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Participatory monitoring drives biodiversity knowledge in global protected areas

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
Protected areas are central in strategies to conserve biodiversity. Effective area-based conservation relies on biodiversity data, but the current biodiversity knowledge base is insufficient and limited by geographic and taxonomic biases.
Caitlin P. Mandeville, Erlend B. Nilsen, Ivar Herfindal, Anders G. Finstad   +3 more
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Selective pressures on genomes in molecular evolution [PDF]

, 2003
We describe the evolution of macromolecules as an information transmission process and apply tools from Shannon information theory to it. This allows us to isolate three independent, competing selective pressures that we term compression, transmission ...
Adami, Adami, Adami, Ancel, Baake, Baake, Burch, Bürger, Cavalier-Smith, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Clarke, Dawkins, Gatlin, Gerhart, Gibson, Kimura, Lenski, Mather, Mills, Modiano, Pavesi, Queitsch, Rutherford, Schneider, Schneider, Travis C. Collier, van Nimwegen, Waddington, Wagner, Wagner, Wilke, Wilke, Wilke, Wilke   +34 more
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Periodic reflections: a method of guided discussions for documenting implementation phenomena

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2018
Background Ethnography has been proposed as a valuable method for understanding how implementation occurs within dynamic healthcare contexts, yet this method can be time-intensive and challenging to operationalize in pragmatic implementation. The current
Erin P. Finley, Alexis K. Huynh, Melissa M. Farmer, Bevanne Bean-Mayberry, Tannaz Moin, Sabine M. Oishi, Jessica L. Moreau, Karen E. Dyer, Holly Jordan Lanham, Luci Leykum, Alison B. Hamilton   +10 more
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Replicating an effective VA program to train and support family caregivers: a hybrid type III effectiveness-implementation design

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Caring for a growing aging population using existing long-term care resources while simultaneously supporting and educating family caregivers, is a public health challenge. We describe the application of the Replicating Effective Programs (REP)
N. A. Boucher, L. L. Zullig, M. Shepherd-Banigan, K. P. Decosimo, J. Dadolf, A. Choate, E. P. Mahanna, N. R. Sperber, V. Wang, K. A. Allen, S. N. Hastings, C. H. Van Houtven   +11 more
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Enhancing Mental and Physical Health of Women through Engagement and Retention (EMPOWER): a protocol for a program of research

Implementation Science, 2017
Background The Enhancing Mental and Physical health of Women through Engagement and Retention or EMPOWER program represents a partnership with the US Department of Veterans Health Administration (VA) Health Service Research and Development investigators ...
Alison B. Hamilton, Melissa M. Farmer, Tannaz Moin, Erin P. Finley, Ariel J. Lang, Sabine M. Oishi, Alexis K. Huynh, Jessica Zuchowski, Sally G. Haskell, Bevanne Bean-Mayberry   +9 more
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Early Mobility in the Hospital: Lessons Learned from the STRIDE Program

Geriatrics, 2018
Immobility during hospitalization is widely recognized as a contributor to deconditioning, functional loss, and increased need for institutional post-acute care. Several studies have demonstrated that inpatient walking programs can mitigate some of these
Susan Nicole Hastings, Ashley L. Choate, Elizabeth P. Mahanna, Theresa A. Floegel, Kelli D. Allen, Courtney H. Van Houtven, Virginia Wang   +6 more
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Outcomes associated with scale-up of the Stepping On falls prevention program: A case study in redesigning for dissemination

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2020
Introduction: Translating complex behavior change interventions into practice can be accompanied by a loss of fidelity and effectiveness. We present the evaluation of two sequential phases of implementation of a complex evidence-based community workshop ...
Jane E. Mahoney, Ron Gangnon, Lindy Clemson, LaVerne Jaros, Sandy Cech, Jill Renken   +5 more
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GBM radiosensitizers: dead in the water…or just the beginning? [PDF]

, 2017
The finding that most GBMs recur either near or within the primary site after radiotherapy has fueled great interest in the development of radiosensitizers to enhance local control.
Bindra, Ranjit S., Chalmers, Anthony J., Dewhirst, Mark, Evans, Sydney   +3 more
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Evaluation of a dialectical behavior therapy-informed partial hospital program: outcome data and exploratory analyses

Research in Psychotherapy, 2016
The use of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) among a variety of programs and patients has recently exploded. Of particular interest is the use of DBT in partial hospital (PH) programs due to the high number of severely ill and suicidal patients who ...
John E. Lothes II, Kirk D. Mochrie, Emalee J.W. Quickel, Jane St. John   +3 more
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Delivering the Same Intervention to Hispanic/Latinos With Pre-diabetes and Diabetes. Early Evidence of Success in a Longitudinal Mixed Method Study

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2021
Background Despite nationwide efforts to address the diabetes epidemic and reduce prevalence disparities, higher rates persist among the poor, especially those with limited literacy. Currently, individuals with abnormal glycemia who have pre-diabetes and
Maud Joachim-Célestin MD, DrPH, MPH, Thelma Gamboa-Maldonado MPH, DrPH, Hildemar Dos Santos MD, DrPH, Susanne B Montgomery MS, MPH, PhD   +3 more
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