Effectiveness of CenteringPregnancy on Breast-Feeding Initiation Among African Americans: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

While breastfeeding initiation rates for African American mothers are low, an innovative model of group prenatal care, CenteringPregnancy, holds promise to increase breastfeeding rates. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine the effects of CenteringPregnancy versus individual prenatal care on breastfeeding initiation among African American mothers. Using a systematic approach and PRISMA guidelines, 4 electronic databases were used to search the literature. English-language studies, comparing CenteringPregnancy and individual prenatal care, including African American participants, and specifying breastfeeding initiation as an outcome were screened for inclusion. Study strength and quality were assessed and 7 studies were systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed. Participation in CenteringPregnancy increased the probability of breastfeeding initiation by 53% (95% confidence interval = 29%-81%) (n = 8047). A subgroup analysis of breastfeeding initiationamong only African American participants was performed on 4 studies where data were available. Participation in CenteringPregnancy increased the probability of breastfeeding initiation by 71% (95% confidence interval = 27%-131%) (n = 1458) for African American participants. CenteringPregnancy is an effective intervention to increase breastfeeding initiation for participants, especially for African Americans. To close the racial gap in breastfeeding initiation, high-quality research providing specific outcomes for African American participants in CenteringPregnancy are needed

Alien Registration- Hanson, Marie S. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Effects on growth and welfare of Atlantic salmon parr, feed diets with 10% BSFL meal, with different inclusions of BSFL stickwater.

To achieve sustainable growth in aquaculture, it is important to develop feed from more sustainable sources. Black soldier fly larvae meal (BSFL) is a novel ingredient approved by the EU legislation to be used in aquaculture feed. In the process of creating BSFL meal, the BSFL are pressed by a hydraulic press, and becomes a presscake and liquid is removed, the liquid is known as stickwater (SW). SW has a high content of free amino acids and water-soluble proteins, though there is still insufficient knowledge about the properties of SW in diets for salmon. BSFL meal has several challenges, including high levels of chitin and manganese (Mn). BSFL SW has a very low content of Mn and adding BSFL SW in diets for salmon could be beneficial. Would diets with high content of Mn, have a negative effect on fish welfare? In this study, the BSFL SW was recovered back in the BSFL meal. Four experimental feeds were made, containing 10% BSFL meal with different inclusions of SW, and one control formulated to be similar to commercial diets for Atlantic salmon. There were three tanks per diet, each tank containing 100 Atlantic salmon parr. The feeds were formulated to have similar nutritional value and apparent digestibility coefficient (ADC). We saw no significant differences between the different dietary treatments, and all fish preformed similarly. BSFL meal contains high amounts of dietary Mn, and the diets with most Mn contained 120mg/kg of this essential trace mineral. There were seen no sign of Mn oversaturation in the fish, nor reduced welfare. Fish feed all experimental diets, preformed as well as those fed control diet. There was no sign of increased growth or welfare from inclusions of BSFL SW, nor any sign of negative impact of high levels of dietary Mn

Hur påverkar ympning växtnäringsupptagning och avkastning i ekologisk växthusgurka?

Odlingssäsongen 2009 undersöktes hur ympning påverkar gurkskördens storlek, tidighet och kvalitet. Dessutom studerades hur olika metoder för plockning och beskärning påverkade skörden. Projektet genomfördes i samarbete mellan praktiker, trädgårdsrådgivare och forskare

Political Astuteness of Nurse Educators

Nurses comprise the largest segment of the healthcare workforce. Although nurses have advocated for patients since Florence Nightingale’s time, advocating for changes in health policies that affect populations on a larger scale has not changed over time (Rasheed et al., 2020). Professional nursing associations, nurse educators, and the Institute of Medicine have all identified the need to educate nurses in advocacy and health policy. With the recent revision of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Essentials publication, health policy has moved from an essential to a featured concept that is found in the competencies and subcompetencies of the domains. Therefore, it is imperative that nurse educators have the knowledge, or political astuteness, to teach health policy to the future nursing workforce. This study explored the political astuteness level from a national sample of 72 nurse educators teaching in pre-licensure programs. An electronic survey containing the Political Astuteness Inventory (Clark, 1984, 2008) and a demographics questionnaire that also included questions seeking comfort and enthusiasm levels when teaching health policy content was distributed via network and social media approaches. Although the results showed no significant difference in the political astuteness score mean between educators who are teaching health policy and educators who have not taught health policy in 24 months, there were statistically significant findings with political astuteness scores, comfort, and enthusiasm. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge regarding levels of political astuteness in nurses. Recommendations for future research and implications for nursing education are included

Beyond Saul : a survey and analysis of Egil Hovland's mature choral works

textEgil Hovland is one of Scandavia’s most predominant living composers, having created a massive opus of works that encompasses nearly every genre and performing medium. Yet despite the many contributions he has made to the international community, his name and works remain virtually unknown outside of Scandinavia. For many years, the exposure to Hovland’s works in the United States has unfortunately been very limited. Most choral musicians have long had only one (if any) association with Hovland’s name, that being the 1971 motet, Saul. In recent years, however, a few select mature works by Hovland have been translated into English and performed by a growing number of American choral groups. The objective of this study is to move beyond Saul through the exploration of Hovland’s stylistic evolution, and via a survey of selected mature choral works and an analysis of the Credo, Op. 137, no. 1. While the few extant studies available in English have explored Egil Hovland’s choral music predating 1980, this study focuses on his mature choral works, dating from the late 1970s to the present. The significance of such a study is two-fold: first, Hovland’s later works represent a general departure from his earlier compositional techniques, shifting away from the experimentalism and extreme chromaticism that characterizes much of his earlier opus toward a simpler, generally neoromantic compositional idiom; and second, because of this general shift in character and style, much of his later music is accessible to a wider spectrum of both performers and listeners, and warrants the attention of choral musicians in the United States and internationally.Musi

Self-conjugate 6-cores and quadratic forms

In this work, we analyze the behavior of the self-conjugate 6-core partition numbers $sc_{6}(n)$ by utilizing the theory of quadratic and modular forms. In particular, we explore when $sc_{6}(n) > 0$. Positivity of $sc_{t}(n)$ has been studied in the past, with some affirmative results when $t > 7$. The case $t = 6$ was analyzed by Hanusa and Nath, who conjectured that $sc_{6}(n) > 0$ except when $n \in \{2, 12, 13, 73\}$. This inspires a theorem of Alpoge, which uses deep results from Duke and Schulze-Pillot to show that $sc_{6}(n) > 0$ for $n \gg 1$ using representation numbers of a particular ternary quadratic form $Q$. Approximating such representation numbers involves class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields, which are directly related to values of Dirichlet $L$-functions. At present, we can only ineffectively bound these from below. This is currently the main hurdle in obtaining more explicit approximations for representation numbers of ternary quadratic forms, and in particular in showing explicit positivity results for $sc_{6}(n)$. However, by assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis we are able to settle Hanusa and Nath's conjecture.Comment: 10 pages, comments welcom

The Colonial Dame

A study of women’s social, domestic and work lives during the settlement of the first colonies of the United States with a particular focus upon Lady Arabella Johnson and Mercy Otis

Women activists : lives of commitment and transformation

This thesis is based on a life history study of two women involved in activism for social change. Broadly guided by life history methodology and feminist and constructivist postmodern theories and approaches, this inter-disciplinary research explores experiences and stories in the lives of these women that evoke the transformative journeys of women’s long-term commitments to social change activism, and that portray ways in which personal and social transformation interweave. The stories illuminate how individual courses of action both resonate with and diverge from meta-narratives of social movements, and how they reflect and resist the contexts in which those courses evolve. Reflection on the process of constructing the stories reveals the effects on the participants and the researcher of the inter-subjective realm from which life history arises. The study’s practical purpose relating activism, transformative education and postmodernism also leads to experimentation with creative texts that at once provide educational tools and invite participation in the interpretive process. Overall the thesis melds more traditional approaches with more unconventional ones. The study is both provocative and supportive of those working for social change through transformative education and activism