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    Summary of experimental results.

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    Volume x Rates x Chemicals, for broad leaved weed control. 81GE25. Results of Experiment testing herbicides at different rates and volumes of water for control of broadleaved weeds in cereals. 81GE26, Results of experiment testing herbicides at different rates and different volumes for control of broadleaved weeds in cereals. 81ME42, Results of experiment testing herbicides at different rates and volumes for control of broadleaved weeds in cereals. 81WH33, Water volumes and rates of herbicides for broadleaved weed control in cereals. Volume x Rates x Wetting Agent. Hoegrass for ryegrass control. 81LG51, Results of experiment testing Hoegrass rates and volumes of application for control of ryegrass in cereals. 81ME41, Results of experiment testing Hoegrass at different rates and volumes of water for control of ryegrass in cereals. Volume x Rates x Sprayseed for Minimum Tillage. 81WH64, Effect of Volume of water and rate of application of sprayseed for weed control when establishing a crop using minimum tillage. Effect of several herbicide treatments and time of establishing a crop on yield. 81WH61. Volume x Rates x Sprayseed for Minimum Tillage. 81Nr1, Effect of volumes of water and rates of application of sprayseed for grass and broadleaved weed control. 81KA4, Results of experiment testing herbicides for control of soursob and other weeds in cereals. 81GE28, Results of experiments testing chemicals for control of soursob in cereals. 81N056, Results of experiments testing chemicals for control of soursob in cereals. 81N04, Chemicals for Soursob Control. 81N047, Results experiment chemical control of soursob in cereals. Combinations of Chemicals with Glean for Soursob Control. 81GE22, Results of experiment testing chemicals for soursob control in cereals. 81NO57, Results of experiments testing chemicals for control of soursob in cereals

    Capeweed, Radish, Wild oats, Sarsaparilla, Four O\u27clock, Saffron thistle, Onion weed, Carnation weed

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    85WH59, Capeweed time of spraying. Demonstration, capeweed, oil additions. 85N080, radish, nozzle angles x volumes. 85N081, radish, nozzle angles x rates. 85N082, wild oats, nozzle angles x volumes. 85N083, wild oats, nozzle angles x Rates. 85ME1, sarsaparilla, chemicals. 85N075, sarsaparilla, chemicals. 85TS26, 85ME48, 85ME104, 85GE29, saffron thistle, control with ear spraying in pasture. 85TS41, 85GE29a, saffron thistle, chemical control of seed set, 85TS27, saffron thistle, grazing trial. 85GE36, onion weed, chemicals in pasture. 85GE35, carnation weed, chemicals in pasture

    Do Patients Use a Headline Section in a Leaflet to Find Key Information About Their Medicines? Findings From a User-Test Study

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    Background: In the European Union (EU), all medicines are mandated to be provided with a patient information leaflet (PIL). Many patients express concerns about the length and complexity of some PILs, and this can be a disincentive for patients to read the PILS. In order to address this, the UK’s regulatory body (Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency [MHRA]) suggested leaflets might include a headline section—information presented prominently at the beginning of a leaflet that summarizes key safety messages about a drug. Objective: To explore the extent to which readers used a headline section in a PIL, using a form of diagnostic testing called user-testing, which examines how readers find and understand key information. Methods: The study used a cross-sectional design to user-test a PIL with a headline section in a target sample of 20 participants. Participants were provided with an exemplar PIL, and the performance of the PIL was evaluated by a questionnaire and semistructured interview. Results: The results showed that a headline section was used just over one-third of the time (39%); 90% of participants used the headline section to find information when they initially began the user-test. The qualitative findings suggested that the participants valued the presence of the headline section. Conclusion: The research suggests there does not appear to be any negative impact from including a headline section in a PIL, and it is a technique that is highly valued by the consumers of medicines information

    The experience of occupational therapists and physiotherapists using a prototype, evidence-informed online knowledge translation resource to learn about patient-defined, personally-meaningful chronic pain rehabilitation

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    Purpose: Chronic pain is a complex biopsychosocial experience, and rehabilitation helps people to manage pain, and restore valued life roles. Evidence suggests that more positive outcomes occur when clients perceive their rehabilitation to be meaningful. People with chronic pain describe rehabilitation as personally-meaningful when they develop a genuine connection with a credible therapist who they see as a guiding partner, and when rehabilitation holds personal value, is self-defined, and relevant to their sense of self-identity. This paper presents a qualitative study of therapists’ experience using an e-learning package on patient-defined, personally-meaningful rehabilitation. Methods: A qualitative descriptive design was used to explore rehabilitation therapists’ experience of a prototype evidence-informed, online resource developed on the basis of eLearning and web-design principles. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with a purposive sample of occupational therapists and physiotherapists, and inductive coding and thematic analysis of transcripts was completed. Findings: Twenty-four therapists (12 occupational therapists, 12 physiotherapists) participated, representing a mix of gender and experience (early career; experienced; and specialist). Four themes and 12 sub-themes emerged from the analysis. The resource delivered a positive user experience, which added (translational) value to enhance learning, and participants were highly positive about the future potential of the resource to translate chronic pain rehabilitation research for early career, experienced, and specialist rehabilitation therapists. Conclusion: Results suggest that the disparate learning needs of rehabilitation therapists from diverse professional backgrounds and experience, may be addressed through the one resource. Participant feedback provides evidence that the resource fits with current models of learning and behaviour change. This study demonstrates the importance of basing online resources on eLearning and web-design principles to translate complex biopsychosocial chronic pain rehabilitation research for rehabilitation therapists

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    Bison foraging responds to fire frequency in nutritionally heterogeneous grassland

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    Citation: Raynor, E. J., Joern, A., & Briggs, J. M. (2015). Bison foraging responds to fire frequency in nutritionally heterogeneous grassland. Ecology, 96(6), 1586-1597. doi:10.1890/14-2027.1Foraging decisions by native grazers in fire-dependent landscapes modulate the fire-grazing interaction. Uncovering the behavioral mechanisms associated with the attraction of grazers to recently burned areas requires understanding at multiple spatial scales in the ecological foraging hierarchy. This study focused on feeding in the area between steps in a foraging bout, the feeding station, as forage chemistry and vegetation architecture play central roles in these fine-scale, feeding-station decisions. The forage maturation hypothesis (FMH) uses the temporal dynamics of forage quality and quantity in grasslands to explain the distribution of large herbivores, but does not address herbivore responses to inter-patch variation caused by fire-induced nutrient increases of forage quality. Using an experimental setting with contrasting fire treatments we describe the effects of variable burn history on foraging kinetics by bison at Konza Prairie Biological Station (KPBS). We assessed the potential to link the FMH in a complementary fashion to the transient maxima hypothesis (TMH) to explain temporal variation in bison responses to grassland forage quality and quantity in response to burning at different temporal frequencies. Forage attributes met predictions of the TMH that allowed us to investigate how forage maturation affects feeding station foraging behavior across watersheds with varying burn frequency. At sites burned in the spring after several years without burning, both bite mass and intake rate increased with increasing biomass at a greater rate during the growing season than during the transitional midsummer seasonal period. In these infrequently burned watersheds, early growing season bite mass (0.6 +/- 0.05 g; mean +/- SE), bite rate (38 +/- 1.5 bites/ min), and intake rate (21 +/- 2.3 g/min) was reduced by similar to 15%, 13%, and 29% during the midsummer transitional period. A behavioral response in foraging kinetics at the feeding station occurred where a nonequilibrial pulse of high-quality resource was made available and then retained by repeated grazing over the growing season. Our results provide the first experimental evidence for demonstrating the fine-scale behavioral response of a large grazer to fire-induced changes in forage attributes, while linking two prominent hypotheses proposed to explain spatial variation in forage quality and quantity at local and landscape scales
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