A Systematic Quality Review of Single-Case Experimental Designs Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Adult Clinical Populations.

Recent publications within Contextual Behavioral Science provided a rationale for the expansion of intervention efficacy research using methods that capture idiographic factors and processes. We conducted a systematic review of the use and quality of single-case experimental designs (SCED) within the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) literature in adult clinical populations. The systematic review was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines and the databases CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PsycArticles and OpenGrey were searched for peer-reviewed articles.

The complex interactions between nutrition, immunity and infection in insects.

Insects are the most diverse animal group on the planet. Their success is reflected by the diversity of habitats in which they live. However, these habitats have undergone great changes in recent decades; understanding how these changes affect insect health and fitness is an important challenge for insect conservation.

The Application of Kirkpatrick's Evaluation Model in the Assessment of Interprofessional Simulation Activities Involving Pharmacy Students: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: To our knowledge, this systematic review is the first to assess pharmacy-involved interprofessional education (IPE) simulation activities in establishing current methodological effectiveness using Kirkpatrick's Evaluation Model. This is a training evaluative model that assesses educational training activities according to 4 levels: reaction, learning, behavior, and results.

Findings: From the 3108 studies retrieved, 14 studies met the inclusion criteria.

Volunteering on Heritage at Risk sites and wellbeing: A qualitative interview study.

Introduction: We explored experiences of volunteering in Heritage at Risk (HAR) projects, intended to mitigate the deterioration to historic assets, and the relationship with wellbeing. We aimed to understand the value of HAR to volunteers' wellbeing and relationships between HAR programme characteristics such as location, asset type and type of activity.

Methods: We used a qualitative design with semi-structured interviews of a purposive sample of volunteers recruited via Historic England (HE), employing Systematic Grounded Theory involving open, axial and selective coding.

Solar driven CO reduction with a molecularly engineered periodic mesoporous organosilica containing cobalt phthalocyanine.

A molecular cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) catalyst has been integrated in an ethylene-bridged periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) to fabricate a hybrid material, CoPc-PMO, that catalyses CO reduction to CO in a photocatalytic system using [Ru(bpy)] (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) as a photosensitizer and 1,3-dimethyl-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1-benzo[]imidazole (BIH) as an electron donor. CoPc-PMO displays a Co-based turnover number (TON) of >6000 for CO evolution with >70% CO-selectivity after 4 h irradiation with UV-filtered simulated solar light, and a quantum yield of 1.95% at 467 nm towards CO.

The impact of obesity and uncontrolled asthma during pregnancy on metabolic and inflammatory pathways.

Objective: Asthma and obesity are both inflammatory complications of pregnancy and when combined contribute to an increased risk of uncontrolled asthma during pregnancy and poor perinatal outcomes. Our previous work has identified the presence of maternal asthma is associated with a proinflammatory milieu in the placenta and reduced fetal growth. The current study was designed to determine the relationships between immunomodulatory metabolic pathways and inflammation and establish whether these pathways are associated with uncontrolled asthma in obese pregnant women.

"There for The Right Reasons": New Zealand Early Childhood Professionals' Sense of Calling, Life Goals, Personal and Spiritual Values.

Using a mixed-method approach, this present study examined the roles of calling and the relation between life goals and spiritual values among early childhood professionals in New Zealand. Among the 102 participants who completed the surveys, 24 participated in the follow-up individual interviews. In line with previous research, results showed that the five spiritual values-conformity, universalism, tradition, benevolence, and security-positively correlated with at least three intrinsic life goals, but showed a negative correlation with at least three of the four extrinsic goals.

Therapist-led interventions for the treatment of traumatic stress symptoms in cancer survivors: A systematic literature review.

Objective: We reviewed the evidence regarding the effectiveness of therapist-led interventions for reducing symptoms of traumatic stress in cancer survivors.

Methods: This systematic review was completed in accordance with the guidelines illustrated by Popay and colleagues and the following online databases, PsychInfo, Medline, CINAHL, were searched for peer-reviewed literature. Further studies were searched through Google Scholar and manually scanning the reference lists of all included studies.

Employability as a Guiding Outcome in Veterinary Education: Findings of the VetSet2Go Project.

This paper presents a mini-review of employability as a guiding outcome in veterinary education-its conceptualisation, utility, core elements and dimensions, and pedagogical approaches-through a summary of the findings of a major international project with the same aims (the VetSet2Go project). Guided by a conception of the successful veterinary professional as one capable of navigating and sustainably balancing the (sometimes competing) needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders, the project integrated multiple sources of evidence to derive an employability framework representing the dimensions and capabilities most important to veterinary professional success. This framework provides a useful complement to those based in narrower views of competency and professionalism.

IT Evaluation of Foundation Healthcare Group Vanguard Project.

The aim of the Foundation Healthcare Group (FHG) Vanguard model was to develop a sustainable local hospital model between two National Health Service (NHS) Trusts (a London Teaching Hospital Trust and a District General Hospital Trust) that makes best use of scarce resources and can be replicated across the NHS, UK. The aim of this study was to evaluate the provision, use and implementation of the IT infrastructure; based on qualitative interviews and focused mainly on the perspectives of the IT staff and the clinicians' perspectives. In total 24 interview transcripts, along with 'Acute Care Collaboration' questionnaire responses, were analysed using a thematic framework for IT infrastructure, sharing themes across the vascular, paediatric and cardiovascular strands of the FHG programme.

"It Would be Harder Without Faith": An Exploratory Study of Low-Income Families' Experiences of Early Childhood Inclusive Education in New Zealand.

New Zealand has a reputation for having one of the most inclusive education systems in the world. However, research and anecdotal evidence show that many parents of young children with disabilities have difficulties accessing intervention and health-care services and may be less satisfied when they do receive services. In addition, though a plethora of research has been done on inclusive education, little attention has been given by researchers to low-income parents' perspectives on early childhood inclusion in New Zealand.

High prevalence of the neonicotinoid clothianidin in liver and plasma samples collected from gamebirds during autumn sowing.

Since neonicotinoid insecticides were introduced to the agricultural market, evidence of the negative impacts of these systemic compounds on non-target species has accumulated. Birds are one of the largest groups of species to inhabit farmland, but the extent of neonicotinoid exposure in avian communities is poorly understood and very little is known about how any exposure may affect wild birds. Here, free-living gamebirds were used as a model group to measure the extent of avian exposure to the neonicotinoid clothianidin via seed treatment.

'Sub-Prime' Water, Low-Security Entitlements and Policy Challenges in Over-Allocated River Basins: the Case of the Murray-Darling Basin.

Environmental policy is often implemented using market instruments. In some cases, including carbon taxing, the links between financial products and the environmental objectives, are transparent. In other cases, including water markets, the links are less transparent.

From seeds to plasma: Confirmed exposure of multiple farmland bird species to clothianidin during sowing of winter cereals.

Neonicotinoids are the largest group of systemic insecticides worldwide and are most commonly applied as agricultural seed treatments. However, little is known about the extent to which farmland birds are exposed to these compounds during standard agricultural practices. This study uses winter cereal, treated with the neonicotinoid clothianidin, as a test system to examine patterns of exposure in farmland birds during a typical sowing period.

Author Correction: Mobile Real-Time Grasshopper Detection and Data Aggregation Framework.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

An eQTL in the cystathionine beta synthase gene is linked to osteoporosis in laying hens.

Background: Skeletal damage is a challenge for laying hens because the physiological adaptations required for egg laying make them susceptible to osteoporosis. Previously, we showed that genetic factors explain 40% of the variation in end of lay bone quality and we detected a quantitative trait locus (QTL) of large effect on chicken chromosome 1. The aim of this study was to combine data from the commercial founder White Leghorn population and the F2 mapping population to fine-map this QTL and understand its function in terms of gene expression and physiology.

Impact of extreme events on pollinator assemblages.

Insect pollinators face a number of well-documented threats that challenge their survival at an individual and community level. The effect of extreme events on pollinator assemblages has received little attention to date, partly due to a lack of consensus on what constitutes extreme, but also because robust pre-event data is often lacking. Here, the term SHOCK (Sudden, High-magnitude Opportunity for a Catastrophic 'Kick') is used to encompass attributes of extreme events that carry the potential to add additional challenges to insect communities already facing environmental stressors.

Mobile Real-Time Grasshopper Detection and Data Aggregation Framework.

Insects of the family Orthoptera: Acrididae including grasshoppers and locust devastate crops and eco-systems around the globe. The effective control of these insects requires large numbers of trained extension agents who try to spot concentrations of the insects on the ground so that they can be destroyed before they take flight. This is a challenging and difficult task.

Small scale fungal community differentiation in a vineyard system.

Microbes influence the quality of agricultural commodities and contribute to their distinctive sensorial attributes. Increasingly studies have demonstrated not only differential geographic patterns in microbial communities and populations, but that these contribute to valuable regionally distinct agricultural product identities, the most well-known example being wine. However, little is understood about microbial geographic patterns at scales of less than 100 km.

The Use of Contextualized Standardized Client Simulation to Develop Clinical Reasoning in Final-Year Veterinary Students.

Clinical reasoning is an important skill for veterinary students to develop before graduation. Simulation has been studied in medical education as a method for developing clinical reasoning in students, but evidence supporting it is limited. This study involved the creation of a contextualized, standardized client simulation session that aimed to improve the clinical reasoning ability and confidence of final-year veterinary students.

European derived Saccharomyces cerevisiae colonisation of New Zealand vineyards aided by humans.

Humans have acted as vectors for species and expanded their ranges since at least the dawn of agriculture. While relatively well characterised for macrofauna and macroflora, the extent and dynamics of human-aided microbial dispersal is poorly described. We studied the role which humans have played in manipulating the distribution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, one of the world's most important microbes, using whole genome sequencing.

Microbiology: Mixing Wine, Chocolate, and Coffee.

Yeasts associated with cocoa and coffee beans are genetically distinct. These populations have been created through the migration and mixing of populations associated with vineyards, trees in America, and the ancestral seat of this species in Far East Asia.

Saccharomyces eubayanus and Saccharomyces arboricola reside in North Island native New Zealand forests.

Saccharomyces is one of the best-studied microbial genera, but our understanding of the global distributions and evolutionary histories of its members is relatively poor. Recent studies have altered our view of Saccharomyces' origin, but a lack of sampling from the vast majority of the world precludes a holistic perspective. We evaluate alternate Gondwanan and Far East Asian hypotheses concerning the origin of these yeasts.