Biobased Self-Healing Thin Film Coatings Based on Poly (Itaconic Acid Esters).

Paper used for packaging applications is often coated with thin polymer coatings to improve the properties, like printability and barrier properties, respectively. Today, these coatings are still often based on petroleum-based polymers. In this study, the fabrication of biobased thin film coatings is described.

Genetic dissection of domestication traits in interspecific chickpea populations.

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a pulse crop that provides an integral source of nutrition for human consumption. The close wild relatives Cicer reticulatum and Cicer echinospermum harbor untapped genetic diversity that can be exploited by chickpea breeders to improve domestic varieties. Knowledge of genomic loci that control important chickpea domestication traits will expedite the development of improved chickpea varieties derived from interspecific crosses.

Identification of Novel Sources of Resistance to Ascochyta Blight in a Collection of Wild Accessions.

Chickpea production is constrained worldwide by the necrotrophic fungal pathogen , the causal agent of Ascochyta blight (AB). To reduce the impact of this disease, novel sources of resistance are required in chickpea cultivars. Here, we screened a new collection of wild accessions for AB resistance and identified accessions resistant to multiple, highly pathogenic isolates.

[Multisystemic therapy for child abuse and neglect (MST-CAN): description of the treatment, psychiatric morbidity, and the psychiatrist's role].

Background: Many untreated psychiatric problems occur in families where there is child abuse. It is very important to find ways of ensuring that the hard-to-reach families receive adequate psychiatric assessment and appropriate treatment.

Aim: To describe the treatment method and first results of multisystemic therapy for child abuse and neglect (mst-can).

Introducing competency-based training in Europe: an Anglo-Dutch perspective.

There are striking and significant differences in psychiatric training across Europe and procedures for the assessment of trainees vary widely (Strachan, 2007). The introduction of competency-based training represents a major shift in medical education and a challenge to harmonising psychiatric training in Europe. This paper discusses the development and implementation of competency-based training in the Netherlands and the UK and focuses on its effects on trainees.