Background Quality of life or more correctly health-related quality of life is currently receiving more attention in biomedical literature and outcome studies. However, there are several issues that we should be dealt with. First, measuring quality of life needs valid and reliable instruments. In addition, it is important to know how we conceptualize quality of life and reproductive health. Fin...

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Concurrent programming is notoriously difficult, but with multi-core processors becoming the norm, is now a reality that every programmer must face. Concurrency has traditionally been managed using low-level mutual exclusion locks, which are error-prone and do not naturally support the compositional style of programming that is becoming indispensable for today’s large-scale software projects. A...