Background: The presence of goats in the Canary Islands dates back to the late 1st millennium BC, which coincides with the colonization by the Amazigh settlers. However, the exact geographic origin of Canarian goats is uncertain since the Amazigh peoples were distributed over a wide spatial range. Nowadays, three Canarian breeds (Palmera, Majorera and Tinerfeña) are officially recognized, along with two distinct South and North Tinerfeña ecotypes, with the South Tinerfeña and Majorera goats thriving in arid and dry semi-desertic environments and the Palmera and North Tinerfeña goats are adapted to humid and temperate areas that are influenced by trade winds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeasonal weight loss (SWL), is a major limitation to animal production. In the Canary Islands, there are two dairy goat breeds with different levels of tolerance to SWL: Majorera (tolerant) and Palmera (susceptible). Our team has studied the response of these breeds to SWL using different Omics tools.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry
December 2022
Background: Telepsychiatry is now common practice. Within consultation-liaison psychiatry (CLP), previous work has shown that telepsychiatry is feasible and satisfactory. To date, there has not been qualitative work done within CLP to describe the clinician's experience with telepsychiatry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry
July 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic created pressure to implement telepsychiatry across practice models.
Objective: We sought to evaluate the overall success of this change and to identify what types of practice settings, provider groups, and patient groups were best served by telepsychiatry and telepsychotherapy utilization. We were particularly interested in how providers of consultation-liaison psychiatry adapted to remote care.
J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry
November 2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic created pressure to attempt remote consultation, but there are limited data on the use of telepsychiatry in general, and almost none about the experience of telepsychiatry in a consultation-liaison context.
Objective: We looked for attributes that correlated with satisfactory tele-encounters.
Methods: Eleven consultation-liaison attending surveys and 8 attendings' tele-encounter logs from March to June 2020 were completed and reviewed to assess for patient and provider characteristics associated with barriers to using telepsychiatry.