OBJECTIVES To determine the ability of Bishop score and sonographic cervical length to predict time to spontaneous onset of labor and time to delivery in prolonged pregnancy. METHODS Ninety-seven women underwent transvaginal ultrasound examination and palpation of the cervix at 291-296 days' gestation according to ultrasound fetometry at 12-20 weeks' gestation. Sonographic cervical length and...

Bishop); Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (Dr Federman); and Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Hospital, San Francisco (Dr Keyhani). Correspondence: Dr Bishop, Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, 402 E...

We prove that a compact stratified space satisfies the Riemannian curvature-dimension condition RCD(K,N) if and only its Ricci tensor is bounded below by K?? on regular set, cone angle along stratum of codimension two smaller than or equal to 2? dimension at most N. This gives new wide class geometric examples metric measure spaces satisfying condition, including for instance spherical suspensi...

An explicit construction of a geodesic flow-invariant distribution lying in the discrete series of weight 2k isotopic component is found, using techniques from representation theory of SL2(R). It is found that the distribution represents an AC measure on the unit tangent bundle of the hyperbolic plane minus an explicit singular set. Finally, via an averaging argument, a geodesic flow-invariant ...

A spherical stereo panorama is a pair of panoramic images with horizontal parallax, that both have a complete spherical projection covering 360◦ in azimuth and 180◦ in elevation. We present an analyze a new method to generate spherical stereo panorama by using one camera with regular lens, which are compatible for VR HMD display.

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) MRI is a noninvasive imaging method of the cerebral tissues whose fibers directions are not evaluated correctly in the regions of the crossing fibers. For the same reason the high angular resolution diffusion images (HARDI) are used for estimation of the fiber direction in each voxel. One of the main methods to specify the direction of fibers is usage of the spher...