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Noted: The result is that about half the people with health club memberships are no-shows, according to Justin Sydnor, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Malls that haven’t done anything to change their appeal struggle today, said Jerry O’Brien, director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Dr. Meredith Masters, a University of Wisconsin Hospital emergency medicine physician, said ultimately there’s no cure, but the benefits of drinks like Pedialyte or Gatorade are the electrolytes they contain.

Noted: You might also want to consider the research of Christine Whelan?, a faculty associate? in the Department of Consumer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and self-improvement expert. She developed two self-improvement programs for AARP’s Life Reimagined website that help people prioritize their goals and define the next steps for achieving them.

What does Rolling Stone magazine’s retraction of the University of Virginia rape story mean for future victims and responsible journalism? University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Katy Culver explains.

Quoted: “It’s sort of the perfect storm,” said Dr. Michael Abernethy, chief flight surgeon for University of Wisconsin Health’s Med Flight. “It’s great money, it’s unregulated and there’s really no utilization criteria.”

Quoted: According to Dr. Ian Baird, a Mekong fisheries specialist at the University Of Wisconsin Madison, “The dam would cause serious nutritional problems throughout the Mekong Region. Decreasing availability of fish in the marketplace would lead to higher prices, reducing fish consumption, especially by poorer consumers.”

Quoted: Edward Friedman, a sinologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, said Xi and his administration had to reach agreement on the delayed economic reform agenda to move the economy away from one where special rights and subsidies were given to construction and industrial exports, to a model focused on domestic consumption.

Quoted: “There seems to be a lot in our brains and animal brains that is directional — that neural signals move in a particular direction, then stop, and start somewhere else,” said Dr. Giulio Tononi, a psychiatry professor and neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study’s co-authors. “I think this is really a new theme that had not been explored.”

Evan Polman, a psychologist and assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that of 7,466 Black Friday shoppers in 2013, 39 percent said they were shopping for recipients they defined as “picky.” He and his colleagues have identified two types of “picky” people.

Quoted: Other experts share Mendoza’s interest in reversing the trend from two wheels to four. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has calculated a “four-way win” when cars are swapped for bikes: reduced greenhouse emissions and gains in air quality, fitness and the economy.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental historian William Cronon said Muir built on ancient Christian arguments that saw the Bible and the creation as equal signs of God’s work in the world.

Quoted: Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Climatic Research, agreed that the “jury is still out” on the relationship between the jet stream meandering and the warming Arctic, but that recent experience is an important lesson.

Quoted: Nicholas Hillman, an assistant professor in the [School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he was surprised that Y.U. had only recently implemented a system like Banner. “Colleges have had Banner — or an equivalent — for 20 years at least,” Hillman said. “The fact they didn’t have that is striking.”

Quoted: “Given the prominence of the social media activity and the outrageousness of some of that activity, I think there clearly is news value in trying to figure out who this person is, where he’s located, and what the agenda might be,” said Kathleen Culver, associate director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center of Journalism Ethics.