عتبات النص: البنية والدلالة في رواية غاردينا

The purpose of this research is to study the thresholds of the narrative text in a novel entitled Gardena to determine the nature of its concerns, and to invest the novelist in expressing his vision and experiences, and to reveal their effects in attracting the attention of the recipient to enter the space of the novel. The research concluded that the novel is full of these thresholds with its semantic, ideological and aesthetic dimensions, and it is based on the threshold: the title of the novel, etc. The background illuminates the text and focusses on the recipient's pleasure to dive into the narrative, as well as the objective of the artistic and seminal novelist in his choice.

An investigation into the determinants of maternal healthcare behavior in developing world

In this study, we explore the relationship between women's antenatal health seeking behavior with their socio-economic characteristics. Data is taken from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Only those countries are considered, where data for DHS-6 was available. The dataset span 40 countries and is representative at first tier sub-national level. Only latest birth for each woman is considered as responses for questions related to that pregnancy are less likely to be influenced by memory bias. The sample size consists of 143,639 women. The study use Anderson's model to investigate which factors have the most potent association with improved antenatal health care behavior. Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of visits to physician are modeled. Results show that women having any say in the matters of their health care are 1.42 times more likely to visits physician than their counterparts with no decision making power. Similarly, women in highest wealth quintile are 4.3 times more likely to complete a set of 4 antenatal visits, as recommended by WHO, than women in lowest wealth quintile. We also find that health seeking behavior slightly differ for male and female child and also for working and non-working women. On the qualitative side, we find that women are most likely to let their blood pressure being checked .and least likely to administer a urine test. We also find that women with previous fetal losses and those whose BMI value fall outside normal range are likely to opt for high quality checkup during visits to physician