Publications by authors named "D L Bayley"
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- Atlantic reef-building corals are declining due to climate change, disease, pollution, and human activities, prompting a reassessment of their extinction risk under the IUCN Red List.
- The latest evaluation shows an increase in the percentage of species at high extinction risk, with nearly 46% to 54% of shallow water corals now classified as threatened, compared to 15% to 40% in 2008.
- Although there's been a slight improvement in coral coverage over historical data, projections indicate that severe bleaching events could significantly threaten the future survival of 26 species, which are now labeled as Critically Endangered.
The threat from novel marine species introductions is a global issue. When non-native marine species are introduced to novel environments and become invasive, they can affect biodiversity, industry, ecosystem function, and both human and wildlife health. Isolated areas with sensitive or highly specialised endemic species can be particularly impacted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Averting incidents of patient self-harm is an ongoing challenge in acute inpatient mental health settings. Novel technologies that do not require continuous human visual monitoring and that maintain patient privacy may support staff in managing patient safety and intervening proactively to prevent self-harm incidents.
Aim: To assess the effect of implementing a contact-free vision-based patient monitoring and management (VBPMM) system on the rate of bedroom self-harm incidents.
Background: All patients admitted to an acute inpatient mental health unit must have nursing observations carried out at night either hourly or every 15 minutes, to ascertain that they are safe and breathing. However, while this practice ensures patient safety, it can also disturb patients' sleep, which in turn can impact negatively on their recovery.
Objective: This article describes the process of introducing artificial intelligence ('digitally assisted nursing observations') in an acute mental health inpatient ward, to enable staff to carry out the hourly and the 15 minutes observations, minimising disruption of patients' sleep while maintaining their safety.