Publications by authors named "K L Calvin"
Examining Community Engagement Research Strategies Used in Flint, Michigan: The Church Challenge.
Prog Community Health Partnersh
July 2023
Background: The ways in which researchers may need to adapt traditional community-based participatory research engagement strategies during ongoing community trauma are understudied. We describe our efforts to engage the Flint, Michigan community in community-based participatory research in the aftermath of the Flint Water Crisis.
Objectives: This manuscript describes 1) recruitment strategies selected before the Flint Water Crisis, 2) engagement lessons learned in the context of the Flint Water Crisis, and 3) barriers and facilitators encountered while engaging African American churches.
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- * This study modified a model to analyze two trade approaches: segmented regional markets and integrated world markets, finding that the latter could underestimate cropland use and carbon fluxes globally.
- * Results vary significantly by region, emphasizing that trade modeling assumptions are crucial in economic assessments and suggesting that aligning trade modeling methods could improve accuracy across different studies.
AbstractMammalian hibernation in ground squirrels is characterized by periods of torpor wherein body temperature approaches ambient temperature and metabolism is reduced to as low as 1/100th of active rates. It is unclear how hibernation affects long-term spatial memory, as tremendous remodeling of neurons is associated with torpor use. Given the suspected links between remodeling and memory formation and retention, we examined long-term spatial memory retention throughout a hibernation season.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploring the Readiness of African-American Churches to Engage in a Community-Engaged Blood Pressure Reduction Research Study: Lessons Learned from the Church Challenge.
J Community Engagem Scholarsh
February 2022
Introduction: The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) has been used to assess individual readiness for health behavior change. We describe our use of the TTM to assess organizational readiness of African-American churches to participate in the Church Challenge (CC) in Flint, Michigan; the processes of change that moved churches toward readiness for change; and lessons learned.
Methods: The CC was a faith-based, multilevel intervention to reduce chronic disease risk.
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- Bioenergy could potentially expand to cover half of today’s farm land to help keep global warming under 2°C.
- Using bioenergy with carbon capture can help store carbon in the U.S., but it can also cause some carbon emissions from changing land uses.
- By 2100, almost 25% of U.S. land might face serious water problems, so we need to think carefully about whether bioenergy or planting more trees is a better choice for the environment.