This dissertation was concerned about the role of social environment, that is actual and perceived social support and social influence, in structuring behavior, in this instance, breastfeeding behavior in Istanbul, Turkey. Primarily, it analyzed the effects of social environment…
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Quality measures fit within a triangle linking the care process, equipment and infrastructure, and outcomes. A fundamental aim in promoting structural and process quality is to improve health outcomes—although few studies have demonstrated that quality care positively affects he…
This dissertation was intended to explore the question of whether infants begin to incorporate aspects of the adult target language to which they are exposed into their own vocalizations prior to the emergence of first words and, if so, whether adult listeners are sensitive to s…
This study explores the professional values which underpin choices madeon behalf of young children (three to seven year olds) for learning aforeign language in English nursery, infant and primary schools. Since theEducation Reform Act of 1988, young children in maintained early …
Background: Substantial variation exists between ethnicities in both birth weight and the prevalence of obesity-related non-communicable diseases (OR-NCDs). South Asians, who display a reduced birth weight and increased risk of developing these OR-NCDS, have been the focus of mu…
Scope and Method of Study . Temperament is a well-researched construct that is often of interest when attempting to account for individual differences in data. Several models explaining temperament exist and studies of temperament that focus on early infancy in particular, like …
The association of exposure to wood smoke from cooking with low birth weight (LBW) and fatal birth outcomes was studied using comparison to natural gas (NG) users, in a historical cohort of women living in a semi-rural area of southern Pakistan. Birth records from 2000 to 2002 a…
Previous studies across a variety of different languages have shown that eleven-month-olds tested via the head-turn preference paradigm show a preference for familiar words over unfamiliar words, as demonstrated by longer look times. This study examined the effect of chronic oti…
The liturgical event--multi-sensory in the interpersonal formation that occurs--is a meaningful developmental experience for infants. This project explores how the infant's engagement in interpersonal communion, supported by clinical and theoretical findings in developmental psy…
My work sets forth a procedure for classifying a burial as deviant (i.e., demonstrably different from contemporary burials with evidence that any difference was created by intentional human action). This procedure is structured to guide the interpretation of burials through a tw…