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Open AccessAcceptance and Commitment Therapy Group Intervention for Parents of Children with Disabilities (Navigator ACT): An Open Feasibility Trial
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and other disabilities report high levels of distress, but systematically evaluated interventions are few. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a no...
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Open AccessNasal high-flow oxygen in patients with hypoxic respiratory failure: effect on functional and subjective respiratory parameters compared to conventional oxygen therapy and noninvasive ventilation
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Development of the Z Specimen for Tensile-Tensile, Tensile-Compression, Compression-Compression Wire Testing
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We synthesized available data for decomposition of pine (Pinus) needle litter in pine forests to determine the litter chemical characteristics and climate factors that explained variation in the limit value, i.e....
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The RNA alphavirus Semliki Forest (SFV) triggers apoptosis in various mammalian cells, but it has remained controversial at what infection stage and by which signalling pathways host cells are killed. Both RNA...
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A statistically significant linear relationship was found between annual mass loss of foliar litter in the late stages of decomposition and Mn concentration in the litter. We used existing decomposition data o...
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A climate response function explaining most of the variation of the forest floor needle mass and the needle decomposition in pine forests across Europe
The forest floor needle mass and the decomposition rates of pine needle litter in a European climate transect were studied in order to estimate the impact of climate change on forest soil carbon sequestration....
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Element Fluxes with Litterfall in Mature Stands of Norway Spruce and European Beech in Bavaria, South Germany
Litterfall is the largest natural inflow of organic material and nutrients to the forest floor and in most European forests is dominated by that from the trees. The chemical composition of this material and th...
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Sequestration Rates for C and N in Soil Organic Matter at Four N-Polluted Temperate Forest Stands
The quantification of terrestrial sources and sinks for carbon dioxide and nitrogen-based greenhouse gases is one of the most important tasks facing environmental scientists today. Central to this is the deter...
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Objective: In mechanically ventilated patients flow limitation often goes unrecognised. We compared three methods for detection of flow limitation in mechanically ventilated patients: the resist...
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Visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) affecting HIV-infected patient is being reported in increasing frequency. A 40-year-old German bisexual patient with full-blown AIDS is described who presented with Kaposi's ...
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The purpose of this study was to relate regional variation in litter mass-loss rates (first year) in pine forests to climate across a large, continental-scale area. The variation in mass-loss rate was analyzed...
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We performed numerical simulations of 2D and 3D Edwards-Anderson spin glass models by using the recently developed multicanonical ensemble. Our ergodicity times increase with the lattice size approximately as V ...
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