Background Preterm labor and birth are associated with several neonatal complications including respiratory distress syndrome and intraventricular hemorrhage. Differentiating true and false labor pain is a dilemma to obstetricians. Objective To elucidate the role of cervical length measurement in prediction of birth in pregnant women with threatened preterm labor. Materials and Methods In t...

The work and retirement decisions of husbands and wives are likely to be made jointly as they allocate their available resources. This article models the allocation of family wealth and family members' time over the lifetime of the unit. The first section reports simulation results that illustrate the relationship between the value of members' time in both market work and the production of home...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine if the actions of progesterone on preterm labor are accomplished through modulation of the percentage of regulatory T-cells (Treg). METHODS The study was a cohort pilot study made in a single center tertiary obstetrical unit with women in preterm labor arrested with tocolytic treatment. Variation of the number and percentage of Treg cells obta...

Unit labor cost (ULC) is defined as labor compensation per value added. It captures the cost competitiveness of industries and countries. As labor compensation is wage multiplied by hours worked or number of people employed, it is easy to show that ULC is wage divided by labor productivity. Thus, changes in ULC are often discussed in the context of wage increases and labor productivity. However...

Assume that each infinitely-lived consumer in the economy is endowed with one unit of labor which is supplied inelastically in an aggregate labor market, and that the individual consumer’s labor income is subject to multiplicative idiosyncratic transitory shocks i,t+1 such that Et[̃i,t+1] = 1. 1 Idiosyncratic ‘permanent labor income’ is defined as the level of labor income that would obtain for...

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plantlevel. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile as a natural experiment. In our empirical analysis we find that employment growth in manufacturing pla...

Introduction: A Midwifery Trained Registered Nurse (MTRN) is a member of the multi-professional maternity health care team in Sri Lanka. Her contribution to the maternity care team is poorly understood, often undermined, and undefined. In the context of low- and middle-income settings where traditional midwives play a crucial role in domiciliary care, the MTRNs role as a member of the multi-pro...

In recent years, riparian condition has become an integral part of any comprehensive environmental monitoring program (Barbour et al 1999, Wissmar and Bechta 1998). The effect riparian zones have on aquatic systems is well documented (Correll 1999). Measuring riparian quantity and quality is a less developed area of study with a wide range of practices depending on study goals and resource avai...