Publications by authors named "M Keifer"
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- - The text discusses the ecological impacts of wildland fires, particularly focusing on how they affect tree mortality, which is important because trees support various biological services.
- - Researchers created the Fire and Tree Mortality (FTM) database that includes detailed records from over 164,000 individual trees affected by prescribed fires and wildfires in the U.S. between 1981 and 2016.
- - This database serves as a tool for assessing fire mortality models, improving pre- and post-fire decision-making, and identifying areas where further research is needed regarding fire-induced tree death.
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- Some studies show that growing up around farms and animals can help kids' health, especially for their immune system and allergies.
- In Wisconsin, a study called WISC is looking at how being exposed to animals early in life affects kids' immune development and illness over the first two years.
- The study has involved 240 families and collects a lot of health information to help understand how farm life might help protect kids from allergies and respiratory illnesses.
: Agricultural employment is one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States. Workers' compensation coverage requirements for agricultural work vary from state to state, and experience modifier rates (E-mods) affecting insurance premiums sometimes vary drastically across state lines and according to claim severities and farm sizes. We proposed to develop an interactive software application that would educate farmers on the impact of employee time loss on annual E-mod factor change specific to their geographic location and farm size.
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