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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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Responses of Bacterial Communities in Soils under Winter Wheat to Nightly Warming and Nitrogen Addition

Agronomy, 2022
Understanding soil bacterial diversity under global warming is necessary because of its crucial role in soil nitrogen cycling. However, the interaction effect of warmer temperatures and nitrogen application on bacterial communities in the soils of winter
Dongxian Wei, Shengbao Wei, Anchun Peng, Chaoran Yang, Changqing Chen   +4 more
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Uterine Fibroid Patients Reveal Alterations in the Gut Microbiome

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
The gut microbiota is associated with reproductive disorders in multiple ways. This research investigated possible differences in gut microbiome compositions between patients with uterine fibroids (UFs) and healthy control subjects in order to further ...
Xuetao Mao, Xuan Peng, Qiong Pan, Xingping Zhao, Zheng Yu, Dabao Xu   +5 more
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eDNA metabarcoding outperforms traditional fisheries sampling and reveals fine‐scale heterogeneity in a temperate freshwater lake

Environmental DNA, 2021
Understanding biodiversity in aquatic systems is critical to ecological research and conservation efforts, but accurately measuring species richness using traditional methods can be challenging.
Rebecca R. Gehri, Wesley A. Larson, Kristen Gruenthal, Nicholas M. Sard, Yue Shi   +4 more
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