OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to determine the Jordanian cesarean rate and to examine the related indications for cesarean section (CS) in comparison with international rates. METHODS Between 1990 to 2001, there were 243271 deliveries at 7 major military hospitals, (King Hussein Medical Center; Queen Alia Hospital, Amman; Prince Hashem Ben Al-Hussein Hospital, Al-Zarqa; Prince Ali Ben Al...

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Social and economic networks play an important role in shaping individual behaviors. In this paper, we aim to identify and estimate network formation games using observed data on network structure, i.e., who is linked with whom. We use pairwise stability, introduced by Jackson and Wolinsky (1996), as the equilibrium condition to map observed networks to model primitives. Because the fraction of...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a native crop of Asia which is grown worldwide including Iran.In this study,different selection criteria including correlation,regression and path analysis were used to improve yield.The experimental design was split plot with RCBD replicated four times in which three sowing dates (5 January,4 February,and 5 March) were used in main plots and four genotypes;two ...

 Background: Childbirth is a fundamental physical and emotional struggle. This study is an attempt to investigate the psychological factors related to the first delivery, and its relationship with the preference of the type of subsequent deliveries in women. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study in which 380 pregn...

Objective:  In addition to the role of organic matter in plant nutrition, this material improves soil quality, physical structure, ventilation and water supply, and ease of penetration and expansion is rooted deep in the soil surface. Effects of organic matter due to climatic factors, soil characteristics may vary from region to region, resulting in organic materials management must be given to...

INTRODUCTION Cyclopia (alobar holoprosencephaly) (OMIM% 236100) is a rare and lethal complex human malformation, resulting from incomplete cleavage of prosencephalon into right and left hemispheres occurring between the 18th and the 28th day of gestation. Holoprosencephaly occurs in 1/16,000 live births, and 1/250 during embryogenesis. Approximately 1.05 in 100,000 births are identified as infa...

This paper considers production and price networks with unobserved common factors, and derives an exact expression for the rate at which aggregate ‡uctuations vary with the dimension of the network. It introduces the notions of strongly and weakly dominant and non-dominant units, and shows that at most a …nite number of units in the network can be strongly dominant. The pervasiveness of a netwo...