This study examined the effects of a yoga program during pregnancy, on maternal comfort, labor pain, and birth outcomes. A randomized trial was conducted using 74-primigravid Thai women who were equally divided into two groups (experimental and control). The yoga program involved six, 1-h sessions at prescribed weeks of gestation. A variety of instruments were used to assess maternal comfort, l...

Decision augmentation theory (DAT) holds that humans integrate information obtained by anomalous cognition into the usual decision process. The result is that, to a statistical degree, such decisions are biased toward volitional outcomes. We introduce our model and show that the domain over which it is applicable is within a few standard deviations from chance. We contrast the theory's experime...

This article considers certain dimensions of the quality employment in Brazil, particularly rural zones. It starts from perception changes production relations and repercussions these have on practices. A panel data methodology is applied to capture determinants job quality, a index proposed. Rural more precarious than its urban counterpart, although differences been diminishing over time. In a...

Abstract It is well known that German and Spanish labour markets are quite different from a macro point of view. In this paper, we look at these through the lenses individual unstable spells . These include all forms atypical employment (such as temporary contracts mini-jobs) unemployment. This combined state captures fuller picture experience volatile income uncertain status than unemployment ...

law department, ferdowsi university of mashhad the importance of the exploitation contracts protecting the literary and artistic rights has, in some legal systems like france, resulted in the devising of general and common regulations about the formation of the above-mentioned contracts. however, so far no independent section has been thought of in the iranian legal system for explicating commo...

drawing up the insurance contracts by insurance companies has led to disregard policyholder's rights. this means that insurers by inserting unfair terms in insurance contracts seek to make a contract that they gain special privileges for themselves. jurists as main opponents of injustice regard commitment not to insert unfair terms as one of the insurer's pre-contractual obligations i...