State-Level Household Energy Insecurity and Diabetes Prevalence Among US Adults, 2020.

The objective of this study was to examine the state-level association between household energy insecurity and diabetes prevalence in 2020. We obtained 1) state-level data on household energy characteristics from the 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey and 2) diagnosed diabetes prevalence from the US Diabetes Surveillance System. We found states with a higher percentage of household energy insecurity had greater diabetes prevalence compared with states with lower percentages of energy insecurity.

Racial and economic segregation and diabetes mortality in the USA, 2016-2020.

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between racial and economic segregation and diabetes mortality among US counties from 2016 to 2020.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional ecological study that combined county-level diabetes mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System and sociodemographic information drawn from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey (n=2380 counties in the USA). Racialized economic segregation was measured using the Index Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) for income (ICE), race (ICE) and combined income and race (ICE).

Trends in Preventive Care Services Among U.S. Adults With Diagnosed Diabetes, 2008-2020.

Objective: Preventive care services are important to prevent or delay complications associated with diabetes. We report trends in receipt of six American Diabetes Association-recommended preventive care services during 2008-2020.

Research Design And Methods: We used 2008-2020 data from the cross-sectional Medical Expenditures Panel Survey to calculate the proportion of U.

Factors Associated With Diversity and Distribution of Buprestid Prey Captured by Foraging Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae).

Many jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) play an important ecological role in wood decomposition and nutrient cycling. Compared with other saproxylic species, buprestids are considered cryptic as they are difficult to sample and identify. As a result, factors that influence buprestid diversity and distribution are poorly understood.

A Guide and Toolbox to Replicability and Open Science in Entomology.

The ability to replicate scientific experiments is a cornerstone of the scientific method. Sharing ideas, workflows, data, and protocols facilitates testing the generalizability of results, increases the speed that science progresses, and enhances quality control of published work. Fields of science such as medicine, the social sciences, and the physical sciences have embraced practices designed to increase replicability.

Characterizing and Simulating the Movement of Late-Instar Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Regulatory Practices.

The European gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar L., is an invasive insect in North America that feeds on over 300 species of trees and shrubs and occasionally causes extensive defoliation. One regulatory practice within quarantine zones to slow the spread of this insect recommends that wood products (e.

Evaluation of land use and water quality in an agricultural watershed in the USA indicates multiple sources of bacterial impairment.

Pathogens are the number one cause of impairments of assessed rivers and streams in the USA and pose a significant human health hazard. The Dry Run Creek Watershed in Northeast Iowa has been designated as impaired by the State of Iowa because of high levels of Escherichia coli bacteria. To investigate the nature of this impairment, land use and stream bank assessments were coupled with comprehensive water quality monitoring.