background: nowadays, there has been a growing trend of caesarean sections in iran. one reason would be the mother’s desire. increased maternal self‑efficacy can be an important step to reduce percentage of cesarean. this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of training‑based strategies to increase the self‑efficacy for choosing delivery method among pregnant women in shahrekord city. met...

reflexology is a technique used widely as one of non-pharmacological pain management techniques. the present study aimed to review and determine the effect of foot reflexology on anxiety, pain and outcomes of the labor in primigravida women. this clinical trial study was conducted on 80 primigravida mothers who were divided randomly into an intervention group (foot reflexology applied for 40 mi...

This is an epidemiological, prospective and non-concurrent study of the cohort type about puerperal infection from the perspective of humanized delivery care, based on information from 5,178 records of patients who went through the experience of humanized delivery. The study aimed at describing the women who underwent humanized delivery, determining the incidence and time for manifestation of p...

Lithium containing droplet and cluster targets irradiated by laser pulses are proposed as prospective source of for soft x-ray lithography. Analytical model and simulations show that laser with repetition rate of several MHz with energy of several mJ and pulse duration 10 ps is required.

We show that according to the GRB internal shock model the pulse duration and the interval between neighboring pulses are correlated and have a similar distribution. We analyze a sample of bright long bursts and find that the pulses duration have a lognormal distribution while the intervals has an excess of long intervals (relative to lognormal distribution). This excess can be explained by the...