the objective of this study was evaluation of excessive pregnancy weight gain effect in non-diabetic women with normal pre-pregnancy bmi on macrosomia of neonate. in a descriptive cross-sectional study, neonate weighs of all term pregnancy in non-diabetic women with normal pre-pregnancy bmi delivered from 2002 to 2004 in shaheed sadoughi hospital in yazd, were evaluated. compared with mothers w...

there are now several tests available that can assess fetal status. a series of 164 cases of high risk pregnancies were studied in order to assess predictive value of a nonstress test. the majority (36%) of patients complained about postdate pregnancy. a nonreactive test was identified in 24 of the patients (14.6%). fetal distress, low apgar score in 1 and 10 minutes after birth and mean of apg...

conclusions acupressure at both acupoints reduced anxiety level and increased maternal-fetal attachment. this method can be easily used in the delivery room. results the results revealed no significant difference among the three groups regarding the anxiety level before the intervention (p > 0.05). one hour after the intervention, this measure was significantly lower in the intervention groups ...

Background: Fetal electrocardiography is a developing field that provides valuable information on the fetal health during pregnancy. By early diagnosis and treatment of fetal heart problems, more survival chance is given to the infant.Objective: Here, we extract fetal ECG from maternal abdominal recordings and detect R-peaks in order to recognize fetal heart rate. On the next step, we find a be...

extractthe fetal as a passenger that her/his trip takes nine months. accidents and incidents may cause this trip will remain incomplete or to create different effects. islamic authors believe these accidents and incidents not only affected fetal but also affected on all of mental and physical aspects of fetal ' s mather, because fetal is such a part of her body. as good nutrition in mother...

I the Western eye, Africa is more an idea than a physical location. Discussion about the continent is riddled with historically mediated tropes, stereotypes, and misrepresentations. Cultural products, like fashion trends and literature, perpetuate the imagination of an Africa that does not truly exist. In Western culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, film plays a cruci...

background: fetal electrocardiography is a developing field that provides valuable information on the fetal health during pregnancy. by early diagnosis and treatment of fetal heart problems, more survival chance is given to the infant. objective: here, we extract fetal ecg from maternal abdominal recordings and detect r-peaks in order to recognize fetal heart rate. on the next step, we find a b...

Ex Machina (2015) is a postmodern Gothic sci-fi movie by Alex Garland, implicitly illustrating the workings of humanization, dehumanization, and marginalization through its android character Ava. Ava’s interaction with people reveals humanity’s biased perspectives problems. She enables audience to see that inorganic anthropomorphic bodies mimicking human behaviors cognitive skills converge on h...