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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

BLACK-ARTS: a qualitative study exploring the insights of black young people with psychiatric disorders and the uses of creative arts therapies to improve mental well-being. [PDF]

BMJ Ment Health
Applewhite B, Birnkammer S, Hartland V, Campbell O, Horsley C, Meghen-Prudhoe R, Crane J, Berry M, Singh I, Buckman JEJ, Kringelbach M.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing of the Fecal Microbiome in Pet Dogs and Cats of Different Breeds in Dhaka City, Bangladesh: With Preliminary Insights Into Zoonotic Relevance. [PDF]

Int J Microbiol
Tania MNT, Sabrin MS, Mannan MA, Islam MM, Hossain MT, Rahman MH, Islam MR, Sultana S, Hossain MS, Islam M.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Investigation of Shelter Workers' Perspectives on the Assessment and Management of Unowned Cat Welfare in the United Kingdom. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Bhatia A, Barcelos AM, McDonald JL, Waterman J, Finka L.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Host‐Specific Interactions Between Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Impair Epithelial Repair in Chronic Rhinosinusitis

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is frequently associated with polymicrobial biofilms involving Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Interactions between these organisms are thought to influence disease severity, but the epithelial effects of exoproteins derived from patient‐matched cocultures remain poorly defined ...
Xiaohan Sun, Mahnaz Ramezanpour, George Bouras, Emma Barry, Alkis J. Psaltis, Peter‐John Wormald, Sarah Vreugde   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Dogs and Cats: Evidence for Gastrointestinal and Emerging Extra-Intestinal Applications. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Jin J, Xu C, Bao W.
europepmc   +1 more source

The potency of native postbiotics and paraprobiotics in modulating inflammation by affecting the gut–kidney axis

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Native postbiotics and paraprobiotics derived from Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains were administered to dextran sulfate sodium–treated C57BL/6 mice to evaluate their impact on kidney inflammation via the gut–kidney axis. Histological analysis and quantitative polymerase chain reaction of autophagy‐related genes (atg5, atg7, atg12, atg13 ...
Fatemeh Haririzadeh Jouriani, Mahnaz Torfeh, Fatemeh Ashrafian, Niloofar Rezaie, Mohsen Mohammadi, Shadi Aghamohammad, Mahdi Rohani   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source