Department of Pediatrics, International Adoption Clinic, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Published: February 2012
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The purpose of this study was to describe reflections of nine American parents on the strengths, challenges, and strategies in parenting young children newly adopted from another country. Eight mothers and one father with an adopted child aged <3 years and home for <3 months completed standardized assessments measuring the child's social emotional development, sensory processing, and parental stress. Each parent participated in qualitative interview to discuss challenges and strategies helpful in addressing their children's needs. All parents reported challenges addressing their child's needs in the areas of sleep, feeding, attachment and self-regulation, and soothing. Parents reported similar strategies to address their child's behavioral concerns. Parents also reported on family factors and community resources that supported the success of the adoption. Although many families described their adoptive child as having challenges with multiple daily life activities, parents reported being able to create effective strategies to address many of these challenging behaviors.
Monitoring the spread of infectious disease is essential to design and adjust the interventions timely for the prevention of the epidemic outbreak and safeguarding the public health. The governments have generally adopted the incidence-based statistical method to estimate the time-varying effective reproduction number Rt and evaluate the transmission ability of epidemics. However, this method exhibits biases arising from the reported incidence data and assumes the generation interval distribution which is not available at the early stage of epidemic.
We present MMORF-FSL's MultiMOdal Registration Framework-a newly released nonlinear image registration tool designed primarily for application to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of the brain. MMORF is capable of simultaneously optimising both displacement and rotational transformations within a single registration framework by leveraging rich information from multiple scalar and tensor modalities. The regularisation employed in MMORF promotes local rigidity in the deformation, and we have previously demonstrated how this effectively controls both shape and size distortion, leading to more biologically plausible warps.
Emergency displacement is a widespread phenomenon impacting all facets of life and increasing rates of psychological trauma. This article analyzes the effects of shared residency among evacuated and fragmented communities, focusing on social and communal disparities in temporary shelters. By adopting theoretical perspectives of community building and social capital, it describes interventions aimed at promoting resilience within newly formed shelter communities.
The last two decades have witnessed profound changes in how advanced computational tools can help leverage tons of data to improve our knowledge, and ultimately reduce cost and increase productivity in drug development. Pharmacometrics has demonstrated its impact through model-informed drug development (MIDD) approaches. It is now an indispensable component throughout the whole continuum of drug discovery, development, regulatory review, and approval.
Centre for Precision Engineering Material and Manufacturing Research (PEM Research Centre), Atlantic Technological University, Ash Lane, Sligo, F91 YW50, Ireland; School of Mechanical Engineering, Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a standard surgical procedure for hip joint replacement, but it can cause complications like stress shielding and cortical hypertrophy due to mechanical mismatches between solid implants and bone.
This study aims to create porous implants with adjustable mechanical properties using topology optimization, which may better integrate with bone tissue and reduce complications associated with solid implants.
Finite element analyses indicated that using porous implants instead of solid ones can enhance stress distribution in healthy bones, suggesting that optimized porous designs could significantly improve bone health by decreasing stress shielding effects.
