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Parents reported barriers in accessing care including service shortages and inaccessibility, underresourced schools, lack of clinician mental health expertise, lack of child-clinician rapport, inconsistent care, financial constraints, lack of mental health awareness among parents, and stigma. Parents want expanded and improved access to services, more respite and support services, supportive schools, and improved mental health education for parents. CONCLUSIONS Parents of children and young people attending the ED for anxiety and depression are generally dissatisfied with services for child mental health. Solutions that enable parents to better care for their child in the community are needed to improve care. © 2020 Paediatrics and Child Health Division (The Royal Australasian College of Physicians).Fungal sexual reproduction requires complex cellular differentiation processes of hyphal cells. The plant pathogenic fungus Fusarium graminearum produces fruiting bodies called perithecia via sexual reproduction, and perithecia forcibly discharge ascospores into the air for disease initiation and propagation. Lipid metabolism and accumulation are closely related to perithecium formation, yet the molecular mechanisms that regulate these processes are largely unknown. Here, we report that a novel fungal specific bZIP transcription factor, F. graminearum perithecium overproducing 1 (Fpo1), plays a role as a global transcriptional repressor during perithecium production and maturation in F. graminearum. Deletion of FPO1 resulted in reduced vegetative growth, asexual sporulation and virulence and overproduced perithecium, which reached maturity earlier, compared with the wild type. Intriguingly, the hyphae of the fpo1 mutant accumulated excess lipids during perithecium production. Using a combination of molecular biological, transcriptomic and biochemical approaches, we demonstrate that repression of FPO1 after sexual induction leads to reprogramming of carbon metabolism, particularly fatty acid production, which affects sexual reproduction of this fungus. This is the first report of a perithecium-overproducing F. graminearum mutant, and the findings provide comprehensive insight into the role of modulation of carbon metabolism in the sexual reproduction of fungi. © 2020 Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Nature-derived organic small molecules as energy storage materials provide low cost, recyclable, and non-toxic alternatives to inorganic and polymer electrodes for lithium/sodium-ion batteries and beyond. Some organic carbonyl compounds have met or exceeded the voltages and gravimetric storage capacities achieved by traditional transition metal-oxides based compounds due to the metal-ion coupled redox and electron transport capability of functional groups. Stability issues that previously limited the capacity of small organic molecules can be remediated with reactions to form insoluble salts, non-covalent interactions (hydrogen bonding and π-stacking), loading on to substrates, and careful electrolyte selection. The cost-effectiveness and sustainability of organic materials may further be improved with multivalent ion battery technologies based on abundant metals like aluminum and zinc. Finally, redox flow batteries utilize the potential solubility of organics for the development of scalable, high power-density, and safe energy storage devices based on aqueous electrolytes. Herein, we review the advantages and prospects of small molecular electrodes with a focus on natural organic and biomimetic materials to realize the next-generation of green battery chemistry. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Molecularly imprinted polymers for strobilurin fungicides were prepared by precipitation polymerization employing azoxystrobin as template molecular together with methacrylic acid monomer and trimethylolpropane triacrylate cross-linker. Morphological characterization showed molecularly imprinted polymers were uniform spherical particles with about 0.2 μm in diameter, while the morphologies of nonimprinted polymers were irregular bulk. The equilibrium binding and selective experiments proved that molecularly imprinted polymers possessed a higher affinity toward four fungicides compared to nonimprinted polymers and heterogeneous binding sites were found in the molecularly imprinted polymers. Molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction conditions, including sample loading solvents, selective washing, and elution solvents, were carefully optimized. The developed method showed good recoveries (70.0-114.0%) with relative standard deviations in range of 1.0-9.8% (n  =  3) for samples (cucumber and peach) spiked at three different levels (10, 50, and 100 μg/ kg). The detection limit (signal/noise = 3) ranged from 0.01 to 0.08 μg/kg. The results demonstrated good potential use of this convenient and highly efficient method for determining trace strobilurin fungicides in agricultural products. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.AIM Sleep problems are common in school-aged children with cerebral palsy (CP). Despite the significant impact of sleep disturbance and deprivation, there is a paucity of research in the area. The aims of this study were to (i) investigate the frequency of sleep problems in children with CP and their parents and (ii) understand what happens when parents ask for help with sleep problems from their health-care professionals. METHODS This was a prospective cohort study using an online survey sent to parents/primary care givers of children with CP aged 6-12 years recruited through the Victorian Cerebral Palsy Register. The following sleep assessment tools The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Gross Motor Function Classification System Parent Rating Tool were administered along with custom-designed questions that were informed by a preceding qualitative scoping study. RESULTS Complete data sets were received from 126 parents/care givers. Almost half (46%) of the parents reported their child had sleep problems. Of the 64 parents who reported seeking help for a child's sleep problem, only 21 indicated that their attempt was successful. If a child had poor sleep, the parent was more likely to have a sleep problem than parents who did not report poor child sleeping. CONCLUSION Sleep problems are common in children with CP and their parents. Parents do not always seek help, and those who do may not find an effective solution. garsorasib Future research should explore how sleep problems can be effectively prioritised for children with CP and their parents/care givers. © 2020 Paediatrics and Child Health Division (The Royal Australasian College of Physicians).
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