Women’s Perceptions Using the CenteringPregnancy Model of Group Prenatal Care

A qualitative nonexperimental thematic analysis was conducted at a hospital-based midwifery practice to explore the views of participants in group prenatal care and its impact on pregnancy, birth, and postnatal care. Ten women and three support people, recruited through purposive sampling, shared their feedback on the program. The findings conveyed three broad themes: program experience, midwife relationship, and support. Women enjoyed the opportunity for in-depth learning, and peer-group support led to normalizing of pregnancy concerns. Having support people as participants also helped during pregnancy, birth, and child care. The findings showed the enhanced opportunity for education, learning, and interpersonal support provided by CenteringPregnancy to expectant mothers had a positive impact on their pregnancy experiences.     

Do pictures ‘tell’ a thousand words in lectures? How lecturers vocalise photographs in their presentations

This article explores how 145 photographs collected from 20 PowerPoint lectures in undergraduate psychology at 16 UK universities were integrated with lecturers’ speech. Little is currently known about how lecturers refer to the distinct types of photographs included in their presentations. Findings show that only 48 photographs (33%) included in presentation slides were referred to explicitly by exploring their features to make a point related to the lecture content, with only 14 of these used to invite student questioning. Most photographs (97 or 67%) represent a case of ‘unprobed representations’, that is, either ‘embedded’ in the talk as ‘illustrations’ of the speech topic or not referred to at all. A taxonomy of uses that lecturers made of the photographs in their slideshows was created through adapting a Peircean semiotic analysis of the photograph–speech interaction. The implications in terms of lecturer and student engagement with the photographic material are discussed, arguing the case for more Critical Semiotic Exploration of photographs in HE practice.     

十大独具创意的约会

Go beyond the old standby-dinner and movie-with thesefun date ideas.这些妙趣横生的约会创意打破了以往那种吃完晚餐看电影的俗套,定会给你不同的感觉! The best part about dating-besides the prospect of zeroing in on your "soul mate" -is that you have the perfect excuse to plan interesting outings. True, the din-ner-and -a-movie gambit is a classic, but sitting silently in a theater cuts down on the chance to get to know one     

Zur Kostenerstattung für wissenschaftliche Arbeiten im Auftrag Dritter

Wenn Bund oder Krankenanstaltentr?ger im Zusammenhang mit wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten im Auftrag Dritter ("industriegesponserte Studien") im klinischen Bereich Medizinischer Universit?ten Kosten übernehmen, erwerben sie entsprechende Ersatzansprüche gegenüber dem Aufraggeber ("Sponsor") der Studie bzw dem Studienleiter. Letztere k?nnen nicht einwenden, dass die im Zuge der gesponserten Studie verursachten Kosten bereits durch den KMA abgedeckt seien. Vielmehr verbleibt (je nachdem, ob die Kosten vom Bund bereits im Rahmen der Kostentragung für den KMA übernommen werden oder nicht) der Ersatzanspruch entweder zur G?nze beim Krankenanstaltentr?ger, geht zur G?nze auf den Bund über bzw verteilt sich derselbe entsprechend den jeweiligen Kostenübernahmen sowohl auf den Bund als auch auf den Krankenanstaltentr?ger.     

Probability puppets

We describe how we used puppets as tools to draw 9 to 10‐year‐old students into conversations about probability. Puppets supported classroom discourse by putting forth probabilistic arguments for critique, introducing extreme and unusual examples of concepts, and introducing an element of surprise.     

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