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Background: This study aims to explore the views of women concerning their choice of long-acting method of contraception. Method: Two-hundred and eighty-six women who had either been sterilised or fitted with an etonorgestrel (ETN) implant or the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG IUS)...

The literature on innovation has been both rich and varied in approach and has provided much insight into the process of, and difficulties contained within, innovation. A number of important concepts including those of path dependency, technological trajectories, together with the plethora of...

Healthy forests and rangelands are resilient to disturbances within a certain range of variation. In eastern Oregon and Washington, USA, ecosystems have evolved in the presence of sporadic disturbances such as fire, floods, and insect and disease outbreaks. Ecological and human factors have...

We explore the impact of labour turnover on firm performance by analysing the predictions of an extension of the efficiency wage model of [Salop, S., (1979) 'A Model of the Natural Rate of Unemployment'. American Economic Review, 69, 117-125.] developed by [Garino, G. and Martin, C., (2008) 'The...