At times, despite an unripe cervix, induction of labor may be needed. In these cases, a safe and suitable method should be considered for cervical ripening and pregnancy termination. The aim of this study is the comparison of vaginal misoprostol with Foley catheter for cervical ripening and induction of labor. This randomized clinical trial was performed on 108 pregnant women who had referred t...

In e-commerce, customers are usually offered a menu of home delivery time windows which they need to select exactly one, even though at least some may be more flexible. To exploit the flexibility such customers, we propose introduce flexible slots, defined as any combination regular (not necessarily adjacent). selecting slot (out set that form product), customer agrees informed only shortly pri...

Abstract Uncertainty is everywhere in the food delivery process, which significantly influences decision-making for complex on-demand problems, affecting efficiency and customer satisfaction. Especially, service time an indispensable part of process impacted by various uncertain factors. Due to simplicity high accuracy requirement, we model as a Gaussian mixture (GMM). In detail, transform dist...

premature rupture of membrane (prom) is one of the complications of pregnancy which is blamed for increasing the rate of cesarean. therefore, we studied pregnant women who were admitted in shariati hospital during march 1996 and march 2000, to determine the rate of cesarean delivery in cases with prom after 36th week of pregnancy (term prom). in a retrospective study, we included pregnant women...