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  2. Adobe Photoshop - Wikipedia

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    Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.It was created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll.It is the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing, and its name has become genericised as a verb (e.g. "to photoshop an image", "photoshopping", and "photoshop contest") [7] although Adobe disapproves of ...

  3. Childbirth - Wikipedia

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    Babies that had a difficult birth may need special tests and monitoring, adding to the costs of childbirth. [178] Beginning in 2014, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence began recommending that many women give birth at home under the care of a midwife rather than an obstetrician, citing lower expenses and better healthcare ...

  4. Childbirth positions - Wikipedia

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    They are referred to as upright birth positions. [3] Understanding the physical effects of each birthing position on the mother and baby is important. However, the psychological effects are crucial as well. Knowledge about birthing positions can help mothers choose the option they are most comfortable with.

  5. Graphic design - Wikipedia

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    In advertising, the ultimate objective is the sale of goods and services. In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas, expression, and feeling to artifacts that document the human experience." [16]

  6. Midwifery in Maya society - Wikipedia

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    In pre-Spanish Yucatan, the aged midwife goddess was called Ixchel. Childbirth is the final rite of passage amongst the Maya that completes a girl's transition to womanhood. Many of the women who give birth in rural areas are treated by midwives who do not have any formal training but who are believed in Maya religion to have received training ...

  7. Churching of women - Wikipedia

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    In Christian tradition the churching of women, also known as thanksgiving for the birth or adoption of a child, is the ceremony wherein a blessing is given to mothers after recovery from childbirth. The ceremony includes thanksgiving for the woman's survival of childbirth, and is performed even when the child is stillborn, or has died unbaptized.

  8. Twilight sleep - Wikipedia

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    The use of morphine and scopolamine in twilight birth also positioned drug intervention as the main measure used in pain management during labor. [4] Because twilight birth was performed in a hospital setting, it greatly contributed to changing childbirth from a home event to a medicalized hospital procedure.

  9. Photography - Wikipedia

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    The birth of photography was then concerned with inventing means to capture and keep the image produced by the camera obscura. Albertus Magnus (1193–1280) discovered silver nitrate , [ 21 ] and Georg Fabricius (1516–1571) discovered silver chloride , [ 22 ] and the techniques described in Ibn al-Haytham 's Book of Optics are capable of ...