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Open AccessInteraction-focused music therapy with cancer-affected children and their significant others: a randomized controlled feasibility study with subsequent intervention (INMUT)
Paediatric oncology/haematology patients and their families are confronted with a life-threatening situation for which music therapy can be a cross-linguistic field of action. The creative act of making music ...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizae are important for phosphorus uptake and root biomass, and exudation for nitrogen uptake in tomato plants grown under variable water conditions
Mycorrhiza and rhizodeposition are important for nutrient and water uptake but their role under variable water conditions remains unclear. We investigated how mycorrhiza and rhizodeposition contributed to plan...
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Open AccessSensor-based phenoty** of above-ground plant-pathogen interactions
Plant pathogens cause yield losses in crops worldwide. Breeding for improved disease resistance and management by precision agriculture are two approaches to limit such yield losses. Both rely on detecting and...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Impact of a combined multimodal-aerobic and multimodal intervention compared to standard aerobic treatment in breast cancer survivors with chronic cancer-related fatigue - results of a three-armed pragmatic trial in a comprehensive cohort design
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Open AccessTriggers of Spiritual Dryness – Results from Qualitative Interviews with Religious Brothers and Sisters
Religious persons may experience phases of spiritual dryness, ranging from spiritual insecurity to a spiritual crisis. The authors analyzed the underlying causes of spiritual dryness in religious brothers and ...
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Open AccessSmoothing and extraction of traits in the growth analysis of noninvasive phenotypic data
Non-destructive high-throughput plant phenoty** is becoming increasingly used and various methods for growth analysis have been proposed. Traditional longitudinal or repeated measures analyses that model gro...
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Open AccessGenome-wide association of barley plant growth under drought stress using a nested association map** population
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is the fourth most important cereal crop worldwide. Barley production is compromised by many abiotic stresses including drought. Wild barley is a valuable source of alleles that can im...
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Open AccessSalinity tolerance in Australian wild Oryza species varies widely and matches that observed in O. sativa
Soil salinity is widespread in rice-producing areas globally, restricting both vegetative growth and grain yield. Attempts to improve the salt tolerance of Asian rice, Oryza sativa—the most salt sensitive of the ...
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Open AccessEmotional release and physical symptom improvement: a qualitative analysis of self-reported outcomes and mechanisms in patients treated with neural therapy
Neural Therapy (NT) is a common complementary treatment approach using injections with short-acting local anesthetics to treat pain and chronic diseases. However, little is known about the underlying mechanism...
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Open AccessMap** of novel salt tolerance QTL in an Excalibur × Kukri doubled haploid wheat population
Novel QTL for salinity tolerance traits have been detected using non-destructive and destructive phenoty** in bread wheat and were shown to be linked to improvements in yield in saline fields.
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Open AccessHypericum perforatum to improve post-operative Pain Outcome after monosegmental Spinal microdiscectomy (HYPOS): a study protocol for a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Spinal disc herniation is a frequently occurring degenerative disease of the spine. Many patients undergoing surgery suffer from radicular pain, known as memory pain, beginning from the third post-operative da...
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Tackling Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cereal Crops Using High-Throughput Phenoty**
use efficiency involves a complex set of processes which are heavily influenced by the . This chapter explores a suite of new technologies which can be, and in some cases have been, brought to bear in or...
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Open AccessDetecting spikes of wheat plants using neural networks with Laws texture energy
The spike of a cereal plant is the grain-bearing organ whose physical characteristics are proxy measures of grain yield. The ability to detect and characterise spikes from 2D images of cereal plants, such as w...
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Open AccessWorld Congress Integrative Medicine & Health 2017: Part one
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Open AccessExploring genetic variation for salinity tolerance in chickpea using image-based phenoty**
Soil salinity results in reduced productivity in chickpea. However, breeding for salinity tolerance is challenging because of limited knowledge of the key traits affecting performance under elevated salt and t...
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Open AccessGrowth curve registration for evaluating salinity tolerance in barley
Smarthouses capable of non-destructive, high-throughput plant phenoty** collect large amounts of data that can be used to understand plant growth and productivity in extreme environments. The challenge is to...
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Open AccessImpact of a combined multimodal-aerobic and multimodal intervention compared to standard aerobic treatment in breast cancer survivors with chronic cancer-related fatigue - results of a three-armed pragmatic trial in a comprehensive cohort design
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) and insomnia are major complaints in breast cancer survivors (BC). Aerobic training (AT), the standard therapy for CRF in BC, shows only minor to moderate treatment effects. Other ...
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Open AccessReflective practice and its role in facilitating creative responses to dilemmas within clinical communication - a qualitative analysis
Good communication is a major factor in delivering high quality in care. Research indicates that current communication skills training alone might not sufficiently enable students to find context-specific crea...
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Open AccessSalinity tolerance loci revealed in rice using high-throughput non-invasive phenoty**
High-throughput phenoty** produces multiple measurements over time, which require new methods of analyses that are flexible in their quantification of plant growth and transpiration, yet are computationally ...
