Publications by authors named "S Stanley"
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- - Western Australia effectively managed COVID-19 public health measures, but healthcare staff still faced significant mental health risks, particularly during the pandemic's early years.
- - A study involving 183 healthcare workers found stable rates of post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety over time, but those with initially lower symptoms experienced greater increases, while those with higher symptoms saw smaller declines—a phenomenon described as a "catch-up" effect.
- - Key risk factors for psychological symptom changes included workplace stress, sleep problems, and trauma exposure, while supportive workplace and social networks helped protect mental health, indicating a need for improvements in systemic support for healthcare professionals.
The separation between people and nature is a key driver of environmental decline. Despite increased interest in nature connectedness, we know little about nature disconnection or the degree of connectedness required for pro-environmental choices. Using a large probability sample of Australians (N = 1101), we explore differences in the characteristics, attitudes, and priorities among those with low, moderate, and high nature connectedness levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFC photosynthesis is used by the most productive plants on the planet, and compared with the ancestral C pathway, it confers a 50% increase in efficiency. In more than 60 C lineages, CO fixation is compartmentalized between tissues, and bundle-sheath cells become photosynthetically activated. How the bundle sheath acquires this alternate identity that allows efficient photosynthesis is unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfected macrophages transition into aerobic glycolysis, a metabolic program crucial for control of bacterial infection. However, antimicrobial mechanisms supported by aerobic glycolysis are unclear. Methylglyoxal is a highly toxic aldehyde that modifies proteins and DNA and is produced as a side-product of glycolysis.
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- * Researchers used genetic screening to identify key genes that help these persister cells survive during both normal and stress-induced conditions, uncovering a role for detoxifying reactive oxygen species (ROS).
- * They discovered that antibiotic exposure generates ROS, which can worsen bacterial death, and identified that the enzyme KatG is critical for the survival of persister cells under certain conditions, particularly in nutrient-deprived environments.