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Please understand when I cry out in pain: women's accounts of maternity services during labour and delivery in Ghana

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to investigate women's accounts of interactions with health care providers during labour and delivery and to assess the implications for acceptability and utilisation of maternity services in Ghana. METHODS Twenty-one individual in-depth interviews and two focus group discussions were conducted with women of reproductive age who had delivered in the past f...

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2 By the end of his life, Armand Hammer, the prominent industrialist, had alienated virtually all of his friend s and family, driven his corporation into financial ruin, and tainted his public reputation. Nevertheless, he seemed quite pleased with himself: "There has never been anyone like me, and my likes will never be seen again"; "The brilliance of my mind can only be described as dazzling. ...

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Witwer (1 ) observes in his review of miRNA studies that “data submission was reported at publication for 40% of all articles.” Sadly, the problem of poor data reporting is neither new nor restricted to miRNA data. Poor access to data motivated the 2001 MIAME (minimum information about a microarray experiment) standards in the first place (2 ). In 2008, Ochsner et al. (3 ) reviewed microarray s...

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Inlining is an important optimization that can lead to significant runtime improvements. When deciding whether or not to inline a method call, a virtual machine has to weigh an increase in compile time against the expected decrease in program time. To estimate the latter, however, state-of-the-art heuristics only use information local to the call-site in question. But inlining is a powerful ena...