BACKGROUND This randomized controlled trial compared the diagnostic accuracy of the sonographic assessment of cervical length and clinical digital examination of the cervix in the second trimester regarding the prediction of preterm delivery in a low-risk population. METHODS In total, 282 unselected, asymptomatic women with singleton pregnancy randomly underwent sonographic cervical length me...

OBJECTIVE The Bishop score and length of the uterine cervix are good predictors of successful labor induction. However, little is known about the association between the funneling of the uterine cervix and successful labor induction. The study aimed to evaluate cervical funneling as a predictor of successful labor induction. METHODS This study was designed as a prospective observational study...

The eff ect of the 1995 fi re on the regeneration, composition and cover of the Bishop Pine (Pinus muricata) forest at Point Reyes National Seashore is examined. The human-caused fi re burned over 12,000 acres in and around the National Seashore engulfi ng most of the bishop pine forest along Inverness Ridge, where fi re intensity was the greatest. Bishop pine is a closed-cone pine that typical...

The Bishop-Phelps theorem [1] states that for any Banach space X, the set of norm attaining linear bounded functionals is dense in X ′, the dual space of X. Since then, the study of norm attaining functions has attracted the attention of many authors. Lindenstrauss showed in [2] that there is no Bishop-Phelps theorem for linear bounded operators. Nevertheless, he proved that the set of bounded ...

Let S be a smooth real surface in C and let p ∈ S be a point at which the tangent plane is a complex line. Many problems in function theory depend on knowing whether S is locally polynomially convex at such a p — i.e. at a CR singularity. Even when the order of contact of Tp(S) with S at p equals 2, no clean characterisation exists; difficulties are posed by parabolic points. Hence, we study no...

background: the most favorable method for cervical ripening is not fully agreed upon by practitioners; however, vaginal administration of isosorbide mononitrate (imn) is considered a low‑risk method of labor induction for pregnant women at full term. our study was designed to assess the effect of imn on cervical ripening and labor induction among primiparous women in iran. materials and methods...