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Additional file 3: Postnatal questionnaire. Online questionnaire for completion by women participants after the birth of their baby.

Additional file 1: HCP online questionnaire. Online questionnaire for completion by healthcare professionals.

Since the Silurian, fire has played a pivotal role in the shaping of global landscapes. This is particularly evident for Australia’s environment with biological and biogeochemical processes reliant on a consistent bushfire regime. Throughout the late Holocene, there has been dramatic changes in both the anthropogenic and climatic influence on Australia’s bushfire regime, as a result of colonisation, loss of Indigenous landscape management and global warming. This project focused on reconstructing the wildfire history of eastern Kangaroo Island over the late Holocene, since ~6500 ka. Kangaroo Island was devastated by the 2019-20 summer bushfires, therefore the normality of wildfire events was called into question. By using a multi-proxy approach, coupling pyrogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons, the anhydrosugar levoglucosan and traditional charcoal data, this allowed for a distinguishment to be made between low intensity bushfires and high intensity wildfire events. It was shown that since ~4000 cal yr there has been a gradual increase in the frequency of burn events, however in the last 1200 ka, the intensity of bushfires has surged. This project demonstrates that the uninhabitance of Kangaroo Island by Indigenous Australians, along with changes in the influence of ENSO may have contributed to the new fire regime we see today.

Supplementary files to the manuscript "Open Hardware in Science: The Benefits of Open Electronics" published in the Journal Integrative and Comparative Biology. The collection contains raw data, R Markdown, data summaries, and plots of a Web of Science and a PLOS full text database search for common open electronics boards.

Additional file 2: Antenatal questionnaire. Online questionnaire for completion by women participants before the birth of their baby.

Importance Inadequate management of elevated blood pressure is a significant contributing factor to maternal deaths. The role of blood pressure self-monitoring in pregnancy in improving clinical outcomes for the pregnant individual and infant is unclear. Objective To evaluate the effect of blood pressure self-monitoring, compared with usual care alone, on blood pressure control and other related maternal and infant outcomes, in individuals with pregnancy hypertension. Design, Setting, and Participants Unblinded, randomized clinical trial that recruited between November 2018 and September 2019 in 15 hospital maternity units in England. Individuals with chronic hypertension (enrolled up to 37 weeks’ gestation) or with gestational hypertension (enrolled between 20 and 37 weeks’ gestation). Final follow-up was in May 2020. Interventions Participants were randomized to either blood pressure self-monitoring using a validated monitor and a secure telemonitoring system in addition to usual care (n = 430) or to usual care alone (n = 420). Usual care comprised blood pressure measured by health care professionals at regular antenatal clinics. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary maternal outcome was the difference in mean systolic blood pressure recorded by health care professionals between randomization and birth. Results Among 454 participants with chronic hypertension (mean age, 36 years; mean gestation at entry, 20 weeks) and 396 with gestational hypertension (mean age, 34 years; mean gestation at entry, 33 weeks) who were randomized, primary outcome data were available from 444 (97.8%) and 377 (95.2%), respectively. In the chronic hypertension cohort, there was no statistically significant difference in mean systolic blood pressure for the self-monitoring groups vs the usual care group (133.8 mm Hg vs 133.6 mm Hg, respectively; adjusted mean difference, 0.03 mm Hg [95% CI, −1.73 to 1.79]). In the gestational hypertension cohort, there was also no significant difference in mean systolic blood pressure (137.6 mm Hg compared with 137.2 mm Hg; adjusted mean difference, −0.03 mm Hg [95% CI, −2.29 to 2.24]). There were 8 serious adverse events in the self-monitoring group (4 in each cohort) and 3 in the usual care group (2 in the chronic hypertension cohort and 1 in the gestational hypertension cohort). Conclusions and Relevance Among pregnant individuals with chronic or gestational hypertension, blood pressure self-monitoring with telemonitoring, compared with usual care, did not lead to significantly improved clinic-based blood pressure control. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03334149

sj-docx-1-jar-10.1177_07435584211043879 for How Transgender Adolescents Experience Expressing Their Gender Identity Around New People: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis by Hannah Wilson, Aiysha Malik and Sam Thompson in Journal of Adolescent Research