CONTEXT Most research on pregnancy intention has focused on women's perspectives and characteristics. Because decisions about sexual activity and contraceptive use usually involve both men and women, it is important to understand factors associated with men's intentions-for example, child support enforcement-to maximize the potential for reducing unwanted pregnancies. METHODS Data from the 19...

BACKGROUND We examined 12-month hormonal contraceptive continuation and pregnancy rates by abortion history. STUDY DESIGN Women who wanted to avoid pregnancy for at least 1 year were recruited at four San Francisco Bay area family planning clinics on regular service days and on abortion care days. Participants completed baseline and follow-up questionnaires. Multivariable Cox models assessed ...

BACKGROUND Unintended pregnancy has been a major reproductive health challenge in resource poor settings including Ethiopia. It has adverse consequences to the mother, child and the health sector's resources. Understanding the extent of unintended pregnancy and the factors associated is crucial to devise evidence based interventions. The analysis was aimed at assessing the unintended pregnancy ...

background: pregnancy is often considered as a stressful period with physiological and psychological variations. these changes may reduce quality of life in many women. the present study was aimed to determine the quality of life in pregnant women referred to health centers of izeh city, central iran. methods: a descriptive and analytical study carried out on 300 pregnant women who had referred...

H ow much should a nation spend on science? What kind of science? How much from private versus public sectors? Does demand for funding by potential science performers imply a shortage of funding or a surfeit of performers? These and related science policy questions tend to be asked and answered today in a highly visible advocacy context that makes assumptions that are deserving of closer scruti...

1025 COVER False-colored electron micrograph of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER, light green), which consists of elongated membrane structures studded with ribosomes (dark green dots) and is adjacent to the nuclear envelope (dark green, right). The ER is the entry portal for newly synthesized membrane and secretory proteins (circular mitochondrion: ~0.49 micrometers wide). Two Reviews (page...

Document centric information retrieval is used every day by people all over the world. It is an application well studied, well understood, and of which there is a sound user model. Element retrieval, on the other hand, is a new field of research, with no identified applications, no users, and without a user model. Some of the methodological issues in element retrieval are identified. The standa...

Feature Open access, freely available online " I didn't want to be just another MBA, " says Pascal Herzer, one of the fi rst recipients of a new graduate credential known as the professional science master's, or PSM. " Not many people have the ability to understand science and business, and [the PSM] program was designed for that very purpose. " PSMs are two-year American master's degrees fi na...