Publications by authors named "Caitlin Crawford"
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- Urban free-roaming cats pose challenges for wildlife and human health, prompting the ineffective trap-adopt-kill methods for population control, which negatively affect cat caregivers.
- A study using semi-structured interviews highlights the strong emotional bonds caregivers (both owners and semi-owners) have with the cats, revealing improvements in the cats' welfare and caregivers’ quality of life when provided with free sterilization and healthcare.
- The study recommends that local councils and welfare agencies adopt an assistive-centered approach to urban cat management to enhance community relationships, reduce cat populations, and align with the One Welfare philosophy.
Thermoelectric materials convert heat energy into electricity, hold promising capabilities for energy waste harvesting, and may be the future of sustainable energy utilization. In this work, we successfully synthesized core-shell BiTe/SbTe (BTST) nanostructured heterojunctions via a two-step solution route. Samples with different BiTe core to SbTe shell ratios could be synthesized by controlling the reaction precursors.
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- The binary CoSb skutterudite has been well-studied, but its mixed-anion versions, particularly CoSnTe, are largely unexplored in terms of stability and thermoelectric properties.
- Researchers investigated the CoSb-CoSnTe pseudo-binary phase diagram and found no quaternary phases, leading them to focus on the ternary CoSnTe for mapping its phase boundaries, measuring transport properties, and performing calculations.
- The study revealed varying electronic properties in CoSnTe, primarily p-type behavior, with key defects influencing its doping behavior; optimizing hole carrier concentration is possible through extrinsic p-type doping in Sn-rich conditions.
The determinants of talking delay alone or its comorbidity with behavioural difficulties was examined in 5768 two-year-old members of the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal study. Using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development inventories and the total difficulties score from the preschool Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, a composite measure was created so that children were categorised as showing no language or behavioural concerns (72.5%), behavioural only difficulties (6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe hypothesized that the known heterogeneity of pancreatic β cells was due to subpopulations of β cells at different stages of their life cycle with different functional capacities and that further changes occur with metabolic stress and aging. We identified new markers of aging in β cells, including IGF1R. In β cells IGF1R expression correlated with age, dysfunction, and expression of known age markers p16, p53BP1, and senescence-associated β-galactosidase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDo word frequency and case mixing affect different processing stages in visual word recognition? Some studies of online reading have suggested that word frequency affects an earlier, perceptual-encoding stage and that case mixing affects a later, central decision stage (e.g., Reingold, Yang, & Rayner, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 36:1677-1683 2010); others have suggested otherwise (e.
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