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- Hawes, Jason K, Goldstein, Benjamin P. , Newell, Joshua P. , Dorr, Erica , Caputo, Silvio , Fox-Kämper, Runrid , Grard, Baptiste , Ilieva, Rositsa T. , Fargue-Lelièvre, Agnès , Poniży, Lidia , Schoen, Victoria , Specht, Kathrin , and Cohen, Nevin
- Description:
- Urban agriculture (UA) is a widely proposed strategy to make cities and urban food systems more sustainable. However, its carbon footprint remains understudied. In fact, the few existing studies suggest that UA may be worse for the climate than conventional agriculture. This is the first large-scale study to resolve this uncertainty across cities and types of UA, employing citizen science at 73 UA sites in Europe and the United States to compare UA products to food from conventional farms. The results reveal that food from UA is six times as carbon intensive as conventional agriculture (420g vs 70g CO2 equivalent per serving). Some UA crops (e.g., tomatoes) and sites (e.g., 25% of individually-managed gardens), however, outperform conventional agriculture. These exceptions suggest that UA practitioners can reduce their climate impacts by cultivating crops that are typically greenhouse grown or air-freighted, maintaining UA sites for many years, and leveraging waste as inputs.This database contains the necessary reference material to trace the path of our analysis from raw garden data to carbon footprint and nutrient results. It also contains the final results of the analyses in various extended forms not available in the publication. For more information, see manuscript at link below. (Introduction partially quoted from Hawes et al., 2023)
- Citation to related publication:
- Hawes, J. K., Goldstein, B. P., Newell, J. P., Dorr, E., Caputo, S., Fox-Kämper, R., Grard, B., Ilieva, R. T., Fargue-Lelièvre, A., Poniży, L., Schoen, V., Specht, K., & Cohen, N. (2024). Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture. Nature Cities, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-023-00023-3
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Lori, Jody R., Moyer, Cheryl, Lockhart, Nancy, Zielinski, Ruth E., Kukula, Vida, Apetorgbor, Veronica, Awini, Elizabeth, Badu-Gyan, Georgina, and Williams, John
- Description:
- GRAND is a five-year, cluster randomized controlled trial. The study is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, [ID#: NCT04033003] and is a collaboration between University of Michigan in the United States and the Dodowa Health Research Center in Ghana. , The study setting for GRAND is four districts (Akwapim North, Yilo Krobo, Nsawam-Adoagyiri, and Lower Manya Krobo) within the Eastern Region of Ghana. Health facilities were selected based the number ANC registrants per month and average gestational age of women at registration in each facility., and Facilities were then matched based on facility type, district, and number of monthly ANC registrants. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in 14 facilities in four districts of the Eastern Region of Ghana. Health facilities were randomized using a matched pairs design; each pair was similar in the number of deliveries and average gestational age of the women at enrollment in antenatal care. The locations of the facilities were far enough apart to avoid cross-group contamination. In each pair of facilities, one was randomly assigned to the intervention (G-ANC) and the other to the control (I-ANC). Recruitment began July 2019 and ended when enrollment targets were met. Data collection ended July 2023 when data collection was complete.
- Keyword:
- Antenatal care, Ghana, and Maternal health
- Citation to related publication:
- Lori, J., Kukula, V., Liu, L. et al. Improving health literacy through group antenatal care: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial in Ghana. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 24, 37 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-06224-x
- Discipline:
- International Studies and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning and University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Description:
- The Michigan–Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis supported several impactful programs and initiatives. These collaborative projects developed through several mediums, primarily: faculty and student-led research, public-engaged scholarship, and community-led place-based projects. Explore each project below! Original website at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/egalitarianmetropolis/.
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Lee, Sophie Y., Schönhöfer Philipp W.A., and Glotzer, Sharon C.
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- This dataset was generated for our work: "Complex motion of steerable vesicular robots filled with active colloidal rods". In this project, we used Brownian molecular dynamics simulations to study the rich dynamical behavior of rigid kinked vesicles that contain self-propelling rod-shaped particles. We identified that kinks in the vesicle membrane bias the emergent clustering and alignment of the active agents. Based on the system's geometrical and material properties, we were able to design multiple types of directed motion of the vesicle superstructure. This dataset includes simulation data for two-dimensional systems of self-propelling rod particles confined by teardrop-shaped coarse-grained vesicles. The trajectory of each simulation is saved in a GSD format file with parameter metadata in a JSON file. Due to the large number of replicas of each pair of parameters, simulation data were grouped into 5 different folders. Collective quantitative analysis for simulated trajectories was performed with Jupyter Notebook. and Workspaces_simulations.zip contains all the workspaces of simulations Each folder has subfolders called 'dimer' and 'trimer' depending on the length of the propelling rod particles used in the simulation. (Except for the folder 'number-density_16' which has only 'dimer') In the subfolders, we include the Python scripts used in this work for simulating and trajectory analysis for individual trajectory data. The parameter space of each folder is noted in init.py. Analysis_jupyter_notebooks.zip includes Jupyter notebooks that can reproduce the collective analysis done for this work.
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Chen, Kevin S, Noureldein, Mohamed H, McGinley, Lisa M, Hayes, John M, Rigan, Diana M, Kwentus, Jaquelin F, Mason, Shayna N, Mendelson, Faye E, Savelieff, Masha G, and Feldman, Eva L
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- Therapeutic mechanisms of human neural stem cells (hNSCs) were studied in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model (5XFAD). hNSCs restored spatial memory abilities in 5XFAD animals; however, amyloid beta levels were unchanged. Spatial transcriptomics was used to probe mechanisms of hNSCs. Focusing on a subset of plaque-induced genes, gene normalization was seen particularly in microglia, confirmed by PROGENy and Cell Chat analyses. and The spatial transcriptomics data from this publication have been deposited in NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (16) and are accessible through GEO Series accession number GSE209583 ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE209583 and enter token gzglogqkvjqrhmt). Additional supporting data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
- Citation to related publication:
- Chen KS, Noureldein MH, McGinley LM, Hayes JM, Rigan DM, Kwentus JF, Mason SN, Mendelson FE, Savelieffd MG, Feldman EL. Human neural stem cells restore spatial memory in a transgenic Alzheimer's disease mouse model by an immunomodulating mechanism. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Nov 4:2023.11.01.565161. doi: 10.1101/2023.11.01.565161. PMID: 37961246; PMCID: PMC10635057.
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Gill, Tate M, Sercel, Christopher L, and Jorns, Benjamin A
- Description:
- Rotating Magnetic Field (RMF) thrusters are a form of electrodeless plasma propulsion. This technology is a low maturity but potentially enabling candidate for high-power in-space propulsion for use with alternative propellants. The purpose of the data here, and the associated publication is to evaluate the phenomenological efficiency modes for this thruster test article to explain and understand its overall efficiency. These modes include divergence, power coupling, mass utilization, and plasma/acceleration efficiency. Additional time-resolved measurements of the internal plasma properties were performed using a triple Langmuir probe to evaluate energy loss processes within the thruster.
- Keyword:
- Electric Propulsion, Rotating Magnetic Field Thrusters, Inductive Pulsed Plasma Thrusters, and Magnetic Nozzles
- Citation to related publication:
- Gill, T.M., Sercel, C.L., and Jorns, B.A., "Experimental Investigation into Efficiency Loss in Rotating Magnetic Field Thrusters", Plasma Sci. Sources and Tech. 2023 (In Review)
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Alben, Silas D
- Description:
- The research involved vortex-panel simulations of fluid-structure interactions. A file Captions_for_SpanwiseVariationsMovies.pdf is included that describes the movies.
- Discipline:
- Science
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CT Data of UMMP VP 68409, Plesiadapis gingerichi (holotype)
User Collection- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Five CT scans of dental elements (see metadata for individual scans for additional information)
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for Incisor frag. of Plesiadapis gingerichi (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP 68409) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
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- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Plesiadapidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Paleocene, and cb9a3c69-55da-9032-5b3e-d02dc72013eb
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for Right M3/ of Plesiadapis gingerichi (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP 68409) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Plesiadapidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Paleocene, and cb9a3c69-55da-9032-5b3e-d02dc72013eb
- Discipline:
- Science