Obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) is a known complication of vaginal delivery and has significant public health issues, as it can cause both short- and long-term morbidity in women. The most commonly reported complications include different grades of faecal/flatus incontinence, pain and sexual dysfunction. In our study, we found a rising trend in OASIS rates in vaginal deliveries, with ...

We present and evaluate the first method known to us that can create rich nonextract-based opinion summaries from general text (e.g. newspaper articles). We first describe two possible representations for opinion summaries and then present our system OASIS, which identifies, and optionally aggregates, fine-grained opinions from the same source on the same topic. We propose new evaluation measur...

We just started an observational program to obtain 2D kinematics of nuclear bars, to be compared to N body simulations of single and double-barred galaxies. We have started a program to study the kinematics of double-barred galaxies using the Integral Field Spectrograph OASIS (CFHT). Stellar bidimensional velocity fields obtained with OASIS are compared with N body + SPH simulations, to constra...

Dear Editor: Since the publication of Objective Assessment of Skills in Intraocular Surgery (OASIS) in 2005, we have received numerous requests from academic institutions and private surgeons both in the United States and abroad requesting inclusion in the OASIS database as well as updated templates to assess patient outcomes objectively. As we continue to establish a centralized database for a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the self-perceived orthodontic treatment need in a university population evaluated through 3 scales that used different approaches. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING University dental clinic, Lima, Peru, 2001. MATERIALS AND METHODS Questionnaires that gathered perceptions on dentofacial aesthetic perception and orthodontic treatment need were applied to a random...

Net primary productivity (NPP) of the vegetation in an oasis can reflect capacity a plant community under natural environmental conditions. Owing to extreme arid climate conditions and scarce precipitation regions, groundwater plays key role restricting development vegetation. The Qira Oasis is located on southern margin Taklimakan Desert (Tarim Basin, China) that one most vulnerable regions re...

Marine biotoxins are algal metabolites that can accumulate in fish or shellfish and render these foodstuffs unfit for human consumption. These toxins, released into seawater during algal occurrences, can be monitored through passive sampling. Acetone, methanol and isopropanol were evaluated for their efficiency in extracting toxins from algal biomass. Isopropanol was chosen for further experime...

Liquid and solid precipitation is abundant in the high elevation, upper reach of the Heihe River basin in northwestern China. The development of modern irrigation schemes in the middle reach of the basin is taking up an increasing share of fresh water resources, endangering the oasis and traditional irrigation systems in the lower reach. In this study, the response of vegetation in the Ejina Oa...

Learning a measure of similarity between pairs of objects is an important generic problem in machine learning. It is particularly useful in large scale applications like searching for an image that is similar to a given image or finding videos that are relevant to a given video. In these tasks, users look for objects that are not only visually similar but also semantically related to a given ob...