Experiment 1 showed that laboratory-reared desert kangaroo rats, like domestic Norway rats, efficiently search for food on a radial arm maze (RAM) by avoiding revisiting arms within a trial. By placing an RAM on the floor so the animals could approach food from any direction, Experiment 2 tested whether efficient search by kangaroo rats was based on tactics of distance minimizing, central-place...

Inspired by kangaroo’s locomotion, we report on developing a kangaroo-style hopping robot. Unlike bipeds, quadrupeds, or hexapods which alternate the legs for forward locomotion, the kangaroo uses both legs synchronously and generates the forward locomotion by continuous hopping behavior, and the tail actively balances the unwanted angular momentum generated by the leg motion. In this work, we ...

Background Acute pain and distress during medical procedures are commonplace in newborn admitted to Intensive Care Unit and can have detrimental effects, if uncontrolled. Accumulating evidence suggests that neonate, as older children, could benefice of non pharmacological interventions (NPIs) to relive mild to moderate pain, anxiety and discomfort from minor invasive procedures. [1] These thera...

BACKGROUND The efficacious interventions identified in the previous article of this report will fail unless they are delivered at high and equitable coverage. This article discusses critical delivery constraints and strategies. BARRIERS TO SCALING UP INTERVENTIONS Achieving universal coverage entails addressing major barriers at many levels. An overarching constraint is the lack of political ...

Abstract Background Kangaroo care has become the standard in caring for preterm infants; however, its application still faces many barriers due to insufficient staff or parental education participation and most recently visitation restrictions after COVID-19 pandemic. Methods This quality improvement project (QIP) took place a tertiary center’s neonatal intensive unit Lebanon from September 201...