This purpose of this paper is to describe efforts of recruiting women into computer technology courses. It illustrates the experience of one technology program in a university located in Western Pennsylvania and their successful efforts into recruiting women into a technology course. The Technology Support and Training (TST) program at Eberly College of Business (ECOBIT) Indiana University of P...

BACKGROUND Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) failure with unknown causes are the controversial issues that are probably related to the immune system. OBJECTIVE To compare circulating NK cells expressing activation and inhibition surface markers between patients with RSA and IVF failure with those of healthy multiparous and successful IVF control women, resp...

BACKGROUND Unintended pregnancy disproportionately affects younger, minority, and low-income women. The purpose of this analysis is to describe our recruitment strategies and to determine if targeted efforts to reach women at greatest risk for unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) were successful. METHODS The Contraceptive CHOICE Project is a prospective cohort study p...

INTRODUCTION Recruiting participants for research studies can be challenging. Many studies fall short of their target or must prolong recruitment to reach it. We examined recruitment and retention strategies and report lessons learned in a behavioral intervention developmental trial to encourage healthy pregnancy weight gain and stress reduction in low-income overweight pregnant women. METHOD...

Chapter 4 Abstract OBJECTIVE To examine if we could identify factors that predict caesarean section and instrumental vaginal delivery in women who had a successful external cephalic version. METHODS We used data from a previous randomized trial among 25 hospitals and their referring midwife practices in the Netherlands. With the data of this trial we performed a cohort study among women attempt...