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Open AccessAdapting evidence-informed population health interventions for new contexts: a sco** review of current practice
Implementing evidence-informed population health interventions in new contexts often requires adaptations. While the need to adapt interventions to better fit new contexts is recognised, uncertainties remain r...
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Open AccessAdapting evidence-informed complex population health interventions for new contexts: a systematic review of guidance
Adapting interventions that have worked elsewhere can save resources associated with develo** new interventions for each specific context. While a develo** body of evidence shows benefits of adapted interv...
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Open AccessAssociations between school-based peer networks and smoking according to socioeconomic status and tobacco control context: protocol for a mixed method systematic review
Smoking remains a major public health concern. School-based social networks influence uptake of smoking among peers. During the past two decades, the UK macro-systemic context within which schools are nested a...
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Open AccessDeconstructing knowledge brokering for commissioned rapid reviews: an observational study
Knowledge brokers are increasingly used by policy agencies, yet little is known about how they engage with policy-makers and facilitate discussions with them about their research needs. This study examines kno...
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Melt inclusion evidence for CO2-rich melts beneath the western branch of the East African Rift: implications for long-term storage of volatiles in the deep lithospheric mantle
We present new major element, trace element, and volatile (H2O, CO2, S, F, and Cl) concentrations of olivine-hosted melt inclusions from five high-K, low-silica basanites from the western branch of the East Afric...
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homeRuleML Version 2.1: A Revised and Extended Version of the homeRuleML Concept
As a direct result of the changes in global demographics, a significant amount of research has been undertaken in the area of home based support and healthcare provision, particularly in the direction of smart...
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We present new thermometers and barometers based on clinopyroxene–liquid equilibria specific to alkaline differentiated magmas. The new models were calibrated through the regression analyses of experimental da...
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Open AccessMRSA: the transmission paradigm investigated
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Reference Work Entry At a glance
Burns, Arthur Frank (1904–1987)
Burns was born in Stanislau, Austria, on 27 April1904. In 1914 his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Bayonne, New Jersey. Burns became a member of the economics faculty at Rutgers University i...
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Reflecting on stakeholders’ perceptions in an Ecological Risk Assessment workshop: Lessons for practitioners
A new form of Ecological Risk Assessment aims to improve environmental decision-making through strong stakeholder engagement, often in workshop situations. This wider focus increases interaction between worksh...
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Reflections and Opportunities: Gene Discovery in the Complex Wheat Genome
Despite more than 80 years of wheat genetic studies, only several hundred genes out of the probable 120,000 coding sequences that are presumed present in the wheat genome have been mapped to chromosomes. Many ...
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Construction and characterisation of a hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) BAC library from the reference germplasm ‘Chinese Spring’
Hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most important crops in the world with 582, 691, 612 million tonnes produced in 2001 on one third of the world’s cultivated area. It has a very large genome (1...
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Characterization of grapefruit plants (Citrus paradisi Macf.) transformed with citrus tristeza closterovirus genes
Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi Macf. cv Duncan) plants were transformed with several sequences from citrus tristeza closterovirus (CTV) that varied in terms of position in the CTV genome and virus strain origin in ...
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An evaluation of factors affecting the efficiency of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Citrus paradisi (Macf.) and production of transgenic plants containing carotenoid biosynthetic genes
An improved protocol for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Duncan grapefruit (Citrus paradisi Macf.) epicotyl explants was developed by examining the effects of six different factors on the efficiency of ...
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Central extensions of gauge groups revisited
We present an explicit construction for the central extension of the group Map(X, G) where X is a compact manifold and G is a Lie group. If X is a complex curve we obtain a simple construction of the extension b...
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A simple PCR-based method for scoring the ph1b deletion in wheat
The amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique was used to isolate DNA sequences present in the euploid wheat Chinese Spring but not in the Chinese Spring ph1b mutant (which has a deletion of the Ph1
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Balanced Topological Field Theories
We describe a class of topological field theories called “balanced topological field theories”. These theories are associated to moduli problems with vanishing virtual dimension and calculate the Euler chara...
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Flow cytometric analysis of the chromosomes and stability of a wheat cell-culture line
A rapidly growing, long-term suspension culture derived from Triticum aestivum L. (wheat) was synchronized using hydroxyurea and colchicine, and a chromosome suspension with 2–3 × 106 chromosomes ml−1 was made. A...
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The effect of a silane coupling agent on water adsorption at a metal/polymer interface studied by neutron reflectivity and angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Neutron reflectivity and angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) have been used to examine the adsorption of water to a molybdenum/polyurethane interface. The initial quasi-steady state interfaci...
