INTRODUCTION Ethiopia has high maternal and neonatal mortality and low use of skilled maternity care. The Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia Partnership (MaNHEP), a 3.5-year learning project, used a community collaborative quality improvement approach to improve maternal and newborn health care during the birth-to-48-hour period. This study examines how the promotion of community maternal ...

We examine job durations of German workers using linked employer–employee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these characteristics, however, are limited to particular job positions or skill groups. There is clear evidence for a sorting process whereby workers with long expected job durations are matched to firms off...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare the hamstring muscle (HAM) activities and flexion-relaxation ratios of an asymptomatic group and a computer work-related low back pain (LBP) group. [Subjects] For this study, we recruited 10 asymptomatic computer workers and 10 computer workers with work-related LBP. [Methods] We measured the RMS activity of each phase (flexion, full-flexion, a...

We describe three new species of the Neotropical ant genus Leptanilloides: Leptanilloides gracilissp. n. based on workers from Mexico and Guatemala, Leptanilloides erinyssp. n. based on workers and a gyne from Ecuador, and Leptanilloides femoralissp. n. based on workers from Venezuela. The description of Leptanilloides gracilis is a northern extension of the known range of the genus, now number...

Although business process management has been a major area of ICT research, no coherent approach has been developed to address the problem of business process visualisation to aid workers in the process of task prioritisation. In this paper we describe the development of a new, coherent approach to worklist visualisation, via analysis and development of a resource-centric view of the worklist i...

The weakness of most farmer-groups in Nigeria has been linked to poor group facilitation by field agricultural extension workers. study assessed the knowledge and competence officers facilitation. A two-stage random sampling technique was used select 174 farmers on which a structured interview schedule administered. questionnaire administered all 69 workers area. Descriptive statistics, regress...

The main goal of this study was to determine the levels of knowledge of the farmers on the effect of pesticides on environment in Dawadmi Province, Saudi Arabia. This is achieved through realizing some secondary objectives such as identification of the farmers' socioeconomic characteristics and its relation to some of the study variables, their attitude towards the negative effects of pesticide...

This work aims to report the experience of an extension program that became a research group registered in national system researchers. is as methodological strategy for describing observation reality, action or set them, based on practice teaching, extension, assistance. The Interdisciplinary Nucleus Study, Research and Extension Mental Health was born with focus university-society integration...

This article explores the Marxist-feminist critique of capitalism International Feminist Collective (IFC) the1970s and its Wages for Housework (WfH) campaign. WfH theorists, including Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, Silvia Federici, Marie Mies Claudia von Werlhof, combine Marxist feminist perspectives to articulate a compelling designed unite entire working class, both waged unwaged workers...