Publications by authors named "Andrew Szabo"
Problem: It is unknown whether the deployment of registered nurses to assist midwives in the provision of postnatal care eases the burden of workforce shortages.
Background: The largest public maternity health service in Western Australia began employing registered nurses in 2022 to assist midwives with the provision of postnatal care on maternity wards in response to staffing shortages, exacerbated by COVID-19.
Aim: To explore midwives' and registered nurses' experiences of providing postnatal care on maternity wards together.
For the 40 years after the end of commercial whaling in 1976, humpback whale populations in the North Pacific Ocean exhibited a prolonged period of recovery. Using mark-recapture methods on the largest individual photo-identification dataset ever assembled for a cetacean, we estimated annual ocean-basin-wide abundance for the species from 2002 through 2021. Trends in annual estimates describe strong post-whaling era population recovery from 16 875 (± 5955) in 2002 to a peak abundance estimate of 33 488 (± 4455) in 2012.
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- * The dataset covers 13 regions and includes data on 27,956 unique humpback whales from 2001-2021, with an impressive identification accuracy of 97-99% using advanced machine learning.
- * This resource aims to facilitate collaborative research on humpback whales and their habitats, especially as the ocean undergoes significant ecological changes.
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- Whales, despite being massive, are active predators that need to be agile to capture smaller prey, leading to the development of unique movement strategies that require significant energy and mechanical power.
- Research on seven baleen whale species shows that as whale size increases, their maneuvering performance, such as acceleration and agility, decreases, meaning larger whales are generally less agile than smaller ones.
- However, larger whales adapt their behaviors to cope with their size, employing maneuvers that enhance their capability, indicating that they have evolved specific physical traits to optimize their movement despite their bulk.
Humpback whales () have exceptionally long pectorals (i.e. flippers) that aid in shallow water navigation, rapid acceleration and increased manoeuvrability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prevalence of adult and childhood obesity are increasing. Most of the human newborn's body fat accumulates in the last half of intrauterine life. Fat in the fetus was thought to be mostly synthesized from glucose, but now it is commonly accepted that the bulk of it is the product of placental transfer of maternal fatty acids.
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