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  Environment

  Reviewing the Decision-Making Behavior of Irrigators

  Irrigators' decisions to follow best management practices or implement a policy change, to accept a technology, or even to exit farming, all...

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  Biosystems

  A Functional View of Skeletal Muscle

  Decades of research in skeletal muscle physiology have provided multi-scale insights into its structural and functional complexity.

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  Environment

  Algal Blooms in Streams, Lakes, and Coastal Waters

  Agricultural, urban and industrial activities have dramatically increased aquatic nitrogen and phosphorus pollution (eutrophication), threatening water quality and biotic integrity from headwater...

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  Diagnostics

  Making MRIs Safer

  Nanoparticle-based gadolinium contrast agents to improve the safety of MRIs.

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  Diagnostics

  microRNA Clusters as Markers for Cancer

  MiRNAs area class of noncoding RNA important for gene expression regulation in many plants, animals and viruses.

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  Environment

  Protecting Groundwater Resources During Fracking

  How can we better regulate unconventional oil and gas extraction to protect groundwater from contamination?

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  Diagnostics

  Decoding Pluripotency Using Genetic Screening

  Pluripotent stem cells have the ability to unlimitedly self‐renew and differentiate to any somatic cell lineage.

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  Environment

  Catchments Can Be Leaky

  Is catchment leakage the norm and what determines its significance?

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  Energy

  The Rollercoaster Ride of International Carbon Markets

  International market mechanisms for greenhouse gas emission reductions tend to generate two extreme reactions - strong opposition or fervent support.

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  Food and Water

  Water Quality Standards and Pesticides

  How water quality standards for pesticides affect the classification of the chemical status of rivers.