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Report of review of St Stephen’s Children’s Centre, Newham: services for children aged up to 3 years
Formation of surface depressions is a significant geological hazard. Prediction of future sinkholes in
buried karstic areas needs knowledge about the subsurface. In order to determine the varying topography
of the karstifiable bedrock we carried out multielectrode measurements. Due to the hard field conditions,
the bedrock depth could not be detected. The resistivity anomalies in some places had a seasonal variation
(low-resistivity in springtime, high-resistivity in the end of summer); therefore we interpreted the
springtime resistivity lows as indicators of locations with high water content, that is as high porosity,
saturated with water. At the same time, when pushing the current- and potential electrodes into the ground,
we discovered a regularity in the areal distribution of the soil's rock debris content. Therefore we carried
out a systematic electrode-pricking experiment, and categorized the soil's "toughness" corresponding to
soft penetration, scratching or blockage within the upper 30 cm. We have found a close relationship
between the locations of resistivity- and the soil's toughness extremes. From some epikarstic features we
think that high "pricking probe" values indicate smaller depths of the bedrock. The corresponding
(springtime) resistivity minima may indirectly indicate more or less collapsed horsts of the carbonate rock
Marketing Mothers\u27 Milk: The Commodification of Breastfeeding and the New Markets for Breast Milk and Infant Formula
Today, breastfeeding, human breast milk, and its substitute, infant formula, are commodities. Mothers\u27 milk is marketed both literally and figuratively, as a good for sale, a normative behavior, and a cure for much of what ails twenty-first century America. Like previous exploitations of women\u27s bodies, including their eggs and uteruses, the idea that human milk is a valuable good that can be given away, traded in a market, or subjected to scientific experimentation raises fundamental moral and legal questions. This Article examines the marketing of breastfeeding, the emerging markets in human milk, and the growing market in infant formula through the lenses of bioethics, market analysis, and the commodification critique. This Article also examines the unique role of the medical profession in shaping the markets in human milk and infant formula
THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF CELIE IN ALICE WALKER’S THE COLOR PURPLE
The objectives of this research are to reveal the factors that cause Celie to
become a lesbian and to describe Celie‟s homosexual identity development. The
researcher used sexual orientation, lesbianism and other related theories to answer
the formulated research questions.
The method used in this research is qualitative content analysis. The
subject of this research is a novel entitled The Color Purple by Walker. The data
are some phrases, clauses, and sentences related to the factors that cause Celie to
become a lesbian and process of Celie‟s homosexual identity development. The
key instrument of this research is the researcher herself employing sexual
orientation theory by Giddens and lesbianism theory by Rich as explained in the
conceptual framework. Sexual orientation and lesbianism are used as the grand
theories for the analysis. The indicators made are based on the employed theories
to gain the research data. To gain the trustworthiness, the researcher used data
triangulation technique by crosschecking the data with her consultants and other
researchers.
The findings of the research show two important points. First, the factors
that cause Celie to become a lesbian are psychological and social/environmental
factors. Second, Celie‟s homosexual identity development process covers four
stages: sensitization or emergence, identity confusion, identity assumptiopn and
first relationship
A study of night waking and infant crying : "What do I do to stop baby crying?" : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masterate in Education at Massey University
This study investigates maternal responses to night waking and infant crying. It illustrates differences in the degree and the type of mothering that is practised with relation to (i) previous mothering experience (ii) prior and immediate circumstances surrounding the baby's cry, and (iii) educational level of the mother. Two groups of mothers were interviewed: a primiparous group and a multiparous group. All mothers had babies between three and twelve weeks of age at the time of the interview. Mothers were from the Palmerston North area and surrounding environs, and were classified according to family socio-economic level, mother's education and number of other children. All mothers were given a similar interview to obtain information on (i) feeding style, i.e. breast or bottle (ii) amount of attention baby needs at night (iii) degree of grizzliness found in baby (iv) amount of help father gives (v) general health and temperament of baby (vi) ethnic group of mother and father (vii) what mother would do when baby wakes up and cries at night (viii) mother's attitude to spoiling the baby. In order to assess what mother does when baby wakes at night, four Vignettes were prepared to hypothesis four feeding states. Each Vignette was followed by questions on what mother would do when baby cried, and how soon she would do it. A chi-square test was applied to assess the significance of the difference between the scores of multiparous and primiparous mothers. Observations from this survey show differences in waiting times with relation to the experience of the mother, and differences in response styles to cope with baby crying at night with relation to (i) mothering experience (ii) amount of time given to attending to basic physical or social needs (iii) amount of time repeatedly spent attending to basic physical needs, and differences in feeding style with relation to the educational level of the mother. Results of some earlier surveys are reinforced, and recommendations are made for future work on this topic
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