labor pain is a cause of stress and suffering; for which many women seek methods to relieve this pain. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of relaxation techniques on pain relief during labor. this study was carried out on 62 pregnant women referred to fatemieh hospital (hamadan, iran) during their labor. they were selected using convenience sampling and were divided randomly in t...

As the classic feature selection algorithm, Relief algorithm has advantages of simple computation and high efficiency, but itself is limited to only dealing with binary classification problems, comprehensive distinguishing ability subsets composed former K features selected by often redundant, as cannot select ideal subset. When calculating correlation redundancy between characteristics mutual ...

Reverse engineering of reliefs aims to turn an existing relief superimposed on an underlying surface into a geometric model which may be applied to a different base surface. Steps in this process include segmenting the relief from the background, and describing it as an offset height field relative to the underlying surface. We have previously considered relief segmentation using a geometric sn...

Relief learning is an appetitive association of a formally neutral cue with relief induced by the offset of an aversive stimulus. Since the nucleus accumbens mediates relief learning and accumbal metabotropic glutamate receptors 7 (mGluR7) modulate appetitive-like processes, we hypothesized that accumbal mGluR7 may be involved in the modulation of relief learning. Therefore, we injected the all...

BACKGROUND Facet joints are considered to be a common source of chronic spinal pain. Facet joint interventions, including intraarticular injections, medial branch nerve blocks, and neurotomy (radiofrequency and cryoneurolysis) are used to manage chronic facet-mediated spinal pain. A systematic review of therapeutic facet interventions published in January 2005, concluded that facet intervention...

People have different ways of coping with stress, and some turn to cigarettes. It sounds as though you already know that smoking may not be the best way for you to deal with stress. However, as you also pointed out, quitting may continue to be a challenge. Keep in mind though, quitting doesn?t necessarily mean a one-time event; it may be a gradual process that involves a lot of commitment throu...

with morphine together with subanalgesic doses of a second opiate did not develop tolerance to the morphine even after seven days of treatment. Although morphine is a favored choice for easing pain, a major drawback of its long-term use is the development of tolerance, which results in reduced analgesic effects upon long-term use. Morphine binds the opioid receptor (MOR), one member of the larg...

his editorial and commentary was prompted by the publication of Picirillo et al.’s “Relief of idiopathic subjective tinnitus: Is gabapentin effective?” [1], which concluded that gabapentin was no more effective than a placebo in relieving tinnitus. The goal of this editorial and commentary is constructive: to provide to tinnitus patients and professionals involved with tinnitus diagnosis and tr...