BACKGROUND Pregnant women in England are now offered seasonal influenza vaccine. Midwives could be influential in promoting this, but specific information on their views on the policy and their role in its implementation is lacking. METHODS London midwives were surveyed for their views on the new policy and their own vaccine uptake, using an anonymously self-completed semi-structured online s...

abstract: background and objectives :  professional ethics is part of midwifery skills that cannot be separated from it .midwives must get acquainted with this skill and ethical laws, avoiding at the same time unethical manners. materials and methods : this study was cross-sectional survey which examined knowledge and attitude of 101 midwives that had been selected by convenient sampling proced...

In machine learning, nonconvex optimization problems with multiple local optimums are often encountered. Graduated Optimization Algorithm (GOA) is a popular heuristic method to obtain global optimums of nonconvex problems through progressively minimizing a series of convex approximations to the nonconvex problems more and more accurate. Recently, such an algorithm GradOpt based on GOA is propos...

The young driver problem is typified by high crash rates early in licensure that decline with experience, but are higher initially and decline more slowly for the youngest novices. Despite considerable effort, only Graduated Driver Licensing System (GDLS) policies have been shown to improve novice young driver safety outcomes. Unfortunately, GDLS policies are mostly limited to countries with a ...

BACKGROUND National sexual health frameworks in the UK advise that women in maternity units who are at risk of unintended pregnancy should receive contraceptive advice and supplies of the most effective long-acting reversible methods of contraception (LARC). In the UK, midwives currently deliver contraceptive advice to women following childbirth. There is a lack of information on how midwives c...