background as the under-representation of women in management positions continues to persist globally, little is known about the experiences of women in the healthcare sector in the context of the developing middle eastern nations. in an attempt to address this knowledge gap, the current study explores some of the barriers that hinder and the enablers that foster women’s career advancement in t...

Mayuri M. Naik was born in 1988 in Curchorem, Goa (India). She completed her B.Sc. from Government College of arts, science and commerce, Quepem-Goa in 2008. She received her M.Sc. degree in organic chemistry from Goa University in 2010. Presently she is proceeding with Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. S. G. Tilve and Prof. V. P. Kamat in department of chemistry, Goa University, Goa. Her re...

Children born prematurely exhibit a broad range of neuroanatomical abnormalities. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effects of very preterm birth on brain volume (cortical and subcortical), cortical thickness and surface area. The participants were 25 children born very preterm (<32 weeks gestational age) without significant post-natal medical sequelae and 32 term-born chil...

BACKGROUND Several European countries report differences in risk of maternal mortality between immigrants from low- and middle-income countries and host country women. The present study identified suboptimal factors related to care-seeking, accessibility, and quality of care for maternal deaths that occurred in Sweden from 1988-2010. METHODS A subset of maternal death records (n = 75) among f...

Universities should be developing female middle-managers for reasons of gender balance (Aitkin 2001), the skills shortage, pending mass retirements (Chesterman 2004) and sustainable, postbureaucratic organizations (Kira and Forslin 2008). Investigating the learning and development of women managers is timely. Research assumes that women in academe have the qualifications, experience and skills ...

birth weight is an important indicator of child survival. appropriate and timely care of a newborn specially if he or she is born with low birth weight is important but this is difficult in developing countries since most of the deliveries are conducted at home where adequate facilities to weight a new born does not exist. this study was conducted to find out a surrogate which could efficiently...

background: iran, a low- to middle-income country, has experienced considerable socioeconomic changes in 20 th century, which their impacts on the adult heights has not been assessed deeply by now. this article aims to quantify the temporal varia­tions of height (with respect to shrinkage of height due to aging) and its deterministic factors in iranian population born be­tween 1940 and 1984. me...

Universities should be developing female middle-managers for reasons of gender balance (Aitkin 2001), the skills shortage, pending mass retirements (Chesterman 2004) and sustainable, postbureaucratic organizations (Kira and Forslin 2008). Investigating the learning and development of women managers is timely. Research assumes that women in academe have the qualifications, experience and skills ...

synophthalmia is a form of cyclopia, in which some elements of two eyes are fused and form a single eye in the middle region of the forehead. the head of a holstein female calf born from a 5-year-old cow was referred to department of pathology, school of veterinary medicine, shahrekord university due to multiple congenital anomalies. the calf had been slaughtered immediately after birth due to ...