Publications by authors named "C D Forster"

Objective: To aid the shortage of general practitioners (GPs) in Germany, since 2011 medical specialists from other fields may switch specialisation by undergoing a slim-lined training programme (lateral entry) into general practice (GP). Available published qualitative and quantitative data on lateral entrants (LEs) is scarce. Aim of the study was an explorative analysis of LEs in the competence centre for postgraduate medical education Baden-Wuerttemberg (KWBW).

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The interest in chromium(III) complexes has been renewed over the past decade for the design of efficient earth-abundant phosphorescent red-to-near-infrared spin-flip emitters and photocatalysts with long excited state lifetimes. In this context, we report the energy tuning of spin-flip excited states based on heteroleptic bis(tridentate) polypyridine chromium(III) complexes , namely, , and with the tridentate ligands L and L [X/Y = NMe, ,'-dimethyl-,'-dipyridin-2-ylpyridine-2,6-diamine; X/Y = CH, 2,6-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)pyridine and X/Y = S, 2,6-bis(pyridine-2-ylthio)pyridine]. The heteroleptic complexes are obtained via a novel synthetic approach toward the required intermediate labile triflato complexes Cr(L)(OTf) () from the respective chlorido precursors CrCl(L) () using trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate.

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  • The study investigates the link between fall risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) and fall rates among generally healthy older adults living in the community, an area that has not been thoroughly researched before.
  • It observes 2,157 participants aged 70 and older over three years to evaluate how FRID use (both single and multiple) correlates with total falls, injurious falls, and recurrent falls.
  • Results indicate that a significant portion of participants using FRIDs experienced a higher incidence of falls during the study period, underscoring the potential risks of these medications in older adults.
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Fire is a natural part of many ecosystems; however, as a consequence of climate change, unusually large 'megafires' are expected to increase in occurrence. Given their large spatial extent, the impacts of megafire on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning could differ substantially from the impacts of typically sized fires, even in fire-adapted ecosystems. In this review, we investigate the potential impacts of megafires on pollination systems.

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Six-coordinate chromium(iii) complexes with high spin-flip (SF) photoluminescence quantum yields and lifetimes (molecular rubies) have attracted huge interest in the past years due to their applicability in sensing, photocatalysis or circularly polarised emission. However, clearcut design rules for high quantum yields and lifetimes are still lacking due to the multidimensional problem of the non-radiative decay of the SF states. Based on an isostructural series of complexes differing in the ligand backbone, we disentangle decisive structural and electronic features for SF excited state energies and non-radiative decays promoted by spin-orbit coupling, Jahn-Teller distortions and (thermally activated) multiphonon relaxation.

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