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Background: Although the advantages of interprofessional care have been proven and pregnant women in Switzerland have free choice of caregivers, most of them are cared for exclusively by physicians. Objective: To collect expert knowledge on the factors determining success or failure of interprofessional collaboration between midwives and gynaecologists within antenatal care in Switzerland. Research question: What does best practice look like in interprofessional antenatal care provided by midwives and gynaecologists in Switzerland? Methods: Five semi-structured dyadic and group interviews with six midwives and five gynaecologists who provide interprofessional antenatal care in Switzerland. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and qualitative content analysis was applied. Findings: Information was acquired on best practice topics such as values , knowledge and context . A new topic, interpersonal relationships and workplace culture , emerged as an additional factor in the success of interprofessional antenatal care. Conclusions: There is no "best" form of internal organisation for interprofessional collaboration. What is more important is a clear concept, supported by all participants, and good interpersonal relationships among caregivers. The implementation of interprofessional collaboration presents political, economic, social and organisational challenges. ; Hintergrund: Obwohl die Vorteile von interprofessioneller Betreuung belegt sind und Schwangere in der Schweiz die Wahlfreiheit haben, wird die Mehrzahl ausschließlich von ärztlicher Seite betreut. Ziel: Darstellung von Expert*innenwissen zu Einflussfaktoren auf das Gelingen bzw. das Misslingen von interprofessioneller Schwangerenvorsorge durch Hebammen und Gynäkolog*innen. Forschungsfrage: Wie sieht Best Practice in der interprofessionellen Schwangerenvorsorge durch Hebammen und Gynäkolog*innen in der Schweiz aus? Methode: Fünf teilstrukturierte Gruppen- und Paarinterviews mit sechs Hebammen und fünf Ärztinnen, die in der Schweiz interprofessionelle ...

Funding: Max Planck Society. Engineering and Physical Science Research Council PhD studentship support via grant EP/L015110/1 (PHM,MDB). Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat EXC 2147, project-id 390858490. European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (MiTopMat - grant agreement No 715730) (PJWM,CP). ; Intense work studying the ballistic regime of electron transport in two-dimensional systems based on semiconductors and graphene had been thought to have established most of the key experimental facts of the field. In recent years, however, additional forms of ballistic transport have become accessible in the quasi–two-dimensional delafossite metals, whose Fermi wavelength is a factor of 100 shorter than those typically studied in the previous work and whose Fermi surfaces are nearly hexagonal in shape and therefore strongly faceted. This has some profound consequences for results obtained from the classic ballistic transport experiment of studying bend and Hall resistances in mesoscopic squares fabricated from delafossite single crystals. We observe pronounced anisotropies in bend resistances and even a Hall voltage that is strongly asymmetric in magnetic field. Although some of our observations are nonintuitive at first sight, we show that they can be understood within a nonlocal Landauer-Büttiker analysis tailored to the symmetries of the square/hexagonal geometries of our combined device/Fermi surface system. Signatures of nonlocal transport can be resolved for squares of linear dimension of nearly 100 µm, approximately a factor of 15 larger than the bulk mean free path of the crystal from which the device was fabricated. ; Publisher PDF ; Peer reviewed

Species distributions are influenced by processes occurring at multiple spatial scales. It is therefore insufficient to model species distribution at a single geographic scale, as this does not provide the necessary understanding of determining factors. Instead, multiple approaches are needed, each differing in spatial extent, grain, and research objective. Here, we present the first attempt to model continent-wide great ape density distribution. We used site-level estimates of African great ape abundance to (1) identify socioeconomic and environmental factors that drive densities at the continental scale, and (2) predict range-wide great ape density. We collated great ape abundance estimates from 156 sites and defined 134 pseudo-absence sites to represent additional absence locations. The latter were based on locations of unsuitable environmental conditions for great apes, and on existing literature. We compiled seven socioeconomic and environmental covariate layers and fitted a generalized linear model to investigate their influence on great ape abundance. We used an Akaike-weighted average of full and subset models to predict the range-wide density distribution of African great apes for the year 2015. Great ape densities were lowest where there were high Human Footprint and Gross Domestic Product values; the highest predicted densities were in Central Africa, and the lowest in West Africa. Only 10.7% of the total predicted population was found in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Category I and II protected areas. For 16 out of 20 countries, our estimated abundances were largely in line with those from previous studies. For four countries, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and South Sudan, the estimated populations were excessively high. We propose further improvements to the model to overcome survey and predictor data limitations, which would enable a temporally dynamic approach for monitoring great apes across their range based on key indicators.