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Showing 1 to 20 of 3449 for “"Birth."”.
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Birth Village
… considering the historical backdrop of childbirth within a village setting. The primary objective of my thesis is to confront the increasing maternal mortality rates in the United States by examining the pivotal junction of healthcare infrastructure and maternal health. This entails …
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Choosing vaginal breech birth : discourses of breech birth in contemporary society
… for planned, rather than unplanned, vaginal birth. Despite maternity services in middle and high income countries offering limited support for planned vaginal breech birth, some women continue to seek this option for birth. Little is known about these women and how socio-cultural views impact …
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Birth after Caesarean Section
Birth after caesarean section (CS) is an issue of growing importance. As a consequence of increasing CS rates, more women having experienced a prior CS will need counselling about preferred second delivery mode. There are two choices: elective repeat caesarean section (ERCS) or trial of labour …
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Assigned Disaster at Birth
Assigned Disaster at Birth is the scifi surrealist autofictitious diary and scrapbook of a queer space alien stuck in a humanoid body, a trans transhuman, written mostly in verse. The space alien speaker of these poems moves through multiple marginalized human identities ultimately remembering it …
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Birth Outcomes In Georgia: Socioeconomic and Ecological Analyses of Low Birth Weight, 2000-2006
… medical and preventive care in the U.S., the low birth weight percentage continues to rise in the U.S. and the state of Georgia. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of socioeconomic status, county type (rural vs. urban), and adequacy of prenatal care on low birth weight in …
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IRON OVERLOAD AND BIRTH DEFECTS
Large, intravenous doses of iron-dextran are teratogenic in a number of laboratory species (M Phil). To elucidate the mechanism, studies were performed in rats and rabbits to identify possible maternal, placental and foetal sites of action. Maternal toxicity, manifested by bodyweight depression, …
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Perinatal Depression and Preterm Birth
… the notable 15 year low in overall preterm birth (PTB), a 10% improvement since the 2006 peak with declines for each of the largest race and Hispanic origin groups, the United States has the highest rate of PTB of any industrialized country with estimates of 11.5% or approximately 500,000 …
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Does birth order affect intelligence?
… investigation was to determine whether birth order has an effect on intelligence. Seventy-four undergraduate students from Rowan University participated in my study. During class-time, I handed out a questionnaire with questions pertaining to the student's birth order within their family …
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The birth of English literature
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The birth of a word
… hours of audio and video of daily life from birth to age three. The annotated subset of this data spans the child's 9-24 month age range and contains more than 8 million words of transcribed speech, constituting a detailed record of both the child's input and linguistic development. Such a …
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Anxiety and birth order: does birth order play a role in a child's anxiety level?
… is an interaction between anxiety levels and birth order. It was hypothesized that the first-born child would have a higher level of total anxiety than a non-first born child. It was also hypothesized that females would have an overall higher level of anxiety than males. The Revised Children's …
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Birth-story and the Unbearable age
Currently there is a wealth of information about birth stories by mothers charting the experience of birth, but a marked lack of research of the birth-story’s influence on the recipient. A birth-story has potency when told by a significant adult, intensifying our identification with it and can …
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Birth Trauma: A mixed-methods investigation
… one-third of women appraise their childbirth experience as traumatic and many women experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result. Whilst earlier work concentrated on prevalence and risk factors of clinically significant trauma, recent research focuses on the …
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Birth Order and Reasons for Living.
… was to examine possible relationships between birth order and reasons for living. Additionally, gender differences were examined with respect to the relationship between these characteristics and reasons for living. It was hypothesized that women would score higher than men, non-ideators would …
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