Benefícios e constrangimentos do envolvimento paterno no trabalho de parto e parto

Enquadramento - O envolvimento paterno no trabalho de parto tem suscitado o interesse de vários profissionais de saúde, nomeadamente dos enfermeiros obstetras, dado que os benefícios da presença paterna no contexto de parto ainda não são clara e totalmente assumidos por todos os profissionais. Por outro lado reconhece-se que o pai é o acompanhante ideal da grávida durante o trabalho de parto, pelo seu apoio e lugar que ocupa na tríade. Objetivos – Identificar os benefícios e constrangimentos do envolvimento paterno durante o trabalho de parto e parto. Método – Efetuada revisão integrativa da literatura sobre os “Benefícios e constrangimentos do envolvimento paterno durante o trabalho de parto e parto” nas bases de dados: PubMed, LILACS, SciELO, Repositórios Institucionais e Bibliotecas Digitais e EBSCO Host, elaborados entre 2000 e 2014. Selecionaram-se 19 artigos que obedeceram aos critérios de inclusão deste estudo. Dos 19 artigos selecionados, 4 são revisões sistemáticas da literatura, 13 são estudos qualitativos e 2 são estudos quantitativos. Resultados – Evidenciou-se um “novo” pai, que acompanha a grávida desde a gravidez, e que esteve presente no trabalho de parto. É dada grande relevância aos Enfermeiros Especialistas em Saúde Materna e Obstetrícia, pelo seu papel na inclusão do pai na sala de parto e desmitificação de tabus. Após esta pesquisa constatou-se que, ainda há lacunas relativamente à presença do pai parto. São muitos os benefícios do envolvimento paterno no parto, mas ainda são visíveis constrangimentos por parte do pai relativamente ao contexto de parto. Conclusões - A presença do pai na sala de parto permite estreitar os laços mais íntimos, consolidando a união familiar e proporcionando bem-estar à grávida. Realça-se o papel dos profissionais de saúde na integração do pai na maternidade. Caminhamos para um contexto de parto mais alargado e do qual já não faz parte apenas a grávida e o seu filho, mas no qual o pai é também elemento chave de todo o processo. Palavras- chave: “Pai”, “Nascimento”, “Envolvimento paterno” e “Recém - Nascido”.

Exploring composite acoustic features for efficient music similarity query

Music similarity query based on acoustic content is becoming important with the ever-increasing growth of the music information from emerging applications such as digital libraries and WWW. However, relative techniques are still in their infancy and much less than satisfactory. In this paper, we present a novel index structure, called Composite Feature tree, CF-tree, to facilitate efficient content-based music search adopting multiple musical features. Before constructing the tree structure, we use PCA to transform the extracted features into a new space sorted by the importance of acoustic features. The CF-tree is a balanced multi-way tree structure where each level represents the data space at different dimensionalities. The PCA transformed data and reduced dimensions in the upper levels can alleviate suffering from dimensionality curse. To accurately mimic human perception, an extension, named CF+-tree, is proposed, which further applies multivariable regression to determine the weight of each individual feature. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the proposed structures against state-of-art techniques. The experimental results demonstrate superiority of our technique.

Modeling naturalistic argumentation in research literatures:representation and interaction design issues

This article characterizes key weaknesses in the ability of current digital libraries to support scholarly inquiry, and as a way to address these, proposes computational services grounded in semiformal models of the naturalistic argumentation commonly found in research literatures. It is argued that a design priority is to balance formal expressiveness with usability, making it critical to coevolve the modeling scheme with appropriate user interfaces for argument construction and analysis. We specify the requirements for an argument modeling scheme for use by untrained researchers and describe the resulting ontology, contrasting it with other domain modeling and semantic web approaches, before discussing passive and intelligent user interfaces designed to support analysts in the construction, navigation, and analysis of scholarly argument structures in a Web-based environment. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 22: 17–47, 2007.

Virtual Encyclopaedia of the Bulgarian Iconography

East-Christian icon art is recognised as one of the most significant areas of the art of painting. Regrettably, it is still being neglected in the digital documentation and the registry of the art of painting. The accessibility to that large part of mankind's cultural and historical ancestry would be enhanced greatly if icons of all possible kinds and origins were digitised, classified, and „exhibited“ in the Internet. That would allow the preservation and even the future digital restoration of a large number of rare specimens of the East-Christian art of painting. This article aims to introduce how modern techniques from the area of digital libraries can be used for implementing the demonstrative multimedia library “Virtual encyclopaedia of the Bulgarian iconography ” 4, containing a large number of Bulgarian iconic art masterpieces and iconography of various authors, periods and schools.

Authors Support in the TM4L Environment

The TM4L environment enables the development and use of ontology-aware courseware based on the Semantic Web technology Topic Maps. In this paper we discuss its features in the light of authoring support, giving illustrative examples to highlight its use.

Bulgarian National Ethnographic Museum – Meeting the Challenges of Digitisation

The conservation, spread, comprehension and recreation of traditional culture heritages is one of the main purpose of the National Ethnographic Museum in Bulgaria. As other cultural and scientific heritage institutions, it begins to use new information technologies and strategies for providing access to its cultural heritage treasures. This paper aims to present digital libraries with multimedia content as a modern technological solution for innovative presentation of Bulgarian ethnographical heritage. It includes some basic concepts of digital libraries with multimedia content and a description of three types of architecture. The paper also describes the ideas, conceptual decisions and strategies in the project Experimental Digital Library “Bulgarian Ethnographic Treasury”.

Towards Content-Sensitive Access to the Artefacts of the Bulgarian Iconography

his paper presents an ontological model of the knowledge about Bulgarian iconographical artefacts. It also describes content-sensitive services for access, browse, search and group iconographical objects, based on the presented ontology that will be implemented in the multimedia digital library “Virtual encyclopedia of Bulgarian iconography”.

Use of Knowledge Technologies for Presentation of Bulgarian Folklore Heritage Semantics

Preserving and presenting the Bulgarian folklore heritage is a long-term commitment of scholars and researchers working in many areas. This article presents ontological model of the Bulgarian folklore knowledge, exploring knowledge technologies for presenting the semantics of the phenomena of our traditional culture. This model is a step to the development of the digital library for the “Bulgarian Folklore Heritage” virtual exposition which is a part of the “Knowledge Technologies for Creation of Digital Presentation and Significant Repositories of Folklore Heritage” project.

Organization and Security of the Audio and Video Archive for Unique Bulgarian Bells

AMS Subj. Classification: H.3.7 Digital Libraries, K.6.5 Security and Protection

Дигиталните библиотеки – информационни маркери на образованието

Доклад, поместен в сборника на Националната конференция "Образованието в информационното общество", Пловдив, май 2011 г.

Fast Information Retrieval in the Open Grid Service Architecture

This is an extended version of an article presented at the Second International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria, 11–12 September 2010.

Share.TEC Portal: How the Metadata Repositories of Educational Resources Meet the Users’ Expectations

This is an extended version of an article presented at the Second International Conference on Software, Services and Semantic Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria, 11–12 September 2010.

Adaptive Document Image Binarization with Application in Processing Astronomical Logbooks

ACM Computing Classification System (1998): I.7, I.7.5.

Цифровите библиотеки в обучението на учители

Krassen Stefanov, Pavel Boytchev, Eliza Stefanova, Atanas Georgiev, Nikolina Nikolova, Alexander Grigorov - This paper discusses the role of the contemporary European digital libraries in teachers education. It presents a digital repository of metadata resources for teachers education, as well as a portal for the community of practices, build around the repository. Both the repository and the community are developed in the frame of the European project Share.TEC. The paper describes teachers’ and teachers educators’ expectations from the system. In addition, the adaptability model, on which the system is based on, and its realization in the portal are presented.

Online Access to the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum

Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum project aims at building a repertoire of medieval and early modern Bulgarian texts for saints in combination with ethnological data and some visual sources. A basic project task is to produce an accessible on-line digital repository of this valuable cultural heritage treasure. The paper presents the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum environment, its architecture, functional specification, application modeling process and software implementation. The paper also discusses the specifics of the ―Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum‖ project and its knowledge domain. The paper also presents the integration between the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum and the Bulgarian Iconographical Digital Library, a digital library keeping rare specimens, private collections of Orthodox icons, wall- paintings and other iconographical objects, selected from difficult-to-access storages, distant churches, chapels, and monasteries, objects in a risk environment or unstable conditions.