INTRODUCTION expansion of advanced and specialist midwifery practitioner roles across professional boundaries requires an evidence-based framework to evaluate achievement and maintenance of competency. In order to develop the role of Breech Specialist Midwife to include the autonomous performance of external cephalic version within one hospital, guidance was required on standards of training an...

A three-round survey of child mortality, morbidity and treatment conducted in rural lower Egypt in 1990-91 found relatively poor treatment practices for respiratory infections. Only about 56 per cent of children with a respiratory infection received appropriate treatment. Antibiotics were prescribed for more than half of all mild coughs and colds, but were not prescribed for a quarter or more o...

The paper presents a simple, parameter-free method to detect the optic disc in retinal images. It works efficiently for blurred and noisy images with a varying ratio OD/image size. The method works equally well on images with different characteristics which often cause standard methods to fail or require a new round of training. The proposed method has been tested on 214 infant and adult retina...

Mobile edge learning (MEL) is a paradigm that enables distributed training of machine (ML) models over heterogeneous devices (e.g., IoT devices). Multiorchestrator MEL refers to the coexistence multiple tasks with different datasets, each which being governed by an orchestrator facilitate process. In MEL, performance deteriorates without availability sufficient data or computing resources. Ther...

The objectives of this study were to (i) describe soccer training (e.g., volume, types), anthropometry, body composition, and physical fitness and (ii) compute associations between soccer training data and relative changes of anthropometry, body composition, and physical fitness during a soccer season in female elite young athletes. Seasonal training (i.e., day-to-day training volume/types) as ...

Discriminative training for machine translation has been well studied in the recent past. A limitation of the work to date is that it relies on the availability of high-quality in-domain bilingual text for supervised training. We present an unsupervised discriminative training framework to incorporate the usually plentiful target-language monolingual data by using a rough “reverse” translation ...

This paper proposes and analyzes bandwidth reclaim scheme for IEEE 802.11 WLAN, which may suffer from severe bandwidth waste resulting from not only the variation of transmission rate and message length but also the overallocation to the real-time traffic in compensating for the delay due to the intervention of non-real-time messages. Built on top of the weighted round robin scheduling policy, ...

intra-abdominal desmoplastic small round cell tumor is a rare entity with a few reports worldwide. this tumor commonly occurs in children and adolescent and occurrence in adult age group is very rare. here, we describe an adult male with symptoms of intestinal obstruction due to abdominal mass, located in splenic flexure. after resection, the diagnosis of intra-abdominal desmoplastic small roun...

We consider differentiated bandwidth allocation for short-range wireless personal communication systems: Bluetooth. Since bandwidth requirements may vary among applications/services, and/or it may change over time, it is important to decide how to allocate limited resources to various service classes to meet their service requirements. We propose a simple and eff icient bandwidth allocation mec...