The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 536,000 women die in 2005 from pregnancy-related causes, and almost all of these deaths occur in developing countries (WHO 2007). In Niger, the lifetime risk of death is estimated at one in seven (WHO 2007). Maternal causes are responsible for 18% of deaths in women in less developed countries (World Bank 1993). 75% of these are estimated to be...

The progressive offglide reduction of / / and /e / or onglide reduction of /i / in Australian English is the major focus of this study. This paper examines, using synthetic speech tokens, the patterns of vowel perception of female and male speakers of Australian English in (approximately) 1990 and 2007. The relationship between production and perception in 2007 is also examined. This paper prov...

BACKGROUND A significant number of Lebanese medical graduates have emigrated from Lebanon. The objective of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that the repatriation of Lebanese physicians educated abroad has contributed to the international emigration of recent Lebanese medical graduates. METHODS We analyzed the demographic and educational characteristics and the year of registration o...

CONTEXT Between 1998 and 2008, the number of hospital-based emergency departments (EDs) in the United States declined, while the number of ED visits increased, particularly visits by patients who were publicly insured and uninsured. Little is known about the hospital, community, and market factors associated with ED closures. Federal law requiring EDs to treat all in need regardless of a patien...

ABSTRACT∞ This article argues that through Zouglou music, Ivorian youths have defined what it means to deliver justice in the wake of violence by positioning and Zouglou-Nouchi “ways being” as an inescapable political legitimation. Beginning with turn from Houphouët’s single party rule multiparty politics 1990, 2002–2007 2010–2011 eras violent conflict, artists, themselves youths, shaped terms ...

WebGrid is a port of a highly interactive conceptual modeling application to operate effectively as a web service available through any web client. It was developed in 1994, has been available as a service on the web on a 24/7 basis since January 1995, and has been used by over 20,000 different sites. A tutorial on porting interactive applications to the web using WebGrid as an example was pres...