Based on data from India’s 1992–93 National Family Health Survey, this study analyzes the main reasons for discontinuing contraceptive use and for not intending to use contraception in the future. The study also analyzes the effects of seven demographic and socioeconomic variables on reported reasons for discontinuing contraception or intending not to use contraception. The results indicate tha...

An estimated 43 million women of reproductive age experienced the effects of conflict in 2012. Already vulnerable from the insecurity of the emergency, women must also face the continuing risk of unwanted pregnancy but often are unable to obtain family planning services. The ongoing Supporting Access to Family Planning and Post-Abortion Care (SAFPAC) initiative, led by CARE, has provided contra...

Temporal constraints are part of the specification of many complex application frameworks including planning, scheduling, real-time systems, workflow and cooperative systems. This paper investigates the problem of converting among quantitative temporal constraints expressed in terms of different time granularities. An expressive formal model for time granularities is assumed including common gr...

The problem of minimum-cost expansion of power transmission network is formulated as a genetic algorithm with the cost of new lines and security constraints and Kirchhoff’s Law at each bus bar included. A genetic algorithm (GA) is a search or optimization algorithm based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics. An applied example is presented. The results from a set of tests carried ...

Following the development of the selectionist theory of the immune system, there was an attempt to characterise many biological mechanisms as being ‘selectionist’ as juxtaposed with ‘instructionist’. However, this broad definition would group Darwinian evolution, the immune system, embryonic development, and Chomsky’s principlesand-parameters (P&P) language-acquisition mechanism together under ...

This paper describes how the most complete recent linguistic results on Korean scrambling (switching of word order) can be readily incorporated into an existing principlesand-parameters parser with minimal additional machinery. Out of all 29 sets of examples in chapters 2.2 and 3.2 of perhaps the most advanced linguistic analysis of Korean scrambling, [5]. 6 sets of examples can be correctly pa...

Business processes in the business world require companies to be able manage information properly and needs of each interested party can met quickly accurately. The development EA (Enterprise Architecture) company is a complex challenging job. PT Mitra Telematika Utama has problems with accounting activities bookkeeping activities. Planning organizational system architecture process, so plannin...

The WHO European Healthy Cities project developed city health profiles (CHPs) to provide the evidence base for health planning. A CHP is a public health report that brings together key pieces of information on health and its determinants in the city and interprets and analyses the information. This CHP would then form the basis of a city health development plan that would set out strategies and...

The Effects of Short-term Circuit Resistance Training with Supplementation Milk, Cheese Juice, Whey Protein on Resting Level Apolipoprotein M- HDL Total Cholesterol, Lipid Profile, Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide and Plasma Estradiol in Untrained Young MenAalizadeh Ali,Ramezani Hossein,Abdi Ahmed,Rohbakhsh Ebad,Changizi Ashtiyani Saeed,Ghanbari Niaki Abbas