the purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of misoprostol and oxytocin for induction of labor. in this prospective and randomized controlled trial one hundred twenty women with an unfavorable cervix who underwent labor induction were assigned to receive either intravenous high dose oxytocin(6miu/min) or intravaginal misoprostol 50µg every 6 hours for two doses. twelve hour...

Chess is a deep and well-studied game with a wealth of content and data. Because of the relative simplistic nature of the game states, games themselves are relatively easy to record, and thus there are large databases of games, dating back to Francesco di Castellvi vs Narciso Vinyoles, 1475. The vast majority of published games are between masters and grandmasters, usually recorded by tournamen...

in this paper, biharmonic slant helices are studied according to bishop frame in the heisenberg group heis3. we give necessary and sufficient conditions for slant helices to be biharmonic. the biharmonic slant helices arecharacterized in terms of bishop frame in the heisenberg group heis3. we give some characterizations for tangent bishop spherical images of b-slant helix. additionally, we illu...

Background: Labor induction is one of the common interventions in obstetric practice. Assessment cervix has been used as a predictor successful vaginal delivery. The traditional method predicting whether an induced labour will result delivery based on pre favourability assessed by Bishop score. Now we transvaginal sonography (TVS) objective assessment cervical length to evaluate role pre-induct...

OBJECTIVE To study the effectiveness and morbidity of adding hygroscopic cervical dilators to prostaglandin gel for cervical ripening and labor induction. STUDY DESIGN Patients of at least 34 weeks' gestation with a medical indication for induction of labor and with a modified Bishop score of 5 or less were randomized to receive either prostaglandin gel or prostaglandin gel with hygroscopic c...

Background: The objectives of the study were to Evaluation of isosorbide mononitrate for cervical ripening prior to induction of labor at term pregnancy in an outpatient. Methods: A randomized, placebo controlled prospective study was conducted with 120 women with term pregnancies and unfavorable cervices who self-administered vaginally either 2, 40-mg tablets of IMN or pyridoxine as placebo pr...