This Practice Bulletin was developed by the ACOG Committee on Practice Bulletins—Gynecology with the assistance of Elizabeth A. Stewart, MD. The information is designed to aid practitioners in making decisions about appropriate obstetric and gynecologic care. These guidelines should not be construed as dictating an exclusive course of treatment or procedure. Variations in practice may be warran...

Epidemiologic data illustrate strong associations between diets high in foods containing phytoestrogens and a reduction in coronary heart disease (CHD), breast and other cancers, and menopausal symptoms. However, controlled clinical trials that encourage health care providers to endorse phytoestrogens as an alternative to conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women ar...

In the last years, new clustering approaches utilizing the notion of multiple clusterings have gained attention. Two general directions — each with its individual benefits — are identifiable: (i) extraction of multiple alternative clustering solutions from one dataset and (ii) combination of multiple clusterings of a dataset into one robust consensussolution. In this paper, we propose a novel h...

rfhe traditional therapeutic approach to essential diastolic hypertension consists of adjunctive measures (ie, dietary salt restriction, weight reduction, elimination of smoking and anxiety factors) plus antihypertensive drug regimens. Contrariwise, the management of secondary hypertension customarily centers on the direct approach to the underlying disorder, whenever possible (eg, renal revasc...

In discourse processing, two major problems are understanding the underlying connections between succe~ive dialog utterances and deciding on the content of a coherent dialog response. Thin paper presents a computational model of these tasks for a restricted class of argumentative dialogs. In these dialogs, each response presents a belief that justifies or contradicts another belief presented or...

The uncertainty of expectations and vagueness of the interests belong to natural components of cooperative situations, in general. Therefore, some kind of formalization of uncertainty and vagueness should be included in realistic models of cooperative behaviour. This paper attempts to contribute to the endeavour of designing a universal model of vagueness in cooperative situations. Namely, some...

Competitive analysis allows us to make strong theoretical statements about the performance of an algorithm without making probabilistic assumptions on the inputs. However, it has been often criticized with respect to its realism. A wide range of online algorithms –both good and not so good in practice– seem to have the same competitive ratio. A concrete example of this is the inability of compe...

• Solarization Stapleton, J. J., Molinar, R. H., Lynn-Patterson, K., McFeeters, S. K., and Shrestha, A. 2005. Methyl bromide alternatives. Soil solarization provides weed control for limited-resource and organic growers in warmer climates. California Agriculture 59 (2):84-89. PDF Abstract: This paper describes the use of soil solarization technology for weed management, as conducted by the Univ...

Scientific theories are hard to find, and once scientists have found a theory H, they often believe that there are not many distinct alternatives to H. But is this belief justified? What should scientists believe about the number of alternatives to H, and how should they change these beliefs in the light of new evidence? These are some of the questions that we will address in this paper. We als...

1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Health Science Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 100277, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Health Science Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 100277, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA 3Department of Pathology, Health Science Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 100277, Gainesville, FL 32610...