Background and Objective: Oxytocin is one of the most common drugs in obstetrics for induction or augmentation of labor. Recent studies show that oxytocin is used in over 50% of women in labor. This study aimed to compare the effect of high and low doses of oxytocin for labor induction on labor outcome.   Materials and Methods: This single-blind randomized clinical trial was performed on 120 ...

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

Abstract The aim of this study was comparing the efficacy of induction of labor using balloon Foley catheter with conventional Oxytocin infusion method in cases of unfavorable cervix. 60 pregnant women that had an indication for induction of labor with a singleton vertex fetuses, intact membranes, and bishop score lower than 4 interred in this study and allocated in one of two induction method...

Background & Objective: Labor pain management is one of the most important procedures of midwifery cares. Acupressure, a non-pharmacological method of labor pain relief, is an available, easy to use, inexpensive, and without side effect method of pain relief. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of LI-4 acupressure on labor pain in women during first stage of labor. Methods &...

Despite the several researches that focus on investigating the minimum wage effect on the important economic variables, examining the effect of this variable on the labor supply and rate of labor’s participation in labor market has received less attention. The rate of women’s participation in Iran labor market has had a remarkable decrease in the recent years. On the other hand, real minim...

Background and purpose: Growth disorders in children are important amongst health issues resulting in serious complications. The aim of this case-control study was to determine factors related to growth disorders in 6 month to 2-year old children using multiple regression analysis. Materials and methods: In this study 150 children with growth problems as cases, and 200 children with desirable ...

Job centers have an outstanding role in the process of labor force employment through cutting the costs of labor force adjustment. This paper studies the dynamic models of the labor force demand with the aim of pinpointing job centers role in labor market. According to the results, "job search and matching" approach better and more thoroughly considers the role of job centers in the labor marke...

Today, unemployment has become a major problem in national level as well as in Yazd Province. The presence of high unemployment has caused considerable amount of wastage of active human resources of the society which otherwise could have been used in various prosperous activities. As a result this situation may lead to poverty, corruption, unequal income distribution and other negative conseque...