BACKGROUND The burden of maternal complications during antepartum and intrapartum periods is high and care seeking from a trained provider is low, particularly in low middle income countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Identification of barriers to access to trained care and development of strategies to address them will contribute to improvements in maternal health. Using data from a...

1. Adult monkeys were trained in a tactile two-bar recognition task. Bar A delivered sinusoidal vibrations to the distal phalanx of finger II-IV and bar B to the middle, proximal, and partly to the distal phalanx of finger III. Each stimulus train was composed of a sequence of brief vibrations that were delivered alternatively by bar A and B. The monkeys’ task was to recognise two successive si...

How does expertise in the analysis of particular images influence the effects of visual saliency upon attention? Expert analysts of aerial photographs and untrained viewers undertook change-detection and location memory tasks using aerial photographs with eye movements recorded throughout. Experts were more accurate in both tasks. Significant differences were also seen in the scanpaths: Untrain...

Matrix training is a generative approach to instruction in which words are arranged in a matrix so that some multiword phrases are taught and others emerge without direct teaching. We taught 4 preschoolers with autism to follow instructions to perform action-picture combinations (e.g., circle the pepper, underline the deer). Each matrix contained 6 actions on 1 axis and 6 pictures on the other ...

Traditionally, it has been accepted that, during incremental exercise, stroke volume plateaus at 40% of Vo(2)max. However, recent research has documented that stroke volume progressively increases to Vo(2)max in both trained and untrained subjects. The stroke volume response to incremental exercise to Vo(2)max may be influenced by training status, age, and sex. For endurance trained subjects, t...

This study examined the relationship between estimates of alactacid anaerobic power, lactacid anaerobic power and aerobic power in a sample of trained swimmers (age 14.4 yr., n = 8) and a sample of untrained boys (age 13.7 yr., n = 13). The anaerobic power outputs were estimated using a modification of the Wingate Anaerobic Test and aerobic power was estimated using a continuous, incremental cy...

The purpose of that study was to determine the effect of training of one side of the body on changing the value of the muscle torques on trained and untrained sides. Twenty female students from the Warsaw University of Physical Education were subject to a four-week knee joint power training regimen on the specially designed stand. The same load but different rest time between lapses (120 vs. 30...

This study examined the relationship between estimates of alactacid anaerobic power, lactacid anaerobic power and aerobic power in a sample of trained swimmers (age 14.4 yr., n = 8) and a sample of untrained boys (age 13.7 yr., n = 13). The anaerobic power outputs were estimated using a modification of the Wingate Anaerobic Test and aerobic power was estimated using a continuous, incremental cy...