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How do pregnancy and birth experiences influence planned place of birth in future pregnancies? Findings from a longitudinal, narrative study.
A perception that first birth is more risky than subsequent births has led to women planning births in Obstetric Units, and care providers supporting these choices. This study explored the influence of pregnancy and birth experiences on women’s intended place of birth in current and subsequent pregnancies. Methods: Prospective, longitudinal narrative interviews (n=122) with forty-one women in three English NHS sites. During postnatal interviews, women reflected on their recent births and discussed where they might plan to give birth in a future pregnancy. Longitudinal narrative analysis methods were used to explore these data. Results: Women’s experience of care in their eventual place of birth had more influence upon decisions about the (hypothetical) next pregnancy than planned place of birth during pregnancy did. Women with complex pregnancies usually planned hospital Obstetric Unit (OU) births, but healthy women with straightforward pregnancies also chose OU and would often plan the same for the future, particularly if they experienced OU during recent births. Discussion: The experience of giving birth in a hospital OU reinforced the notion that birth is risky and uncertain, and that hospital OU is the best or safest setting for birth. The assumption that women will opt for lower acuity settings for second or subsequent births was not supported by these data, which may mean that multiparous women who best fit criteria for non-OU births are reluctant to plan births in these settings. This highlights the importance of providing balanced information about risks and benefits of different birth settings to all women during pregnancy
Pressure effects on lipids and bio-membrane assemblies
Membranes are amongst the most important biological structures; they maintain the fundamental integrity of cells, compartmentalize regions within them and play an active role in a wide range of cellular processes. Pressure can play a key role in probing the structure and dynamics of membrane assemblies, and is also critical to the biology and adaptation of deep-sea organisms. This article presents an overview of the effect of pressure on the mesostructure of lipid membranes, bilayer organization and lipid–protein assemblies. It also summarizes recent developments in high-pressure structural instrumentation suitable for experiments on membranes
Changing pattern of visceral leishmaniasis, United Kingdom, 1985-2004.
A 20-year (1985-2004) retrospective review of 39 patients with imported visceral leishmaniasis found that tourism to Mediterranean countries and HIV infection were associated with visceral leishmaniasis. Diagnosis was often delayed. Treatment with liposomal amphotericin B has improved prognosis. Visceral leishmaniasis should be made a reportable disease
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The growing utility of microbial genome sequences (Meeting Report)
© 2000 GenomeBiology.comA report from the Genome Biology session of the 4th annual conference on microbial genomes, Virginia, February 12-15, 2000
The sexuality assemblage: Desire, affect, anti-humanism
Two theoretical moves are required to resist the ‘humanist enticements’ associated with sexuality. Post-structuralism supplies the first, showing how the social produces culturally-specific sexual knowledgeabilities. A second anti-humanist move is then needed to overturn anthropocentric privileging of the human body and subject as the locus of sexuality. In this paper we establish a language and landscape for a Deleuze inspired anti-humanist sociology of sexuality that shifts the location of sexuality away from bodies and individuals. Sexuality in this view is an impersonal affective flow within assemblages of bodies, things, ideas and social institutions, which produces sexual (and other) capacities in bodies. Assemblages territorialise bodies’ desire, setting limits on what it can do: this process determines the shape of sexuality, which is consequently both infinitely variable and typically highly restricted. We illustrate how this anti-humanist ontology may be applied to empirical data to explore sexualityassemblages, and conclude by exploring the theoretical and methodological advantages and disadvantages of an anti-humanist assemblage approach to sexuality
What do students do? Training, research and learning: developing skills for the next generation of near-surface geophysicists
In the past decade, degree programmes throughout Europe have changed dramatically and near-surface geophysics is now commonly taught as a minor component of other undergraduate geoscience and related degree programmes. As a consequence, there has been a distinct change in the nature, scope and content of geophysical degrees and the skills set that graduates obtain throughout their studies. As an introduction to the Special Issue on Student-based Research, this commentary article discusses the expectations of employers, the competencies and skills of our undergraduate and postgraduate students and how these have changed over time. We highlight skill gaps and suggest ways in which the near-surface geophysical community can address these needs in a pragmatic and cost efficient manner. We hope to illustrate that a greater collaboration between industry and academia is the way forward and that innovative, cross-sector approaches to student learning and research are the solution to at least some of our problems
Contribution of Individual Components of a Job Cycle on Overall Severity of Whole-Body Vibration Exposure: A Study in Indian Mines
The use of system dynamics group model building for analysing event causality within the nuclear industry
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