Infant sleep location and breastfeeding initiation on the first postnatal night

Hospitals making a commitment to the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative adopt a number of practices to help increase breastfeeding initiation rates. Allowing mothers and their infant's uninterrupted skin to skin contact for at least the first 30 minutes following delivery (Righard 1990) and keeping mothers and babies close are two of the practices that have been shown to encourage breastfeeding initiation (McKenna & Bernshaw 1995). Bedding-in is an obvious extension to skin-to-skin contact and a way of ensuring that mothers and their infants stay close. This randomised control trial investigates the effects of bedding-in compared to rooming-in on breastfeeding initiation, mother-infant contact and midwifery assistance required on the first post-natal night. In addition, a relatively new infant sleep condition (clip on crib) was assessed to determine whether infants and their mothers allocated to this condition behaved more like the bedding-in group or the rooming-in group in relation to breastfeeding initiation. Mothers were recruited via breast-feeding workshops held within the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) when they were approximately 37 weeks gestation. Following vaginal delivery (without the use of intramuscular opiate analgesics) the behaviours and interaction of the mothers and their babies were recorded on the post-natal ward of the RVI using infra-red video equipment. Tapes were coded using the Noldus Observer 5.0 software according to an established taxonomy used in previous studies by the Parent-Infant Sleep Lab team. Data was analysed via Intention to Treat (ITT) and Treatment Received (TR) analysis using Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney บ tests. Results highlight the importance of prolonged close contact between mother and infant on breastfeeding initiation. Many mothers who were randomly allocated to rooming-in instinctively brought their infants into bed and mothers and infants who spent their first postnatal night in close contact initiated breastfeeding more successfully than those further apart. No significant difference was found in the amount of midwifery assistance with breastfeeding mothers requested or received between the three group

A Place-based study of Alaskan animals

Master's Project (M.Ed.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020In the spring of 2020, my second-grade class, located in Fairbanks, AK, dived into a place-based exploration of Alaskan animals. The aim of the project was to increase students’ connections and understanding of the state where they live (Alaska) and the animals that they share it with. Through a backwards design, inquiry-based instructional model, my students met state standards with an integrated-subject approach. With art, guest speakers, research, and field trips my students learned about the Animals that share Alaska with us, their environments, and their adaptations. Students used informational writing published on digital mediums to share their knowledge with others. I propose to share this unit with other educators in the form of a website with links and lesson plans so that more teachers and children have access to quality place-based materials that align to state standards

Sub-seasonal and mesoscale variability of oceanic circulation at key 'choke' points: an example from the Western Mediterranean

Trabajo presentado en la EGU General Assemby 2014, celebrada del 27 de abril al 2 de mayo de 2014 en Viena (Austria)In order to detect long-term climatic change and to better constrain our modelling of ocean circulation it is increasingly important to understand sub-seasonal variability in this circulation. Monitoring the weekly to monthly variability of ocean currents and associated mesoscale instabilities, then placing this within the context of, and modifying, the seasonal to interannual circulation models is key. SOCIB (the Balearic Islands Coastal Ocean Observing and Forecasting System) has undertaken the monthly monitoring of ocean currents in the Ibiza Channel, a key 80 km ‘choke’ point in the Western Mediterranean basin-scale circulation, using gliders. Here, as in other locations in the global ocean, high frequency variability in the system is observed, in conjunction with a seasonal variability in the main thermohaline circulation. Now, with three years of semi-continuous glider data and 16 years of seasonal ships CTD data, we have greater insight into the high frequency processes that modify and govern the large basin-scale flow variability at this ‘choke’ point and thus better understand the important north/south exchanges of Atlantic (fresher and warmer) and Mediterranean (more saline and colder) watermasses and associated dynamical effectsPeer reviewe

Marine Plastics EOV and common sampling protocol

This deliverable describes the process of establishing global coordination for sustained observations of marine plastics litter as a new type of Essential Ocean Variable (EOV) addressing the aspect of observing human impacts on the ocean. The document reports on the EuroSea efforts to implement a community vision for an Integrated Marine Debris Observing System (IMDOS) as a new element of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). First version of the Marine Plastics Litter EOV Specification Sheet is included. Progress towards establishing common sampling protocols for marine plastic litter in Europe and beyond are described

Maps and metrics on observing systems and metadata

A review of the existing reporting tools about Regional Ocean Observing Systems and perspective toward future European Ocean Observing System monitoring and reporting services

Routine monitoring and research with ARGO in the western Mediterranean Sea: SOCIB and IMEDEA

Trabajo presentado en el Tercer Workshop Euro-Argo en Paris (Junio 17-18 de 2010). -- Presentación corta (20 minutes). -- El workshop es un forum para conocer y aprender sobre la amplia gama de aplicaciones que se han desarrollado en Europa, y para compartir información sobre las direcciones de desarrollo (técnico / datos) de Argo, la organización a largo plazo y la evolución de la Euro-Argo

Thermal lag correction on Slocum CTD glider data

Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2011. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 28 (2011): 1065–1071, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05030.1.In this work a new methodology is proposed to correct the thermal lag error in data from unpumped CTD sensors installed on Slocum gliders. The advantage of the new approach is twofold: first, it takes into account the variable speed of the glider; and second, it can be applied to CTD profiles from an autonomous platform either with or without a reference cast. The proposed methodology finds values for four correction parameters that minimize the area between two temperature–salinity curves given by two CTD profiles. A field experiment with a Slocum glider and a standard CTD was conducted to test the method. Thermal lag–induced salinity error of about 0.3 psu was found and successfully corrected.This work is part of the SINOCOP and GliderBal projects funded by CSIC and Govern Balear, respectively