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‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: exploring benefits and challenges of peer support for people with disability in peer support organisations – protocol paper for a qualitative coproduction project

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction One in six people live with disability in Australia with higher levels of disability of people from diverse communities, such as those with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.
Catherine Walsh, David Yang, Meredith Tavener, Julie Duong, Shaylie Pryer, Arron Fitzpatrick, Julie Magill, Sarah Simmonds, Owen Baird-Peddie, Farhana Rahman, Carrie Hayter   +10 more
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From vegetation ecology to vegetation science: current trends and perspectives

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2022
Vegetation is a key biosphere component to supporting biodiversity on Earth, and its maintenance and proper functioning are essential to guarantee the well-being of humankind.
Guillermo Ibarra-Manriquez, Mario González-Espinosa, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Jorge A. Meave   +3 more
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Freshwater insect communities in urban environments around the globe: a review of the state of the field

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Urbanization is a key stressor of freshwater habitats, possibly contributing to global insect declines. However, scientific understanding of urbanization's effects on aquatic insect communities has largely been based on studies of temperate streams.
Ilia Maria C. Ferzoco, Ilia Maria C. Ferzoco, Kelly M. Murray-Stoker, Kelly M. Murray-Stoker, Lina Salam Hasan, Celina M. Javier, Vatsaa Modi, Rupinder Singh, Grace Tjan, Olivia Toth, Shannon J. McCauley, Shannon J. McCauley   +11 more
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Soil characteristics and microbial responses in post-mine reclamation areas in a typical resource-based city, China

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 2021
Mining activities worldwide have resulted in soil nutrient loss, which pose risks to crop and environmental health. We investigated the effects of post-mine reclamation activities on soil physicochemical properties and microbial communities based on 16S ...
Min Tan, Xu Zhou, Gang Li, Mengyu Ge, Zhuang Chen, Junfeng Qu   +5 more
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Factors associated with regional retention of physicians: a cross-sectional online survey of medical students and graduates in Japan

Human Resources for Health, 2023
Background Physician shortage and maldistribution is an urgent health policy issue requiring resolution. Determination of factors associated with regional retention and development of effective policy interventions will help to solve this issue.
Soichi Koike, Kentaro Okazaki, Akiko Tokinobu, Masatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuhiko Kotani, Hitomi Kataoka   +5 more
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Impacts of Intercropped Maize Ecological Shading on Tea Foliar and Functional Components, Insect Pest Diversity and Soil Microbes

Plants, 2022
Ecological shading fueled by maize intercropping in tea plantations can improve tea quality and flavor, and efficiently control the population occurrence of main insect pests.
Yan Zou, Fangyuan Shen, Yanni Zhong, Changning Lv, Sabin Saurav Pokharel, Wanping Fang, Fajun Chen   +6 more
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Endophytic Fungal Community of Tobacco Leaves and Their Potential Role in the Formation of “Cherry-Red” Tobacco

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
“Cherry-red” tobacco is the superior variant of tobacco, appearing with the apperance of red dapples on cured leaves due to the demethylation of nicotine to nornicotine during maturation and curing.
Yonglei Jiang, Xing Chen, Gaokun Zhao, Jiahong Liu, Yan Xie, Yong Li, Huaguo Gu, Congming Zou   +7 more
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Community Resilience Through Diversity

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2021
AbstractThe COVID‐19 pandemic has brought about a pivot in people's practice of their daily life and work, in particular a pivot towards virtual living and working. Sponsored by the ASIS&T European Chapter, this panel discusses the diverse ways in which this has affected different communities within Europe, bearing in mind the varying languages ...
Fulton, Crystal, Huvila, Isto, Pestana, Olívia Manuela Marques, Tammaro, Anna Maria, Liu, Ying-Hsang, Akça, Sümeyye   +5 more
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Revitalizing cultivation and strengthening the seed systems of fonio and Bambara groundnut in Mali through a community biodiversity management approach [PDF]

, 2020
Fonio (Digitaria exilis(Kippist)Stapf) and Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea(L.)Verdc.) are native crops grown at a small scale in Mali that have potential to support agricultural productivity under climate change.
Coulibaly, Harouna, Diawara, Gaoussou, Mbosso, Charlie, Meldrum, Gennifer, Padulosi, Stefano, Sangaré, Rokiatou Adja, Sidibé, Amadou, Traoré, Issa   +7 more
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PCR biases distort bacterial and archaeal community structure in pyrosequencing datasets [PDF]

, 2012
As 16S rRNA gene targeted massively parallel sequencing has become a common tool for microbial diversity investigations, numerous advances have been made to minimize the influence of sequencing and chimeric PCR artifacts through rigorous quality control ...
Ameet J. Pinto, Lutgarde Raskin, Stefan Bertilsson   +2 more
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