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Showing 1 to 20 of 370 for “"Babies"”.
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B'More For Healthy Babies: A Case Study
… 13.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. Black babies were five times more likely to die than white babies (Baltimore City Health Department, n.d.). In response to this public health crisis, government, nonprofit, academic, and corporate leaders launched B’More for Healthy Babies to address the …
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Design alternatives for a cooling teether for babies
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1990.
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Babes, Balls, and Babies: A Working Ethnography of Motherhood
"Women's professional athletics in America---part business venture, part self-help group, part sociological movement---has become an intriguing site for exploring the relationship of women to the global socio-cultural matrix. In American women's sports, particularly team sports, women's bodies and …
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"""They're My Babies..."": The Role and Professional Development of Instructional Aides"
I have chosen black feminist thought and critical race theory as the theoretical foundation of this work because they complement the lenses through which I see the world. Black feminist thought is important because it deals with the intersectionality of race, class and gender. Critical race theory …
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Powerless responsibility: women’s experiences of caring for their late preterm baby/babies.
… of women who are caring for late preterm baby/babies (LPBs). These women’s experiences are especially relevant to examine, as the number of babies born late preterm is rising. Traditionally mothers and their LPBs have been studied under the umbrella of the general preterm infant population, …
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Acoustic-phonetic analysis of the prespeech vocalizations of babies with cleft palate
… of investigating the prespeech vocalizations of babies with cleft palate. Because prespeech vocalizations appear to play an important role in the acquisition of language, it is vital to have a means of identifying these vocalizations beyond the phonemic inventory which omits potentially important …
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The lived experiences of mothers regarding care of their hospitalised preterm babies
… of mothers while providing care to their preterm babies. The quality of care could be improved by ongoing communication with the mothers while in the neonatal unit, since this promotes their confidence and competence. This in turn enables positive interactions between mothers and their babies and …
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Applying principles of Information Design to help parents accept babies with Down syndrome
… and expecting parents to promote acceptance of babies with Down syndrome. This project is also a study of information architecture and icon development, and an opportunity to study the universal and emotive qualities of an iconic system.
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"Holy dwarves" and "devil babies": An anthropological world-survey of stigmatization of the disabled
Disability exists as a human universal based upon conceptual categorizations. Positive and negative forms of stigmatization exist cross-culturally, and are examined in a world-survey format in terms of emic socio-cultural level, subsistence economy, and religion. I suggest that responses to …
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Holding the baby: the contribution of Early Years Teachers to leading practice with babies
Pedagogical practice and leadership with babies in nursery settings requires professionals who understand how babies learn and develop within the context of loving relationships with adults who know them well. Experiential placements with babies in supportive early years settings facilitate this. …
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Childhood Outcomes after Dextrose Gel for Treating and Preventing Low Glucose Levels in Babies
Oral dextrose gel effectively treats and prevents neonatal hypoglycaemia, but its long-term benefits and harms remain unclear. This thesis aimed to investigate childhood outcomes after oral dextrose gel to treat and prevent neonatal hypoglycaemia in late preterm and term at-risk infants. We updated …
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Growing Babies, Growing faith: The Formation of Faith in The Life of the Child
The composition and formation of a young child's Muslim identity is situated within a contextual landscape of location, history, demographic, family, community and more which makes every child's upbringing unique. Through multiple interviews, visits and general discussions, this research sets out …
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After work or study abroad: Chinese return migration and Kunming’s ‘Jia Xiang Bao’ - hometown babies.
… first two key findings - jia xiang bao `hometown babies' and the desire to be a `big fish in a little sea' - can motivate future policy decisions that seek to attract returnees. The third, unexpected finding - xiao xiong xin or `little ambition' of younger generations - acknowledges the perceived …
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'We're Not Little Babies Anymore': A Cultural History of Small Girls in America, 1920-1945
… serve and for whom?</p><p>"`We're Not Little Babies Anymore: A Cultural History of Small Girls in America, 1920-1945," explores these questions within an historical context and utilizes a different medium of popular culture for each era. Thus, in the 1920s, comic strips of the newspapers are …
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Design alternatives to improve consumer appeal and manufacturability of a water-filled teether for babies
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.
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Save the Babies: Progressive Women and the Fight for Child Welfare in the United States, 1912-1929
… project examines two organizations--the Better Babies Bureau and the Children's Bureau--created by Progessive women in the early twentieth century to combat high infant mortality rates, improve prenatal and postnatal care, and better child welfare. The Better Babies Bureau, founded in 1913 by …
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Prevalence of babies born with neural tube defects and geospatial mapping of therapeutic services: a systematic review
Introduction: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are an important global health concern with high morbidity and mortality. Enhancing access to healthcare for children born with NTDs is crucial for improving health systems and service delivery. Methods: We conducted a systematic review to assess the global …
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Do South African mothers shake their babies? incidence and risk factors for infant abuse in Cape Town
Abusive head trauma from shaking is a recognised common cause of fatal head injury in young children globally, although there is little evidence of its occurrence in South Africa. This is perplexing given that the country has amongst the highest reported under-five child mortality and infanticide …
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