Cod’s Journey Back Home—From Birth to Nursery

An exciting journey through ESTS: from birth to adulthood.

Ladies and gentlemen; dear members and guests, It is a great honour for me today to be able to stand on this podium and deliver my presidential address. I want to talk about our Society, the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS), which I have had the honour to serve as founding member, councillor, regent and now as president. I will try to take you on an exciting journey from the origins...

Journey to Motherhood in the First Year After Child Birth

Objective: Child bearing is a period of psychological challenges that must be viewed in a social context. This study reports the maternal transition from the perspective of Iranian first-time mothers in the first year after childbirth. Materials and methods: Qualitative method was chosen for explanation of mothers' individual experiences of motherhood.26 first-time mothers (aged 18-35 years old...

DeaLing with Ontologies using CODs

A major challenge in knowledge representation is to manage the access to knowledge: users should not be presented with knowledge that is irrelevant to their topic of interest, or have no right to access. Two general strategies exist for providing access restrictions: (1) the ontology engineers describe the conditions that allow access to specific fragments of the ontology, or (2) fragments are ...

Looking back and looking forward: A satisfying journey

Still-birth--a tragic journey: a critical analysis.

Despite improvement in antenatal and intrapartum care, late intrauterine fetal death at and after 28 weeks of gestation remains a persistent and challenging problem to the obstetricians. We undertook the retrospective review of the medical records of 89 women with singleton pregnancy who gave birth to still-born infants at or more than 28 weeks gestation during the period from April 1998 to Apr...