Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is an effective and safe method of caring for low-birthweight infants. This article describes the results of a health systems strengthening intervention in KMC involving 10 hospitals in Java, Indonesia. Implementation progress was measured with an instrument scoring hospitals out of 100. Hospital scores ranged from 28 to 85, with a mean score of 62.1. One hospital had...

The interval discrete logarithm problem is defined as follows: Given some g, h in a group G, and some N ∈ N such that gz = h for some z where 0 ≤ z < N , find z. At the moment, kangaroo methods are the best low memory algorithm to solve the interval discrete logarithm problem. The fastest non parallelised kangaroo methods to solve this problem are the three kangaroo method, and the four kangaro...

We consider the irrational Aubry-Mather sets of an exact symplectic monotone C 1 twist map, introduce for them a notion of " C 1-regularity " (related to the notion of Bouligand paratingent cone) and prove that : • a Mather measure has zero Lyapunov exponents iff its support is almost everywhere C 1-regular; • a Mather measure has non zero Lyapunov exponents iff its support is almost everywhere...

BACKGROUND Exclusive breastfeeding is one of the most important essential components of Kangaroo Mother Care. OBJECTIVE This study was performed to evaluate the effects of KMC on exclusive breastfeeding just at the time of discharge. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cross sectional study, 251 consecutive premature newborns admitted to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) between May 2008 and May...

AIM To measure progress with the implementation of kangaroo mother care (KMC) for low birth-weight (LBW) infants at a health systems level. DESIGN Action research design, with district and regional hospitals as the unit of analysis. SETTING Four regions in Ghana, identified by the Ghana Health Service and UNICEF. PARTICIPANTS Health workers and officials, health care facilities and distri...

BACKGROUND Scaling up the implementation of new health care interventions can be challenging and demand intensive training or retraining of health workers. This paper reports on the results of testing the effectiveness of two different kinds of face-to-face facilitation used in conjunction with a well-designed educational package in the scaling up of kangaroo mother care. METHODS Thirty-six h...