Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) has been used for four decades, after its introduction without clinical trials. EFM spawned a birth injury litigation crisis centered on the myth that it predicts cerebral palsy (CP). The myth has resulted in lottery-like judgments against physicians. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and sister organizations worldwide have the pow...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) alone and with additional ST analysis (EFM + ST) in laboring women with a singleton term pregnancy that is in cephalic presentation in the prevention of metabolic acidosis by the application of individual patient data metaanalysis. STUDY DESIGN We conducted an individual patient data metaa...

Acid-base titration experiments and electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) were used to investigate the cell surface electrochemical heterogeneity of the Fe(III)-reducing bacteria, Shewanella putrefaciens. The acid-base titrations extended from pH 4 to 10, and the titration data were fit using a linear programming pKa spectrum approach. Overall, a five-site model accounted for the observed titrat...

Excessive fragmentary myoclonus (EFM) is a polysomnographic finding registered by the surface electromyography (EMG) and characterized as a result of the muscle activity consisting of sudden, isolated, arrhythmic, asynchronous and asymmetric brief twitches. The EMG potentials are defined by the exact criteria in The International Classification of the Sleep Disorders, 3rd edition and they appea...

We study the problem of fair division when resources contain both divisible and indivisible goods. Classic fairness notions such as envy-freeness (EF) up to one good (EF1) cannot be directly applied mixed goods setting. In this work, we propose a new notion for (EFM), which is direct generalization EF EF1 prove that an EFM allocation always exists any number agents. also efficient algorithms co...

In this paper, a novel discriminant analysis method for a Gabor-based image feature extraction and representation is proposed and then implemented. The horizontal and vertical two-dimensional principal component analysis (HV-2DPCA) is directly applied to a Gabor face to reduce the redundant information and preserve a bi-directional characteristic as well. It is followed by an enhanced Fisher li...

by Minjun Yan Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is an emerging, promising, future generation computational architecture that encodes binary information into the positions of electrons. The switching and logic function of this transistorless architecture has already been realized in metal QCA and magnetic QCA. “Bottom-up” molecular implementation may not only circumvent the lithography limits,...

This study was undertaken to observe how the EFM alters the neonatal outcome as compared to IA. The present study was conducted in Maheshwari Children‟s Hospital and associated obstetric centers, Bathinda, India. This study included 990 women, pregnant with single live fetus, who were monitored during the labour either by intermittent auscultation (IA) or electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) by ca...

S1 Temporal decay of the average relevance r(t) and activity a(t) in Digg.com social network 5 S2 Temporal decay of the average relevance r(t) in the APS dataset . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 S3 Age distribution of the top 1% nodes in the ranking (APS data and the corresponding calibrated simulation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S4 Outdegree distribution...

A linear response function (LRF) determines the mean-response of a nonlinear climate system to weak imposed forcings, and an eddy flux matrix (EFM) determines the eddy momentum and heat flux responses to mean-flow changes. Neither LRF nor EFM can be calculated from first principles due to the lack of a complete theory for turbulent eddies. Here the LRF and EFM for an idealized dry atmosphere ar...