Postpartum cessation of urban space use by a female baboon living at the edge of the City of Cape Town.

Species with slow life history strategies that invest in few offspring with extended parental care need to adapt their behavior to cope with anthropogenic changes that occur within their lifetime. Here we show that a female chacma baboon () that commonly ranges within urban space in the City of Cape Town, South Africa, stops using urban space after giving birth. This change of space use occurs without any significant change in daily distance traveled or social interactions that would be expected with general risk-sensitive behavior after birth.

A changing climate for seagrass conservation?

Tropical coral reefs are threatened and in decline, and their future is highly uncertain. With increasing rates of climate change and rising global temperatures, people looking to coral reefs for food and income may increasingly have to rely on resources from other habitats. Efforts to protect and conserve the coral reefs we have left are critical for a suite of economic, ecological, cultural and intrinsic reasons, but there is also an urgent need to take heed of the future scenarios from coral reefs and broaden the focus of tropical marine conservation.

A novel method to correctly place the fasciotomy incision for decompression of the anterior and peroneal compartments of the leg.

Unlabelled: Incorrectly placed fasciotomy incisions can lead to catastrophic complications in compartment syndrome. Two distinctly different techniques are widely practiced to decompress the anterior and peroneal compartments. In one technique the anterior compartment is decompressed directly, and then the peroneal via the inter-muscular septum, avoiding the peroneal perforators.

A framework for the resilience of seagrass ecosystems.

Seagrass ecosystems represent a global marine resource that is declining across its range. To halt degradation and promote recovery over large scales, management requires a radical change in emphasis and application that seeks to enhance seagrass ecosystem resilience. In this review we examine how the resilience of seagrass ecosystems is becoming compromised by a range of local to global stressors, resulting in ecological regime shifts that undermine the long-term viability of these productive ecosystems.

Disturbance influences the invasion of a seagrass into an existing meadow.

Future impacts from climate change and human activities may increase the likelihood of invasions of native marine species into existing habitats as a result of range shifts. To provide an understanding of the invasion of a native seagrass species (Syringodium isoetifolium) into a tropical multi-species meadow, detailed field assessments were conducted over a six year period. After establishing in a discrete patch, the extent and standing crop of S.

Commissioning healthcare for people with long term conditions: the persistence of relational contracting in England's NHS quasi-market.

Background: Since 1991, there has been a series of reforms of the English National Health Service (NHS) entailing an increasing separation between the commissioners of services and a widening range of public and independent sector providers able to compete for contracts to provide services to NHS patients. We examine the extent to which local commissioners had adopted a market-oriented (transactional) model of commissioning of care for people with long term conditions several years into the latest period of market-oriented reform. The paper also considers the factors that may have inhibited or supported market-oriented behaviour, including the presence of conditions conducive to a health care quasi-market.

Maternal experience of musculoskeletal pain during pregnancy and birth outcomes: significance of lower back and pelvic pain.

Aim: to examine the association between back and pelvic pain during pregnancy and birth outcomes.

Background: back and pelvic pain during pregnancy is a common occurrence. It is known to affect maternal functioning and well-being during pregnancy and can persist postnatally and beyond.

Animal navigation: salmon track magnetic variation.

How animals navigate long distances to specific targets remains enigmatic. For Pacific salmon, new evidence suggests fish imprint on the magnetic coordinates of their home river and use this information to guide their return from distant open-ocean feeding areas.

Nursing scholarship and the asymmetrical professor.

A recent editorial by David Thompson and Roger Watson prompted the question 'Nursing professors: what do they profess?', with the stated intention of stimulating thought about the role of professors and their scholarly endeavours. This paper has been written in response to their challenge, and outlines a scholarly role for the professor of nursing which is very different from Thompson and Watson's 'pipe dream' of the university without students. In particular, I argue for a fully-rounded 'symmetrical professor' whose role is not predominantly to conduct research, but rather to 'profess the profession'.