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The R ole of Misoprostol in the Reduction of Maternal Deaths in Low Resource Sett ings: A Systematic Review with Recommendations for Action

4 Introduction 5 Statement of Purpose 7 Methods 7 Systematic Review 8 Postpartum Hemorrhage 8 Prevention Strategies 9 Safe Motherhood Agendas 10 Access Barriers 12 Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor 14 Safety and Efficacy 16 WHO Position Regarding Misoprostol 17 The Promise of Community Based Programs 19 Task Shifting Strategies 20 Cost Effectiveness 24 Distribution Barriers 28 Global Availability 29 Discussion and Recommendations 31 Limitations 33 References 34 Appendix A: Tier 1 Core Public Health Competencies Met 42 THE REDUCTION OF MATERNAL DEATHS WITH MISOPROSTOL 3 List of Tables and Figures Table 1. Comparison of the Three Most Common Uterotonics and Their Relative Benefits . 17 Table 2. Perceived Barriers to Misoprostol Distribution at the Community Level Ranked in Order of Importance and Suggested Strategies 28 Figure 1. Global Misoprostol Registration by Indication 30 THE REDUCTION OF MATERNAL DEATHS WITH MISOPROSTOL 4
The incidence of sexual harassment among female Vietnam War era veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

A questionnaire of 86,questions was completed by 64 female U.S. Vietnam War era veterans. Study participants who e2{perienced sexual harassment during their military service had significantly (a = .05) different patterns of work, marriage, and divorce; rank and length of military service; correspondence with relatives during military service; degree of disappointment with their homecoming receptions; feelings about involvement in the war; and affiliation with postwar (veterans) organizations. Sexual harassment was found to be a significant predictor of a certain type of PTSD symptoms; the results suggest that, when present, sexual harassment may be responsible in this population for a degree of this type of PTSD symptomatology that is comparable in magnitude to that produced by all other wartime stressors. Written responses to open-ended questions suggest reasons for these results and provide insight into the experiences of the study population.
Série Scientifique Scientific Series Strategic Separation from Suppliers of Vital Complementary Inputs: a Dynamic Markovian Approach Strategic Separation from Suppliers of Vital Complementary Inputs: a Dynamic Markovian Approach

Reproduction partielle permise avec citation du document source, incluant la notice ©. Short sections may be quoted without explicit permission, if full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. CIRANO Le CIRANO est un organisme sans but lucratif constitué en vertu de la Loi des compagnies du Québec. Le financement de son infrastructure et de ses activités de recherche provient des cotisations de ses organisations-membres, d'une subvention d'infrastructure du Ministère du Développement économique et régional et de la Recherche, de même que des subventions et mandats obtenus par ses équipes de recherche. CIRANO is a private non-profit organization incorporated under the Québec Companies Act. Its infrastructure and research activities are funded through fees paid by member organizations, an infrastructure grant from the Ministère du Développement économique et régional et de la Recherche, and grants and research mandates obtained by its research teams. Le CIRANO collabore avec de nombreux centres et chaires de recherche universitaires dont on peut consulter la liste sur son site web. Les cahiers de la série scientifique (CS) visent à rendre accessibles des résultats de recherche effectuée au CIRANO afin de susciter échanges et commentaires. Ces cahiers sont écrits dans le style des publications scientifiques. Les idées et les opinions émises sont sous l'unique responsabilité des auteurs et ne représentent pas nécessairement les positions du CIRANO ou de ses partenaires. This paper presents research carried out at CIRANO and aims at encouraging discussion and comment. The observations and viewpoints expressed are the sole responsibility of the authors. They do not necessarily represent positions of CIRANO or its partners. Résumé / Abstract Nous étudions le processus de séparation entre une firme à l'aval et des firmes à l'amont qui lui fournissent des inputs complémentaires. À cause d'un effet stratégique négatif, le profit marginal de la firme à l'aval de garder une firme à l'amont comme filiale est moins élevé que la valeur de cette dernière au marché des bourses. La séparation est immédiate si le nombre de filiales à l'amont est inférieur à un certain niveau critique. La séparation est graduelle dans le cas inverse et demande une stratégie mixte éventuelle. In a model where a monopolistic downstream firm (assembler) negotiates simultaneously with each of its intermediate-input suppliers the prices of the complementary components which enter its product, we analyze the process by which the assembler separates from its suppliers as a Markov Perfect equilibrium. Due …
Design, implementation and evaluation of a Virtual Showroom

This paper presents the design, development and evaluation of Virtual Showroom that focused on interactivity in manipulating the capabilities of VRML technology. The Virtual Showroom provides virtual furniture that can be viewed, navigated and interacted by the user. Besides that, users are given an option to create the interior design of their own room by dragging virtual furniture provided. Development process involves specific process such as planning, object modeling, navigation, web page integration and evaluation. Evaluation has been done using questionnaire by 30 participants that concentrate on six criteria such as ease of navigation, effectiveness of the interface and user acceptance. Result shows that all of the participants give positive feedback regarding the evaluated criteria and it proves that the objectives of the project have been successfully achieved and able to satisfy both the developer and customers. The development of Virtual Showroom showed that it is possible to have a virtual furniture shop that provided full control for the user while navigating. This can gave a new perspective for the user while do online shopping. The next step is to enhance the application by integrating avatar in order to help first time users in navigating the virtual showroom.
Finding Collisions in Interactive Protocols - Tight Lower Bounds on the Round and Communication Complexities of Statistically Hiding Commitments

We study the round and communication complexities of various cryptographic protocols. We give tight lower bounds on the round and communication complexities of any fully black-box reduction of a statistically hiding commitment scheme from one-way permutations and from trapdoor permutations. As a corollary, we derive similar tight lower bounds for several other cryptographic protocols, such as single-server private information retrieval, interactive hashing, and oblivious transfer that guarantees statistical security for one of the parties. Our techniques extend the collision-finding oracle due to Simon [Advances in Cryptology---EUROCRYPT'98, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 1403, Springer, Berlin, 1998, pp. 334--345] to the setting of interactive protocols and the reconstruction paradigm of Gennaro and Trevisan [Proceedings of the 41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2000, pp. 305--313].
Energy Efficiency Improvement of DWEHC Protocol Using Fuzzy Logic

The WSN is a specialized wireless network made up of a large number of sensors and at least one base station. The foremost difference between the WSN and the traditional wireless networks is that sensors are extremely sensitive to energy consumption. Energy saving is the crucial issue in designing the wireless sensor networks. Since the radio transmission and reception consumes a lot of energy, one of the important issues in wireless sensor network is the inherent limited battery power within network sense in order to maximize the lifetime of sensor nodes; it is preferable to distribute the energy dissipated throughout the wireless sensor network. In this paper we are aiming to present new energy efficient routing protocol for WSNs. We are going to propose a Extended Distributed Weight-based Energy- efficient Hierarchical Clustering protocol (EDWEHC). Each node first locates its neighbours (in its enclosure region), then calculates its weight which is based on its residual energy and distance to its neighbours. The largest weight node in a neighbourhood may become a clusterhead. Neighbouring nodes will then join the clusterhead hierarchy. The clustering process terminates in O(1) iterations, and does not depend on network topology or size. To improve the energy consumption performance fuzzy logic rules are integrated in DWEHC.
Model-Driven Development of Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with Web Ratio and IFML

Model-driven development can concur to address the widespread need of companies for quick development of mobile applications, combined with the chronic shortage of IT personnel with the appropriate skills. In this context, we propose a comprehensive tool suite called Web Ratio Mobile Platform for model-driven development of mobile applications. The tool supports developers in the specification of the domain model and of the interaction model for mobile applications. The specification is built according to an extended version of the OMG standard language called IFML (Interaction Flow Modeling Language), empowered with primitives tailored to mobile systems, that enable specification of mobile-specific behaviors. The tool features model-checking and full code generation that produces ready-to-publish cross-platform mobile applications exploiting the Apache Cordova framework.
Modeling of Continuity and Change in Biology

Continuity and change is a core theme in biology that refers to how genetic information is carried forward. This paper reports on our initial steps toward representing this core theme and describes the methodological background and open challenges. We define continuity and change from a conceptual modeling perspective, identify its facets that require further ontological work, and present competency questions designed to check the adequacy of its representation. Moreover, we explore whether continuity and change must be explicitly represented as primitives in the representation of biological processes or whether it can be inferred from the process structure.
Voxelization of Free-form Solids using Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces

A voxelization technique and its applications for objects with arbitrary topology are presented. With parametrization techniques for subdivision surfaces becoming available, it is possible now to model and represent any continuous but topologically complex object with an analytical and mathematical representation. In this paper we propose a method to convert a free-form object from its continuous geometric representation into a set of voxels that best approximates the geometry of the object. Unlike traditional 3D scan-conversion methods, our voxelization method is performed by recursively subdividing the 2D parameter space and sampling 3D points from selected 2D parameter positions. Because we can calculate every 3D point position explicitly and accurately, uniform sampling on surfaces with arbitrary topology is not a problem any more. Moreover, our discretization of 3D closed objects is guaranteed to be leak-free when a 3D flooding operation is performed. This is ensured by proving that our voxelization results satisfy the properties of seperability, accuracy and minimality. In addition, a 3D volume flooding algorithm using dynamic programming techniques is presented which significantly speeds up the volume flooding process. Hence our method is suitable for visualization of complex scene, measuring object volume, mass, surface area, determining intersection curve of multiple surfaces and even performing accurate Boolean/CSG operations. These capabilities are demonstrated by test examples shown in the paper. CR Categories: I.3. 5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling curve, surface, solid and object representations;
Serial Supply Chain Optimization in a Supply Chain Network for Multi-Product Manufacturing and Distribution Using Heuristic Algorithm

In today’s global market, managing supply chain becomes key factor for the successful business and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a key strategic factor for increasing organizational effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Inventory management is an important area and represents one of the most significant opportunities for cost savings in an industry. Inventory at different points of the supply chain has serious impact on the cost and performance. The scenario considered in the supply chain model has nodes in different stages with many suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailer operating under the continuous review policy. An attempt has been made to select serial supply chain of nodes in different stages which gives optimal or near optimal Total Supply Chain Cost (TSCC). The new approach combines Simulation, and Metaheuristics. Hence, Simulation is used to appraise TSCC with respect to base stock policy. Simulated Annealing (SA) has been employed to select the nodes at different stages of serial supply chain among the several other possible ones. Genetic algorithm (GA) has been used to optimize TSCC for the given serial supply chain using gene-wise crossover operator and gene-wise mutation operator.
Facilitation displaces hotspots of diversity and allows communities to persist in heavily stressed and disturbed environments

Question: What are the interacting effects of stress and disturbance on both competition and facilitation, and ultimately their impact on diversity and species ranges? Location: Simulated data. Method: We extended the spatially explicit model of Xiao et al. (Oikos, 118, 2009, 1343) toconsiderhow stress anddisturbance– operating aloneortogether – affect species distributions through varying biotic interactions. Results: In the absence of facilitation, species ranges only occurred within the limits of a triangular zone, which can be considered equivalent to Grime’s C-S-R triangle. Competitive species were distributed in low stress and disturbance conditions. Stress- and disturbance-tolerant species occurred in more stressed and disturbed environments. Species richness followed a hump-shaped relationship with a hotspot of diversity occurring close to the centre of the C-S-R triangle. In contrast, facilitation was able to dampen the negative impacts of stress and disturbance acting either solely or simultaneously, but this influence was not simply the sum of the effects of the processes operating independently on the two environmental gradients. Facilitation extended species distributions along both the stress and disturbance gradients and displaced the hotspot of diversity into the centre of the response surface. Conclusions: Facilitation was able to promote the occurrence and persistence of communities in highly stressed and disturbed conditions, i.e. allowing a stable community to exist beyond the limits of the C-S-R triangle. We also showed that facilitation can be an important mechanism driving the displacement of hotspots of diversity from benign toward intermediate stressed and disturbed environments.
An assistive mobile platform for delivering knowledge of performance feedback

Upper limb motor deficits caused by stroke have a big impact on a person's daily activities and independence. One strategy for promoting motor relearning consists on the delivery of meaningful feedback during rehabilitative training. In this paper we describe the development and first evaluation of a system that combines a portable arm orthosis device and a mobile application running on a tablet in order to provide knowledge of performance to stroke patients while performing therapy. Here we present preliminary results and discuss the potential of this technology.
Theory & Methods: Spatially‐adaptive Penalties for Spline Fitting

The paper studies spline fitting with a roughness penalty that adapts to spatial heterogeneity in the regression function. The estimates are pth degree piecewise polynomials with p− 1 continuous derivatives. A large and fixed number of knots is used and smoothing is achieved by putting a quadratic penalty on the jumps of the pth derivative at the knots. To be spatially adaptive, the logarithm of the penalty is itself a linear spline but with relatively few knots and with values at the knots chosen to minimize the generalized cross validation (GCV) criterion. This locally‐adaptive spline estimator is compared with other spline estimators in the literature such as cubic smoothing splines and knot‐selection techniques for least squares regression. Our estimator can be interpreted as an empirical Bayes estimate for a prior allowing spatial heterogeneity. In cases of spatially heterogeneous regression functions, empirical Bayes confidence intervals using this prior achieve better pointwise coverage probabilities than confidence intervals based on a global‐penalty parameter. The method is developed first for univariate models and then extended to additive models.
Chandrasekhar separation ansatz and the generalized total angular momentum for the Dirac equation in the Kerr-Newman metric.

In this paper we compute the square root of the generalized squared total angular momentum operator J for a Dirac particle in the Kerr-Newman metric. The separation constantarising from the Chandrasekahr separation ansatz turns out to be the eigenvalue of J. After proving that J is a symmetry operator, we show the completeness of Chandrasekhar ansatz for the Dirac equation in oblate spheroidal coordinates and derive an explicit formula for the propagator e itH .
Separating data and control transfer in distributed operating systems

Advances in processor architecture and technology have resulted in workstations in the 100+ MIPS range. As well, newer local-area networks such as ATM promise a ten- to hundred-fold increase in throughput, much reduced latency, greater scalability, and greatly increased reliability, when compared to current LANs such as Ethernet. We believe that these new network and processor technologies will permit tighter coupling of distributed systems at the hardware level, and that distributed systems software should be designed to benefit from that tighter coupling. In this paper, we propose an alternative way of structuring distributed systems that takes advantage of a communication model based on remote network access (reads and writes) to protected memory segments. A key feature of the new structure, directly supported by the communication model, is the separation of data transfer and control transfer. This is in contrast to the structure of traditional distributed systems, which are typically organized using message passing or remote procedure call (RPC). In RPC-style systems, data and control are inextricably linked—all RPCs must transfer both data and control, even if the control transfer is unnecessary. We have implemented our model on DECstation hardware connected by an ATM network. We demonstrate how separating data transfer and control transfer can eliminate unnecessary control transfers and facilitate tighter coupling of the client and server. This has the potential to increase performance and reduce server load, which supports scaling in the face of an increasing number of clients. For example, for a small set of file server operations, our analysis shows a 50% decrease in server load when we switched from a communications mechanism requiring both control transfer and data transfer, to an alternative structure based on pure data transfer.
Practical Design and Evaluation of a 1 kW PFC Power Supply Based on Reduced Redundant Power Processing Principle

Using the reduced redundant power processing (R2P2) principle, a single-phase power-factor correction (PFC) power supply can achieve a higher overall efficiency as a result of the use of a noncascading structure that involves less repeated processing of the input power. This paper investigates a single-phase noncascading PFC power supply based on the R2P2 principle. The circuit employs a current-fed full-bridge converter as the PFC preregulator, and a buck-boost converter as the voltage regulator. This paper addresses the design of this noncascading PFC power supply and in particular the relationships between the gained efficiency, the transient response and the size of the energy storage. Experimental results obtained from a 1 kW laboratory prototype are presented.
A Barankin-Type Bound on Direction Estimation Using Acoustic Sensor Arrays

We derive a Barankin-type bound (BTB) on the mean-square error (MSE) in estimating the directions of arrival (DOAs) of far-field sources using acoustic sensor arrays. We consider narrowband and wideband deterministic source signals, and scalar or vector sensors. Our results provide an approximation to the threshold of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) below which the performance of the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) degrades rapidly. For narrowband DOA estimation using uniform linear vector-sensor arrays, we show that this threshold increases with the distance between the sensors. As a result, for medium SNR values the performance does not necessarily improve with this distance.
Using Heuristics and Genetic Algorithms for Large-scale Database Query Optimization

Distributed database system technology is one of the major developments in information technology area. It will continue to have a very significant impact on data processing in the upcoming years because distributed database systems have many potential advantages over centralized systems for geographically distributed organizations. The continuing interest in distributed database systems in the research community and the marketplace and the introduction of many commercial products indicate that distributed database systems will play a more important role in data processing and eventually will replace centralized systems as the major database technology in the future. The availability of high speed communication networks and, especially, the phenomenal popularity of the Internet and the intranets will undoubtedly speed up the transition process. Some challenging problems must be solved before the full potential benefits of distributed database technology can be realized. Among them is query processing (including query optimization), one of the most important issues in distributed database system design. The query optimization problem in large-scale distributed databases is NP-hard in nature and difficult to solve. In this study, the query optimization problem is reduced to a join ordering problem similar to a variant of traveling salesman problem. We explored several heuristics and a genetic algorithm for solving the join ordering problem. Some computational experiments on these algorithms were conducted and solution qualities compared. The computation experiments show that heuristics and genetic algorithms are viable methods for solving query optimization problem in large scale distributed database systems.
Clozapin til behandlingsrefraktær mani, bipolær maniodepressiv sygdom og behandlingsrefraktær depression

Clozapin til behandlingsrefraktær mani, bipolær maniodepressiv sygdom og behandlingsrefraktær depression Per Vestergaard To cite this article: Per Vestergaard (1998) Clozapin til behandlingsrefraktær mani, bipolær maniodepressiv sygdom og behandlingsrefraktær depression, Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 51:sup40, 53-55, DOI: 10.1080/08039488.1998. 11884453 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/08039488.1998. 11884453