The history of the World Trade Center can now be fully written. The buildings no longer exist, the site has been cleared and plans are beginning to emerge for the next manifestation of buildings and open space for the area bounded by Vesey, Liberty, Church and West Streets. The complete redevelopment of this area was brought about through the influence and interest of the Rockefeller brothers i...

Background & aim: Mother-infant bonding and interactions after childbirth are shaped by maternal-fetal attachment during pregnancy. Although many studies have shown the positive correlation between maternal-fetal attachment and mother-infant attachment behaviors, some controversial studies have shown otherwise. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the correlation between maternal-fetal attac...

Network-based services such as surveillance, chatbot and entertainment are becoming more popular, and service robot platform with mobililty can be used as human caring services in infant or elderly care. This paper presents developemnt of a service robot platfrom and its software with a cooperative server-client control ability for human care and edutainment. The experimental results show the f...

doi:10.1067/mjw.2003. 27 A neonatologists, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) personnel, and pediatric surgeons have become increasingly successful in improving survival rates of premature neonates (preemies), the surgical creation of fecal stomas to manage diseases in this population has become more commonplace. Diversion of the fecal stream allows recovery of diseased organs and surgical ana...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of age on the efficacy of the computerized, infant simulator doll Baby Think It Over (BTIO) for increasing middle school girls' knowledge about the responsibilities of parenthood and discouraging plans for teen childbearing. We hypothesized: 1) 8th grade students would be less apt than 6th grade students to equate BTIO care with mothering because they would rat...

the obesity epidemic raises important and complex issues for clinicians and policy-makers, such as what clinical and public health measures will be most effective and most ethically-sound. while nir eyal’s analysis of these issues is very helpful and while he correctly concludes that “conditioning the very aid that patients need in order to become healthier on success in becoming healthier” is ...

This case report considers the psychosocial burden of caring for an infant with a severe congenital heart defect (CHD) on parents. Improved prenatal diagnostics and postnatal surgical intervention have created a new and increasing demographic of children and adults with CHDs that require lifelong medical care. For this reason, primary caregivers spend excessive amounts of time in hospitals and ...