BACKGROUND C1 and C2 nerve sheath tumors (NST) are unique in presentation, relationship to neighbouring structures and surgical approaches when compared to their counterparts in other regions of the spine. AIM The strategies involved in the surgery for C1-C2 NST are discussed SETTING AND DESIGN Retrospective study. METHODS 21 patients with C1 (n=6) and C2 (n=15) NST were operated based on...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the performance of non-stress test (NST), computerized fetal heart rate analysis (cCTG), biophysical profile scoring (BPS) and arterial and venous Doppler ultrasound investigation in the prediction of acid-base status in fetal growth restriction. METHODS Growth-restricted fetuses, defined by abdominal circumference < 5(th) percentile and umbilical artery (UA) pulsatil...

The lateral hypothalamus (LH) and the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) exert an influence on many aspects of ingestive behavior. These nuclei receive projections from several areas carrying gustatory and viscerosensory information, and send axons to these nuclei as well, including the nucleus of the solitary tract (NST). Gustatory responses of NST neurons are modulated by stimulation of th...

BACKGROUND The primary goal of antenatal testing is to identify fetuses at risk of intrauterine neurologic injury or death so that these adverse outcomes can be prevented. We want to assess nonstress test (NST) results and some parameters before and after vibro-acoustic stimulation and acupressure. We did a randomized controlled clinical trial in Shahid-Beheshti Hospital in Isfahan in 2011. M...

AbstractDeep learning has shown great power in processing remote sensing data, especially for fine-grained ship image classification. However, the lack of a large amount effective training data greatly limits performance neural networks. Based on current augmentation methods, images ships sea generated have problem distortion, blurring, and poor diversity. To tackle this problem, we propose nov...

We present HyperNST; a neural style transfer (NST) technique for the artistic stylization of images, based on Hyper-networks and StyleGAN2 architecture. Our contribution is novel method inducing parameterized by metric space, pre-trained style-based visual search (SBVS). show first time that such space may be used to drive NST, enabling application interpolation styles from an SBVS system. The ...

BACKGROUND Hospital malnutrition is an underestimated problem and as many as half of malnourished patients do not receive appropriate treatment. In order to extend the management of malnutrition in health care facilities, multidisciplinary teams focusing on clinical nutrition were established in France. The establishment of such teams within hospital facilities remains nonetheless difficult. We...