Publications by authors named "P J Male"

Learning to manage annoyed, angry and intimidating patients is easier than it may appear if this type of behaviour is understood. However, caregivers' stress often prevents them from adopting the right attitude or using the right words to pacify this aggression. If professionals want a calmer hospital setting where they can derive more satisfaction and greater pleasure from their daily work, it is important that they understand themselves and learn how to manage themselves and others.

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Mutualisms may be "key innovations" that spur lineage diversification by augmenting niche breadth, geographic range, or population size, thereby increasing speciation rates or decreasing extinction rates. Whether mutualism accelerates diversification in both interacting lineages is an open question. Research suggests that plants that attract ant mutualists have higher diversification rates than non-ant associated lineages.

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Wind turbine site planning is a multidisciplinary task comprising of several stakeholder groups from different domains and with different priorities. An information system capable of integrating the knowledge on the multiple aspects of a wind turbine plays a crucial role on providing a common picture to the involved groups. In this study, we have developed an interactive and intuitive 3D system (Falcon) for planning wind turbine locations.

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In plant-animal mutualisms, how an animal forages often determines how much benefit its plant partner receives. In many animals, foraging behaviour changes in response to gene expression or activation of the cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) that encodes. Here, we show that this highly conserved molecular mechanism affects the outcome of a plant-animal mutualism.

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