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Incidence of perineal trauma in normal spontaneous vaginal delivery in Shabih-khani Maternity Hospital of Kashan during 2007-9
No full textBackground: Trauma to genital tract is a common complication of normal vaginal delivery and may result from episiotomies, spontaneous lacerations or both. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of perineal trauma in normal spontaneous vaginal delivery in patients admitted to Kashan Shabih-khani Maternity Hospital. Materials and Methods: All women having normal vaginal delivery at Kashan Shabih-khani Maternity Hospital from October 2007 to September 2009 were enrolled to this descriptive-analytical retrospective study. Data were collected from hospital charts and analyzed by chi-square test.Results: Severe (third or fourth) degree tears were seen in 0.16 of cases, 0.14 of which accompanied episiotomy. First and 2nd degree tears without episiotomy happened in 90.3 and 9.6, respectively. Type of trauma is correlated to the birth weight of the baby (P=0/001). Conclusion: Episiotomy has no significant beneficial effect on prevention of perineal trauma. so, it is recommended that episiotomies to be avoided unless for exceptional cases
Post-test analysis of Series D experiments in LIFUS5/Mod3 facility for SIMMER code validation of WCLL-BB In-box LOCA
No full textThe In-box LOCA for the WCLL-BB is recognized as a Design Basis Accident (DBA) and is of substantial interest to the DEMOnestration reactor design, therefore, the transient response of such an accident must be carefully investigated and addressed to ensure the safe operation and integrity of the whole system. In this way, the LIFUS5/Mod3 test facility (constructed at ENEA Brasimone Research Center) has been upgraded in the period 2018–2020 to perform a series of tests. The first set of the tests were named Series D, which are characterized by injecting specified amounts of pressurized water into the Lithium lead liquid bulk. The experimental campaign aimed at validating and qualifying the SIMMER-III code as a reliable numerical tool for the safety studies of the WCLL BB. In parallel with performing the tests, SIMMER-III Verification and Validation (V&V) was conducted according to a standard code validation procedure. SIMMER-III is a two-dimensional, multiphase, multicomponent, Eulerian, fluid-dynamics code which was firstly developed at the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC). An adopted version of the original SIMMER-III code so-called Ver.3 F Mod.0.1 (which was developed at University of Pisa), was employed for the analyses. The V&V activity was successfully completed and documented as the technical reports within the past numerical analytical and experimental activities for the first three tests (D1.1, D1.2 and D1.5). In this article, the experimental data of the Tests D1.1, D1.2 and D1.5 are used for the SIMMER-III code results comparison. A qualitative analysis of the results obtained is reported according to the time trends for the most relevant parameters. The results show that the SIMMER-III code acceptably predicts the transient and the accuracies of the relevant test parameters are in agreement with the acquired experimental signals. Although that the primarily validation results are highly promising but further code assessment, development and validation are essential to approach such a qualified system code, which is suitable for fusion safety applications. The present validation work has been successfully followed by its ongoing experimental and numerical activities as a multilateral EUROfusion project
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
Anabolic and antiresorptive modulation of bone homeostasis by the epigenetic modulator sulforaphane, a naturally occurring isothiocyanate
No full textLogarithmic variance profiles and the corresponding f-1 spectra of temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
No full textWe report experimental results for the temperature variance 2(z) and the corresponding frequency spectra P(f) in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in a cylindrical sample of aspect ratioT= D/L = 1:00 (D = 1:12 m is the diameter and L = 1:12 m the height). The measurements were conducted in the Rayleigh-number range 1011 < Ra < 1:35 1014 and Pr ' 0:8. For Ra = 1:35x1014, 2(z) could be described well by a logarithmic dependence on the vertical position z in a range of z 1 < z < z 2 with z 1 ' 70 and z 2 = 0:1L. Here L=(2Nu) is the thickness of a thin thermal sublayer adjacent to the horizontal plate where the heat flux (denoted by the Nusselt number Nu) is carried mostly by thermal diffusion. In the log layer, we found that the temperature spectra had a significant frequency range over which P(f) f with close to 1. As Ra decreased, increased so that the log layer became thinner. At Ra = 2:05 1011, z 2 < z 1 and therefore there was no range for a log layer. Correspondingly, the temperature spectrum near the horizontal plate did not have the f1 scaling form either
Analysis of Test D1.1 of the LIFUS5/Mod3 facility for In-box LOCA in WCLL-BB
No full textThe in-box Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA) scenario is considered as one of the most affecting safety concerns for the Water-Cooled Lead Lithium Breeding Blanket (WCLL-BB) modules of the DEMOnstration (DEMO) reactor, which is sequentially followed by a multi-phase multi-component physical and chemical interaction. Therefore, the transient behavior of such accidents has to be carefully investigated during the design phase of the plant, to evaluate the consequences and to adopt the necessary mitigating countermeasures. This also requires a numerical predictive tool, which is capable to model such transients and predict the relevant phenomena under an operational condition and the connected safety parameters i.e. system pressure, temperature, chemical products mass, and volume fractions of all the existing components. Consequently, the SIMMER-III code was firstly improved at the University of Pisa by implementing the chemical reaction between PbLi eutectic alloy and water. In addition to this, an experimental campaign and a test-matrix have been recently designed according to the LIFUS5/Mod3 facility to perform a series of experiments and code post-test analyses. In the present work, the experimental data of the first LIFUS5/Mod3 test is used for the validation of the chemical model implemented in SIMMER-III through a comprehensive sensitivity study. The applied methodology for the code validation is based on a three-step procedure including qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis and the results from sensitivity analyses. The qualitative accuracy evaluation is performed through a systematic comparison between experimental and calculated time trends based on the engineering analysis, the resulting sequence of main events and the identification of phenomenological windows and of relevant thermo-hydraulic aspects. Afterwards, the accuracy of the code prediction is evaluated from a quantitative point of view by means of selected, widely used, figures of merit. Finally, the results from the sensitivity cases are analysed and quantified, to determine the effects of the most influencing code input options and transient parameters. Furthermore, the analysis is followed by applying the Fast Fourier Transform Method (FFTM) to the experimental signals and all the sensitivity calculations. The comparison shows a very good agreement for pressure transient between the experimental and numerical data, while for the temperature and the hydrogen production the results fall into acceptable criteria, which means that the code is reliable in capturing and predicting the transient values but not perfectly match with the experimental signals
Maine author Franklin F. Gould recalls his first glimpse of the outside world
No full textMaine author Franklin F. Gould recalls his first glimpse of the outside world as he relates how, as a young farm boy in the late 1800\u27s, he drove his father\u27s horses on an errand to an icebound river
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