Animals frequently undergo periods when they accumulate lipid reserves for subsequent energetically expensive activities, such as migration or breeding. During such periods, daily lipid-reserve dynamics (DLD) of sentinel species can quantify how landscape modifications affect function, health, and resilience of ecosystems. Aythya affinis (Eyton 1838; lesser scaup; diving duck) are macroinverteb...

We commend Shiffman and colleagues (‘‘Bridging the Guideline Implementation Gap: A Systematic, DocumentCentered Approach to Guideline Implementation’’) for highlighting the challenges of integrating guidelines into clinical practice and proposing pragmatic mechanisms for addressing them. We note, however, that the approach advocated by Shiffman et al., as well as by numerous other groups recent...

The past few decades have seen many downtowns across the U.S., especially in small rural cities, experience declines. Adding to the problem, globalization has changed the Midwest forever with offshore competition for routine jobs. Traditional small family farms are vanishing, steel mills have closed, and many factories have shrunk or moved overseas. The Midwest, which was once a symbol of stabi...

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