Workforce research priorities for emergency nurses in Australia.

Background: The current nursing shortage is a critical issue facing healthcare systems. Workforce research priorities foremergency nurses are limited.This study aimed to identify, collate, and prioritise areas of workforce research for emergency nursing in Australia.

Longitudinal stability and Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale-2 predictors of the Childhood Joint Attention Rating Scale.

This study tested a measure designed to capture social development in childhood and adolescence called the Childhood Joint Attention Rating Scale. This is important to study as most measures of social behavior are for preschool-aged children. We asked parents of 64 autistic children, 27 children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and 36 neurotypical children to fill out a new parent questionnaire designed to assess social skills.

Hydrological classification of mine pit lakes using modelling experiments.

With the growing global prevalence of open-pit mining activities, there is an increasing necessity for sustainable mine life cycle plans with an early outlook towards mine closure. A major consideration in mine closure planning is the potential formation of lakes in the mine void and how these "pit lakes" can be managed to minimise risks and, if possible, create benefits. Understanding the long-term interactions between pit lakes, groundwater, and surface water systems is essential for that purpose.

Vegetation cover, topography, and low-traffic roads influence Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai) movement and habitat selection.

Background: Anthropogenic activities occurring throughout the Sonoran Desert are replacing and fragmenting habitat and reducing landscape connectivity for the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai). Understanding how the structure of the landscape influences tortoise habitat use and movement can help develop strategies for mitigating the impacts of these landscape alterations, which are conservation actions needed to support the species' long-term persistence. However, how natural and anthropogenic features influence fine-scale habitat use and movement of Sonoran desert tortoises remains unclear.

Species distribution models predict genetic isolation of Hagen in Selys, 1853 (Odonata, Calopterygidae).

Understanding how past and current environmental conditions shape the demographic and genetic distributions of organisms facilitates our predictions of how future environmental patterns may affect populations. The Canyon Rubyspot damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera: ) is an insect with a range distribution from Colombia to the arid southwestern United States, where it inhabits shaded mountain streams in the arid southwestern United States. Past spatial fragmentation of habitat and limited dispersal capacity of may cause population isolation and genetic differentiation, and projected climate change may exacerbate isolation by further restricting the species' distribution.

Tricaprilin (CER-0001) for the preventive treatment of migraine: A phase 2 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study.

Background: Increasing evidence indicates a metabolic etiology for migraines, with ketosis potentially rectifying metabolic and clinical features. We conducted a pilot study to evaluate CER-0001, a ketogenic agent, for migraine prevention without dietary changes.

Methods: This was a 2-part, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study conducted in Australia.

Factors that contribute to turnover and retention amongst emergency department nurses: A scoping review.

Background: Internationally, the emergency nursing workforce shortage is of critical concern.

Aim: To synthesise the evidence and assess the scope of literature regarding factors that contribute to turnover and retention amongst emergency nurses.

Method: A scoping review using the Joanna Briggs Institute approach was undertaken.

Applying the lessons of design thinking: a unique programme of care for acutely unwell, community-dwelling COVID-19 patients.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic limited access to primary care and in-person assessments requiring healthcare providers to re-envision care delivery for acutely unwell outpatients. Design thinking methodology has the potential to support the robust evolution of a new clinical model.

Aim: To demonstrate how design thinking methodology can rapidly and rigorously create and evolve a safe, timely, equitable and patient-centred programme of care, and to share valuable lessons for effective implementation of design thinking solutions to address complex problems.

The Lindsay Leg Club Well Leg Regime: an evidence review.

This article aims to review the scarce available evidence on the effectiveness of the Well Leg Programme within the Lindsay Leg Clubs in terms of preventing wound recurrence and improving members' wellbeing. It collates the numerical data on members' wounds and healing rates from the Lindsay Leg Club relational database and members' narratives from a qualitative service evaluation of the Lindsay Leg Clubs. Findings of the review suggest that remaining within the Well Leg regime for several months (or longer) after having had a healed ulcer seems to provide further opportunity to prevent recurrence, and may also provide non-clinical benefits, such as improved wellbeing.

Watershed-Mediated Ecomorphological Variation: A Case Study with the Twin-Striped Clubtail Dragonfly ().

Anthropogenic land-cover change is modifying ecosystems at an accelerating rate. Changes to ecomorphologically variable taxa within those ecosystems serve as early-warning signs that resources on which humans and other animals depend are being altered. One known ecomorphologically variable taxon is , a species of dragonfly in the southeastern United States that shows pronounced variation in total body length across its limited geographic range.

Writing Self-Concept, Text Engagement, and Writing Practices Across Contexts: Comparisons Between School-Age Children on the Autism Spectrum and Their Non-Autistic Peers.

Purpose: Autistic children demonstrate highly variable written language skills. Existing research has focused on examining autistic children's performance on direct assessments of written language. In contrast, few studies have sought to understand how autistic children conceptualize their writing abilities or engage with writing across different contexts compared to non-autistic peers.

The Construct Validity of the Childhood Joint Attention Rating Scale (C-JARS) in School-Aged Autistic Children.

Preliminary evidence from the Childhood Joint Attention Rating Scale (C-JARS; Mundy et al., 2017) suggests symptoms related to diminished joint attention and the spontaneous sharing of experience with others can be assessed with a parent-report measure in children and adolescents with autism. This study was designed to expand on the previous study by examining the validity of both a Social Symptom (SS) and a Prosocial (PS) scale of the C-JARS in a study of school-aged autistic children (n  = 89) with and without co-occurring intellectual disability (ID), as well as an age matched neurotypical sample (n  = 62).

Intra- and interobserver variability of novel magnetic resonance imaging parameters for hip screening and treatment outcomes at age 5 years.

Background: The outcome measure of neonatal hip screening is usually the radiographic acetabular index.

Objective: To assess the feasibility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) without sedation and compare the utility of outcome parameters measured from MRI images.

Materials And Methods: The invitation for MRI scanning at 5 years of age was incorporated into follow-up for babies who had more than one ultrasound examination during treatment or surveillance.

Brief Report: The Factors Associated with Social Cognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

This study examined whether school-aged autistic children without co-occurring intellectual disabilities (autistic) show similar difficulty on Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks as young autistic children and if these difficulties are related to problems in domain-general aspects of cognition. Eighty-one autistic and 44 neurotypical (NT) children between the ages of 8-16 years participated in this study and were matched on verbal IQ. ToM performance significantly and independently differentiated many, but not all, autistic and NT participants above and beyond the effects of working memory and inferential thinking.

Access to online learning: Machine learning analysis from a social justice perspective.

Access to education is the first step to benefiting from it. Although cumulative online learning experience is linked academic learning gains, between-country inequalities mean that large populations are prevented from accumulating such experience. Low-and-middle-income countries are affected by disadvantages in infrastructure such as internet access and uncontextualised learning content, and parents who are less available and less well-resourced than in high-income countries.

Understanding the relationship between family income and conduct problems: findings from the mental health of children and young people survey.

Background: Children from low-socioeconomic backgrounds exhibit more behavioural difficulties than those from more affluent families. Influential theoretical models specify family stress and child characteristics as mediating this effect. These accounts, however, have often been based on cross-sectional data or longitudinal analyses that do not capture all potential pathways, and therefore may not provide good policy guidance.

Localising ingested metallic foreign bodies to guide surgical planning: A novel use for the CT metal artefact reduction algorithm.

We present the case of a 20-year-old female patient who presented following ingestion of multiple button magnets. She remained clinically well however serial abdominal radiographs demonstrated the magnets were not passing through the gastrointestinal tract and a CT was, therefore, performed for further assessment and to aid surgical planning. Artefact from the magnets made interpretation of the CT challenging.

Patterns in reporting and participant inclusion related to race and ethnicity in autism intervention literature: Data from a large-scale systematic review of evidence-based practices.

Researchers who study autism-related interventions do a poor job reporting data related to the race and ethnicity of autistic individuals who participate in their studies, and of those who do report these data, the participants are overwhelmingly White. This is problematic for many reasons, as we know little about how interventions are meeting the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse populations, and we assume that interventions are effective for all when they have been developed and validated primarily with and for White children. This study examined the reporting patterns of autism intervention researchers whose work was included in a large-scale systematic review of the intervention literature published between 1990 and 2017.

Varlitinib plus capecitabine in second-line advanced biliary tract cancer: a randomized, phase II study (TreeTopp).

Background: Patients with advanced biliary tract cancer who progress on first-line therapy have limited treatment options. The TreeTopp study assessed varlitinib, a reversible small molecule pan-human epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor, plus capecitabine in previously treated advanced biliary tract cancer.

Patients And Methods: This global, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase II study enrolled patients with confirmed unresectable or metastatic biliary tract cancer and disease progression after one prior line of gemcitabine-containing chemotherapy.

Identifying structural connectivity priorities in eastern Paraguay's fragmented Atlantic Forest.

The Atlantic Forest of eastern Paraguay has experienced extensive recent deforestation. Less than one-third of the region is forested, and the remaining forest largely consists of isolated remnants with potentially disrupted connectivity for forest fauna. We used a graph theory approach to identify those forest remnants that are important in maintaining landscape structural connectivity for mammals in this fragmented forest.