Epidemiological trends in gastrointestinal cancers and risk factors across U.S. states from 2000 to 2021: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2021 by Jiahao Jiang, Zhiqin Xie, Qingbin Wang, Bingkun Wang, Rong Huang, Weikai Xu, Changzhen Shang, Yajin Chen

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Wives, Clerks, and 'Lady Diplomats': The Gendered Politics of Diplomacy and Representation in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1900-1940 by Molly M. Wood

“…As employees of the U.S. State Department, these women also maintained the representative qualities associated with diplomatic work. …”
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The Problem of Women in the Department:  Sex and Gender Discrimination in the 1960s United States Foreign Diplomatic Service by Beatrice Loftus McKenzie

“…Alison Palmer, a United States Foreign Service Officer from 1959 to 1981, brought a gender equity complaint against the U.S. State Department in the late 1960s and then led a class action lawsuit by female officers that lasted until 2010.  …”
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Comparing and Analyzing Policy Formulation of Proposed and Final Public Policies by Catherine Chen, Christopher M. Weible, Tanya Heikkila, Jennifer A. Kagan

“…This paper builds on arguments in policy formulation, the institutional grammar, and comparative public policy by comparing and analyzing the initial and passed versions of 105 bills in six U.S. state legislatures from 2007 through 2017. Our substantive context is oil and gas development. …”
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The Impact of Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists on Utilization and Costs of Antipsychotic Medication by Christian Frois, Thomas O’Connell, Jacqueline Pesa, John Fastenau

“…**Background:** Few studies have attempted to assess the effectiveness of formulary management in reducing the antipsychotic costs and utilization across U.S. state Medicaid programs, despite concerns about the potential impact of such formulary management on Medicaid patient health outcomes. …”
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WCMU-net: An Effective Method for Reducing the Impact of Speckle Noise in SAR Image Change Detection by Yu Duan, Kaimin Sun, Wangbin Li, Jinjiang Wei, Song Gao, Yingjiao Tan, Wanghui Zhou, Jun Liu, Junyi Liu

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A Binational Sample-Initiated Retrospective Outbreak Investigation of Listeria monocytogenes Infections in the United States and Canada Linked to Enoki Mushrooms Imported from Chin... by Margaret Kirchner, Alexandra Palacios, Natalie Cataldo, Kate L. Allen, Allison Wellman, Asma Madad, Temesgen Jemaneh, Timothy Jackson, David T. Ingram, Victoria Wagoner, Robert Hatch, Joseph Baugher, Laurel Burall, Kenneth Nieves, Mabel Low, Grace Pederson, Lauren DiPrete, Victoria Sepcic, Deepam Thomas, Kristen Lozinak, Sinisa Urban, Kyle Shannon, Erin Kafka, Ainsley Lackey, Lauren Edwards, Hilary E. Rosen, Christian Bond, Michael Needham, Annie Locas, Austin Markell, Kelvin Chau, Adrienne Kong, Meghan Hamel, Ashley Kearney, Monique Salter, Laura Gieraltowski, Michael C. Bazaco, Stelios Viazis, Amanda Conrad

“…Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. state and local partners, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) conducted a binational sample-initiated retrospective outbreak investigation (SIROI) of Listeria monocytogenes illnesses linked to enoki mushrooms. …”
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Direct Democracy on Election Day: Ballot Measures as Measures of American Democracy by Donna Kesselman

“…Re-energizing voters in the 38 U. S. states where they raise grassroots and often controversial “wedge issues”, they also have spill-over effects in other areas of politics and civil engagement. …”
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THE ROLE OF RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF "ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT" IN RUSSIA by D. L. Sivovolov

“…., Russian and the EU. U.S. states the principle of state non-intervention in Internet. …”
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Mycovirome of Diaporthe helianthi and D. gulyae, causal agents of Phomopsis stem canker of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) by Chien-Fu Wu, Elizabeth Regedanz, Febina Mathew, Ruchika Kashyap, Karthika Mohan, Shin-Yi Lee Marzano

“…In this study, the mycovirus population was characterized in D. gulyae and D. helianthi using 52 and 42 isolates, respectively, that were recovered from diseased sunflower plants randomly sampled from commercial sunflower fields in the U.S. states of Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. …”
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Food recalls: An unnecessary and preventable factor in food waste by Rubén Morawicki

“…In this recall, more than 3,900 different types of products were retrieved from the market from 46 U.S. states (Flynn, 2009). Once the recalled product is in the processor’s hands, the next step is determining what to do with it. …”
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Wastewater-based estimation of temporal variation in shedding amount of influenza A virus and clinically identified cases using the PRESENS model by Hiroki Ando, Michio Murakami, Masaaki Kitajima, Kelly A. Reynolds

“…In this study, we applied two mathematical models to previously collected wastewater and clinical data from four U.S. states during the 2022/2023 influenza season, dominated by the H3N2 subtype. …”
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Impact of driver licensing renewal policies on older driver crash involvement and injury rates in 13 states, 2000–2019 by Cara J. Hamann, Jonathan A. Davis, Gilsu Pae, Motao Zhu, Gregory H. Shill, Brian Tefft, Joseph E. Cavanaugh

“…Methods Historical crash data, license renewal policy data, and other relevant policy and demographic data were gathered from 13 U.S. states (CO, IL, IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH, SD, UT, WI, WY) for years 2000 through 2019, inclusive. …”
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Meta-analyses of mouse and human prostate single-cell transcriptomes reveal widespread epithelial plasticity in tissue regression, regeneration, and cancer by Luis Aparicio, Laura Crowley, John R. Christin, Caroline J. Laplaca, Hanina Hibshoosh, Raul Rabadan, Michael M. Shen

“…Finally, we observe that luminal acinar tumor cells in treatment-naïve prostate cancer display heterogeneous androgen receptor (AR) signaling activity, including a split between AR-positive and AR-low profiles with similarity to PrU-like states. Conclusions Taken together, our analyses of cellular heterogeneity and plasticity provide important translational insights into the origin and treatment response of prostate cancer. …”
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homeRNA self-blood collection enables high-frequency temporal profiling of presymptomatic host immune kinetics to respiratory viral infection: a prospective cohort studyResearch in... by Fang Yun Lim, Hannah G. Lea, Ashley M. Dostie, Soo-Young Kim, Tammi L. van Neel, Grant W. Hassan, Meg G. Takezawa, Lea M. Starita, Karen N. Adams, Michael Boeckh, Joshua T. Schiffer, Ollivier Hyrien, Alpana Waghmare, Erwin Berthier, Ashleigh B. Theberge

“…Findings: Between June 2021 and April 2022, 68 participants across 26 U.S. states completed the study and self-collected a total of 691 and 466 longitudinal blood and nasal swab samples along with 688 symptom surveys. …”
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