Natural Population Decrease in Iowa Counties

Natural Population Decrease in the united States

Of the 993 U.S. counties experiencing at least ] year of natural population decrease (deaths outnumbering births) from 1950-87, 95 percent were nonmetro counties. The primary cause of local natural decrease today is oulmigration of young adults, not inadequate fertility rates. Counties facing such long-term natural decrease may undergo significant financial stress, due to an erosion of property...

An Assessment of Water Quality in Ensign Hollow, Clayton and Fayette Counties, in Northeast Iowa

An Analysis of Costs by Size of Jail for Selected Counties in Iowa

The authors offer sincere thanks to the sheriffs and chief jail administrators from Adair, Cass, Chickasaw, Floyd, Kossuth, Mahaska, Webster, and Wright counties for their candor, professionalism, experience, and time during the course of this study. The authors also would extend appreciation to county supervisors in Polk, Marshall, Clarke, Franklin, Wright, Boone, and Muscatine counties for pr...

Resting and Activated Natural Tregs Decrease in the Peripheral Blood of Patients with Atherosclerosis

Background: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting large and medium arteries. CD4+ T cells are known to play a role in the progression of the disease. CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ natural Treg (nTreg) cells seem to have a protective role in the disease and their reduction in acute coronary syndrome is recently shown. Objective: To investigate the frequency of nTreg subsets in the pe...

Population ecology and monitoring of secretive marsh-birds in Iowa

Populations of marsh-birds are believed to be declining throughout North America in response to a decrease in wetland habitats. As a result, several species of marshbirds are of heightened conservation status at the local and regional levels and the need to monitor populations of these birds is critical to effective conservation and management. Our objective was to estimate population densities...