Optimising the timing of delivery involves striking a balance between the benefits and risks of pregnancy prolongation compared with those of induction or elective Caesarean delivery. Birth of the baby is always in the best interest of the woman. For her, pregnancy prolongation has no direct benefit, but for the baby, the benefits may be large at gestational ages remote from term. This can be a...

On the 20th of May last, Dr Groves of Trinity requested me to see a woman who had been in labour for upwards of twenty-four hours, and who had fallen under his care after being abandoned by another practitioner on making several ineffectual, and it must be added, unskilful attempts to deliver. It was a case of twins, and the first child presenting naturally was delivered without trouble. The se...

BACKGROUND A vast number of biomechanical studies have employed inverse dynamics methods to calculate inter-segmental moments during movement. Although all inverse dynamics methods are rooted in classical mechanics and thus theoretically the same, there exist a number of distinct computational methods. Recent research has demonstrated a key influence of the dynamics computation of the inverse d...

The ability to modulate prey capture behaviors is of interest to organismal biologists as it suggests that predators can perceive features of the prey and select suitable behaviors from an available repertoire to successfully capture the item. Thus, behavior may be as important a trait as morphology in determining an organism's diet. Using high-speed video, we measured prey capture kinematics i...

This article proposes modeling, simulation and kinematic and workspace analysis of a spatial cable suspended robot as incompletely Restrained Positioning Mechanism (IRPM). These types of robots have six cables equal to the number of degrees of freedom. After modeling, the kinds of workspace are defined then an statically reachable combined workspace for different geometric structures of fixed a...

In this paper, an adaptive accommodation control for complex assembly is presented. The complex assembly (CA) is defined as a task whose wsembled parts have complex geome~ including concavity. The concept of the adaptive accommodation, which is inspired by the insertion operation of a blindfold human, is to adaptively change the accommodation property depending on the sensed contact wrench and ...

Changes in the natural behavior, expressing adaptation to cohabitation in a community, were observed in the slave-making ants P. rufescens and the slave-species F. fusca and F. cinerea. After a few raids, the initially undirected arousal evoked in the slaves by the amazons' raids, begins to acquire attributes appropriate to the situation, but completely different in both studied slave-species. ...

a boat and gave a wrench to his right hip and leg : after leaving the boat, he walked about 300 yards to the railway station with moderate ease. On the same day he came to Indore by rail, and walked from the station to a friend's house in the city, about a mile distant, with some, but not excessive, pain. That night he suffered from pain in the stomach, for which he took some opium with the res...