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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to inform nursing practice and clinical interventions that support breastfeeding among mothers <24 years of age who resided in a maternity shelter. Methods: Nine young mothers aged 17 to 24, who had initiated breastfeeding, and resided at a maternity shelter, participated in individual semi-structured interviews. This qualitative study was conducted using interpretive description methodology and inductive content analysis. Findings: These young mothers took ownership of their choice to breastfeed and found empowerment in this choice and practice. The institutional and social environments that young mothers experienced were critical to their breastfeeding success. Hospital postpartum nurses had a critical role in the establishment of early breastfeeding by providing a combination of practical hands-on and emotional support to the multifaceted needs of these mothers. Ongoing, accessible, and non-judgemental peer, family, and community support were important to breastfeeding initiation and duration. Conclusion: A combination of emotional and practical supports from multifaceted trusted sources, including professional and peer supports on an ongoing basis are crucial to young at-risk mothers reaching their breastfeeding goals. Implications for clinical practice: Nurses need to focus dually on the practical aspects of breastfeeding while establishing strong therapeutic relationships with this population to successfully provide breastfeeding supports. A combination of accessible and trusted long term professional and peer supports is a key element to designing future breastfeeding support and promotion programs for this population.

Shelter dog populations in the United States are poorly quantified and characterized, but may be effective targets for measuring the occurrence of select diseases affecting animal and human health. Dogs in this population may have increased risk for disease due to intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors. Accurate estimates of disease in this population require sound sampling strategies within a comprehensive sampling frame. Knowledge of the prevalence of disease in the Mississippi shelter dog population is important for diagnostic test interpretation, shelter allocation of resources, and public health risk assessment. A serum bank provides a valuable resource to investigate both zoonotic diseases in which dogs are the primary reservoir, such as canine brucellosis, and for diseases where dogs may be effective sentinels for exposure risk, such as American trypanosomiasis. Implications of this research extend beyond Mississippi through the frequent movement of shelter dogs to adoption centers across the United States.

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South of the Anacostia River in Washington DC, the Oxon Run park runs through the Washington Highlands and Congress Heights neighborhoods. Though these neighborhoods sit within Ward 8 of DC, which is has the lowest education levels and household incomes, Oxon Run park acts as a lively community magnet, sitting adjacent to the metro station, a vibrant community center, the public pool and multiple schools. One resource that is lacking in Ward 8, similarly to under served communities around the country, is animal care. Pets For Life, an organization that attempts to address this inequity, states "...there are animal resource deserts—entire neighborhoods with no veterinarians, no pet supply stores, no groomers, and no animal welfare infrastructure. When there are no veterinarians in a community, standard wellness care is not the norm—and familiarity, experience, and knowledge concerning common pet health concerns do not exist"¹ This thesis design, Shelter to Habitat, attempts to provide a place for dog care, sheltering, homing and education to a community that needs it. It pushes the definition of sheltering and provides dogs with a space scaled and intentionally designed for their mental and physical health. The design prioritizes light, materiality and airflow to create a space that responds to the life of a dog. It addresses the needs of the community and integrates into the fabric of the neighborhood. The design creates an adaptive building that adjusts to the scale of the dog, while providing a public and private face that addresses the various needs of the community. In this proposed dog shelter design, the 1st floor, which faces the Oxon Run park, acts as the public face of the building. This space houses adoptable dogs, volunteer work spaces, training rooms, and community classrooms. This floor fluctuates the interior-exterior experience by providing a variety of ways to inhabit the spaces. In the main boarding space, the building design scales to the dog, the main user of the space. There are indoor-outdoor runs that penetrate an interior courtyard with wide 12' corridors that circulate the space. The undulation of this boarding space limits the dogs direct views of other dogs in the space, which helps enhance their sense of safety and security. Contrastingly, the 2nd floor acts as a private face of the building, connecting with the 1st floor through a central atrium. On the second floor , medical, quarantine, and short term boarding spaces provide services to the community for lost, sick or rehomed dogs. Together, this public-private, indoor-outdoor design nestles itself into the site and provides a safe, healthy, lively place for both the dogs and the community. Footnotes 1 "Pets for Life Tools and Guides," HumanePro, https://humanepro.org/pets-for-life/tools-and-guides / Master of Architecture / South of the Anacostia River in Washington DC, the Oxon Run park runs through the Washington Highlands and Congress Heights neighborhoods. Though these neighborhoods sit within Ward 8 of DC, which is has the lowest education levels and household incomes, Oxon Run park acts as a lively community magnet, sitting adjacent to the metro station, a vibrant community center, the public pool and multiple schools. This thesis design, Shelter to Habitat, attempts to provide a place for dog care, sheltering, homing and education to a community that needs it. It pushes the definition of sheltering and provides dogs with a space scaled and intentionally designed for their mental and physical health. The design prioritizes light, materiality and airflow to create a space that responds to the life of a dog. It addresses the needs of the community and integrates into the fabric of the neighborhood. The design creates an adaptive building that adjusts to the scale of the dog, while providing a public and private face that addresses the various needs of the community. These intentionally designed connection spaces become a very important part of the building design proposal. There a 3 unique scenarios that need to be considers and designed for when it comes to animal shelter. The first is proving shelter that is scaled to the size of the dog. Juxtaposed to this is hallways and lobbies that are scaled for the overlapping and interacting area of dogs and humans. Finally there are admin and community spaces that are scaled just for the human. These 3 defining scenarios led the design to a dynamic, flexible building that serves a variety of needs.

Implied spatial boundaries are examined and evaluated at a camping shelter complex on an Eastern California lake. A grid of concrete columns house a series of suspended wooden boxes and a connecting ramp. / Master of Architecture

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 21, 2002 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / This paper introduces the essential points for designing a navigating system, and describes the modules of a typical vehicle navigator. This paper also gives a practical navigator example. Some experience for design is also mentioned.

Esta pesquisa está voltada para o abrigo, modalidade de acolhimento institucional para crianças e adolescentes privados temporariamente do convívio familiar. Desenhada como estudo institucional de um caso, visa ao traçado da subjetividade de um garoto, Fernando, 14 anos, em sua fala sobre si e nas falas a seu respeito. Analisa os discursos, em entrevistas, de: Fernando, seu pai e agentes institucionais do abrigo (duas educadoras, um psicólogo e duas voluntárias), da escola (três professoras) e da Vara da Infância e da Juventude (a psicóloga responsável pelo caso). O método é o de Análise Institucional do Discurso, proposto por Guirado (2010), como analítica da subjetividade; organiza-se em torno dos conceitos de instituição, discurso, sujeito e análise, e operacionaliza a articulação entre o singular e as relações institucionais. As análises das entrevistas foram conduzidas considerando o modo de organização das falas, para configurar os lugares assumidos e atribuídos nas relações que se fazem em seus discursos. Na análise da entrevista de Fernando se configuraram suas necessidades de atendimento, tratadas no interjogo com os discursos de seu pai e dos agentes institucionais. Fernando põe-se como herói solitário e o pai é alçado a principal artífice do impasse que se cria com relação ao tornar-se homem. Ao mesmo tempo, identifica o psicólogo e o gestor do abrigo como sua referência. Em seu discurso, o pai, como um viajante solitário, reconhece no abrigo o melhor para o filho. O psicólogo não identifica em seu fazer uma referência para Fernando. Ressalta-se uma remessa constante de uns a outros no posto de referência em que Fernando, em princípio, os coloca: uma busca em que Fernando mira um, que mira outro, que mira novamente para fora da relação com ele, no atendimento às demandas de ser (homem) na vida. Destaca-se, ainda, que no discurso institucional o pai é falado em sua negatividade: suas carências e seus desvios. Isso se imprime com tal força que acaba por decalcar o pai em Fernando. Na entrevista de Fernando configura-se uma espécie de negligência em que os contornos do saber-fazer não se desenham. No contexto da instituição-abrigo, ora Fernando é cerceado em ações que estariam dentro de seu alcance, ora é legitimado em um exercício de poder que exerce só, por critérios pessoais. No contexto escolar, as características de Fernando, identificadas pelas professoras, entram em estratégias diferentes, e se produz ora um aluno de destaque, por apresentar mais conhecimento, participação e contribuição em aula do que os demais alunos, ora um aluno-disfarce, burro e esperto. A relação de Fernando com a transgressão/agressão surge em referência à imagem ridicularizada do pai, às normas institucionais e à morte, e o contexto escolar é posicionado como ocasião privilegiada para tal aprendizagem. Nesse contexto, essas ações são tratadas com sua expulsão de sala e/ou com mediações de outras instâncias, fora da relação em que a transgressão/agressão acontece. Fernando coloca sua proteção em sua dependência. Nas práticas institucionais não se estabelecem relações que sustentem, com ele, sua proteção / This research focuses on the shelter, modality of institutional reception for children and teenagers temporarily deprived of familiar conviviality. Drawn as institutional study of a case, it aims to the tracing of a boys subjectivity, Fernando, 14 years old, on his speech about himself and on others speech about him. It analyses the discourses, on interviews, of: Fernando, his father and institutional agents of the shelter (two educators, a psychologist e two volunteers), of the school (three teachers) and of the Children and Juvenile Court (the psychologist in charge of the case). The method is that of Institutional Discourse Analysis, proposed by Guirado (2010) as analytic of subjectivity; it organizes around the concepts of institution, discourse, subject and analysis, and operationalizes the articulation between the singular and the institutional relationships. The analyses of the interviews were conducted considering the mode of organization of speeches, to set the places assumed and attributed on relations that are made on their discourses. On the analyses of the interview with Fernando his needs of treatment are configured, treated in the interplay with the discourses of his father and of the institutional agents. Fernando puts himself as a solitary hero and the father is elevated as the main architect of the impasse created in respect to becoming a man. At the same time, he identifies the psychologist and the shelters manager as his reference. In his discourse, the father, as a solitary traveler, recognizes in the shelter the best for his son. The psychologist doesnt identify in his doing a reference for Fernando. It is noteworthy a constant referral from one to another on the reference post where Fernando, at first, places them: a search in which Fernando targets one, who targets another, who targets again outside the relationship with him, at the meeting of the demands of being (man) in life. It is also noteworthy that in the institutional discourse the father is referred of for his negativity: his shortages and deviations. That imprints itself with such strength that it ends up bringing up the father in Fernando. On Fernandos interview a sort of negligence configures itself in which the contours of knowing-doing are not drawn. In the context of the institution-shelter, sometimes Fernando is curtailed in actions that would be on his reach, sometimes he his legitimated in a power exercise that he exercises by himself using personal criteria. In the school context, Fernandos characteristics, identified by the teachers, enter different strategies, and produce sometimes an outstanding student, for presenting more knowledge, participation and contribution in class than the other students, and other times a student-disguise, dumb and smart. Fernandos relationship with transgression/aggression arises in reference to the ridiculed image of the father, to the institutional norms and to death, and the school context is positioned as a privileged occasion for such learning. In this context, those actions are treated with his expulsion from class and/or with mediations of other instances, outside the relation in which the transgression/aggression occurs. Fernando places his protection on his dependency. On institutional practices relationships are not established which sustain with him his protection

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Special report entitled: Lighting and water. Includes bibliographical references.

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