Effects of tissue type and season on the detection of regulated sugarcane viruses by high throughput sequencing by Stephen Bolus, Kate Wathen-Dunn, Samuel C. Grinstead, Xiaojun Hu, Martha Malapi, Dimitre Mollov

“…Importation of sugarcane into the United States is highly regulated, and sugarcane plants are subjected to strict quarantine measures and diagnostic testing, especially for the presence of certain viruses of regulatory concern. …”
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Assessing the readiness of central California agricultural educators to teach multilingual learners by Hillary Miller, Christopher A. Clemons, Jason D. McKibben, D. Adam Cletzer, James R. Lindner

“…This study investigated the pedagogical readiness of United States secondary school-based agricultural education (SBAE) teachers to educate multilingual learners (MLs) in California's Central Region. …”
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The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification by Tiffany Denise Joseph

“…This scholarship lacks a framework outlining existing documentation status categories and does not fully answer three research questions I pose in this article: (1) what is the alignment of documentation status categories relative to each other, (2) how does policy (re)configure those categories over time, and (3) how have documentation status categories shaped access to health care in the United States? This article answers those questions and argues that the documentation status continuum (DSC) framework fills these gaps. …”
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ISLAM, EMPIRE, AND IDEOLOGY: Lord Stanley and the Intersection of Islam and Politics in 19th Century Europe by Baiquni Hasbi, Husnul Khitam

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Exhibiting the West at the Paris Exposition of 1867: Towards a New American Aesthetic Identity? by François Brunet, Jessica Talley

“…In 1867 the French Second Empire’s “social” doctrine staged industry and labor not only as economic values but as cultural facts, envisioned in socio-ethnographic terms if not as forms of spectacle. The United States was only a second-tier player; however, for the U.S. organizers the Paris Exposition was a crucial opportunity for the country as it just emerged from the Civil War and entered Reconstruction. …”
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Consumer Perceptions of Lawn Fertilizer Brands by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn, Michael D. Dukes

“… Widespread urbanization in the United States has increased the number of lawns. A healthy lawn provides many benefits, including urban heat dissipation, water quality protection, erosion control, carbon sequestration, community safety, aesthetics, and property value growth. …”
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International connections of the Ecuadorian Amazonian forest colonization process 1960-1970 by Pablo Campaña

“…A central topic of the present text is the study of the several international connections between this organization and United States diplomacy in their efforts to boost colonization policies in the Ecuadorian Amazonian frontier. …”
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Complexities in Financial Network Topological Dynamics: Modeling of Emerging and Developed Stock Markets by Yong Tang, Jason Jie Xiong, Zi-Yang Jia, Yi-Cheng Zhang

“…In this study, two major markets of the most influential economies, China and the United States, are systematically studied from the perspective of financial network analysis. …”
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Lowering Soil pH to Optimize Nutrient Management and Crop Production by Rao Mylavarapu, George Hochmuth, Cheryl Mackowiak, Alan Wright, Maria Silveira

“… Because temperatures are relatively high and it rains a lot in the region, mineral soils in the southeastern United States tend to be naturally acidic. Managing soils for both pH and nutrients helps maintain soil fertility levels and ensure economic agricultural production. …”
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Russian Initiatives in Internet Governance by S. S. Shirin

“…The author states that federal government of the United States of America has fully lost the control on the domain name systems. …”
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Inland Water Body Fraction Map for Canada and Adjacent Regions at 250-m Spatial Resolution by Shaheen Ghayourmanesh, Alexander P. Trishchenko, Calin Ungureanu

“…We present a novel raster dataset of surface inland water body fraction over Canada and neighbouring regions, including the northern parts of the United States, as well as Greenland, Iceland, and the northeastern sector of Russia, at 250-m spatial resolution. …”
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Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic analysis of human values in the film sound of freedom by Frans Fandy Palinoan, I Made Markus Suma, Patrio Tandiangga, Arwin Dama

“…This film is an adaptation of a true story that tells the story of a United States government agent, Timothy Ballard (Jim Caviezel), who uncovers a child trafficking network in Colombia. …”
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Nonnutritive, Low Caloric Substitutes for Food Sugars: Clinical Implications for Addressing the Incidence of Dental Caries and Overweight/Obesity by Michael W. Roberts, J. Timothy Wright

“…Caries and obesity are two common conditions affecting children in the United States and other developed countries. Caries in the teeth of susceptible children have often been associated with frequent ingestion of fermentable sugars such as sucrose, fructose, glucose, and maltose. …”
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A Case Report Illustrating the Postoperative Course of Descemetorhexis without Endothelial Keratoplasty with Topical Netarsudil Therapy by Pimpiroon Ploysangam, Sangita P. Patel

“…Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) is the most common indication for corneal transplantation in the United States. Recently, descemetorhexis without endothelial keratoplasty (DWEK) or Descemet’s stripping only (DSO) has become an attractive alternative to corneal transplantation for these patients. …”
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Assessing Differences in US and EU Approaches to Containing Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions by Bobkin, N.N.

“…The article makes an attempt to bring some clarity to the differences between Europe and the United States in approaches to the implementation of the 2015 nuclear agreement. …”
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Right Testicular Artery Occlusion and Acute Appendicitis by Angiostrongylus costaricensis by Luis Enrique Sánchez-Sierra, Roberto Antonio Martínez-Quiroz, Héctor S. Antúnez, Humberto Cabrera-Interiano, Fernando Josué Barrientos-Melara

“…This parasite can be found from the southern United States to northern Argentina and southern Brazil. …”
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Market Power, NAIRU, and the Phillips Curve by Derek Zweig

“…We explore the relationship between unemployment and inflation in the United States (1949-2019) through both Bayesian and spectral lenses. …”
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Mining the ocean floor vs mining the Moon: what can we learn from our past experiences? by Joseph N. Pelton, Nishith Mishra, Martina Elia Vitoloni

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Findings from a Statewide Teleretina Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program in Arkansas by Megan Shirey, Alexander Kwok, Holly Jenkins, Sami Uwaydat

“…A significant proportion of diabetic patients in the United States do not present for annual dilated eye exams to monitor for signs of diabetic retinopathy (DR). …”
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Language Training of Customs Affairs Specialists: International and Russian Experience by D. G. Korovyakovsky, T. Yu. Igumentseva, V. V. Volkova

“…The described international experience in the language training of customs affairs specialists in Australia, vietnam, Germany, China, Moldova, the United States of America allows to indicate its specificity, namely, a bias towards the development of bilingual competence, since a multicultural customs space requires a specialist to have the ability to conduct a dialogue, to know the cultural realities of a native and foreign language, to be able to realize this knowledge in direct communication with international partners.Russian experience of the language training of customs specialists is characterized, on the one hand, by the lack of regionalization and filling in the content of a foreign language on the basis of interdisciplinary integration with the content of the professional cycle disciplines, and on the other, by the widespread use of active teaching methods, information and communication technologies in teaching a foreign language, which positively affects the formation of readiness for professional intercultural communication.The authors conclude that a deeper study of the international experience of language training on the basis of comparative analysis is necessary in order to improve Russian training of a qualified customs specialist who is able to conduct effective professional activities in a foreign language environment.…”
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