AIM This study aimed to evaluate maternal and fetal outcomes after uterine fundal pressure (UFP) in spontaneous and assisted vaginal deliveries. METHODS In a retrospective cohort study, 9743 singleton term deliveries with cephalic presentation were analyzed from 2004 to 2013. Spontaneous and assisted vaginal deliveries were analyzed separately with and without the application of UFP. Odds rat...

Osteoporotic drugs are used to prevent fragility fractures, but their role in fracture healing still remains unknown. Thus, alternative agents with suitable mode of delivery are needed to promote fracture healing. This study was performed to investigate the effects of direct deliveries of lovastatin and tocotrienol to fracture sites on ossification-related gene expression in fracture healing in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the use of 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate for the prevention of recurrent preterm deliveries is cost-effective. METHODS Using decision-analysis modeling, we compared the cost-effectiveness of using 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate in four subgroups: 1) Prior preterm deliveries less than 32 weeks; 2) prior preterm deliveries 32-37 weeks; 3) prior term de...

In this note we study the problem of simultaneous stabilization for the algebra AR(D). Invertible pairs (fj , gj), j = 1, . . . , n, in a commutative unital algebra are called simultaneously stabilizable if there exists a pair (α, β) of elements such that αfj + βgj is invertible in this algebra for j = 1, . . . , n. For n = 2, the simultaneous stabilization problem admits a positive solution fo...

In this paper, a method of obtaining vehicle hypothesis based on laser scan data only is proposed. This is implemented on the robotic vehicle, CyCab, for navigation and mapping of the static car park environment. Laser scanner data is used to obtain hypothesis on position and orientation of vehicles with Bayesian Programming. Using the hypothesized vehicle poses as landmarks, CyCab performs Sim...

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Stochastic mapping is an approach to the concurrent mapping and localization (CML) problem. The approach is powerful because feature and robot states are explicitly correlated. Improving the estimate of any state automatically improves the estimates of correlated states. This paper describes a number of extensions to the stochastic mapping framework, which are made possible by the incorporation...

Activity patterns of neural population are constrained by underlying biological mechanisms. These patterns are characterized not only by individual activity rates and pairwise correlations but also by statistical dependencies among groups of neurons larger than two, known as higher-order interactions (HOIs). While HOIs are ubiquitous in neural activity, primary characteristics of HOIs remain un...