Client and staff perspectives regarding effective work injury rehabilitation.

Objective Early, targeted treatment is critical to recovery and overall health following a work-related illness or injury. Limited research has explored the important dimensions of work-specific injury rehabilitation from both client and staff perspectives. Methods A total of 17 participants (13 clients with work-related injuries, 3 physiotherapists, 1 project manager) involved in a unique program providing allied health treatment in combination with return-to-work services, were interviewed.

The Complexities of Managing Gestational Diabetes in Women of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds: A Qualitative Study of Women's Experiences.

Aim: This study aimed to explore women's perspectives and experiences concerning how culture impacts the lifestyle management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in women of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

Methods: Women of any cultural background diagnosed with GDM within the previous 12 months were purposively recruited from two Australian metropolitan hospitals. Data collected using semi-structured interviews ( = 18) and focus groups ( = 15 women in three groups) were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.

Breastfeeding: Expressing and supplementing.

Background: Breastfeeding provides positive outcomes and is recommended by the World Health Organization and Australian health guidelines. While breastfeeding is the physiologically normal way to feed an infant, there are multiple reasons that supplemental feeds (ie feeds given in addition to breastmilk) may need to be given.

Objective: The aim of this article is to outline the current evidence and resources to support general practitioners to provide advice on breastfeeding when patients are expressing and supplementing.

An RCT of a decision aid to support informed choices about taking aspirin to prevent colorectal cancer and other chronic diseases: a study protocol for the SITA (Should I Take Aspirin?) trial.

Background: Australian guidelines recommend that all people aged 50-70 years old actively consider taking daily low-dose aspirin (100-300 mg per day) for 2.5 to 5 years to reduce their risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Despite the change of national CRC prevention guidelines, there has been no active implementation of the guidelines into clinical practice.

IASI-Derived Sea Surface Temperature Data Set for Climate Studies.

Sea surface temperature (SST) is an essential climate variable, that is directly used in climate monitoring. Although satellite measurements can offer continuous global coverage, obtaining a long-term homogeneous satellite-derived SST data set suitable for climate studies based on a single instrument is still a challenge. In this work, we assess a homogeneous SST data set derived from reprocessed Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) level-1 (L1C) radiance data.

Monthly Patterns of Ammonia Over the Contiguous United States at 2-km Resolution.

Monthly, high-resolution (∼2 km) ammonia (NH) column maps from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) were developed across the contiguous United States and adjacent areas. Ammonia hotspots (95th percentile of the column distribution) were highly localized with a characteristic length scale of 12 km and median area of 152 km. Five seasonality clusters were identified with k-means++ clustering.

Estimating exposure to hydrogen sulfide from animal husbandry operations using satellite ammonia as a proxy: Methodology demonstration.

Husbandry trace gases that have climate change implications such as carbon dioxide (CO), methane (CH) and ammonia (NH) can be quantified through remote sensing; however, many husbandry gases with health implications such as hydrogen sulfide (HS), cannot. This pilot study demonstrates an approach to derive HS concentrations by coupling in situ and remote sensing data. Using AMOG (AutoMObile trace Gas) Surveyor, a mobile air quality and meteorology laboratory, we measured in situ concentrations of CH, CO, NH, HS, and wind at a southern California university research dairy.

Atmospheric ammonia (NH) emanations from Lake Natron's saline mudflats.

In a recent global analysis of satellite-derived atmospheric NH data, a hotspot was observed in the vicinity of Lake Natron, Tanzania. The lake is in the centre of an endorheic (limited drainage) basin and has shallow, saline-alkaline waters. Its remote location and the absence of nearby large anthropogenic sources suggest that the observed NH is mainly of natural origin.

Industrial and agricultural ammonia point sources exposed.

Through its important role in the formation of particulate matter, atmospheric ammonia affects air quality and has implications for human health and life expectancy. Excess ammonia in the environment also contributes to the acidification and eutrophication of ecosystems and to climate change. Anthropogenic emissions dominate natural ones and mostly originate from agricultural, domestic and industrial activities.

Validation of mobile in situ measurements of dairy husbandry emissions by fusion of airborne/surface remote sensing with seasonal context from the Chino Dairy Complex.

Mobile in situ concentration and meteorology data were collected for the Chino Dairy Complex in the Los Angeles Basin by AMOG (AutoMObile trace Gas) Surveyor on 25 June 2015 to characterize husbandry emissions in the near and far field in convoy mode with MISTIR (Mobile Infrared Sensor for Tactical Incident Response), a mobile upwards-looking, column remote sensing spectrometer. MISTIR reference flux validated AMOG plume inversions at different information levels including multiple gases, GoogleEarth imagery, and airborne trace gas remote sensing data. Long-term (9-yr.

Ammonia Emissions May Be Substantially Underestimated in China.

China is a global hotspot of atmospheric ammonia (NH) emissions and, as a consequence, very high nitrogen (N) deposition levels are documented. However, previous estimates of total NH emissions in China were much lower than inference from observed deposition values would suggest, highlighting the need for further investigation. Here, we reevaluated NH emissions based on a mass balance approach, validated by N deposition monitoring and satellite observations, for China for the period of 2000 to 2015.

Remote sensing and in situ measurements of methane and ammonia emissions from a megacity dairy complex: Chino, CA.

Methane (CH) and ammonia (NH) directly and indirectly affect the atmospheric radiative balance with the latter leading to aerosol generation. Both have important spectral features in the Thermal InfraRed (TIR) that can be studied by remote sensing, with NH allowing discrimination of husbandry from other CH sources. Airborne hyperspectral imagery was collected for the Chino Dairy Complex in the Los Angeles Basin as well as in situ CH, carbon dioxide (CO) and NH data.

Using satellite-based measurements to explore spatiotemporal scales and variability of drivers of new particle formation.

New particle formation (NPF) can potentially alter regional climate by increasing aerosol particle (hereafter particle) number concentrations and ultimately cloud condensation nuclei. The large scales on which NPF is manifest indicate potential to use satellite-based (inherently spatially averaged) measurements of atmospheric conditions to diagnose the occurrence of NPF and NPF characteristics. We demonstrate the potential for using satellite-based measurements of insolation (UV), trace gas concentrations (sulfur dioxide (SO), nitrogen dioxide (NO), ammonia (NH), formaldehyde (HCHO), and ozone (O)), aerosol optical properties (aerosol optical depth (AOD) and Ångström exponent (AE)), and a proxy of biogenic volatile organic compound emissions (leaf area index (LAI) and temperature ()) as predictors for NPF characteristics: formation rates, growth rates, survival probabilities, and ultrafine particle (UFP) concentrations at five locations across North America.

The frequency distribution of presenting symptoms in children aged six months to six years to primary care.

Background: Primary care providers and researchers wishing to estimate study recruitment rates need estimates of illness frequency in primary care. Previous studies of children's symptoms have found that presentations are most common for the symptoms: cough, fever, earache, rash, diarrhoea and vomiting. Since 2000, primary care provision in the United Kingdom has changed with the introduction of Walk-in-Centres (WICs) and new Out of Hours (OoHs) providers.

Tetrahydrobiopterin metabolism in the temporal lobe of patients dying with senile dementia of Alzheimer type.

There is a defect in tetrahydrobiopterin metabolism in brains from subjects with senile dementia of Alzheimer type compared to age-matched controls. This defect results in lowered total biopterin concentrations in brain. Brains from subjects with senile dementia of Alzheimer type retain their ability to synthesis neopterin and have normal dihydropteridine reductase activity, indicating a specific loss of ability to convert dihydroneopterin triphosphate to tetrahydrobiopterin.

The distribution of electron density in corneal collagen fibrils.

Using high intensity synchrotron X-ray diffraction data, an electron density profile has been obtained for the collagen fibrils in corneal stroma at higher resolution than has been possible before. The details within this electron density distribution are discussed in terms of the collagen and its interactions with other components present in the tissue.