In the nineteenth century, obstetricians in Europe began to construct devices to incubate infants in increasingly controlled environments. The infant incubator is a medical device that maintains stable conditions and a germ free environment for premature infants born before the thirty-seventh week of pregnancy [2]. Records show that physicians had used infant incubators since 1835. However, Jea...

Although the importance of the incubator mangers for successful incubation has been widely discussed, there is little evidence on how the incubator mangers leverage various resources contributing to incubation success. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by employing the niche manger theory to investigate the extent to which the incubator managers act as the niche manager in the incub...

The Brazilian incubation movement, despite having grown 25 percent in the last ten years, is going through a phase of stagnation due to lack of harmony between their structures and services to the new demands of society and the economic moment. Due to this fact, the Porto Digital Management Unit (NGPD), the institution responsible for the Porto Digital Technology Park governance in Recife – Bra...

Reduction of high-risk neonates' exposure to aversive light stimulation is an important component of developmentally supportive care. In neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), usually light is reduced by reducing the room's light level or by using incubator covers. Many types of incubator covers are in use, including homemade and commercial covers. A comparative study was used to determine the li...