background: health benefits of vitamin d has been proved by a large number of studies, however, to the best of our knowledge there has been no study investigating the effect of mega dose of vitamin d on gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm). this study was the first to assess the effect of postpartum injection of mega dose of vitamin d on blood pressure (bp) in gdm. methods: this is a randomized ...

There is a low but uncertain probability that climate change could trigger “mega-catastrophes,” severe and at least partly irreversible adverse effects across broad regions. This paper first discusses the state of current knowledge and the defining characteristics of potential climate change mega-catastrophes. While some of these characteristics present difficulties for using standard rational ...

We report on the integration of Tps as an external reasoning component into the mathematical assistant system mega. Thereby Tps can be used both as an automatic theorem prover for higher order logic as well as interactively employed from within the mega environment. Tps proofs can be directly incorporated into mega on a tactic level enabling their visualization and verbalization. Using an examp...

INTRODUCTION Amputation is no longer the sole contribution of the orthopaedic surgeon to the management of primary bone tumours. Improvements in the design of endoprostheses and surgical reconstructive techniques have combined with advances in chemotherapeutic regimens to result in surgical procedures for salvaging limbs with aggressive sarcomas and in limb reconstruction. This has made limb sa...

We evaluated the influence of the trench-parallel component of plate motion on the active fault system within the Nankai accretionary wedge from reflection seismic profiles, high-resolution seafloor bathymetry, and deep-towed sub-bottom profiles. Our study demonstrated that a large portion of the trench-parallel component of oblique plate subduction is released by strike-slip motion along a fau...

A new robust clustering scheme based on fuzzy c-means is proposed and the concept of a fuzzy mega-cluster is introduced in this paper. The fuzzy mega-cluster is conceptually similar to the noise cluster, designed to group outliers in a separate cluster. This proposed scheme, called the mega-clustering algorithm is shown to be robust against outliers. Another interesting property is its ability ...