
(2018-07)Aim The current US political climate towards immigrants introduces new challenges for researchers already struggling to recruit and retain Latino participants in health research. The purpose of this work is to illuminate ... -
Robust Topological Inference: Distance To a Measure and Kernel Distance
(2018-06)Let P be a distribution with support S. The salient features of S can be quantified with persistent homology, which summarizes topological features of the sublevel sets of the distance function (the distance of any point ... -
Incorporation of carbon nanofillers tunes mechanical and electrical percolation in PHBV:PLA blends
(2018-12)Biobased fillers, such as bio-derived cellulose, lignin byproducts, and biochar, can be used to modify the thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties of polymer composites. Biochar (BioC), in particular, is of interest ... -
Aquatic macroinvertebrates stabilize gravel bed sediment: A test using silk net-spinning caddisflies in semi-natural river channels
(2019-01)Organisms can have large effects on the physical properties of the habitats where they live. For example, measurements in laboratory stream microcosms have shown that the presence of silk net-spinning insect larvae ... -
Wild horse demography: implications for sustainable management within economic constraints
(2018-04)Management of wild horse (Equus ferus caballus) populations on western U.S. rangelands has been a challenge since horses were given legal protection through the passage of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (WFRHba) ... -
The gut microbiome is required for full protection against acute arsenic toxicity in mouse models
(2018-12)Arsenic poisons an estimated 200 million people worldwide through contaminated food and drinking water. Confusingly, the gut microbiome has been suggested to both mitigate and exacerbate arsenic toxicity. Here, we show ... -
Respiratory pathogens and their association with population performance in Montana and Wyoming bighorn sheep populations
(2018-11)At the request of National Park Service resource managers, we began a study in 2000 to evaluate causes for the decline of the bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) population inhabiting Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area ... -
A list of bees from three locations in the Northern Rockies Ecoregion (NRE) of Montana
(2018-10)Background Wild bees that were collected in conjunction with a larger study are presented as a checklist of species for the Northern Rockies Ecoregion of Montana, USA. Over the course of four field seasons (2013-2016), ... -
Disentangling climate and disturbance effects on regional vegetation greening trends
(2018-11)Productivity of northern latitude forests is an important driver of the terrestrial carbon cycle and is already responding to climate change. Studies of the satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) ... -
Redundancy, Feedback, and Robustness in the Arabidopsis thaliana BZR/BEH Gene Family
(2018-11)Organismal development is remarkably robust, tolerating stochastic errors to produce consistent, so-called canalized adult phenotypes. The mechanistic underpinnings of developmental robustness are poorly understood, but ... -
Identifying the Stereotypical Who, What, and Why of Physics and Biology
(2018-12)Supporting efforts to grow the scientific workforce means articulating and comparing the content of science field stereotypes. To do this, data were collected from the general public [undergraduates (n=121) and Amazon ... -
Impact of hydrologic boundaries on microbial planktonic and biofilm communities in shallow terrestrial subsurface environments
(2018-09)Subsurface environments contain a large proportion of planetary microbial biomass and harbor diverse communities responsible for mediating biogeochemical cycles important to groundwater used by human society for consumption, ...
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