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Patients scored the highest on comprehensiveness of services available (Mean = 2.87) and the lowest on community orientation (Mean = 1.83) in all domains of the PCAT, with values ranging from 1 to 4. A multiple linear regression analysis revealed that patients with a usual source of community health service had significantly higher overall scores than those without (B = 0.205, p  less then  .001). This study demonstrated the important role of CHCs in providing affordable health services for patients with chronic disease or poor health status. RO4929097 clinical trial Moreover, patients who chose a CHC as a USC had better experiences with primary care compared with patients who did not choose a CHC as a USC. However, community-oriented services need to be improved, and efforts to improve patients' experiences should include policies that incentivise patients to adopt a CHC as their USC. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Several temperate tree species are expected to migrate northward and colonise boreal forests in response to climate change. Tree migrations could lead to transitions in forest types, but these could be influenced by several non-climatic factors, such as disturbances and soil conditions. We analysed over 10,000 forest inventory plots, sampled from 1970 to 2018 in meridional Québec, Canada to identify what environmental conditions promote or prevent regional-scale forest transitions. We used a continuous-time multi-state Markov model to quantify the probabilities of transitions between forest states (temperate, boreal, mixed, pioneer) as a function of climate (mean temperature and climate moisture index during the growing season), soil conditions (pH and drainage) and disturbances (severity levels of natural disturbances and logging). We further investigate how different disturbance types and severities impact forests' short-term transient dynamics and long-term equilibrium using properties of Markov transitionnd accelerate broad-scale biome shifts. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Accurate perception and production of emotional states is important for successful social interactions across the lifespan. Previous research has shown that when identifying emotion in faces, preschool children are more likely to confuse emotions that share valence, but differ in arousal (e.g., sadness and anger) than emotions that share arousal, but differ on valence (e.g., anger and joy). Here, we examined the influence of valence and arousal on children's production of emotion in music. Three-, 5- and 7-year-old children recruited from the greater Hamilton area (N = 74) "performed" music to produce emotions using a self-pacing paradigm, in which participants controlled the onset and offset of each chord in a musical sequence by repeatedly pressing and lifting the same key on a MIDI piano. Key press velocity controlled the loudness of each chord. Results showed that (1) differentiation of emotions by 5-year-old children was mainly driven by arousal of the target emotion, with differentiation based on both valence and arousal at 7 years, and (2) tempo and loudness were used to differentiate emotions earlier in development than articulation. The results indicate that the developmental trajectory of emotion understanding in music may differ from the developmental trajectory in other domains. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Production of composite films is an important approach to improve functionality of edible films, by combining different polysaccharides, proteins and lipids. Carbohydrate-based composite films are most attractive, which have good film-forming ability due to their unique colloidal properties. Fruit purees include high polysaccharide content that plays a role to have desirable film properties including mechanical resistance, efficient barrier properties and selective permeability against oxygen transmission. The purpose of this study was to characterize physical, barrier, mechanical, thermal and water sorption properties of composite films formulated with different mulberry pekmez concentrations (26, 32 and 38 o Brix) based on alginate or pectin. All film-forming solutions were showed shear thinning behavior with higher yield stress and viscosity-shear rate data were fitted to Ostwald-de Waele model (R2  ≥ 0.943). A noticeable decrease in tensile strength of films with increasing concentration was determined, but films prepared with high concentration showed more flexible. The mechanical properties of pectin films exhibited weakened properties compared to alginate films. Increasing pekmez concentration in the film matrix improved the water vapor permeability of alginate films, whereas pectin films showed reverse behavior as resulting in cracks and crack propagation within the structure. The sorption isotherms of films showed a typical profile of foods contain high soluble components and the Guggenhiem-Anderson-deBoer (GAB) model gave a good fit for all of the obtained data. The results showed that mulberry pekmez films based alginate have a potential for food applications depends on the physical properties and for the replacement of non-biodegradable plastic packaging. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Brassica napus is highly susceptible towards Verticillium longisporum (Vl43) with no effective genetic resistance. It is believed that the fungus reprograms plant physiological processes by up-regulation of so-called susceptibility factors to establish a compatible interaction. By transcriptome analysis we identified genes, which were activated/upregulated in rapeseed after Vl43 infection. To test if one of these genes is functionally involved in the infection process and loss-of-function would lead to decreased susceptibility, we firstly challenged KO lines of corresponding Arabidopsis orthologs with Vl43 and compared them with wild type plants. Here, we report that the KO of AtCRT1a results in drastically reduced susceptibility of plants to Vl43. To prove crt1a mutation also decreases susceptibility in B. napus, we identified 10 mutations in a TILLING population. Three T3-mutants displayed increased resistance as compared to the wild type. To validate the results, we generated CRISPR/Cas-induced BnCRT1a mutants, challenged T2-plants with Vl43 and observed an overall reduced susceptibility in 3 out of 4 independent lines.