Noted: Yi Fuxian, a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Su Jian, director of the National Center for Economic Research at Peking University, also told the Global Times that the figures for the number of newborns in 2018 would decrease by more than 2 million, which failed to meet the health authority‘s expectation.
Quoted: “I am not surprised that the DASH and Mediterranean diets have been No. 1 and No. 2 for several years. They are more lifestyle diets than fad type of diets,” Samantha Gollup, a registered dietitian at the University of Wisconsin Health, told TODAY. She was not involved in the list. “You are limiting processed foods and you are increasing the amount of vegetables.”
Noted: First, we hear from Aaron Bird Bear (assistant dean of student diversity programs) and Omar Poler (American Indian curriculum services coordinator) from the UW–Madison School of Education to discuss the tremendous success of the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour.
Quoted: Rather, it noted in its informed consent form that there are “no known improvements” directly related to young plasma infusions. In fact, the form contained “an appalling lack of detailed explanation of what the actual effects of this intervention are supposed to be,” said Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who reviewed Ambrosia’s form at HuffPost’s request.
“There is something intimate about sharing—think of sharing a meal or a bed or watching a movie together,” says Evan Polman, assistant professor of marketing at Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on the study. “The same thing happens when people share a material item. It brings the giver and receiver together and gives them something to talk about.”
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Noted: Nehemiah’s program includes lectures by Gee and his sister, Lilada, as well as UW-Madison faculty Christy Clark-Pujara, Alexander Shashko, Steve Kantrowitz and Neil Kodesh.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences
Noted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship.
Noted: Annie Stumpf is a medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Noted: Brad Pierce, who directs the Space Science and Engineering Center at the UW-Madison, says you could also try to understand the difficulty by considering the mathematical models and resulting graphs that became known as the Lorenz Butterfly.
Noted: Lindsey Day Farnsworth, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, said such a facility would reduce the barriers to entry for small- and medium-size growers to getting their products into the Madison area.
Panelists include Monica White, an assistant professor of with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Community and Environmental Sociology.
Anti-trust laws have been on the books for decades in the United States, but their enforcement has been lax, said Peter Carstensen, law professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, said Georgia’s 3 percent rejection rate is significantly higher than the national rate. More troubling is the variation by county, he said. Some counties reported rejecting 10 percent of their absentee ballots, while others reported almost no rejections. “The variation … indicates that different standards are being applied across the state,” he said.
Quoted: But face-to-face contact is different. “You realize the humanity,” says Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “It reminds you that those of us who don’t agree are actually alike in so many ways. They’re real human beings.”
Quoted: “The one-child policy for the past few decades completely changed people’s birth concept. From kindergarten, they think one child is very normal,” said Yi Fuxian, a population expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Now it’s hard to restore the family value and respect for life.”
Noted: Rikhil R. Bhavnani and Mark Copelovitch, associate professors of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, say:
Noted: Although school and residential zoning is a critical segregation issue, it is not the only perpetuator. Dr. Walter C. Stern, a historian of education at University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained that, historically, cities like New Orleans allocated resources and protections disproportionately to white communities, and these practices continue today despite anti-discrimination laws.
Quoted: “It’s a new way to study this,” said structural geologist Randy Williams of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He added that he’d be interested in seeing a comparison to actual rock.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, UW-Madison emeritus political science professor, Tom Oliver, a population health sciences professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and UW-Madison transportation expert Eric Sundquist, director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative.
Quoted: Gifts you already own and like. Recipients liked gifts better when the giver owned them, too, according to six studies published together last year in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. “There is something intimate about sharing—think of sharing a meal or a bed or watching a movie together,” says Evan Polman, assistant professor of marketing at Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on the study. “The same thing happens when people share a material item. It brings the giver and receiver together and gives them something to talk about.”
Includes interview with Karen Holden, Professor Emerita of Consumer Science, School of Human Ecology and of Public Affairs, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, Affiliate: Center for Financial Security,.
“In plant pathology, we talk about the disease triangle,” says Damon Smith, an associate professor of plant pathology at UW-Madison, who led development of apps and models focused on diseases of turf, soybean and corn.
“It’s just crazy. I don’t think anyone was expecting it to be that much,” David Canon, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said of the $120 million figure. “That is a lot of money.”
The goal is to study the Wisconsin dairy industry and make recommendations on actions needed to maintain its viability and profitability. The task force is chaired by Dr. Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison.
A UW-Madison scientist whose studies of Wisconsin’s freshwater lakes are known around the world has been awarded a prestigious prize recognizing his lifetime of research.
Interview with Assistant Professor Robert Yablon.
VIDEO: Amy Wray, a PhD candidate from the University of Wisconsin, talks about research on bats and why the world would be a scarier place without them.
Noted: J. Michael Collins is director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founder of a consulting practice that deals with household finances and financial coaching. Across all other types of financial counseling, professional standards are common, Collins said, making the resistance of housing counselors to being tested stand out.
Noted: Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a long-time critic of China’s birth policy, said the problem was that the country’s rigid population controls had shaped the Chinese mindset.
Noted: But face-to-face contact is different. “You realize the humanity,” says Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “It reminds you that those of us who don’t agree are actually alike in so many ways. They’re real human beings.”
Noted: “A lot of environmental threats can pile up on top of each other,” says University of Wisconsin entomologist and director of the UW-Arboretum Karen Oberhauser. And the consequences can be hard to predict.
Dr Leigh Orf is a Tornado researcher and modeler at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He generally agrees with Houser’s results. “Her findings are quite compelling; a visible condensation funnel intersecting the ground long before rotation was seen on research radars.”
Quoted: Students who wouldn’t normally smoke are vaping, said Lori Anderson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Nursing and expert on teen risk-taking behavior.
Quoted: “People should just expect to wait and see how this plays out,” said Justin Sydnor, an associate professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: David Schwartz is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and author of a forthcoming book about the history of McCulloch v. Maryland.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, professor emeritus of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Wisconsin’s dairy farmers have had it tough.
Scientists have long debated where the wind rotations that lead to twisters in these thunderstorms begin. Now Houser, of Ohio University in Athens, and her colleagues have new data that upend this “top-down” idea of tornadogenesis. Story quotes CIMSS scientist, Leigh Orf.
Noted: “It’s worrisome, because it appears to escalate the tactics that the parties are willing to use against one another,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interviewed: Professor Dominique Brossard [@brossardd], Chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on how media covers pandemics.
Restorative justice is a reconciliation method that seeks mediation between offenders and victims when a crime has been committed. The overall goal of restorative justice is to allow all parties–including the community as a whole–to heal from crime. State Senator Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) joins us to talk about why she’d like to see restorative justice implemented more broadly in Wisconsin. And Jonathan Scherrer, Director of the Restorative Justice Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Frank J. Remington Center, gives us a broad look at the method.
Quoted: Stephen Lucas, a UW-Madison professor specializing in politics, rhetoric and culture, sees the political messaging as an attempt to “give a veneer of legality or legislative propriety” to what is effectively a power grab — and, like gerrymandering and voter ID laws, an attempt to further disenfranchise Democratic voters.
“Politicians have never been known for logical consistency, or a high degree of truthfulness, or a high degree of transparency,” he says. “We shouldn’t expect total consistency from either party, but it seems to be particularly brazen in these cases.”
Quoted: Walton O. Schalick III noted concerns about the use of CT scans to evaluate traumatic brain injuries in children at a Wednesday Nite @ the Lab lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Nov. 8, 2017. The talk, which looked more broadly at changing approaches to treating disabilities among children, was recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s “University Place.”
Few randomized controlled trials have studied effective programs to combat the year-end bloat, noted Dale Schoeller of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who wasn’t involved in the study.
Quoted: “This is about as fundamental as it gets,” said Howard Schweber, a professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “The way people lose faith in political institutions is when it seems they’re no longer governed by constitutional principles but government by capture — to the victor go the spoils.”
Much of the data efforts used in MMSD revolve around predictive analytics, according to UW-Madison School of Education professor Rich Halverson. “Predictive analytics is where you try to use records of student performance to predict where they’re going to be so you can reach out to students and intervene,” said Halverson, who serves as the associate dean for innovation, outreach and partnerships.
University of Wisconsin-Extension will offer a number of meetings across the state for farmers interested in learning about the new Dairy Revenue Protection program, a new federal insurance tool, with a quarterly payout to dairy farms when milk revenue falls below their insured revenue level.
Quoted: That veto power is unique because it gives the governor the power to change policy, said Miriam Seifter, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: “The idea that, if our party loses the election, we’ll rearrange the powers of government, is one step short of canceling elections altogether,” said Howard Schweber, professor of American politics and political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interview with Professor Cecelia Klingele: “It’s exciting to see such depth of experience from our state being called upon to give advice to the new governor about how best to move forward with reform in Wisconsin.”
The poll was conducted by Moses Altsech, a lecturer in marketing at the UW-Madison School of Business and president of Moses Altsech Consulting.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the moves defy his state’s long history of deferring to incoming officials — even those in the opposite party — after elections.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor, David Canon said depending if Walker vetoes, signs the bills, or makes changes, it will set the tone at the statehouse for the next four years.
Quoted: “Even though technically a naked-eye comet doesn’t have to be very bright, they’re still relatively unusual,” said Jim Lattis, director of University of Wisconsin Space Place, UW-Madison’s astronomy outreach center.
Noted: Between 2000 and 2013, more than three-quarters of all buildings destroyed by fire in California were in the state’s WUI, and more were destroyed there than in all the WUI areas across the rest of the continental U.S. combined, according to a recent study led by Anu Kramer, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Their understanding of who counts, and who ought to count, is tied to an urban and rural divide that encompasses divisions along race, economic class, education, and ideology. In The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness and the Rise of Scott Walker, Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shows how the state’s politics have been shaped by a rural sense of “distributive injustice—a sense that rural folks don’t get their fair share.”
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Republicans “seem to be under the impression that separation of powers refers to parties rather than branches of government.”
Noted: Article co-written by Anita Mukherjee of the Wisconsin School of Business.
One hundred and fifteen people die each day due to an opioid overdose in the United States. Policymakers have tried many approaches to reduce this mortality rate, and researchers have been studying their effects. This post summarizes recent research on how to reduce opioid abuse and opioid-related mortality. What have we learned so far?
Quoted: In total, nearly 300,000 union members are either drawing benefits from the Cental States fund or are qualified to do so in the future, Gordon Enderle, an actuary at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said. He added that another 123,000 are qualified for future pensions, but only 62,000 Teamsters are currently contributing to the fund through their employers.
“Everyone who’s in Central States’ Union is affected by it, in my opinion,” Enderle said.
