The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of contraception, abortion, and natural family planning (NFP) on divorce rates of US women of reproductive age. The variables of importance of religion and frequency of church attendance were also included in the analysis. The study involved 5,530 reproductive age women in the (2006-2010) National Survey of Family Growth who indicate that...

Planning under uncertainty has being increasingly demanded for practical applications in several areas that require reliable solutions for complex goals and, therefore, some approaches for automatic plan synthesis based on formal methods have been proposed in AI Planning. Among these approaches, planning based on model checking seems to be a very attractive one, however, it is mainly based on c...

Any form of model-based reasoning is limited by the adherence of the model to the actual reality. Scheduling is the problem of finding a suitable timing to execute a given set of activities accommodating complex temporal constraints. Planning is the problem of finding a strategy for an agent to achieve a desired goal given a formal model of the system and the environment it is immersed in. When...

This retrospective study examined duration of breast-feeding and concurrent contraceptive use among 5,648 Peruvian women. Data were gathered during 1986-1992 as part of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). The women gave birth to 7,951 infants, 95% of whom were breastfed; 44% of the mothers used contraception while breastfeeding. Consistent with the literature, mothers using oral contracept...

Abortion is illegal in Mauritius, but despite these legal restrictions abortions are very much part of the reproductive health picture in Mauritius. To examine why Mauritius women are risking their lives, their health, and their reproductive futures by engaging in illegally induced abortions, the Mauritius Family Planning Association conducted a study of 475 women treated in 3 hospitals with a...

One of the most common methods in natural family planning, the "temperature method", usually is based on a rule of thumb (due to the WHO) in order to determine the moment of temperature rise. We will replace that that fuzzy rule by a clear "yes" or "no" using a statistical method, the Sequential Probability Ratio Tests (SPRT). The resulting simple algorithm is able to detect the rise of tempera...

Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi, Zahra Fathifar, Hossein Saeedi Hasankandi. PhD Student, Health Information Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Central Library,...

Fariba Bakhshian, Hossein Jabbari Beirami, Saba Jabbari Beirami, Seiied Yaaghoob Fatollahi. Ms of midwifery, vice chancellor office, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz, Iran; Associated Professor of Health Administration & Management, Department of Community Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz, Iran; Dentistry student, Dentistry faculty, Tabriz University of Medical...