Publications by authors named "T P Atkins"
Understanding factors that determine a species' geographical range is crucial for predicting climate-induced range shifts. Two milkweed species, Asclepias syriaca and Asclepias speciosa, have overlapping ranges along a moisture gradient in North America and are primary food sources for endangered monarch caterpillars. With decreasing moisture, long-lived species often exhibit slower growth and greater drought tolerance, while many annual species exhibit faster growth strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A culturally responsive health workforce is essential to ensure the delivery of culturally safe health services that meet Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples needs. In partnership with universities, placement providers play an essential role in creating opportunities for immersive experiences that enable students to develop their cultural responsiveness. This study evaluated students' experiences of an innovative student placement model embedded within an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community-Controlled Health Organisation.
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- More people want to get speech therapy services through telehealth, like phone or video calls, instead of in-person visits.
- Researchers studied different trials to see if telehealth was as good as face-to-face therapy for people who stutter and those with Parkinson's disease and found no big differences.
- The conclusion is that telehealth could be a good option for speech therapy, but more studies are needed to learn about how it affects people's overall happiness and quality of life.
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- - The study examines how varying microvascular resistance affects fractional flow reserve (FFR) and hyperaemic stenosis resistance (hSR), which are crucial for making medical decisions regarding stenosis severity.
- - Researchers conducted tests simulating the coronary flow circuit at different degrees of stenosis and downstream resistance, finding that FFR increases with higher microvascular resistance while hSR remains steady.
- - The findings suggest that high downstream resistance can lead to misinterpretation of stenosis severity, as an 84% stenosis could yield a misleading FFR value over 0.8, highlighting the need to factor in microvascular resistance when assessing stenosis significance.
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- - The review aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of telephone and video interviews in psychiatric diagnosis compared to traditional face-to-face sessions, using data from various databases up to June 2023.
- - It included 35 studies, showing that telehealth can be a reliable alternative for diagnosing certain mental health conditions like depression and PTSD, especially when in-person visits aren’t possible.
- - While preliminary results are promising, highlighting telehealth's potential, especially post-COVID, further research is necessary to confirm its effectiveness across a broader range of patients and contexts.