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Can we abandon phosphorus starter fertilizer in maize? Results from a diverse panel of elite and doubled haploid landrace lines of maize (Zea mays L.)

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
The importance of phosphorus (P) in agriculture contrasts with the negative environmental impact and the limited resources worldwide. Reducing P fertilizer application by utilizing more efficient genotypes is a promising way to address these issues.
Sandra Roller, Thea M. Weiß, Thea M. Weiß, Dongdong Li, Wenxin Liu, Wolfgang Schipprack, Albrecht E. Melchinger, Volker Hahn, Willmar L. Leiser, Tobias Würschum   +9 more
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Marker assisted recurrent selection for genetic male sterile population improvement in rice

Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2020
n the present study, by deploying marker assisted recurrent selection (MARS) strategy, the improvement of IR58025B genetic male sterile maintainer population for drought and salinity tolerance was carried out to develop maintainers with drought and ...
P.J. Suryendra, P. Revathi, Arun Kumar Singh and B.C. Viraktamath
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Systematic development and implementation of interventions to OPtimise Health Literacy and Access (Ophelia)

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background The need for healthcare strengthening to enhance equity is critical, requiring systematic approaches that focus on those experiencing lesser access and outcomes.
Alison Beauchamp, Roy W. Batterham, Sarity Dodson, Brad Astbury, Gerald R. Elsworth, Crystal McPhee, Jeanine Jacobson, Rachelle Buchbinder, Richard H. Osborne   +8 more
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Development of the organisational health literacy responsiveness (Org-HLR) framework in collaboration with health and social services professionals

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background The health literacy skills required by individuals to interact effectively with health services depends on the complexity of those services, and the demands they place on people.
Anita Trezona, Sarity Dodson, Richard H Osborne   +2 more
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‘The objective was about not blaming one another’: a qualitative study to explore how collaboration is experienced within quality improvement collaboratives in Ethiopia

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2023
Background Quality improvement collaboratives are a common approach to improving quality of care. They rely on collaboration across and within health facilities to enable and accelerate quality improvement.
Zelee Hill, Dorka Keraga, Abiyou Kiflie Alemayehu, Joanna Schellenberg, Hema Magge, Abiy Estifanos   +5 more
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Improving Polygenic Prediction in Ancestrally Diverse Populations [PDF]

Nature Genetics, 2021
ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have attenuated cross-population predictive performance. As existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were predominantly conducted in individuals of European descent, the limited transferability of PRS reduces its clinical value in non-European populations and may exacerbate healthcare ...
Yunfeng Ruan, Yen-Feng Lin, Yen-Chen Anne Feng, Chia-Yen Chen, Max Lam, Zhenglin Guo, Yong Min Ahn, Kazufumi Akiyama, Makoto Arai, Ji Hyun Baek, Wei J. Chen, Young-Chul Chung, Gang Feng, Kumiko Fujii, Stephen J. Glatt, Kyooseob Ha, Kotaro Hattori, Teruhiko Higuchi, Akitoyo Hishimoto, Kyung Sue Hong, Yasue Horiuchi, Hai-Gwo Hwu, Masashi Ikeda, Sayuri Ishiwata, Masanari Itokawa, Nakao Iwata, Eun-Jeong Joo, Rene S. Kahn, Sung-Wan Kim, Se Joo Kim, Se Hyun Kim, Makoto Kinoshita, Hiroshi Kunugi, Agung Kusumawardhani, Jimmy Lee, Byung Dae Lee, Heon-Jeong Lee, Jianjun Liu, Ruize Liu, Xiancang Ma, Woojae Myung, Shusuke Numata, Tetsuro Ohmori, Ikuo Otsuka, Yuji Ozeki, Sibylle G. Schwab, Wenzhao Shi, Kazutaka Shimoda, Kang Sim, Ichiro Sora, Jinsong Tang, Tomoko Toyota, Ming Tsuang, Dieter B. Wildenauer, Hong-Hee Won, Takeo Yoshikawa, Alice Zheng, Feng Zhu, Lin He, Akira Sawa, Alicia R. Martin, Shengying Qin, Hailiang Huang, Tian Ge   +63 more
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Mental health support and training to improve secondary school teachers’ well-being: the WISE cluster RCT

Public Health Research, 2021
Background: Health and Safety Executive data show that teachers are at heightened risk of mental health difficulties, yet few studies have attempted to address this. Poor teacher mental health may impact on the quality of support provided to young people,
Judi Kidger, Rhiannon Evans, Sarah Bell, Harriet Fisher, Nicholas Turner, William Hollingworth, Sarah Harding, Jillian Powell, Rowan Brockman, Lauren Copeland, Ricardo Araya, Rona Campbell, Tamsin Ford, David Gunnell, Richard Morris, Simon Murphy   +15 more
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Differences in health literacy profiles of patients admitted to a public and a private hospital in Melbourne, Australia

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Health literacy refers to an individual’s ability to find, understand and use health information in order to promote and maintain health. An individual’s health literacy may also be influenced by the way health care organisations deliver care.
Rebecca L. Jessup, Richard H. Osborne, Alison Beauchamp, Allison Bourne, Rachelle Buchbinder   +4 more
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‘Everyone should know what they’re on’: a qualitative study of attitudes towards and use of patient held lists of medicines among patients, carers and healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care settings in Ireland

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives Managing multiple medicines can be challenging for patients with multimorbidity, who are at high risk of adverse outcomes, for example, hospitalisation.
Caitriona Cahir, Kathleen E Bennett, Sheena M Mc Hugh, Ciara Kirke, Muriel Pate, Bernadine O'Donovan   +5 more
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Marker-Assisted Breeding of Improved Maternal Haploid Inducers in Maize for the Tropical/Subtropical Regions

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
For efficient production of doubled haploid (DH) lines in maize, maternal haploid inducer lines with high haploid induction rate (HIR) and good adaptation to the target environments is an important requirement. In this study, we present second-generation
Vijay Chaikam, Sudha K. Nair, Leocadio Martinez, Luis Antonio Lopez, H. Friedrich Utz, Albrecht E. Melchinger, Prasanna M. Boddupalli   +6 more
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