El vacuum extractor

Five Years' Experience with the Vacuum Extractor.

The importance of flexion in vacuum extractor delivery.

Two modifications of Malmstrom's cup were used in a study of the position of the cup in 500 vacuum extractor deliveries. The incidence of completely flexing applications varied from 0 to 92 per cent according to the level of the head and the position of the occiput when the cup was applied and, in occipito-posterior positions, the type of cup that was used. With mid-cavity occipito-posterior po...

Neonatal posterior fossa haemorrhage associated with vacuum extractor.

We report one case of posterior fossa intracranial haemorrhage in a full-term Malay baby boy following vacuum assisted delivery. The patient, a term baby boy was delivered by a vacuum extraction and later developed signs of increased intracranial pressure 72 hours after birth. Computed tomography (CT) of the brain showed a posterior fossa intracranial haemorrhage with acute obstructive hydrocep...

Thematic Extractor

We have created a system that identifies musical keywords or themes. The system searches for all patterns composed of melodic (intervallic for our purposes) repetition in a piece. This process generally uncovers a large number of patterns, many of which are either uninteresting or only superficially important. Filters reduce the number or prevalence, or both, of such patterns. Patterns are then...

Language Independent Feature Extractor

We propose a new customizable tool, Language Independent Feature Extractor (LIFE), which models the inherent patterns of any language and extracts relevant features of the language. There are two contributions of this work: (1) no labeled data is necessary to train LIFE (It works when a sufficient number of unlabeled documents are given), and (2) LIFE is designed to be applicable to any languag...