Normally, the Public Service Commission does not dictate where telephone companies must provide broadband. Should the agency order TDS to provide the service to the complaining residents, it could set a precedent for other rural communities. Legally, itâ??s a step the PSC may be hesitant to take, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reducing community stigma may help reduce transmission, said Geoffrey Swain, medical director at the Milwaukee Health Department and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andy Reschovsky said most of the basic assumptions used in the report were reasonable. The big question, he said, is whether the incentives were always needed. “Itâ??s very difficult, if not impossible, to provide definitive answers,” Reschovsky said.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists recently surveyed Doctors Park in Bayside for the presence of deer ticks and found evidence suggesting that ticks were not just present in the county, but were living and reproducing there, too.”As far as I know, this is the first demonstration of an established population in Milwaukee County, although ticks have been getting closer and closer,” said Susan Paskewitz, a UW professor of entomology who led the survey.
Dane County homeowners feeling overwhelmed by their mortgages can get expert advice and practical tools to help them manage their finances at a two-day, free workshop later this month in Madison. Since February, local homeowners in mortgage distress also have had the option of a new foreclosure mediation program offered through the courts and UW-Madisonâ??s Law School and supported by the task force. See what I wrote about this program in January here.
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Obey would be more effective in simply raising new donations for Lassa.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andy Reschovsky said most of the basic assumptions used in the report were reasonable. The big question, he said, is whether the incentives were always needed.
Quoted: Reducing community stigma may help reduce transmission, said Geoffrey Swain, medical director at the Milwaukee Health Department and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: In a study that appeared in the American Journal of Primatology, Sofia Refetoff Zahed and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin compared the responses of experienced fathers and inexperienced males when confronted with the sound of a fussy infant monkey coming from a distant cage.
Hereâ??s to UW-Madison professor Tim Smeeding for his comments to the LA Times about the wealthy rebounding quickly from the Great Recession while the rest of us continue to struggle.
Smeeding, a national expert on poverty and income equality, was given top line quote in a story showing the wealth gap again widening.
Health care reform is expected to bring an end to pre-existing conditions, lifetime caps and the practice of cutting off someoneâ??s insurance when they get sick. It will also produce as many as 32 million more insured people who need someone to administer their prescription drug plans.In many cases, a third-party administrator called a pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM, will process and pay their claims. “During the whole health care reform discussion, there was a lot of overhang on health care stocks in general, but PBMs were viewed as one of the sectors poised to benefit,” said Neil Chatterji, who earned an MBA in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May and was a participant in the business schoolâ??s Applied Security Analysis Program.
Kenneth Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Obey would be more effective in simply raising new donations for Lassa. “Itâ??s very important for him to keep that seat Democratic,” he said. “But the effect he can have in the race will be far more in terms of helping Lassa raise money.”
Not many. But that doesnâ??t mean itâ??s safe to be in the water. The low numbers are likely due to awareness campaigns and good safety programs.
Birds may be able to eat peppers because they have so few taste buds: Chickens have just 24 taste buds, and pigeons have 37, says Anna Pidgeon, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: â??I see current approval about in line with the fluctuations weâ??ve seen all year for each pollster,â? said Mr. Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin. â??Little evidence of real change.â?
Quoted: Doug Wiegmann, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has studied human error in cockpits, operating rooms and other contexts. â??The general human-factors issues are the same whether youâ??re in a cockpit or anywhere elseâ?: communications, technology design and a checklist chief among them.
Noted: It turns out that just as recent brain-imaging studies have begun to reveal the physical evidence of empathyâ??s erosion, they are now also beginning to show definitive signs of its cultivation as well. A group of researchers led by Richard Davidson, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, published a study in a March 2008 edition of the Public Library of Science One, showing that the mere act of thinking compassionate thoughts caused significant activity and physical changes in the brainâ??s empathic pathways. â??People are not just stuck at their respective set points,â? Davidson has said of the studyâ??s results. â??We can take advantage of our brainâ??s plasticity and train it to enhance these qualities. . . . I think this can be one of the tools we use to teach emotional regulation to kids who are at an age where theyâ??re vulnerable to going seriously off track.â?
Noted: Perhaps a youth-obsessed culture has difficulty believing such tidings. Yet a study by Midlife in the United States, a research project run out of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, concluded a decade ago that â??for most of us, at least some portion of the middle years may be the â??prime of life.â?? â?
James Stein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said that the result was only barely statistically significant, and could be due to the fact that patients on ARBs lived longer and were more likely to get diagnosed with cancer. Moreover, there is no known biological reason these drugs would increase cancer risk.
Dr. Lucille Marchand, an integrative medicine specialist at UW Health, gave a breast cancer patient nutrition advice tailored to her specific condition.
Quoted: “Itâ??s been a recession where everyone took a hit â?? with the bottom taking a bigger hit,” said Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies economic inequality. But “the wealthy alone have bounced back.”
Quoted: Dr. Damon Williams, vice provost and associate vice chancellor for diversity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sees movement and hopes to see more. Williams has done considerable research making a case for expanding the role and reach of diversity officers. Both men have spoken to audiences around the country about the merits of the idea.
Quoted: Democrats are supporting Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett for governor, their only candidate in the race. In a surprise move earlier this week, he proposed making $1 billion in cuts to state government, if elected. UW-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin says Barrett might be trying to appeal to moderate voters.
A UW-Madison expert sees some problems, and possible advantages, in the GOP race for Governor. The race has grown gotten increasingly nasty between former Congressman Mark Neumann and Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker. Political science professor Charles Franklin says that upsets what had seemed to be a clear cut path to the nomination for Walker, after he received the endorsement from the Republican Party at its state convention.
Quoted: The season has also arrived early for Judy Reith-Rozelle, assistant superintendent at UW-Madisonâ??s West Madison Agricultural Research Station in Verona, where she is running a strawberry research plot for the second consecutive year.
Quoted: Several medical physicists said in interviews that they were reserving judgment until they saw the specific changes. â??How it is implemented would make a big difference,â? said Dr. Bruce Thomadsen, a medical physicist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “This study is pretty consistent to what the research literature say so far,” said Dave Riley, a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the UW.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the UW Madison, said he does not recall a similar event, or any high profile politico changing support for a candidate, as Klauser has done. Neumann is contesting the Republican primary race against Walker, with the winner to face the Democratic candidate, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, in November.
The Tea Party approach that reminds UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden of several 19th century political movements.”They are not really a political party yet, and they might never be,” he said. “They fall more in line with the Progressive and temperance movements.”
But the group has as much responsibility to provide legal drugs as it does to control illegal ones, says David Joranson, founder of the University of Wisconsinâ??s Pain & Policy Studies Group, which works with governments to reform their palliative-care laws.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Frank Tuerkheimer, a former U.S. prosecutor, said the probe suggests investigators are improving at identifying potential terror threats. “It gives me more confidence that weâ??re devoting resources to watching people who could become a problem,” he said.
Noted: Some scientists and advocates for gender equity have argued that the remaining gender gap in extreme scores is rapidly shrinking and will disappear. It was called â??largely an artifact of changeable sociocultural factorsâ? last year by two researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Janet S. Hyde and Janet E. Mertz. They noted evidence of the gap narrowing and concluded, â??Thus, there is every reason to believe that it will continue to narrow in the future.â?
The way psychopathic prisoners play games resembles patterns shown by people whose brains have been damaged by such medical conditions as strokes and tumors, according to an intriguing set of experiments conducted by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
The research, published in this monthâ??s issue of Neuropsychologia, is the latest contribution to a growing trove of evidence challenging long-standing notions about the nature and roots of psychopathic behavior.
Quoted: Researchers Michael Koenigs, assistant professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine and Public Health, and Joseph Newman, professor of psychology.
A: Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean basin runs from June through November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting 14 to 23 named storms this season, say atmospheric sciences professors Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin.
Even as the recession recedes, most parts of the country are still seeing a “slow recovery out of a large hole,” according to a national economic expert at a housing conference Friday at UW-Madison. A quicker, stronger bounceback is unlikely, said David Altig, senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Thatâ??s because the recovery remains restrained by high unemployment, nervous retailers, only modest growth in construction and other industries and household wealth still way below pre-recession levels.”We have a long, long way to go,” Altig said. “Slow and steady goes the race.”
Q: It is rare that I see mourning doves in my yard anymore. Has the state-sanctioned hunt reduced the population? A: “The two winters before this were hard on doves and their population has declined dramatically,” says Scott Craven, professor of wildlife ecology at UW-Madison. “The decline is primarily about weather and has little or nothing to do with the hunting season.”
Dan Jansen, who lost his sister Jane to leukemia during the 1988 Olympics, accepted Madison golfer Andy Northâ??s invitation to participate in the second annual Andy North & Friends cancer benefit, which begins tonight at Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells and raises funds for the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. The UW Carbone Cancer Center, established in 1973, is the only comprehensive cancer center in Wisconsin, treating more than 30,000 patients annually.
Noted: Thatâ??s all changed, Monteleone adds, thanks in large part to the Master Cheesemaker Program at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: Brain computer interfacing is also entering our everyday lives. This year, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered a way to post messages on the social networking site Twitter using their minds. Wearing a red cap fitted with electrodes, they concentrate on letters on a computer monitor to spell out a message.
Quoted: “Weâ??re starting to see populations in Walworth County and Sheboygan County, so the distribution is starting to show in some places that it wasnâ??t 10, 15 years ago. As we get more ticks in more places, I guess we would expect to see more disease,” said Phil Pelliteri, a UW-Madison entomologist.
Summer sports programs mean smiles for kids with potential sadness as well. A sports psychiatrist says if kids get bummed from making a bad play or losing a game itâ??s important not to sweep the situation under the rug. â??The most important thing I think is to acknowledge their childâ??s feeling about what happened,â? says Dr. Claudia Reardon of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “Our new study shows that in people with similar levels of chronic disease burden having a strong sense of purpose in life is linked with lower levels of inflammation,” said Elliot Friedman of the University of Wisconsin.
Richard Lathrop, a UW-Madison limnologist, noticed last summer that the long pier in front of the limnology lab on Lake Mendota trapped the mats of blue-green algae that blossomed with the warming weather. From that simple observation came a possible temporary solution to the algae that plagues Madison beaches in the summer – curtain-like booms to keep the algae from blowing up onto the land. The structures are one of a number of practical solutions to Dane Countyâ??s lake problems that will be presented this week as part of the Yahara CLEAN proposal to improve the condition of the lakes. The project is a cooperative effort by Dane County, the city of Madison, the state Department of Natural Resources, as well as other agencies and private groups.
Andrew Grose, 14, is one of 273 brainiacs who will converge on Washington, D.C., this week for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. This marks the second year in a row Grose has reached the nationals. Last year he finished one point shy of making the semifinals, missing a chance to compete in front of the cameras on ESPN. This year he stepped up his studies, training with spelling coach Jeff Kirsch, a UW-Madison professor and National Senior Spelling Bee champion.
Quoted: That finding undermined the idea that the genocide was planned before the assassination, said Scott Straus, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Chip Hunter, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said an advantage to bringing back former employees is the savings in training, valued years of experience and the familiarity with work processes within the company.
Quoted: â??Wetlands used to be the place where you dumped your old refrigerator, but now theyâ??re gems,â? said Joy Zedler, a UW-Madison botanist who studies wetland plants. Still, Wisconsinâ??s remaining wetlands face other threats today. Near the top of the list are invasive plants.
Noted: Also going to the National Spelling Bee will be his coach, Jeff Kirsch, who teaches Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies. He met Andrew when he first began competing in fifth grade when Kirsch was coaching another contestant.
Quoted: But Tom Reason, interim director of admissions at UW-Madison, said that eliminating class rank will not necessarily mean that more of a high schoolâ??s students will be admitted. It means different students might be admitted, he said.
Only two candidates remain in the race for the Republican nomination for US Senate. However, UW Political Scientist Charles Franklin says businessmen Ron Johnson and David Westlake will need to overcome their outsider status if they hope to compete.
â??Madisonâ??s lakes have far too much phosphorus, according to international guidelines for water quality,â? says Steve Carpenter, a professor of zoology and a world-renowned lake expert at UW-Madison.
Several hundred dogs and cats in southeastern Wisconsin may need to be revaccinated after being given expired rabies vaccines. But an animal-vaccination expert at the University of Wisconsin says the expired vaccines are probably still effective.
Cora Marrett, an emeritus professor at UW-Madison, has been named acting director of the National Science Foundation, according to a university press release.
Quoted: “We use a truckload of spironolactone,” says James Stein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Itâ??s hard to beat a drug that costs four bucks at Wal-Mart and has been around for fifty years.” He says he mainly switches patients to Inspra when men had breast growth or tenderness, a side effect he says is rare.
Quoted: “I think the most important point here for Republicans is the prize for them is the fall election,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon. “They want to have a chance to beat Russ Feingold and so to have the party coalescing behind one candidate now is to their advantage for sure.”
Quoted: “If you said there was a candidate who entered the race five days before the convention and five days later stood as the odds-on favorite, you would think that candidate was (former GOP Governor) Tommy Thompson,” said Charles Franklin, UW-Madison poltical science professor. “Instead, itâ??s a guy most of us have not heard of before.”
Local brand-experts say boycotting thousands of miles away isnâ??t the way to go. Thomas Oâ??Guinn, the executive director of the UW Center for Product and Brand Management, says gas station boycotts historically donâ??t work anywayâ??s, because people will go to the nearest gas station when they need gas.
Quoted: Most citizens didnâ??t understand the role and influence of caucuses in their state government when the scandal broke, and many probably still donâ??t, according to Kathy Cramer Walsh, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who studies public perception of government.
Quoted: Farmers are â??looking for low-cost reliable workers,â? said Brad Barham, a dairy researcher with the UW-Madison Program on Agricultural Technology Studies, which conducted the study of immigrantsâ?? roles on dairy farms.
Quoted: Dr. Michael A. Stier, a forensic pathologist with UW-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health, wrote that the childâ??s injuries were non-accidental and were “inconsistent with the reported history of being sustained from a fall down a short flight of steps,” according to the complaint.
