After an uncomplicated term delivery, a newborn infant experienced a life-threatening even a few minutes after being born. Few such events have been described before, they may be due to suffocation; minor changes in surveillance can probably prevent these potentially devastating events.

Each of the Minerva houses has a seminar room that is equipped with a limited amount of technology. In keeping with the President's initiative to build a close relationship between academic and student life, the rooms are available to both students and faculty to use. each room contains a motorized projection screen, a ceiling-mounted data projector, and a DVD/VCR combo unit. A panel in the roo...

Puerperal mastitis is a potentially serious illness among lactating women which traditionally has been thought to be associated with primiparity, stress, improper nursing technique, and incomplete emptying of the breast. However, none of these putative associations has been examined analytically in recent years. Further, the incidence of mastitis in the United States has not been estimated sinc...

This article reports how strongly boundary roughness predicts impressions of spaciousness. In one experiment, 16 rooms with fractal walls were created in CAD simulations and 49 respondents rated the rooms in terms of spaciousness. In a second experiment, 16 respondents rated spaciousness for an additional 12 rooms with different wall systems. Fractal rooms with rough walls were judged as being ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether physician-patient communication in multi-bedded rooms differs from communication in single rooms during ward rounds. METHODS Ward rounds in single-bedded patient rooms and ward rounds in four-bedded rooms were audiotaped and analyzed with an adapted version of MIARS. The researcher completed an observational checklist of each encounter. We measured: the duration o...