They received training over a four month period in basic parenting and counselling skills, as well as in the specific mother-infant intervention.
The primary attachment a newborn lamb feels, the theory goes, is less to a specific mother than to the particular patch of ground on which it is born.
I called those people in my book "the many-gendered mothers of my heart," which is a phrase I steal from the poet Dana Ward, but I do have a specific mother, who's also here tonight — Mom, I love you. . . .
It is also related to the WT as it can be derived from the WT with a specific mother wavelet multiplied by the phase factor.
Hence, the ST can be defined as an adaptative STFT or as a CWT with a specific mother wavelet-like term multiplied by a phase factor.
The audiovocal communication between mother and infant cannot be underestimated -- not only in terms of the particular relationship that is forged between specific mother and child, but also in terms of its evolutionary significance.
Details of the structural equation model are given in Appendix 1 We used the observed variables: child specific, mother specific, household related; and unobserved (latent) variables: socio-economic quintiles and spatial (ecological) variables.
For example, we were unable to reasonably estimate the ratio for maternal blood mercury concentration versus newborn blood mercury concentration for each specific mother-child pair; instead, we assumed an average ratio and used this value for all mother-child pairs.
And off we go through a string of common narrative devices, ranging from the standard (medically troubled childhood) to the oddly specific (mothers delivering gnomic nuggets in adult life that serve as the story's take-home message).
They also collected genetic samples from each shark pup, creating family trees that allowed them to connect newborns to specific mothers.
For the girls, however, the correlation controlling for own father's age was significant (r439 = 0.19, p<0.05), whilst that controlling for mother's age was not (r439 = −0.05, n.s).. Thus, for the boys, neither parent is more influential than the other, whilst for the girls, there is some evidence of specific mother-to-daughter transmission.
