Recruitment Habitats and Nursery Grounds of the American Lobster Homarus Americanus: A Demographic Bottleneck?

We have identified benthic recruitment habitats and nursery grounds of the American lobster Homarus americanus Milne Edwards in the coastal Gulf of Maine, USA, by systematically censusing subtidal sediment, cobble, and ledge substrata. We distinguish lobsters between settlement size (5 mm carapace length (CL) to ca 40 mm CL as the 'early benthic phase' (EBP) because they are ecologically and behaviorally distinct from larger lobsters. EBP lobsters are cryptic and apparently restricted to shelter-providing habitats (primarily cobble substratum) in coastal Gulf of Maine. In these habitats we found average population densities of EBP lobsters as high as 6.9 m-2. EBP lobsters were virtually absent from ledge and sedimentary substrata devoid of vegetation although larger lobsters are commonly found there. It is possible that the requirement for shelter-providing substrata by this life phase creates a natural demographic 'bottleneck' to benthic recruitment for the species. Prime cobble recruitment habitat is relatively rare and comprises ca 11 % of the 60.2 km of shoreline at our study area in midcoast Maine. If this low availability of cobble exists throughout the Gulf of Maine, as other studies indicate, it could limit lobster production potential. We verified the geographic extent of recruitment to cobble habitats censused in 3 of 4 regions spanning ca 300 km of the coastal Gulf of Maine (from Nahant, Massachusetts to Swans Island, Maine). Early benthic phase lobsters were absent from cobble censused in the northeastern extreme of our survey (Swans Island). This pattern is consistent with earlier speculation that relatively cool water temperatures may limit larval settlement in this region.

Benetton Nursery, Treviso (Italy) 2007

A BOX OPEN TO THE SKY = UNA CAJA ABIERTA AL CIELO

Evaluating a web-based clinical decision support system for language disorders screening in a nursery school

Background: Early and effective identification of developmental disorders during childhood remains a critical task for the international community. The second highest prevalence of common developmental disorders in children are language delays, which are frequently the first symptoms of a possible disorder. Objective: This paper evaluates a Web-based Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) whose aim is to enhance the screening of language disorders at a nursery school. The common lack of early diagnosis of language disorders led us to deploy an easy-to-use CDSS in order to evaluate its accuracy in early detection of language pathologies. This CDSS can be used by pediatricians to support the screening of language disorders in primary care. Methods: This paper details the evaluation results of the ?Gades? CDSS at a nursery school with 146 children, 12 educators, and 1 language therapist. The methodology embraces two consecutive phases. The first stage involves the observation of each child?s language abilities, carried out by the educators, to facilitate the evaluation of language acquisition level performed by a language therapist. Next, the same language therapist evaluates the reliability of the observed results. Results: The Gades CDSS was integrated to provide the language therapist with the required clinical information. The validation process showed a global 83.6% (122/146) success rate in language evaluation and a 7% (7/94) rate of non-accepted system decisions within the range of children from 0 to 3 years old. The system helped language therapists to identify new children with potential disorders who required further evaluation. This process will revalidate the CDSS output and allow the enhancement of early detection of language disorders in children. The system does need minor refinement, since the therapists disagreed with some questions from the CDSS knowledge base (KB) and suggested adding a few questions about speech production and pragmatic abilities. The refinement of the KB will address these issues and include the requested improvements, with the support of the experts who took part in the original KB development. Conclusions: This research demonstrated the benefit of a Web-based CDSS to monitor children?s neurodevelopment via the early detection of language delays at a nursery school. Current next steps focus on the design of a model that includes pseudo auto-learning capacity, supervised by experts.

Conceptualizing The Miscarriage Experience Through The Lens Of Ghosts In The Nursery

The purpose of this doctoral paper was to use the “Ghosts in the Nursery” theory (Fraiberg, Adelson, & Shapiro, 1975) as a framework for understanding clinicians’ perceptions of women’s experience of miscarriage. Specific attention was paid to the experience of becoming pregnant with a subsequent child. Professionals who work in the field of infant mental health were asked to explore the theory’s utility in conceptualizing the experience of becoming pregnant after a miscarriage. Results indicated that the perceptions of women’s experiences of miscarriage and subsequent pregnancy are congruent with previous research findings. Further elaboration and information are provided to illustrate the experience of having a child and being a parent after experiencing a loss, and to explore the idea of understanding miscarriage as a “ghost”. This study applies a new perspective to the theory of “Ghosts in the Nursery” (Fraiberg et al., 1975) to children born after a loss.

A health program for the nursery school,

Mode of access: Internet.

Forest nursery practice in the Lake States.

Mode of access: Internet.

The modern housewife, or, Ménagère : comprising nearly one thousand receipts, for the economic and judicious preparation of every meal of the day : with those of the nursery and sick room, and minute directions for family management in all its branches : illustrated with engravings /

Includes sections on: comforts for invalids, removes, entrees, dishes with the remains of lamb, garniture for omlettes, beverages for evening parties.

Standard hand-book of household economy for the people : comprising plain directions for the management of a family, servants, lying-in room, nursery, sick-room, flower-garden, and household pets, and also, for the preparation and administration of remedies for disease /

Includes index.

Our old nursery rhymes.

Contains music.

The Visit to the Nursery

Gabriel Metsu; 2 ft. 6 33/64 in.x 2 ft. 8 1/64 in.; oil on canvas

Comparison of winter wheat varieties grown in cooperative nursery experiments in the hard red winter wheat region in 1988 /

Chiefly tables.

Comparison of winter wheat varieties grown in cooperative nursery experiments in the hard red winter wheat region in 1989 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings, Intermountain Forest Nursery Association : August 12-16, 1991, Park City, Utah /

"February, 1992."

Target Seedling Symposium : proceedings, combined meeting of the Western Forest Nursery Associations, August 13-17, 1990, Roseburg, Oregon /

"December, 1990."