Publications by authors named "Juha Tiainen"

The purpose of the study was to describe what types of abuse of older adults the healthcare providers in hospital emergency departments are currently able to identify. The study aimed at producing new information about the identification of abuse to enable the development of staff skills in the identification of abuse and in optimal interventions. The study is the first on the topic from the perspective of hospital emergency staff in Finland.

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  • A genetic analysis of 1469 roe deer samples from Central and Eastern Europe, along with 1541 mtDNA sequences from GenBank, reveals two main lineages: European and Siberian, with the latter more common in Eastern Europe.
  • *The European lineage is further divided into three clades—Central, Eastern, and Western—with distinct spatial distributions, particularly showing a fragmented range for the Western clade from Portugal to Russia.
  • *Most haplogroups in the Central and Eastern clades expanded during the Weichselian glacial period, while the Western clade's expansion coincided with the warmer Eemian interglacial, highlighting the role of refugia in maintaining genetic diversity during the Last Glacial Maximum.
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Background: Many birds species range over vast geographic regions and migrate seasonally between their breeding and overwintering sites. Deciding when to depart for migration is one of the most consequential life-history decisions an individual may make. However, it is still not fully understood which environmental cues are used to time the onset of migration and to what extent their relative importance differs across a range of migratory strategies.

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Urbanization is gaining force globally, which challenges biodiversity, and it has recently also emerged as an agent of evolutionary change. Seasonal phenology and life cycle regulation are essential processes that urbanization is likely to alter through both the urban heat island effect (UHI) and artificial light at night (ALAN). However, how UHI and ALAN affect the evolution of seasonal adaptations has received little attention.

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Background And Purpose: Elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation are under-detected and under-reported. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe out-ofhospital emergency care providers' experiences of identifying elder abuse.

Methods: Individual theme interviews were conducted with nine prehospital emergency care providers and three community paramedics in spring 2019.

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This mixed method study explores 200 prehospital emergency care providers' experiences of identifying child and youth maltreatment. The data were collected in Finland in 2019-2020 using an online survey tool and analysed using SPSS statistics and inductive content analysis. Respondents had encountered signs of physical and psychosocial maltreatment, and family challenges, contexts, and economic and social problems indicative of maltreatment.

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In conservation, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) carrying various sensors and the use of deep learning are increasing, but they are typically used independently of each other. Untapping their large potential requires integrating these tools. We combine drone-borne thermal imaging with artificial intelligence to locate ground-nests of birds on agricultural land.

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Spatial synchrony between populations emerges from endogenous and exogenous processes, such as intra- and interspecific interactions and abiotic factors. Understanding factors contributing to synchronous population dynamics help to better understand what determines abundance of a species. This study focuses on spatial and temporal dynamics in the Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) using snow-track data from Finland from 29 years.

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Background: Nitrous oxide gas (N2O) has been proposed to be effective in the treatment of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). This has not been proved, however, in studies performed according to good clinical practice guidelines. Moreover, previous studies have not measured end tidal N2O concentrations or physiologic responses during N2O treatment.

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