BACKGROUND The Active Management of Risk in Pregnancy at Term (AMOR-IPAT) protocol has been associated in several studies with significant reductions of group cesarean delivery rate. Present within each of these studies were nulliparous women with risk factors for cephalopelvic disproportion. Risk factors for cephalopelvic disproportion in nulliparous women are especially important because they...

Introduction: Oxygen-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the lung allows spatially resolved visualization of oxygen diffusion from the alveoli into the capillaries of the lung [1, 2]. For many pulmonary diseases, this method appears to be an ideal supplement to perfusion imaging of the lung [3]. Hence, short examination durations are desirable in order to integrate oxygen-enhanced MRI of the...

In the early 1970s Ehrlich and Holdren devised a simple equation in dialogue with Commoner identifying three factors that created environmental impact. Thus, impact (I) was expressed as the product of (1) population, (P); (2) affluence, (A); and (3) technology, (T). This article tracks the various forms the IPAT equation has taken over 30 years as a means of examining an underlying shift among ...

This paper describes an Interactive Parameter Adaptation Tool (IPAT) for determining parameters to control texture based segmentation of Regions of Interest (ROI) on images. This tool enables non-image processing experts to interact with evolutionary algorithms to produce a set of ROI segmentation parameters that are capable of segmenting ROI in response to existing system constraints.

This paper proposes an interactive parallelizing assistance tool for OpenMP called iPat/OMP. This tool provides users with the assistance needed for OpenMP parallelization of a sequential program. All of the assistance capabilities are implemented as Emacs functions and are available in the Emacs editor environment in an interactive manner.

Long before the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), which shows pollution at first increasing and then decreasing as income increases (see Figure 1), became enshrined in standard economic principles texts (e.g., Frank and Bernanke 2005), a very different view was set out by Ehrlich and Holden (1971). Much of the science and policy community still subscribes to their famous IPAT equation (I = PAT...