AIM This qualitative study explored the experiences of nurses working in a hospital paediatric department, who had direct involvement in child protection cases, to discover their support needs and suggest developments in training and support. BACKGROUND The study was inspired by an awareness of increasing anxiety amongst nurses involved in child protection cases. METHOD A phenomenological a...

Fisheries resources in the Caribbean suffer intense pressure from overharvesting. Some of the most valuable fisheries in The Bahamas, such as queen conch (Strombus gigas), spiny lobster (Panulirus argus), and Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), are overexploited and require additional protection. Despite these pressures, we currently know very little about the factors that underlie local res...

Abstract Introduction: Pregnancy anxiety is a common disorder occurred due to various factors. It has significant impact on the outcome of pregnancy. Objective: This study aimed at determining the role of perceived stress and social support to tame anxiety among pregnant women. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study with correlational design. The study&rsqu...

background: fertility as one of the factor affecting population growth itself is affected by various factors. therefore, identifying factors which can influence this component is very vital. the purpose of this study was comparative investigate fecundity rate of 15-49 year old and married women under imam-emdad-committee and rehabilitation organizations’ protection and 15-49 year old women who ...

Fine-grained hardware protection, if it can be done without slowing down the processor, could deliver significant benefits to software, enabling the implementation of strongly encapsulated light-weight objects. In this paper we introduce Legba, a new caching architecture that aims at supporting fine-grained memory protection and protected procedure calls without slowing down the processor’s clo...

Reviews of programmes in Bangladesh, Benin, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Uzbekistan sought to identify health policy and programmatic factors that influenced breastfeeding practices during a 10 to 15 year period. Exclusive breastfeeding rates and trends were analysed in six countries in general and from an equity perspective in two of them. Success factors and challenges were identif...

For many reasons we trust components just to some degree. Component users apply a number of methods to improve protection against malicious components. In this paper we briefly analyze some of these concepts and their relationships to our trust in components. It turns out that weak protection methods (those with potential security holes) can be beneficial for components we partially trust espec...