INTRODUCTION Research about pregnancy-planning behaviour mostly focuses on women, even though pregnancy planning usually also concerns men. The purpose of this study was to investigate how men plan for family, and to measure their fertility knowledge after having become fathers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were collected in 2014 as part of a Swedish longitudinal pregnancy-planning study. Men we...

Businesses often need an accurate profile of their customers in order to better serve them, improve products and make advertising more effective. Unfortunately, customers do not always completely fill out the survey forms, especially those product registration cards. The forms often have multiple choice questions and customers may leave some questions blank. This paper presents a maximum likeli...

We want to ensure the University of Colorado is withholding taxes accurately based on your work location. The University of Colorado withholds state taxes from the state in which you perform work. All out-of-state employees to fill out a W-4 for the state in which they work and mail or fax it to Employee Services. (Note: Forms are available below. Email is not a secure method to deliver the per...

BACKGROUND At the Medical University of Vienna, most information for students is available only online. In 2005, an e-learning project was initiated and there are plans to introduce a learning management system. In this study, we estimate the level of students' computer skills, the number of students having difficulty with e-learning, and the number of students opposed to e-learning. METHODS ...

The article explores the relation between i) the attitudes of students towards digital pedagogical characters and ii) their learning style as separate versus connected thinkers, a learning style dimension which regards individual’s approach towards the social dimensions of knowledge. Ninety 12-15 year old students participated in the study in which they were presented with a scenario-based mult...

Breastfeeding has immense public health value for mothers, babies, and society. But there is an undesirably large gap between the number of new mothers who undertake and persist in breastfeeding compared to what would be a preferred level of accomplishment. This gap is a reflection of the many obstacles, both physical and psychological, that confront new mothers. Previous research has illuminat...

This paper presents a new approach to segment and recognize Printed Bangla Text using Characteristic functions and Hamming network. The main difficulties in printed Bangla text recognition are the separation of lines, words and individual characters. In this paper, a new algorithm has been proposed to detect and separate text lines, words and characters from printed Bangla text. The algorithm u...

Healing implies a view of wholeness. Working from Jesus' revelation of God on the cross as the self-giving love of Father (I), Son (Thou) and Holy Spirit (We), this article sees human wholeness as spiritual growth toward trinitarian love. Five stages of growth appear from salvation history: initial faith (trust), familial faith (conventional law morality), individuating faith (individually free...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical representatives provide medicines information on their promoted products to doctors. However, studies have shown that the quality of this information is often low. No study has assessed the medicines information provided by pharmaceutical representatives to doctors in Malaysia and no recent evidence in Australia is present. We aimed to compare the provision of medicine...