CONTEXT To improve the uptake of prenatal care, it is important to know how the use of prenatal care varies by maternal attitudes and social and demographic factors. METHODS Information about social and demographic variables, prenatal care, parity, pregnancy planning, abortion attempts, satisfaction with pregnancy and satisfaction with the relationship with the child's father was collected fr...

A thin liquid film subject to a temperature gradient undergoes thermocapillary convection because of the non-uniform surface tension at the free surface. This induced flow perturbs the film free surface and generate a free surface velocity field. These observable consequences can be thought of as the “signature” of the imposed temperature field and this work investigates whether the temperature...

OBJECTIVES To compare how allocation concealment is described in publications of randomised clinical trials and corresponding protocols, and to estimate how often trial publications with unclear allocation concealment have adequate concealment according to the protocol. DESIGN Cohort study of 102 sets of trial protocols and corresponding publications. SETTING Protocols of randomised trials ...

OBJECTIVE Previous reviews on participants' comprehension of informed consent information have focused on developed countries. Experience has shown that ethical standards developed on Western values may not be appropriate for African settings where research concepts are unfamiliar. We undertook this review to describe how informed consent comprehension is defined and measured in African researc...

in most general and special english courses of the iranian universities, reading comprehension is the main component of the syllabus. nonetheless, in an attempt to improve listening and speaking skills, some general english courses were accompanied by oral presentations, according to which each student had to give a lecture lasting for nearly 10 minutes. the main objective was to investigate th...

In this study, the effect of fluent reading (speed, reading accuracy percentage, prosodic reading), comprehension (literal comprehension, inferential comprehension) and problem solving strategies on classifying students with high and low problem solving success was researched. The sampling of the research is composed of 279 students at elementary school 4 th grade. In the research, in order to ...

BACKGROUND Inadequate functional health literacy is common, but its impact on patients with chronic diseases is not well described. OBJECTIVE To examine among patients with hypertension or diabetes the relationship between their functional health literacy level and their knowledge of their chronic disease and treatment. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of patients with hyperten...

In their recent article entitled “An Evaluation of Story Grammars,” Black and Wilensky (1979) offer a critique of the recent work on this topic. They argue that story grammars (or story schemata as I prefer to call them) are not a productive approach to the study of story understanding, and they offer three main lines of argumentation. First, they argue that story grammars are notformully adequ...