BACKGROUND Postural drainage chest physiotherapy in infants with cystic fibrosis (CF) exacerbates gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) and may contribute to a more rapid deterioration in lung function. AIMS To compare standard postural drainage chest physiotherapy (SPT) and a modified physiotherapy regimen (MPT) without head-down tilt, with regard to GOR, arousal state, and cardiorespiratory funct...

Digit sucking or thumb sucking habits are most commonly seen in younger children. These habits continued in their latter part of life and results in minor or major dental and skeletal discrepancies. The affected patients go through the psychological stress because of social factors and pain due to intervention to correct the dental and skeletal problems. There is also a cost burden on the paren...

Goniorrhachis marginata Taub. (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) is a tree species found in Brazilian tropical dry forests that retain their leaves during the dry season. That being, we addressed the following question: i) How do insect diversity (sap-sucking and chewing), leaf herbivory and defensive traits (tannin and leaf sclerophylly) vary on the evergreen tree species G. marginata between sea...

In this study, removal of a transitional object (pillow) was applied as the sole intervention for one of two siblings who sucked their thumbs. The intervention was applied only to the older sibling, whereas data were collected on the thumb sucking of both participants. Results indicated that removal of the transitional object for the older sibling reduced thumb sucking in both siblings and incr...

Background: This study aimed to investigate differences in sucking behavior of infants bottle-fed with vented (socalled anticolic) teats (VTs) and nonvented teats (NVTs). Methods: Trial design: Prospective, randomized clinical trial. Ninety-six term, healthy infants (aged 1–8 months) were assessed for eligibility. Seventy-three infants remained for intention-to-treat (ITT) and 65 infants (vente...

Methods 1. High Amplitude Sucking (HAS) a. measures infant sucking rate during exposure to auditory stimuli in three phases i. acquisition phase–infants increase their sucking rate during initial exposure ii. habituation phase–point where experimenter might change the auditory stimulus iii. dishabituation phase–period where infants react to the change/continued stimulus b. used with infants fro...

Forty 3-year-old dummy-sucking children (22 Swedes and 18 Norwegians) together with one of their parents, were shown a specially prepared videotape for 15 minutes The child had free access to its dummy while watching the video. The dummy-sucking time and sucking reactions to the different film sequences were registered. The presence or absence of a posterior crossbite was recorded as well as th...

The aim of this experiment was to study the effects of pen size and parity on maternal behaviour of twin-bearing Small-Tail Han ewes. A total of 24 ewes were allocated to a 2×2 design (six per pen), with parity (primiparous or multiparous) and pen size (large: 6.0×3.0 m; small: 6.0×1.5 m) as main effects at Linyi University, Shandong Province, China. Behaviour was observed from after parturitio...

Self-sucking or sucking other animals in the herd, which has an abnormal behavior disorder, and it is important problem dairy cattle farms. Surgical treatment mostly recommended as a for this disease, causes economic problems. In study, was carried out on self-sucking cows, aimed to investigate effects different surgical techniques modern individual family While of disorder farms been successfu...