[Principles and advanced techniques for better internetpresentations in obstetrics and gynecology]. / Prinzipien und aktuelle Techniken der Internetpräsentation in der Frauenheilkunde.

Internet presentations are common tools for better medical communication and better scientific work. Meanwhile a great number of gynecological and obstetrical institutions present data via the world wide web within a wide range of quality and performance. Specific HTML editors offer quick and easy presentations, but only advanced internet techniques enable interesting multimedia presentations. N-tier applications are the future standard and we must integrate them in general informatical systems. New Concepts, actual tools and general problems will be discussed and new principles similar to actual E commerce techniques are able to solve our special medical demands.

[Gynecologic endocrinologic information sources in the internet]. / Gynäkologisch endokrinologische Kommunikationsstrukturen im Internet.

Within the last months a great number of internet pages have become a highly interesting source of up-to-date information in gynecological endocrinology. Most of these World Wide Web-pages present actual scientific fields and abstracts with close relations to basic science, while clinical discussion groups are still rare. The potential of internet presentations will strongly influence communication in cases of gynecological endocrinology.

[The internet--possibilities and risk for gynecology]. / Das Internet--Möglichkeiten und Risiken für die Frauenheilkunde.

The Internet is a rapid growing world wide computer cluster using the TCP/IP communication protocol. In case of scientific data exchange Internet communication is of extraordinary value. Low data security and low data transfer rates are still problems for medical data exchange. New Internet tools--specially new cryptological techniques--are able to improve the communication security for obstetrical and gynecological data.

Effects of maternal absence due to employment on the quality of infant-mother attachment in a low-risk sample.

Recent reports have suggested that day-care experience initiated prior to 12 months of age is associated with increased proportions of infants whose attachment to mother is classified as "insecure-avoidant." However, reviewers have questioned the generality of these findings, noting that samples in which associations between early day-care experience and avoidant attachment patterns have been reported come from high-risk populations, and/or that the infants' day-care settings may not have been of high quality. In the present study, effects of maternal absences on infant-mother attachment quality were assessed in a low-risk, middle-class sample (N = 110). In all instances, substitute care had been initiated at least 4 months prior to the infant's first birthday and was provided in the infant's home by a person unrelated to the baby. Infants were assessed using the Ainsworth Strange Situation when they were 12-13 months of age. Analyses indicated that a significantly greater proportion of infants whose mothers worked outside the home (N = 54) were assigned to the category "insecure-avoidant" as compared to infants whose mothers remained in the home (N = 56) throughout the first year of life. Analyses of demographic and psychological data available for the sample indicated that this relation is dependent upon maternal parity (primi- vs. multiparous mother). The association between attachment quality and work status was significant only for firstborn children of full-time working mothers. The results are interpreted as evidence that the repeated daily separations experienced by infants whose mothers are working full-time constitute a "risk" factor for the development of "insecure-avoidant" infant-mother attachments.