The relationship between instantaneous changes in fetal head station and cervical dilatation within the individual contraction during the active stage of labor were studied and an index of labor progress was suggested. Cervix dilatation and fetal head station were measured continuously in 30 nullipara women (mean age 27.5, standard deviation 4.8). The continuous measurements enabled the analysi...

We used intraneural recordings of sympathetic nerve activity in conscious humans to determine if central command increases sympathetic discharge to resting skeletal muscle during static exercise. In nine healthy subjects, we measured arterial pressure, heart rate, and muscle sympathetic nerve activity with microelectrodes in the peroneal nerve of the resting leg during 1) static handgrip at 15%...

In this paper, we define almost Rg-Geraghty type contractions and utilize the same to establish some coincidence common fixed point results in setting of b2-metric spaces endowed with binary relations. As consequences our newly proved results, deduce for g-?-? Geraghty contraction mappings spaces. addition, derive partially ordered Moreover, show utility main provide an example application non-...

The concept of quasi-continuity and the new concept of almost compactness for a function are the basis for the extension of the contraction principle in large devi­ ations presented here. Important equivalences for quasi-continuity are proved in the case of metric spaces. The relation between the exponential tightness of a sequence of stochastic processes and the exponential tightness of its tr...

Many speed-up techniques developed for accelerating the computation of shortest paths in road networks, like reach or contraction hierarchies, are based on the property that some streets are ’more important’ than others, e.g. on long routes the usage of an interstate is almost inevitable. In grids there is no obvious hierarchy among the edges, especially if the costs are uniform. Nevertheless w...

In this study whether extracellular Ca++ is essential to produce an increase of tension of isolated rat duodenum by ACh, 5-HT, AVP and KCl-, was examined. KCl- and AVP-evoked contractions were almost totally prevented by Ca++ removal from bath solution. The increase of tension of isolated duodenum caused by ACh or 5-HT was totally prevented after adding nifedipine, a Ca++ channel blocker, into ...