The Newborn Child, ed. 3, by David Vulliamy, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.C.H. Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1972, 189 pp., $11.75

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-317
Author(s):  
Mary Ellen Avery
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Newborn Child ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Wilkins Company

The third edition of this well-known primer has been revised and updated to become a timely and useful guide. Among its attributes are its small size (it fits a lab coat pocket beautifully), frequent subject headings, clarity of style, and emphasis on common problems. The illustrations are relatively few in number but pertinent. The book is recommended for students, residents, and nurses who first become associated with a nursery service. It serves as a readable and useful introduction.

scholarly journals Diagnostic evaluation and Bayesian Updating: Practical solutions to common problems

Evaluation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-515
Author(s):  
Barbara Befani
Keyword(s):  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
Bayesian Updating ◽  
Diagnostic Evaluation ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
The Third ◽  
Bayes Formula ◽  
Probability Estimates ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Influence Process ◽  
Empirical Material

This article discusses several practical issues arising with the application of diagnostic principles to theory-based evaluation (e.g. with Process Tracing and Bayesian Updating). It is structured around three iterative application steps, focusing mostly on the third. While covering different ways evaluators fall victims to confirmation bias and conservatism, the article includes suggestions on which theories can be tested, what kind of empirical material can act as evidence and how to estimate the Bayes formula values/update confidence, including when working with ranges and qualitative confidence descriptors. The article tackles evidence packages (one of the most problematical practical issues), proposing ways to (a) set boundaries of single observations that can be considered independent and handled numerically; (b) handle evidence packages when numerical probability estimates are not available. Some concepts are exemplified using a policy influence process where an institution’s strategy has been influenced by a knowledge product by another organisation.

scholarly journals “I’ve had it!” Group therapy for interdisciplinary researchers

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Jurmu ◽  
Johanna Ylipulli ◽  
Anna Luusua
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Group Therapy ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Problems

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>In this workshop, we reflect on and share the fun and frustrations of working in interdisciplinary research. We ask participants to openly reflect on their experiences of interdisciplinarity. What approaches have worked and what have failed? In addition to identifying phenomena, we aim to sketch out the next decade of interdisciplinary research in computing, especially in HCI. The third paradigm of Human-Computer Interaction focuses on the qualitative aspects of use experience and the situatedness of technologies. This new orientation has drawn in researchers from various other research and arts backgrounds and traditions, including the social sciences, architecture and industrial design among others. Therefore, we consider this third paradigm to be inherently interdisciplinary. Through workshop participants’ reflection of their own experiences, we strive to identify the common problems and pitfalls of interdisciplinary research, and to celebrate successes, as well as share best practices. </span></p></div></div></div>

Let’s Find a Barn and Put On a Show

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 550-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly A. Chiarulli
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
School Class ◽  
The Third ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Goals And Objectives

AbstractArchaeologists are regularly asked to present public programs. The audiences are varied, as are the settings. Often, the programs are one-time events, and archaeologists usually talk about current or favorite projects. However, public programs may run into unexpected problems because they take archaeologists into unfamiliar situations. In addition, not all programs, including some that seem successful, leave the audience with the message the archaeologist intended to convey; occasionally, the audience will even receive the opposite message. This article is designed to help anyone preparing public programs to avoid some common problems. The lessons fit into three groups. The first group consists of knowledge lessons: know your audience, know their interests, and know their community. The second group consists of logistical lessons: how many programs or classes should be involved? How long should each program last, and what facilities should be used? The third group consists of development lessons for both you and your audience, including building goals and objectives into the program and using appropriate assessment methods. It also includes creating networks that support your program. Can you develop the individual encounters into a coherent approach? Whether a program is designed for a single school class of 30 fourth graders or for a booth at a county fair visited by 4,000 fairgoers, each one should be designed to provide a coherent message to the audience.

Crying of a Newborn Child: Alarm Signal or Protocommunication?

2002 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 752-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Clarici ◽  
L. Travan ◽  
A. Accardo ◽  
U. De Vonderweid ◽  
A. Bava
Keyword(s):  
Full Term ◽  
Painful Stimulus ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Alarm Signal ◽  
Pain Condition ◽  
New Born ◽  
The Third ◽  
Newborn Child ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Way

The purpose of the study was to explore whether the new-born cry is a simple alarm signal or differentiated cries with different meanings 12 digital audio taped recordings of 6 full-term healthy babies were analysed. Cries of 6 newborns in this preliminary study were recorded in a pain condition after a prick for the hematic check-up the third day after delivery and then while crying spontaneously in the cradle. The sounds were sampled at 44100 Hz with a 16-bit resolution and converted to the way format. All the analyses were performed with a software written in the MATLAB© environment. The most important result was that these new-born children modulated the supralaryngeal tract considerably more in cries following the painful stimulus than in “spontaneous” ones, as would be expected by the hypothesis of crying as “protolanguage.”

Golden's Diagnostic Radiology, Section 15, Laurence L. Robbins, M.D., editor: Pediatric Radiology, ed. 2, by Lawrence A. Davis, M.D., and Loretta T. Shearer, M.D. Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1973, 293 pp., $27.50

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-454
Author(s):  
Robert H. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Patient ◽  
Pediatric Radiology ◽  
Diagnostic Radiology ◽  
Radiographic Examination ◽  
Pediatric Hospital ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Short Space ◽  
Wilkins Company

This book is an extremely ambitious undertaking covering a wide range of abnormalities in a relatively short space. The authors start and finish with some practical guidelines for the radiographic examination of the pediatric patient based on many years of experience in a good pediatric hospital. The organization of the diseases presented is logical with many references supplied. Some of the entities are discussed in detail while others, properly, are only mentioned with appropriate references suggested. The scope of the diseases presented is very wide; perhaps deletion of some of the rare conditions would have provided space for more discussion of common problems.

Dating the publication of Hugh Miller’s The testimony of the rocks (1857)

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-324
Author(s):  
M. A. Taylor ◽  
R. O’Connor ◽  
L. K. Overstreet
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Single Source ◽  
English Edition ◽  
The Third ◽  
Photographic Print ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

Assessing the precise publication dates of nineteenth-century books is difficult. Common problems include inadequate, inaccurate and confusing title-page information, and misleading advertisements. It is better to use multiple lines of evidence rather than a single source. The first Scottish and English edition of The testimony of the rocks, by Hugh Miller (1802–1856), is shown to have been published on or about 24 March 1857, after the author’s suicide, as a combination of the first and second issues simultaneously. The first issue was published by Shepherd & Elliot of Edinburgh in co-operation with Hamilton, Adams & Co. of London. It was optionally available with an additional frontispiece of a photographic print of Miller. The second issue was published by Thomas Constable & Co. of Edinburgh with Shepherd & Elliot and Hamilton, Adams. After some further issues, Shepherd & Elliot was dropped later in 1857, so that the third publishers’ imprint became Constable with Hamilton, Adams, for a number of issues. Constable and Hamilton, Adams published a newly-typeset second Edinburgh edition in 1860, but failed to denote it as such. Gould & Lincoln of Boston, Massachusetts, published the first American edition (from a new typesetting) and distributed it on or about 25 April 1857.

scholarly journals Quality Assurance in the Third World—the Singapore Experience

1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
It-Koon Tan ◽  
Edward Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Third World ◽  
Clinical Biochemistry ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
The Third World

This paper reviews the current status of quality assurance in clinical biochemistry laboratories in Third World countries, particularly the developments in Singapore which in some respects are very similar to those of other developing countries. Some of the common problems are highlighted and recommendations for improvement proposed.

scholarly journals Comparison study of combination of cryotherapy & intralesional injection and multipuncture of bleomycin vs cryotherapy in resistant palmoplanter warts

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 677-683
Author(s):  
Mehdi Amirnia ◽  
Mohamad Ranjkesh ◽  
Mir ahad Mousavi
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Outcomes ◽  
Combined Treatment ◽  
Intralesional Injection ◽  
Comparison Study ◽  
The Third ◽  
Group A ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Group B

Background: Although many warts are treated with usual methods, resistant cases are common problems. Bleomycin is one of the drugs used for resistant cases. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of cryotherapy and intralesional bleomycin injection combination with cryotherapy in the treatment of resistant warts. Methods: Sixty patients with resistant warts were selected and randomly divided into two groups of 30 A and B patients. In each group, cryotherapy was performed three sessions during 0, third and, sixth weeks in case of visible lesions. In group B, in addition to cryotherapy in week 0, and in the presence of visible lesions during week 3, injections of intra-lesions of bleomycin 1 mg/ml were administered. Treatment outcomes and possible complications were evaluated during the third and sixth weeks. Results: The response to the treatment was defined as poor, moderate, and well by the physician, which was 16.7%, 53.3% and, 10% in group A after 3 weeks of treatment, respectively and was 16.7%, 50% and, 33.3% in group B, respectively. The response to the treatment after 6 weeks of treatment was 33.3%, 40%, and 26.7% in group A and was 6.7%, 40%, and 53.3% in group B, respectively. Conclusion: Combined treatment of cryotherapy and intralesional bleomycin injection is more effective than cryotherapy in the treatment of resistant warts.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Center Of Gravity ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
American Nation

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book is an anthology of significant writings on religion and politics from the colonial period to recent times. Rather than offering a comprehensive prescription for our public life, it presents an extended conversation. Although this volume covers a wide range of subjects, it returns throughout to three interrelated themes, common problems that persist across historical eras. The first theme deals with the scope of religious freedom and religious toleration, values inextricably linked to the First Amendment's religion clauses. The second addresses religion's role as an ethical compass for public life. The third major center of gravity, which intermingles with the first two, is about the character of the American nation.

scholarly journals The Importance of Determining Human Placental Lactogen in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmina Durković ◽  
Bojana Mandić
Keyword(s):  
Biochemical Marker ◽  
Placental Tissue ◽  
Normal Pregnancy ◽  
Placental Lactogen ◽  
Human Placental Lactogen ◽  
Elisa Method ◽  
Third Trimester ◽  
The Third ◽  
Risk Pregnancy ◽  
Newborn Child

The Importance of Determining Human Placental Lactogen in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy Human placental lactogen (HPL) is a hormone produced by the placenta with a role in the regulation of fetoplacental growth. In this paper, the results of HPL determination in the third trimester of pregnancy are presented with the aim of testing the sensitivity of this biochemical marker for detecting placental dysfunction, fetal vitality and risk of bad outcome. The tests were performed on 370 women with high-risk pregnancy, between the 20th and 36th week of pregnancy. HPL was determined by an ELISA method using Bioserv Diagnostics tests and the results were read by a STAT-FAX 303+ reader. When compared to normal pregnancy, a significant decrease in the level of HPL biomarker was identified in preeclampsia (p<0.01), whereas in diabetes the serum level of HPL was significantly higher (p<0.01). A significant positive correlation between the level of HPL during pregnancy and the weight of a newborn child, its head circumference and Apgar score was obtained. The results of the research indicate that the maternal concentration of the HPL biomarker is directly connected to the vitality of placental tissue, so that HPL in the third trimester of pregnancy can be used as an indicator of placental insufficiency and fetal vitality.

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