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Title: Accounting for residential propagule pressure improves prediction of urban plant invasion
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Davis, Amy J. S., Singh, Kunwar K., Meentemeyer, Ross K.
Subjects--Topical: Invasive plants, Urban forestry
Description: Plant invasions substantially impact the ecosystem services provided by forests in urbanizing regions. Knowing where invasion risk is greatest helps target early detection and eradication efforts, but developing an accurate predictive model of inv...

Title: An exploratory study of digital inequities and work in the redevelopment of a southeastern American city
Author: Crocker, Tianca, Whitlow, Clysha, Cooper, Haley, Patrick, Claire, Padilla, Avangelyne, Jammal, Mia, Ince, Rebecca
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Labor market, Labor market--Social aspects, Marginality, Social, Marginality, Social--Economic aspects
Description: Nearly 6 million workers support the multi-billion-dollar digital economy as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. labor market. Middle-skill jobs in the digital economy sector that pay higher wages and do not require a bachelor’s degree ...

Title: An observational analysis quantifying the distance of supercell-boundary interactions in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen, Davenport, Casey
Subjects--Topical: Severe storms, Tornadoes
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have hypothesized that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
Subjects--Topical: Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
Description: This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces, and residential areas, and lockdown measures in 88 countries aroun...

Title: Crisis for the university student : changing student housing and growing cost burden
Author: Wood, Connor, Schuch, Johanna Claire
Subjects--Topical: Student housing, Housing--Costs, Education, Higher
Description: College cost burden and student debt are among the most pressing discussions in contemporary US society. This conversation has largely been focused on changes in tuition and fees. While this is important, over 60% of the college cost at four-year ...

Title: Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Hohl, Alexander, Desjardins, Michael R., Lan, Yu
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first discovered in late 2019 in Wuhan City, China. The virus may cause novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in symptomatic in- dividuals. Since December of 2019, there have...

Title: Do socioeconomic factors drive Aedes mosquito vectors and their arboviral diseases? A systematic review of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika virus
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Whiteman, Ari, Loaiza, Jose R., Yee, Donald A., Poh, Karen C., Watkins, Alexandria S., Lucas, Keira J., Rapp, Tyler J., Kline, Lillie, Ahmed, Ayman, Chen, Shi, Oguzie, Judith Uche
Subjects--Topical: Arbovirus infections, Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: As the threat of arboviral diseases continues to escalate worldwide, the question of, “What types of human communities are at the greatest risk of infection?” persists as a key gap in the existing knowledge of arboviral diseases transmission dynam...

Title: Forest loss is significantly higher near clustered small dams than single large dams per megawatt of hydroelectricity installed in the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Chen, Gang, Nickerson, Samuel, Fearnside, Philip M., Allan, Craig J., Hu, Tongxi, Carvalho, Luis, Zhao, Kaiguang
Subjects--Topical: Forests and forestry, Deforestation, Hydroelectric power plants, Dams, Remote sensing
Description: Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon is a prevalent form of development, but dams have widespread and long-term environmental impacts that include deforestation in the areas surrounding the dams. Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are often perceived as...

Title: In fighting common threats, people’s deep commitment to taking collective action matters : examples from China’s COVID‑19 battle and her other combats
Author: Palko, Hannah Catherine, Xiang, Wei-Ning
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: China, Owen Lattimore, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: In fighting against common threats to human survival and well-being, be they from natural disaster or human conflict, people’s commitment to taking collective action matters and can make a huge or even decisive difference. Throughout human history...

$Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research$

Title: Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research
Author: Eppes, Martha Cary, Berberich, Samantha, Keanini, Russell, Moser, Faye, Morovati, Mehdi, Porson, Steven, Rasmussen, Monica
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Rocks--Fracture, Earth sciences
Description: Rock fractures are a key contributor to a broad array of Earth surface processes due to their direct control on rock strength as well as rock porosity and permeability. However, to date, there has been no standardization for the quantification of ...

Title: Machine learning of spatial data
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Nikparvar, Behnam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Machine learning, Geospatial data
Description: Properties of spatially explicit data are often ignored or inadequately handled in machine learning for spatial domains of application. At the same time, resources that would identify these properties and investigate their influence and methods to...

Title: Residential mobility impacts relative risk estimates of space-time clusters of chlamydia in Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Owusu, Claudio, Desjardins, Michael R., Baker, Kathleen M.
Subjects--Topical: Sexually transmitted diseases, Residential mobility
Description: We determine the impact of residential mobility in the prevalence and transmission dynamics of sexually transmitted infections. We illustrate our approach on reported chlamydia infections obtained from the Michigan Disease Surveillance System for ...

Title: Spatially explicit landscape-level ecological risks induced by land use and land cover change in a national ecologically representative region in China
Author: Tang, Wenwu, Gong, Jian, Yang, Jianxin
Subjects--Topical: Ecological risk assessment, Computer simulation, Land use
Description: Land use and land cover change is driven by multiple influential factors from environmental and social dimensions in a land system. Land use practices of human decision-makers modify the landscape of the land system, possibly leading to landscape ...

Title: The relative effects of forest amount, forest configuration, and urban matrix quality on forest breeding birds
Author: Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Tang, Wenwu, Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Urbanization, Forest birds
Description: Urbanization modifies landscape structure in three major ways that impact avian diversity in remnant habitat: habitat amount is reduced and habitat configuration and matrix quality are altered. The relative effects of these three components of lan...

Title: The role of skills in Islamic financial innovation : evidence from Bahrain and Malaysia
Author: Poon, Jessie, Chow, Yew Wah, Ewers, Michael, Ramli, Razli
Subjects--Topical: Financial institutions, Finance (Islamic law)
Description: A body of work has emerged that examines human capital from the perspective of skills to better understand the types of expertise that influence innovation. The relationship between skill and financial innovation, however, is poorly understood in ...

Title: The socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure
Author: Tayouga, Sarah J., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable buildings, Social ecology
Description: Green infrastructure is defined as any type of infrastructure that has the purpose of lessening the burden of development on the environment and/or has the aim of providing ecosystem services, such as runoff management, air temperature reduction, ...

Title: The traits that predict the magnitude and spatial scale of forest bird responses to urbanization intensity
Author: Paton, Grant D., Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Urbanization, Forest birds
Description: As humans continue moving to urban areas, there is a growing need to understand the effects of urban intensification on native wildlife populations. Forest species in remnant habitat are particularly vulnerable to urban intensification, but the me...