BACKGROUND The caesarean section (c-section) rate in Canada is 27.1%, well above the 5-15% of deliveries suggested by the World Health Organization in 2009. Emergency and planned c-sections may adversely affect breastfeeding initiation, milk supply and infant breastfeeding receptivity compared to vaginal deliveries. Our study examined mode of delivery and breastfeeding initiation, duration, and...

This online Supplement is organised as follows: Section A provides supplementary lemmas for the Appendix of the main paper. Section B provides a proof of Theorem 3. Section C provides a discussion of various results related to the case where both signal and noise variables are mixing. Section D presents lemmas related to mixing regressors. Section E provides lemmas for the case where the regres...

We show that long-run average cost function for the (R, T) policy with normally distributed demand has a structure similar to that of the corresponding (Q, r) model so that many of the useful properties of the latter model are applicable. In particular, (i) the optimal cost is relatively insensitive to the choice of the reorder interval, T, provided a near-optimal R corresponding to the chosen ...

The segmentation of objects whose color-composition is not trivial represents a difficult task, due to the illumination and the appropriate threshold selection for each one of the object color-components. In this work we propose the Fuzzy C-Means algorithm application for the segmentation of such objects. It is chosen, by the characteristics that it represents the face segmentation. This techni...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of short inter delivery interval (IDI) on mode in patients with immediate previous one caesarean section (C-Section). METHODS: This is a retrospective chart review 120 treated at Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan from December 2017 to 2019. Patients C-Section and gestational age >37 weeks were included this study. Outcome variables whether opera...

The incidence of cesarean section (c-section) has increased worldwide. Because the major risk factor for uterine scar dehiscence (USD) is a previous c-section, the rate of this complication has also increased. Its clinical significance and management strategies are unclear. Here, we discuss USD particularly pertaining to its surgical treatment.