GIVING BIRTH IS A UNIQUE EVENT. Apart from being a crucial physiologic process for mother and child, it is a psychological, social and sociological phenomenon. If it is a first birth for a young and recently wed girl, she becomes a mother, of a different and elevated status. In some societies this status is further enhanced if the newborn is a male. In ordinary circumstances, the birth of a chi...

On April 2, 2012 the Eindhoven University of Technology published the first adaptive PhD thesis [4] describing the research on the adaptation language and engine GALE, and served (adaptively) by the GALE engine. The aim of the this research was twofold: to make the authoring of adaptive documents feasible without much technical knowledge, and to create an adaptation and user modeling service th...

AIM To describe the development and testing of a monitoring model with quantitative indicators or progress markers that could measure the progress of individual hospitals in the implementation of kangaroo mother care (KMC). METHODS Three qualitative data sets in the larger research programme on the implementation of KMC of the MRC Research Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies i...

objectives: to investigate the effectiveness of resiliency training in improving the mother-child relationship between mothers and their children with mental retardation.  methods: this study employed an experimental design (pre-test, post-test) with the control group. the statistical population consisted of 52 mothers and their educable and mentally retarded children (3-12 years old) who were ...

We investigated how change in the characteristics of 140 adolescents and young adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) would predict subsequent change in maternal well-being and in the quality of the mother-child relationship. Overall patterns of improvement in maternal well-being and mother-child relationship quality were observed during the study. When the son or daughter had declining ...

Moe Kura is a longitudinal study focused on the role of sleep in health and well-being mothers children Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The leadership, design conduct informed by Kaupapa Māori research principles positioned within broader rights-based approach to health, recognising that inequities must be identified understood improve wāhine tamariki. In late pregnancy 418 women 768 non-Māori were ...

The aim of the demo is threefold. First, it introduces the current version of the annotation tool for discourse relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank 3.0. Second, it presents the discourse relations in the treebank themselves, including new additions in comparison with the previous release. And third, it shows how to search in the treebank, with focus on the discourse relations.

Different initiatives are initiated to utilize ICT to maintain and develop democracy. Democracy models are developed to explain differences between different democracies. This paper reports from a case study where a webbased discussion board is developed and implemented. The findings indicate that politicians and citizens add support to different democracy models by their contributions to the w...