OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity, on the mother and the infant. METHODS A multicentre cohort study was conducted in three hospitals in the city of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. All Saudi women and their babies who delivered in participating hospitals were eligible for recruitment. Data on socio-demographic characteristics in a...

background and objective: hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy are common and from one of the deadly triad, along with hemorrhage and infection that contribute greatly to prenatal and maternal morbidity and mortality in the developing countries. this study was designed to investigate the relationship between maternal hypothyroidism and pre-eclampsia. materials and methods: in a prospec...

This review describes adverse outcomes in pregnancy after brief, intermittent, or permanent residence at high altitudes. Review of literature shows that congenital malformations rates are higher at high altitudes. Additionally, rates of stillbirths, small size for gestational age, and preeclampsia are increased in populations living at high altitudes and are associated with high maternal hemogl...

The pathophysiology of preeclampsia involves the release of a circulating factor(s) from a hypoperfused placenta that activates the maternal endothelium. This study investigated the effect on in vitro endothelial function of plasma taken from women in whom preeclampsia subsequently developed. Women at increased risk for an adverse pregnancy outcome were identified using Doppler waveform analysi...

A real-life event log, taken from a Dutch Academic Hospital, is analyzed using process mining techniques. The log contains events related to treatment and diagnosis steps for patients diagnosed with cancer. Given the heterogeneous nature of these cases, we first demonstrate that it is possible to create more homogeneous subsets of cases (e.g. patients having a particular type of cancer that nee...

We present a method computing a minimum sized partition of the variables of an incompletely specied Boolean function into symmetric groups. The method can be used during minimization of robdds of incompletely speci ed Boolean functions. We apply it as a preprocessing step of symmetric sifting presented by Panda [24] and Moller [20] and of techniques for robdd minimization of incompletely speci...

New data has been generated in an unexpected high speed. To get insight of those data, data analysts will perform a thorough study using state-of-the-art big data analytical tools. Before the analysis starts, a preprocessing is conducted, where data analyst tends to issue a few ad-hoc queries on a new dataset to explore and gain a better understanding. However, it is costly to perform such ad-h...

Estimation by Analogy (EBA) is an increasingly active research method in the area of software engineering. The fundamental assumption of this method is that the similar projects in terms of attribute values will also be similar in terms of effort values. It is well recognized that the quality of software datasets has a considerable impact on the reliability and accuracy of such method. Therefor...

Live Surface allows users to segment and render complex surfaces from 3D image volumes at interactive (sub-second) rates using a novel, cascading graph cut (CGC). Live Surface consists of two phases. (1) Preprocessing for generation of a complete 3D hierarchy of tobogganed regions followed by tracking of all region surfaces. (2) User interaction in which, with each mouse movement, the volume is...

Abstract This paper presents an improved ray casting algorithm, in order to solve the problems of powerful computing capacity and slow rendering velocity. In the course of ray casting volume rendering, an algorithm of ICT slice images original data field 2D maximum entropy threshold segmentation prior preprocessing is proposed. It is used to define the extent of threshold, and research the opti...