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Building Babies - Chapter 16
In contrast to birds, male mammals rarely help to raise the offspring. Of all mammals, only among rodents, carnivores, and primates, males are sometimes intensively engaged in providing infant care (Kleiman and Malcolm 1981). Male caretaking of infants has long been recognized in nonhuman primates (Itani 1959). Given that infant care behavior can have a positive effect on the infantβs development, growth, well-being, or survival, why are male mammals not more frequently involved in βbuilding babiesβ? We begin the chapter defining a few relevant terms and introducing the theory and hypotheses that have historically addressed the evolution of paternal care. We then review empirical findings on male care among primate taxa, before focusing, in the final section, on our own work on paternal care in South American owl monkeys (Aotus spp.). We conclude the chapter with some suggestions for future studies.Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HU 1746/2-1)
Wenner-Gren Foundation, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation (BCS-0621020), the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, the Zoological Society of San Dieg
Impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on hematological indices among HIV-1 infected children at Kenyatta National Hospital-Kenya: retrospective study
Return to work of breast cancer survivors: a systematic review of intervention studies
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Breast cancer management has improved dramatically in the past three decades and as a result, a population of working age women is breast cancer survivor. Interventions for breast cancer survivors have shown improvements in quality of life and in physical and psychological states. In contrast, efforts aimed at stimulating re-employment and return-to-work interventions for breast cancer survivors have not kept pace. The objective of this review was to study the effects and characteristics of intervention studies on breast cancer survivors in which the outcome was return to work.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (The Cochrane Library, Issue 4, 2006), Medline, Ovid, EMBASE and PsychInfo were systematically searched for studies conducted between 1970 to February 2007. Intervention studies for female breast cancer survivors that were focused on return to work were included.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Our search strategy identified 5219 studies. Four studies out of 100 potentially relevant abstracts were selected and included 46β317 employed women who had had mastectomy, adjuvant therapy and rehabilitation, with the outcome return to work. The intervention programs focused on improvement of physical, psychological and social recovery. Although a substantial percentage (between 75% to 85%) of patients included in these studies returned to work after rehabilitation, it is not clear whether this proportion would have been lower for patients without counseling or exercise, or any other interventions, as three out of four studies did not include a comparison group.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The most important finding of this review is the lack of methodologically sound intervention studies on breast cancer survivors with the outcome return to work. Using evidence from qualitative and observational studies on cancer and the good results of intervention studies on return to work programs and vocational rehabilitation, return to work interventions for breast cancer survivors should be further developed and evaluated.</p
Cancer survivorship and work: Symptoms, supervisor response, co-worker disclosure and work adjustment
Serotonin1A receptor deletion does not interact with maternal separation-induced increases in startle reactivity and prepulse inhibition deficits
SNPs genotyping technologies and their applications in farm animals breeding programs: review
Genome-wide association study of body weight in Australian Merino sheep reveals an orthologous region on OAR6 to human and bovine genomic regions affecting height and weight
Difficulty of Pinching Behind the Back: An Atypical Symptom of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Related to a Specific Wrist Position
Excited State Dynamics and Activation Parameters of Remarkably Slow Photoinduced CO Loss from (eta(6)-Benzene)Cr(CO)(3) in n-Heptane Solution: A DFT and Picosecond-Time-Resolved Infrared Study
Photochemical or electrochemical bond breaking - exploring the chemistry of (mu(2)-alkyne)Co-2(CO)(6) complexes using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy, spectro-electrochemical and density functional methods
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