CONTEXT Indonesia has experienced a dramatic increase in contraceptive use and an equally dramatic fertility decline over the last 30 years. Yet recent reductions in family planning funding, program decentralization and the diminishing role of the public sector as a service provider may lead to lower use among poor women. METHODS The data for analysis were drawn from the 2002-2003 Indonesia D...

Marie Stopes International has been implementing family planning voucher programmes in 11 countries since 2005. Voucher schemes have the potential to expand women’s access to family planning services, especially among poor and underserved populations. To evaluate their effectiveness, we reviewed voucher interventions for family planning and sexual and reproductive health services across our cou...

Traditional batch job schedulers are a poor fit for a grid computing environment. In order to respond to the grid scheduling challenges, the client must perform planning. In this paper, we expound upon the differences between planning versus scheduling, and present two grid projects which utilize a ClassAd matchmaking framework to enable planning on the grid. Planning for purposes of job placem...

This paper mainly reports the results of an observational study carried out during 1994-1995 in five rural unions of Bangladesh to identify the barriers to adoption of family-planning methods. At the time of the survey, one-fifth of 1,889 mothers with a living child, aged less than five years, were practising modern family-planning methods. Of the methods used, oral pill was the most common (50...

Urban sprawl, or the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading out of built-up areas in Zaria urban area causes problems of congestion, poor urban basic infrastructure delivery and poor urban planning. This paper analyzed the pattern and implications of urban sprawl using GIS and Remote sensing as an improved approach to analyze and explain sprawling beyond the traditional spatial or cartographic ma...

Schizophrenia is characterized by social interaction deficits contributing to poor functional outcome. Hand gesture use is particularly impaired, linked to frontal lobe dysfunction and frontal grey matter deficits. The functional neural correlates of impaired gesturing are currently unclear. We therefore investigated aberrant brain activity during impaired gesturing in schizophrenia. We include...

In domain independent heuristic planning there is a number of planning systems with very good performance on some problems and very poor on others. Few attempts have been made in the past to explain this phenomenon. In this paper we use machine learning techniques to discover knowledge hidden in the dynamics of the planning process that would relate specific characteristics of a planning proble...

bryson is the first government agencies to consider the system specific planning and design model for measuring strategic planning in government agencies. bryson has studied different models of strategic planning and operating conditions in the public sector and private analyzed them and finally offers its own version. this research seeks to answer the question of strategic planning with key fe...