Features of and barriers to effective teamwork at university and on clinical placement: The student radiographer perspective.

Introduction: Radiography departments require effective teamwork in order to deliver high standards of safe and efficient patient care. The aim of this study was to explore the features of and barriers to effective teamwork as experienced by pre-registration BSc and MSc diagnostic radiography students at university and during clinical placement.

Method: This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews and the thematic analysis approach of Braun and Clark to investigate the views of diagnostic radiography students on BSc and MSc pre-registration programmes from one university in the Northwest of England.

Recovery of threatened plant species and their habitats in the biodiversity hotspot of the Southwest Australian Floristic Region.

The Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) is a global biodiversity hotspot with high plant diversity and endemism and a broad range of threatening processes. An outcome of this is a high proportion of rare and threatened plant species. Ongoing discovery and taxonomic description of new species, many of which are rare, increases the challenges for recovery of threatened species and prioritisation of conservation actions.

High-intensity interval training and athletic performance in Taekwondo athletes.

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on athletic performance in Taekwondo athletes.

Methods: Thirty-three male and female collegiate Taekwondo athletes were randomly divided into a HIIT group (N.=16) or a high-intensity continuous running (HICR) group (N.

Identification of the monomeric G-protein, Rhes, as an efaroxan-regulated protein in the pancreatic beta-cell.

Efaroxan induces membrane depolarization by interaction with the pore forming subunit of the ATP-sensitive potassium channel, Kir6.2. However, this effect is not responsible for its full secretory activity.

Imidazolines and pancreatic hormone secretion.

A range of imidazoline derivatives are known to be effective stimulators of insulin secretion, and this response correlates with closure of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in the pancreatic beta-cell. However, mounting evidence indicates that potassium channel blockade may form only part of the mechanism by which imidazolines exert their effects on insulin secretion. Additionally, it remains unclear whether members of this class of drugs can bind directly to potassium channel components and whether occupation of a single binding site accounts for their functional activity.