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An Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
No full textAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
Slow labour in first childbirth: Risk factors, obstetric outcomes and women´s experiences after expectant versus early oxytocin augmentation
No full textSlow labour progress is common in nulliparous women and is associated with childbirth complications and negative birth experiences. Oxytocin augmentation is widely used to treat slow labour despite associated risks for the fetus. An ongoing debate concerns whether oxytocin should be administered directly or postponed after arrested labour. The overall aim of this thesis was to study labour progress in healthy nulliparous women and to compare childbirth outcomes and experiences in women randomised to expectant versus early oxytocin augmentation for slow labour progress.
Objectives. The four studies comprising this thesis are based on a randomised controlled study where nulliparous women with a normal pregnancy, spontaneous onset of active labor at term, and a cervical dilatation of 4 – 9 centimetres on admission to the delivery ward were included (n=2,072). All women whose labour did not progress after amniotomy (n=630) were randomly allocated either to labour augmentation by oxytocin infusion (Early oxytocin, n=314) or to postponement of oxytocin augmentation for another three hours (Expectant, n=316). Study I examined if mode of delivery differed between treatment groups. Study II was conducted to identify independent predictors of active labour duration. Study III described the development and validation of a questionnaire to assess women’s experiences of childbirth. In Study IV, the questionnaire was used to assess and compare childbirth experiences one month postpartum in early vs expectant treatment.
Results. Study I showed that rates of spontaneous vaginal births, instrumental vaginal or caesarean births did not differ between early and expectant oxytocin augmentation. Study II identified independent predictors of extended labor duration (controlling for known predictors): a long latent phase, few hours of rest and sleep without normal food intake during the preceding 24 hours and low levels of labour pain. In Study III, factor analysis of the 22 item postpartum questionnaire yielded four factors; Own capacity, Professional support, Perceived safety, and Participation, accounting for 54% of the variance. The questionnaire showed good reliability and sensitivity. Study IV revealed no significant differences between early vs. expectant treatment in any of the four domains; however, operative births (caesarean and instrumental vaginal births) were associated with significantly worse childbirth experiences. Nearly one-third of the women in both groups had negative and depressing memories from labour.
Conclusions. Early oxytocin augmentation for slow labour progress does not appear to be more beneficial than expectant management regarding mode of delivery and women’s perceptions of childbirth one month postpartum. Given the risks for the fetus associated with oxytocin treatment, prudent expectant management seems to be a safe and viable alternative. As negative experiences of first childbirth are known to influence mothers’ decisions about future pregnancies and mode of delivery, it is vital that childbirth experiences be comprehensively assessed. The assessment instrument developed here may be adequate for this purpose. More research is needed to isolate factors contributing to negative childbirth experiences and to improve methods for identifying women with such experiences
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Selection of work by Anna Gerber
No full textVarious journals and magazines Anna Gerber has contributed to. Anna Gerber is a graphic designer and writer based in London.
She is the author and designer of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics (Laurence King, 2004) and co-editor and co-designer
of Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006) with Anja Lutz. She writes regularily for magazines such as Print, Eye, Creative Review, Varoom and Idea Magazine and her work has also been published in shift!, dot dot dot and +rosebud.
She teaches at the London College of Communication on the BA Graphic Design and MA Design Writing Criticism programmes. She has also held workshops and lectures across the U.K. (including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum), as well as in India, the U.S., Australia and Malaysia.
Anna Gerber is currently engaged in research and developing projects relating to sustainability and how it applies to graphic
design as well as exploring contemporary graphic design in India
Author and Lecturer Anna Bird Stewart will Speak at the University of Dayton
No full textNews release announcing the visitation and speech of author and lecturer Anna Bird Stewart to the University of Dayton
Operatori del processo edilizio
No full textLemma che descrive i diversi attori del processo edilizio, con particolare attenzione al processo edilizio pubblico - ISBN:ISSN 2284-00IX - visibile su: Wikitecnica.com/author/giovenale-anna-mari
Processo edilizio
No full textLemma che descrive e reinterpreta, rispetto alla letteratura scientifica, il concetto di processo edilizio, definendone l'evoluzione nel tempo ISBN:ISSN 2284-00IX - Visibile su: wikitecnica.com/author/giovenale-anna-mari
Metaprogettazione
No full textLemma che descrive il concetto di metaprogettazione e pone in risalto l'importanza nell'architettura contemporanea dello strumento "metaprogetto" - ISBN:ISSN 2284-00IX - visibile su: Wikitecnica.com/author/giovenale-anna-mari
Ep. #002 - Anna Tsing
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cultures of Energy Podcast is now on iTunes! Stitcher soon! We celebrate Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz, one of the world’s greatest analysts of globalization and the environment and the author (most recently) of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Then (6:16) Cymene and Anna talk about feminist legacies, more-than-human anthropology, capitalist ruins and how to think with weeds and mushrooms
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