AUDIOTAPING PARENTS-NEONATOLOGIST CONVERSATIONS IN NICUs. † 939

Management of conflicts with the parents over administration of life-prolonging treatment in Dutch NICUs.

In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) setting, the patient's parents and the medical team dispute sometimes over the administration of life-prolonging treatment to be provided to the patient. This article focuses on the situation where the parents insist on the treatment, whereas the doctors are of the opinion that the prospects for the future of the baby are too poor to justify (further) ...

Identifying Parents Who Are Amenable to Pro-Vaccination Conversations

While health care providers are often cited as parents' most trusted source for information and advice about vaccination, parents differ in their level of receptiveness to pro-vaccination conversations. The purpose of this research was to identify points in individual parents' decision-making processes when parents are particularly open to receiving information and advice from their children's ...

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Objective: To assess the association among serum insulinlike growth factor I (IGF-I) concentrations, bone mineral density (BMD), and biochemical markers of bone turnover in a large group of postmenopausal women from the general population. Design: As an extension of a larger epidemiological study, the Iranian Multicentral Osteoporosis Study, a total of 406 healthy postmenopausal women (age, 59....

Nsam - 939 Airsickness in Student Aviators

Foundations of chaotic mixing 939

The simplest mixing problem corresponds to the mixing of a fluid with itself; this case provides a foundation on which the subject rests. The objective here is to study mixing independently of the mechanisms used to create the motion and review elements of theory focusing mostly on mathematical foundations and minimal models. The flows under consideration will be of two types: two-dimensional (...