Three years ago, a midwife at Pembury Hospital in Kent suggested introducing kangaroo care for pre-term babies on the postnatal ward. Sarah Gregson, consultant midwife at the Trust, was interested in the idea, but wondered why it wasn’t already in routine use on postnatal wards. ‘Even though I knew kangaroo care had been done in the developing world and in the special care baby unit, I thought ...

Because individual species can play key roles, the loss of species through extinction or their gain through colonization can cause major changes in ecosystems. For almost 20 years after kangaroo rats were experimentally removed from a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem in the United States, other rodent species were unable to compensate and use the available resources. This changed abruptly in 1995, w...

Access to remote data is one of the principal challenges of grid computing. While performing I/O, grid applications must be prepared for server crashes, performance variations, and exhausted resources. To achieve high throughput in such a hostile environment, applications need a resilient service that moves data while hiding errors and latencies. We illustrate this idea with Kangaroo, a simple ...

We show how to use the parallelized kangaroo method for computing invariants in real quadratic function fields. Specifically, we show how to apply the kangaroo method to the infrastructure in these fields. We also show how to speed up the computation by using heuristics on the distribution of the divisor class number, and by using the relatively inexpensive baby steps in the real quadratic mode...

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...

All the remnants of native vegetation in a 1680 km2 area of the central wheatbelt of Western Australia were assessed for use by two species of kangaroo (Western grey kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus and euro M. robustus). Use was determined from faecal pellet density. Densities over large areas (100 km2) varied with the amount of residual native vegetation in the area. The less the vegetation the ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether a supportive nursing intervention that promoted kangaroo holding of healthy preterm infants by their mothers during the early weeks of the infant's life facilitated coregulation between mother and infant at 6 months of age. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-five mother/infant dyads with mean gestational age at birth of 33 weeks. Fifty percen...