Although low-birth neonates are acknowledged to experience pain, many routine procedures continue to be conducted without proper pharmacological or non-pharmacological analgesia. Kangaroo care is a low-cost strategy that can be used in the preterm newborn. Mothers should be encouraged to use this easy-to-perform method, which is feasible both before and during neonatal units' invasive procedure...

Conclusion: The Kangaroo Mother Method promotes the maintenance of the health of these, achieving an improvement in the family dynamics; families with the support and counseling Nursing understand and identify the benefits of the program for the newborn and engage in activities in support mother’s work; there is active participation of the husband and the mother figures in the care of the newbo...

When predators rely on high-speed movements to capture prey, prey often exhibit traits that result in correspondingly extreme physical performance. Biomechanical studies of these interactions are typically conducted in laboratory settings, thereby eliminating some of the ecological context. We studied how behavioural state, specifically vigilance level, of kangaroo rats affects evasion performa...

We present the rate function and a large deviation principle for the entropy penalized Mather problem when the Lagrangian is generic (it is known that in this case the Mather measure μ is unique and the support of μ is the Aubry set). We assume the Lagrangian L(x, v), with x in the torus TN and v ∈ Rn, satisfies certain natural hypothesis, such as superlinearity and convexity in v, as well as s...

In this paper we discuss the Mather problem for stationary Lagrangians, that is Lagrangians L : Rn ×Rn ×Ω → R, where Ω is a compact metric space on which Rn acts through an action which leaves L invariant. This setting allow us to generalize the standard Mather problem for quasi-periodic and almost-periodic Lagrangians. Our main result is the existence of stationary Mather measures invariant un...

BACKGROUND Due to low-birth-weight, preterm birth, HIV and/or AIDS and poverty-related factors, South Africa presents with an increased prevalence of infants at risk of language delay. A Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) unit offers unique opportunities for training. AIM The aim of the present study was to determine if formal, neonatal communication-intervention training had an effect on mothers' kn...