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Colorado, etc ; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; blood serum; environment; humans; nutrition; principal component analysis; regression analysis; North Carolina; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are synthetic chemicals that are ubiquitous in environmental and biological systems, including human serum. PFASs are used in many products and industrial processes and are tied to numerous health effects. Due to multiple sources and exposure pathways, methods are needed to identify PFAS sources in communities to develop targeted interventions. We assess ...
... This commentary discusses the novelty of the preclinical opioid choice model published in Heinsbroek et al., Nat Commun, 2021, and the potential influence of altitude on the reported findings. The studies were performed in the Mile High City of Denver, Colorado, where a unique subpopulation of heroin‐choosing rats were noted. ...
Michael J. Koontz; Victoria M. Scholl; Anna I. Spiers; Megan E. Cattau; John Adler; Joseph McGlinchy; Tristan Goulden; Brett A. Melbourne; Jennifer K. Balch
Colorado, etc ; case studies; ecology; energy; equipment; models; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Macroecology research seeks to understand ecological phenomena with causes and consequences that accumulate, interact, and emerge across scales spanning several orders of magnitude. Broad‐extent, fine‐grain information (i.e., high spatial resolution data over large areas) is needed to adequately capture these cross‐scale phenomena, but these data have historically been costly to acquire and proces ...
Colorado, etc ; algorithms; community health; macroinvertebrates; rivers; selenium; urbanization; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Urbanization and elevated selenium can negatively affect aquatic macroinvertebrate communities. These factors are often highly correlated in streams along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, USA. Understanding which factor is the primary driver of macroinvertebrate community health would aid in the development of appropriate management actions to mitigate their influence. Data collected from t ...
Colorado, etc ; case studies; fire behavior; uncertainty; weather; wildfires; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Wildland fire behavior models are often initiated using the detection information listed in incident reports. This information carries an unknown amount of uncertainty, though it is often the most readily available ignition data. To determine the extent to which the use of detection information affects wildland fire forecasts, this research examines the range of burned area values and propagation ...
Colorado, etc ; decision making; gender; livestock; ranchers; rangelands; stakeholders; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This study examines how experiences and social interactions help form the occupational identities of livestock operators in northeastern (NE) Colorado. We also explore how their agricultural identities, especially related to gender roles, have shifted in the context of social and ecological change. Little research examines identities in the context of rapidly changing North American rangeland syst ...
Colorado River, etc ; land management; surveys; water; water management; watersheds; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Principle 12 of the OECD Principles on Water Governance calls for the evaluation of sustainable water policies, which to be effective must be salient, credible and legitimate. Using a 2021 survey of land and water managers within the Colorado River Basin, we examine the salience, credibility and legitimacy of two approaches to evaluate policies that integrate water and land management: using pract ...
Colorado, etc ; case studies; drought; information networks; linear models; water; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The use of social media, such as Twitter, has changed the information landscape for citizens’ participation in crisis response and recovery activities. Given that drought progression is slow and also spatially extensive, an interesting set of questions arise, such as how the usage of Twitter by a large population may change during the development of a major drought alongside how the changing usage ...
Kristen Curcija; Linda Zittleman; Mary Fisher; Donald E. Nease Jr.; L. Miriam Dickinson; Dionisia de la Cerda; Christin Sutter; Jen Ancona; James Rank; John M. Westfall
Colorado, etc ; chronic diseases; drug therapy; narcotics; rural communities; rural health; Show all 6 Subjects
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... PURPOSE: Understanding knowledge of and attitudes toward medication‐assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) is important to changing the conversation about this devastating public health problem. While several studies report clinician knowledge and attitudes and training, less is known about community member perspectives. As part of the Implementing Technology and Medication Assiste ...
Colorado, etc ; Chiroptera; acoustics; citizen science; habitats; mortality; white-nose syndrome; Show all 7 Subjects
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... When white-nose syndrome arrived in eastern North America, bat colonies declined at an alarming rate and the large-scale mortality events were obvious at caves and mines. However, there is concern that the disease and its impacts will be more difficult to detect in western North America where there are fewer winter roosts with thousands of bats. Thus, documenting and responding to precipitous decl ...
James R. Meldrum; Christopher M. Barth; Julia B. Goolsby; Schelly K. Olson; Adam C. Gosey; James (Brad) White; Hannah Brenkert-Smith; Patricia A. Champ; Jamie Gomez
Colorado, etc ; fire behavior; lakes; rapid methods; risk; risk assessment; wildfires; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Parcel-level risk (PLR) describes how wildfire risk varies from home to home based on characteristics that relate to likely fire behavior, the susceptibility of homes to fire, and the ability of firefighters to safely access properties. Here, we describe the WiRē Rapid Assessment (RA), a parcel-level rapid wildfire risk assessment tool designed to evaluate PLR with a small set of measures for all ...
Juliana G. Barnard; Rebekah Marsh; Amy Anderson-Mellies; Johnny L. Williams; Michael P. Fisher; Myles G. Cockburn; Amanda F. Dempsey; Jessica R. Cataldi
Colorado, etc ; health care workers; information systems; medicine; surveys; vaccination; vaccines; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Interventions to improve health care provider communication about HPV vaccination can increase vaccine acceptance. Our objectives were to (1) identify clinics in locations with high HPV-associated cancer and low HPV-vaccination rates that would potentially benefit from dissemination of a proposed HPV Provider Communication intervention and (2) use qualitative interviews and a dissemination and imp ...
Colorado, etc ; accelerometers; canopy; conifers; research; snow; snowpack; storms; sublimation; trees; water; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Snowpack accumulation in forested watersheds depends on the amount of snow intercepted in the canopy and its partitioning into sublimation, unloading, and melt. A lack of canopy snow measurements limits our ability to evaluate models that simulate canopy processes and predict snowpack. We tested whether monitoring changes in wind‐induced tree sway is a viable technique for detecting snow intercept ...
Colorado, etc ; regression analysis; research; riparian forests; surveys; water; Rocky Mountain region; Show all 7 Subjects
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... We use 11 years of annual surveys in streams of the Southern Rockies of Colorado, USA, to examine the persistence and geomorphic effects of logjams. Each year’s survey includes ∼300 logjams along more than 21 km of four mountain streams in primarily old‐growth subalpine forest. Streams alternate longitudinally between laterally confined reaches with a single channel and wider reaches with multithr ...
Colorado, etc ; environmental management; prices; wildfires; wildland fire management; wildland-urban interface; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In this article, we investigate the impact of wildfire on property values in wildland-urban intermix (WUIM) and wildland-urban interface (WUIF) in Colorado. We construct fire indices accounting for the nonlinear impact of wildfires, and evaluate the effects of different fire attributes—proximity, frequency, and scale—on property values in a hedonic price framework using housing transactions data a ...
Colorado, etc ; Chondrichthyes; Late Cretaceous epoch; marine environment; shale; taxonomy; vertebrates; Kansas; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The Juana Lopez Member of the Carlile Shale is a calcarenite rock that became deposited within the Western Interior Seaway of North America during the Late Cretaceous approximately 90 million years ago (early late Turonian). In this study, rock samples collected from a Juana Lopez Member locality in southeastern Colorado, USA, were dissolved with a weak acid to examine the taxonomic composition of ...
Colorado, etc ; health effects assessments; land management; rangelands; remote sensing; vegetation; watersheds; Show all 7 Subjects
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... During grazing permit renewals, the Bureau of Land Management assesses land health using indicators that are typically measured using field-based data collected from individual sites within grazing allotments. However, agency guidance suggests that assessments be completed at larger spatial scales. We explored how the current generation of remotely sensed data products could be used to quantify as ...
Colorado, etc ; soil water storage; streams; subsurface flow; vadose zone; water table; watersheds; Show all 7 Subjects
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... North‐central Colorado experienced an extreme precipitation event (EPE) in September 2013, during which the equivalent of 80% of the region's annual average precipitation fell in a few days. Widespread flooding occurred above ground, but the short‐ and long‐term subsurface response remains unclear. The objective of the study is to better understand the dynamic subsurface response, namely how the w ...
Colorado, etc ; air quality; animal health; cornea; hospitals; observational studies; ophthalmology; smoke; wildfires; Show all 9 Subjects
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... OBJECTIVE: In the fall of 2020, Colorado experienced the two largest wildfires in state history. The smoke blanketed the college town of Fort Collins, Colorado, the location of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University (CSU‐VTH). The objective for this cross‐sectional observational study was to evaluate how these wildfires and the corresponding elevated air quality index (AQI)) ...
Colorado River, etc ; Oncorhynchus mykiss; abnormal development; fish; gametogenesis; histology; probability; terminology; ultrasonography; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss have been intensively studied and gametogenesis has been described, but the use of reproductive indices in field studies has not been widely applied when assessing variability in growth or recruitment dynamics. We integrated descriptions for gametogenesis within the framework of standardized terminology for reproductive development in teleosts to develop sex‐speci ...