This was a descriptive and retrospective study of 2,117 deliveries from January 2002 to July 2003 at the Dr. David Capistrano da Costa Filho Birthing Center in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Widespread questions have been raised concerning the quality of services provided at birthing centers by obstetric nurses. The results of the current study were: 11.4% maternal transfer rate; 2.2% ce...

Program(s) of Interest Animal & Poultry Science [1] Applied Nutrition [2] Art History & Visual Culture [3] Bioinformatics [4] Biomedical Sciences [5] Biophysics [6] Business Administration [7] Capacity Development & Extension [8] Chemistry [9] Clinical Studies [10] Computational Science [11] Computer Science [11] Creative Writing [12] Criminology & Criminal Justice Policy [13] Economics [14] En...

Program(s) of Interest Animal & Poultry Science [1] Applied Nutrition [2] Art History & Visual Culture [3] Bioinformatics [4] Biomedical Sciences [5] Biophysics [6] Biotechnology [7] Business Administration [8] Capacity Development & Extension [9] Chemistry [10] Clinical Studies [11] Computational Science [12] Computer Science [12] Creative Writing [13] Criminology & Criminal Justice Policy [14...

Program(s) of Interest Accounting [1] Animal & Biosciences [2] Applied Nutrition [3] Art History & Visual Culture [4] Bioinformatics [5] Biomedical Sciences [6] Biophysics [7] Biotechnology [8] Business Administration [9] Capacity Development & Extension [10] Chemistry [11] Clinical Studies [12] Computational Science [13] Computer Science [13] Creative Writing [14] Criminology & Criminal Justic...

objective: to analyze the trend in maternal mortality ratio in a tertiary care centre and the effect of various maternity schemes on it. materials and methods:  retrospective analysis of all maternal deaths occurring in the guru gobind singh medical college & hospital, faridkot, punjab, india was done from jan 2010 to dec 2012. every maternal death was scrutinized from various aspects like dire...

the present study aimed to analyze reprint request e-mail messages written by postgraduates (ma students) of two fields of study, namely physics and efl, to realize the differences and similarities between the two email types. to investigate the purpose of the study, a sample of 100 e-mail messages, 50 physics and 50 efl, were analyzed according to swales’ (1990) model for reprint requests and ...

This study was an attempt to investigate Iranian and Spanish intermediate nonnative English learners’ request strategies to their faculty. To this aim, 74 (50 Iranian and 24 Spanish) nonnative English intermediate learners participated in this study. A discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. The findings suggested the participants empl...