This study aims to improve the accuracy of AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) pavement performance predictions for Iowa pavement systems through local calibration of MEPDG prediction models. A total of 130 representative pavement sites across Iowa were selected. The selected pavement sites represent flexible, rigid, and composite pavement systems throughout Iowa. The req...

Effective conservation of fish species of greatest conservation need (SGCN) requires an understanding of species-habitat relationships and distributional trends. Thus, modeling the distribution of fish species across large spatial scales may serve as a potentially valuable tool for conservation planning. Our goals were to evaluate the status of 10 Iowa fish SGCN in wadeable Iowa streams and tes...

Iowa City Public Library recently completed an eighteen-month consumer health project entitled Expanding Access to Consumer Health Electronic Resources in Iowa City and Rural Johnson County, Iowa. This project included health-related computer classes, demonstrations, and programs and was funded by the National Library of Medicine through a subcontract with the National Network of Libraries of M...

1 1 Activation of the Renin-Angiotensin System Specifically in the Subfornical Organ 2 is Sufficient to Induce Fluid Intake 3 4 Jeffrey P. Coble, Martin D. Cassell, Deborah R. Davis, Justin L. Grobe, and Curt D. 5 Sigmund 6 7 8 Department of Pharmacology and Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Roy J. 9 and Lucille Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 10 11 12 Short t...

This study examined performance on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT; Bechara, Damasio, Damasio, & Anderson, 1994) as a measure of low-income school-aged children's affective decision-making and considered its utility as a direct indicator of impulsivity. One hundred and ninety-three 8-11 year olds performed a computerized version of the Iowa Gambling Task, a validated measure of decision-making. Mul...

1Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; 2Jackson School of Geoscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA; 3Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR 5134, 8 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France; 4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; and 5Department of Biological ...

Quaterthiophene Benzobisazole Copolymers for Photovoltaic Cells: Effect of Heteroatom Placement and Substitution on the Optical and Electronic Properties Achala Bhuwalka, Jared F. Mike, Meng He, Jeremy J. Intemann, Toby Nelson, Monique D. Ewan, Robert A. Roggers, Zhiqun Lin, and Malika Jeffries-EL* Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa 50011, United States Department of Mate...