Barriers to postgraduate education in primary dental care: a qualitative study.

Objectives: Postgraduate education for primary care dentists offers numerous benefits in terms of advancing clinical skills and career opportunities, culminating in improved treatment and patient outcomes. There is a strong desire amongst primary care dentists to enhance skills and provide contemporaneous evidence-based dentistry, accredited by higher educational qualifications. However, significant barriers hinder their pursuit of further training and career advancement.

Feedlot growth performance and carcass characteristics of steers backgrounded on buffel grass or buffel-Desmanthus mixed pastures.

Feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of tropical beef steers backgrounded on buffel grass () only or buffel grass oversown with desmanthus ( spp. ; 11.5% initial sward botanical composition) were evaluated.

Effect of incremental proportions of Desmanthus spp. in isonitrogenous forage diets on growth performance, rumen fermentation and plasma metabolites of pen-fed growing Brahman, Charbray and Droughtmaster crossbred beef steers.

Desmanthus (Desmanthus spp.), a tropically adapted pasture legume, is highly productive and has the potential to reduce methane emissions in beef cattle. However, liveweight gain response to desmanthus supplementation has been inconclusive in ruminants.

Lipid Metabolism, Carcass Characteristics and Muscle Fatty Acid Composition of Tropical Crossbred Beef Cattle in Response to spp. Forage Backgrounding.

Lipid metabolism, carcass characteristics and fatty acid (FA) composition of the (loin eye) muscle were evaluated in tropical crossbred steers backgrounded on spp. (desmanthus) with or without feedlot finishing. It was hypothesized that steers backgrounded on isonitrogenous diets augmented with incremental proportions of desmanthus will produce carcasses with similar characteristics and FA composition.

Response to Climate Change: Evaluation of Methane Emissions in Northern Australian Beef Cattle on a High Quality Diet Supplemented with Using Open-Circuit Respiration Chambers and GreenFeed Emission Monitoring Systems.

The main objective of this study was to compare the effect of supplementing beef cattle with cv. JCU2, cv. JCU4, cv.

Growth Performance and Plasma Metabolites of Grazing Beef Cattle Backgrounded on Buffel or Buffel- Mixed Pastures.

Dietary crude protein and dry matter digestibility are among the major factors limiting feed intake and weight gain of cattle grazing native and improved pastures in the subtropics of Northern Australia during the dry season. Incorporating a suitable legume into grasses improves pasture quality and cattle weight gain, but only a limited number of legume pastures can establish and persist in cracking clay soils. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of inclusion in buffel grass () pastures on the plasma metabolite profile and growth performance of grazing beef cattle during the dry season.

Plasma Metabolites, Productive Performance and Rumen Volatile Fatty Acid Profiles of Northern Australian Steers Supplemented with and Lucerne.

The hypothesis tested was that tropical steers supplemented with the legume and lucerne, a widely characterized temperate legume of high nutritive value, would elicit similar responses in plasma metabolite profiles, productive performance, nitrogen retention, and volatile fatty acids (VFA). The tannin-binding compound, polyethylene glycol-4000 (PEG), was added to the diets (160 g/kg dry matter) with the objective of further exploring nitrogen (N) utilization in the animals supplemented with relative to lucerne. From February to June 2020, sixteen yearling Brangus steers (average liveweight of 232 ± 6 kg) were fed a background diet of Rhodes grass () hay for 28 days, before introducing three cultivars ( cv.

Supplementing Northern Australian Beef Cattle with Tropical Legume Reduces In-Vivo Methane Emissions.

The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of supplementing beef cattle with incremental levels of cv. JCU1 and cv. JCU4 on in vivo methane (CH) emissions and the role of tannins in rumen fermentation.

Community pharmacist collaboration with a primary care clinic to improve diabetes care.

Objective: The objective of this pilot project was to evaluate a model of care that consisted of a community pharmacist and registered nurse collaborating in a primary care clinic to improve guideline-directed therapy.

Setting: A regional grocery chain pharmacy partnered with a primary care clinic associated with a large academic medical center.

Practice Innovation: A community pharmacist was granted access to the electronic medical record and paired with a registered nurse care manager at a primary care office.

Diet and Genetics Influence Beef Cattle Performance and Meat Quality Characteristics.

A comprehensive review of the impact of tropical pasture grazing, nutritional supplementation during feedlot finishing and fat metabolism-related genes on beef cattle performance and meat-eating traits is presented. Grazing beef cattle on low quality tropical forages with less than 5.6% crude protein, 10% soluble starches and 55% digestibility experience liveweight loss.

Methane Emissions and the Use of in Beef Cattle Production in Northern Australia.

The Australian beef industry is a major contributor to the economy with an estimated annual revenue generation of over seven billion dollars. The tropical state of Queensland accounted for 48% of Australian beef and veal production in 2018. As the third biggest beef exporter in the world, Australia supplies 3% of the world's beef exports and its agricultural sector accounts for an estimated 13.

A Comparison of Different Methodologies for the Measurement of Extracellular Vesicles and Milk-derived Particles in Raw Milk from Cows.

Cow's milk is economically important to the agricultural industry with the nutritive value of milk being routinely measured. This does not give full insight into normal mammary tissue turnover during the course of lactation, which could be important for both an understanding of milk production and animal welfare. We have previously demonstrated that submicron particles, including extracellular vesicles (EVs), can be measured in unprocessed cow's milk by flow cytometry and that they correlate with stage of lactation.

Environmental Attributes Influencing the Distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Northern Australia.

Factors responsible for the spatial and temporal clustering of Burkholderia pseudomallei in the environment remain to be elucidated. Whilst laboratory based experiments have been performed to analyse survival of the organism in various soil types, such approaches are strongly influenced by alterations to the soil micro ecology during soil sanitisation and translocation. During the monsoonal season in Townsville, Australia, B.

Effects of Colonization of the Roots of Domestic Rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Amaroo) by Burkholderia pseudomallei.

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a saprophytic bacterium that causes melioidosis and is often isolated from rice fields in Southeast Asia, where the infection incidence is high among rice field workers. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between this bacterium and rice through growth experiments where the effect of colonization of domestic rice (Oryza sativa L. cv Amaroo) roots by B.

Minimal experimental requirements for definition of extracellular vesicles and their functions: a position statement from the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles.

Secreted membrane-enclosed vesicles, collectively called extracellular vesicles (EVs), which include exosomes, ectosomes, microvesicles, microparticles, apoptotic bodies and other EV subsets, encompass a very rapidly growing scientific field in biology and medicine. Importantly, it is currently technically challenging to obtain a totally pure EV fraction free from non-vesicular components for functional studies, and therefore there is a need to establish guidelines for analyses of these vesicles and reporting of scientific studies on EV biology. Here, the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) provides researchers with a minimal set of biochemical, biophysical and functional standards that should be used to attribute any specific biological cargo or functions to EVs.

Parasite meningomyelitis in cats in Uruguay.

Two outbreaks of progressive hind limb paresis in cats (Felis catus) caused by parasitic meningomyelitis in Uruguay are reported. The case studies occurred in 2008 and 2009 respectively, in the rural areas of Fray Bentos (33° 07' 40.39'' S) and were characterized by hindquarter paralysis.

Groundwater seeps facilitate exposure to Burkholderia pseudomallei.

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a saprophytic bacterium which is the causative agent of melioidosis, a common cause of fatal bacterial pneumonia and sepsis in the tropics. The incidence of melioidosis is clustered spatially and temporally and is heavily linked to rainfall and extreme weather events. Clinical case clustering has recently been reported in Townsville, Australia, and has implicated Castle Hill, a granite monolith in the city center, as a potential reservoir of infection.

Sizing and phenotyping of cellular vesicles using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis.

Unlabelled: Cellular microvesicles and nanovesicles (exosomes) are involved in many disease processes and have major potential as biomarkers. However, developments in this area are constrained by limitations in the technology available for their measurement. Here we report on the use of fluorescence nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) to rapidly size and phenotype cellular vesicles.