Since 2008, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has called military family “the strength behind uniform.” The contributions and sacrifices of families, in particular spouses, are now formally recognized as essential to operational effectiveness, such ability deploy troops quickly easily. This represents a departure from previous eras, which took for granted “naturalness” gendered division labour ho...

BACKGROUND Companionship during labor is known to have both physical and psychosocial benefits to mother and baby. Sri Lanka made a policy decision to allow a labour companion in 2011. However, implementation has been unsatisfactory. Given the leading role Obstetricians play in the implementation of policy, a study was undertaken to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices among them. ME...

a quasi experimental study was conducted in the labour rooms of one of the hospital's of the university of   medical science of iran, to compare the effect ofcord blood drainage and oxytocin injection into the umblicat   vein in the duration of the third stage of labour.   a total of 180 women in the course of normal pregnancies with no complications and normal vaginal   dd ivery were sele...

Agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of Africa, Nigeria inclusive. But the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. An understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...

This article has considered the volume and direction of Iran’s trade using the gravity model. The major issue in this analysis is to explore why Iran over or under-traded with the 76 countries relative to the predicted trade flows of the model. The study attempts to explore the reasons from the respect of both the model itself and Iran’s trade structure. This is done by analysing the performanc...

Recently we proposed a novel method of alignment-alignment comparison, COMPASS (the tool for COmparison of Multiple Protein Alignments with Assessment of Statistical Significance). Here we present several examples of the relations between PFAM protein families that were detected by COMPASS and that lead to the predictions of presently unresolved protein structures. We discuss relatively straigh...

Introduction: Reducing the labour by an unskilful person is an important strategy in promotion of mother's health and reducing the maternal mortality as the fifth millennium development goals. Methods: This retrospective and descriptive study was accomplishd in 2010.The samples were 189 Iranian mothers with labour by unskilful person in urban and rural area affiliated to Mashhad University of M...