Twenty-eight primiparous and 62 multiparous sows were bred and assigned to gestation treatments in which they were fed diets conraining O, 20 or 40% brewers d r i ed grains (BDG). Diets were formulated to be equal in lysine content and were hand fed to supply equal levels of metabolizable energy per sow daily. All sows received a 15% protein corn-soybean meal diet during a 21-day lactation peri...

Aim: To detect the induction of morphological and populational alterations on Ceriodaphnia cornuta concerning cyclomorphosis and population dynamic parameters as densities, fecundity rates, juveniles percentage, males presence and ephippia presence in the presence of predators; Methods: Two experiments were performed: Experiments with fishes fed on Ceriodaphnia cornuta – Experiment 1 – and “Fis...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop a breastfeeding empowerment program and to investigate the effects of the breastfeeding empowerment program on self-efficacy, adaptation and continuation of breastfeeding for primiparous women. METHODS The 5 session breastfeeding empowerment program was developed and a non-equivalent control group non-synchronized quasi-experiment design was us...

This work tests the psychometric features of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (WDEQ), a self-report instrument that measures the fear of childbirth, in an Italian sample. To 522 Italian primiparous women attending antenatal classes, the following assessments were administered: Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (Wijma, Wijma, & Zar, 1998), StateTrait Anxiet...

This study aimed to determine if 200 μg of GnRH (gonadorelin hydrochloride) would increase ovulatory response and pregnancies per AI (P/AI) compared with 100 at the first breeding-Ovsynch a Double-Ovsynch program (DO) in lactating Holstein cows. Weekly cohorts primiparous (n = 719) multiparous 1,191) cows submitted DO [GnRH – 7 d PGF2α 3 (G1) (PG1) 1 ~32 h (G2) ~16 TAI] for timed-artificial ins...

The research objective to be achieved is analyze the factors that influence independence of primiparous mothers in caring for babies Pidie Jaya Hospital. This type uses a descriptive analytic survey with cross sectional design. population this study amounted 56 people, while sample Primiparous mothers, total sampling technique. Data analysis was carried out by univariate, bivariate and multivar...