The issue of boundedness in the discretisation of the convection term of transport equations has been widely discussed. A large number of local adjustment practices has been proposed, including the well-known TVD and NVD families of diierencing schemes. All of those use some sort of an \unboundedness indicator" in order to determine the parts of the domain where intervention in the discretisati...

PURPOSE To compare sexual function between two groups of women who had normal vaginal delivery (NVD) and planned cesarean section (PCS). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, two groups of healthy women, with antenatally normal singleton pregnancies at term, who underwent NVD (n = 114) or PCS without labor (n = 99), have been retrospectively studied. Sexual function of particip...

Background: Delivery modalities are importantobstetrical issues. Joint hypermobility (JHM) is a common clinical condition with striking female predominance. The aim of the study was to assess JHM in women with cesarean section (CS). Methods: This case control study included 100 women with CS and 100 women with normal vaginal delivery (NVD) matched in age and BMI. Joint mobility was measured by ...

PURPOSE To report our results and rationale for treating large bladder calculi in patients with neuropathic voiding dysfunction (NVD) using percutaneous cystolithalopaxy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten patients with a previously diagnosed NVD presenting with a large stone burden were identified from our department database and a retrospective review of case notes and imaging was performed. RESUL...

Purpose This study aimed to assess whether different anesthetic techniques and oxytocin use applied during delivery affect transcutaneous bilirubin levels during the first 24 hours in neonates. Methods A total of 1,044 neonates delivered by either caesarian section (C/S) or normal vaginal delivery (NVD) were included in the study. They were classified into 5 groups as follows: group 1: born b...

Natural history data from the Diabetic Retinopathy Study were examined by multivariate methods to determine which baseline characteristics could predict the occurrence of severe visual loss (SVL) in eyes originally assigned to no treatment. The presence and extent of new blood vessels on the optic disc (NVD) had the strongest association with SVL. Several other ocular characteristics also were ...

Multiple Input Double Output (MIDO) asymmetric space-time codes for 4 transmit antennas and 2 receive antennas can be employed in the downlink from base stations to portable devices. Previous MIDO code constructions with low Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding complexity, full diversity and the nonvanishing determinant (NVD) property are mostly based on cyclic division algebras. In this paper, a n...

The optical and material properties of negatively charged nitrogen–vacancy (NV) centres in diamond make them attractive for applications ranging from quantum information to electromagnetic sensing. These properties are strongly dependent on the vibrational manifold associated with the centre, which determines phenomena associated with decoherence, relaxation and spin–orbit coupling. Despite its...

The composition of vulnerabilities in attack scenarios has been traditionally performed based on detailed preand post-conditions. Although very precise, this approach is dependent on human analysis, is time consuming, and not at all scalable. We investigate the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) with three goals: (i) understand the associations among vulnerability attributes related to ...

purpose: to determine the normal conjunctival flora in neonates and infants. methods: conjunctival specimens were obtained from both eyes of 43 newborns delivered by cesarean section (c/s) and 53 newborns delivered by normal vaginal delivery (nvd) as well as 54 healthy infants in two maternity and pediatric hospitals. the specimens were cultured aerobically, anaerobically and for fungi. results...