Software Produkte im Zeitund Kostenrahmen und in akzeptabler Qualität auszuliefern, ist essentiell für viele Organisationen. Aufgrund vieler Probleme in der Praxis wird allerdings nur bedingt verstanden wie valide Kostenvorhersagen zu ermitteln und zu interpretieren sind. Diese Probleme werden durch gängige Kostenschätzmethoden nur unzureichend adressiert, was zu deren geringer Akzeptanz in der...

background: unintended pregnancy (upr) with high rates of subsequent abortions remains an important problem around the world. our aim was to determine the prevalence of uprs in georgia, their outcomes, and use of modern and traditional methods of contraception in women who terminated their uprs by induced abortion (iab) and identify potentially associated factors. methods: a cross-sectional stu...

Background and Purpose of Study: Adherence to religion is associated with a healthier lifestyle which affects people’s mental health. Mental unity is a key to health personality. Among value systems, religion is the most capable of creating this unity. The present research, therefore, aims to investigate how intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation related to university students&rsqu...

In ‘secular’ Western societies, religious topics permeate media texts of books, films, series and games and such texts even inform several religious-spiritual movements. Critically expanding on theories about ‘fiction-based religion’, ‘invented religion’ or ‘hyper-real religion’, this article studies if, how and why players of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of...

This cross-sectional study evaluated knowledge and acceptability of prenatal diagnosis among 500 pregnant women at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. Most participants were aged 25-34 years, self-employed, Muslim, monogamy, secondary school leavers, on income of < naira10,000.00 (US$ 67.00)/month. Attitudinal mean score was dependent on age (p = 0.006), educational attainment (p = 0.001),...

Largely because of an attempt at conciseness, but also be cause of the compactness of KeyKOS and the mutual re liance of the abstractions from which it is developed, certain words and phrases appear, of necessity, earlier in this publi cation than the principle discussions explaining them. The information in this publication is ordered with the intent that a reader will need to assume as lit...