Perinatal mortality rates and the indications for contraction stress tests (CSTs) were studied in 46 patients with positive test results and who gave birth to infants weighing between 500 and 1 500 g. Severe pre-eclampsia and intra-uterine growth retardation were the indications for the CST in the large majority of patients. The perinatal mortality rate for infants weighing between 500 and 1 00...

Let A be an array of n elements taken from a totally ordered set. We present a data structure of size 3n+ o(n) bits that allows us to answer the following queries on A in constant time, without accessing A: (1) given indices i < j, find the position of the minimum in A[i..j], (2) given index i, find the first index to the left of i where A is strictly smaller than at i, and (3) same as (2), but...

We investigate the measurement of ‘in-the-moment creativity’ (ITMC) as a step towards developing new evaluation methods for improving creativity support tools (CSTs). We consider ITMC to be the periods of intense personal creative experience within a temporal, creative work process. Our approach to this work involves a triangulation method of several temporal metrics, including self-report rati...

We present evaluation techniques for a novice-oriented creativity support tool in the domain of digital filmmaking. Novices need help executing tasks as well as knowing which tasks are appropriate and the implications their decisions have for their creative product. With our tool, we focus on supporting critical domain knowledge that can enable novices to make meaningful creative contributions....

Abstract Introduction Once-nightly sodium oxybate (ON-SXB; FT218), an investigational, extended-release treatment, was evaluated for the treatment of narcolepsy in adults phase 3 REST-ON clinical trial (NCT02720744). The co-primary endpoints, mean sleep latency on Maintenance Wakefulness Test (MWT), Clinical Global Impression-Improvement rating, and weekly number cataplexy attacks (NCA), second...

We apply continuous similarity transformations (CSTs) to the easy-axis antiferromagnetic XXZ-model on square lattice. The CST flow equations are truncated in momentum space by scaling dimension $d$ so that all contributions with $d\le 2$ taken into account. resulting quartic magnon-conserving effective Hamiltonian is analyzed zero-, one-, and two-magnon sector. In this way, a quantitative descr...

The altered patterns of a microbial population colonizing an organ are increasingly recognized as relevant item in human disease pathogenesis. female urogenital tract is no exception, some vaginal microbiota patterns, named community state types (CSTs), and urinary urotypes (UTs), have been linked to viral, inflammatory, gestational diseases. Treating these conditions issue, antibiotic therapie...

The paper formally defines the problem of constrained Steiner tree (CST) in the context of wireless ad hoc networks. In contrast to wired networks, due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, the notion of cost and delay is defined based on node, rather than link. By adapting the metaphor of Swarm Intelligence, the paper describes a distributed and asynchronous algorithm, termed CST...

The continuous increasing of computing power in biological research places a threshold to the single host use and suggests an approach based on distributed computing. An emerging solution is grid technology, which allows organization to make better use of existing computing resources by providing them with a single, transparent, aggregated source of computing power. Equally, bioinformatics anal...

The conglomerate-sandstone transition (CST) preserved in foreland basins records the stratigraphic equivalent of gravel to sand (GST) which migrates response shortening steady state orogen-foreland basin systems. Two seismic profiles southern Junggar provide first record migrating CSTs and an opportunity quantify its migration history growth northern Tian Shan. We identify horizontal positions ...