Replication data for: INDIA (2009): A Quantitative Study to Measure IUD Recommending Behaviour and related Triggers and Biases among Private Providers in 3 Project States for Project WHP ROUND-1

Now PSI will form a network of private health care providers, train them on providing quality IUD and MA services. At the same time PSI will also carry out communication activities (both on ground and mass media) to generate demand for IUD among married women. In order to understand the current family planning recommending practices of health care providers and exiting biases pertaining to IUD, PSI India conducted a quantitative study among the among private health care providers practicing in urban and peri-urban areas of the program districts. Key objective of this study was to establish current levels of IUD recommending behaviour and measure the extent of biases prevalent among private providers pertaining to IUD (objective-1). In addition, this study also aimed to monitor the network providers desired behaviors and related quality parameters pertaining to IUD (objective-2)

Replication data for: India (2009): A Quantitative/Qualitative Study to Measure Medical Abortion drugs Recommending Behaviour and related Triggers and Biases among Chemists

PSI/India expects that interventions to improve dispensing and counseling behaviors of pharmacy staff will have the largest health impact in relation to MA service provision. Medical detailing is a tool that can change the prescribing and service provision behaviors of health providers within the network. PSI/India's Network Coordinators conducts this detailing through regular visits to the clinics, pharmacies and intermediary outlets surrounding network providers. These medical detailing visits ensures counter attendants know the correct dosage regime and route of administration of MA drugs; establish a network for the management of referrals and complications; and ensure MA products are adequately stocked and sold at the recommended retail price

Replication data for: INDIA (2010): TRaC Study for IUD use Behavior Among Women and men in 3 Project States for Project PEHEL ROUND-1

PSI India used the TRaC methodology, which is designed to provide actionable evidence for decision making. The TRaC survey systematically and repeatedly measures levels and trends of indicators such as behaviors and its determinants. The details of the methodology followed and framework for development and construction of the variable for the behavioral determinants are provided in Annex-1 and Annex-2 respectively. Stratified multi-stage cluster sampling design with systematic random selection of clusters was used to recruit the respondents for this survey, which provided project level representation of sample size of 12,000 respondents. Selection of respondents in each cluster was done following systematic random selection process after listing down all households of the respective cluster. Face to face interviews were conducted among selected men and women using a structured questionnaire. The study questionnaire, including a number of questions measuring PSI's behavior change factors, was developed from PSIs generic sample questionnaire and was field tested with 150 respondents (50 per state) prior to the main data collection. Factors with statistically significant association with current IUD use were identified using multivariate analysis and simple descriptive analysis was run on the study data to monitor the project indicators

Where Brain, Body and World Collide

The production cross section of electrons from semileptonic decays of beauty hadrons was measured at mid-rapidity (|y| < 0.8) in the transverse momentum range 1 < pt < 8 Gev/c with the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC in pp collisions at a center of mass energy sqrt{s} = 7 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 2.2 nb^{-1}. Electrons from beauty hadron decays were selected based on the displacement of the decay vertex from the collision vertex. A perturbative QCD calculation agrees with the measurement within uncertainties. The data were extrapolated to the full phase space to determine the total cross section for the production of beauty quark-antiquark pairs