induction of labor is one of the most common procedures during pregnancy. various methods for cervical ripening and labor induction have been described in the obstetrics literature; but the role of corticosteroids in the process of labor is not entirely understood. this study challenged the possible role of corticosteroids in induction of labor by extra-amniotic injection through an inflated in...

We consider the variety G2,p of nilpotent groups of class 2 of exponent p > 2 in the language L of group theory. To get the Amalgamation Property (AP) in [Bau] an additional predicate P (G) for G ∈ G2,p with G ′ ⊆ P (G) ⊆ Z(G) is introduced. Let GP2,p be the category of this groups in the extended language LP where the morphisms are embeddings. Using the class KP2,p of finite structures in GP2,...

There is an Mayer-Vietoris exact sequence 0 → Vn → PicZCpn → Cl Q(ζn−1) × Pic ZCpn−1 → 0 involving the Picard group of the integer group ring ZCpn where Cpn is the cyclic group of order p and ζn−1 is a primitive p -th root of unity. The group Vn splits as Vn ∼= V + n ⊕ V − n and V − n is explicitly known. V + n is a quotient of an in some sense simpler group Vn. In 1977 Kervaire and Murthy conj...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether taking oral erythromycin prior to SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with Tc99m-sestamibi would reduce the amount of interfering extra-cardiac activity and improve the image quality. METHODS A total of 96 patients who were routinely referred for myocardial perfusion imaging were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Patients in group A received 500 ...

Figure 3: Inter-Tome Redundancy Pergamum can survive the loss of an entire tome through the use of inter-tome redundancy encoding. Segments on a single disk are grouped into regions , and a redundancy group is built from regions of identical sizes on multiple disks. To ensure data survival, each redundancy group includes extra regions on additional disks that contain erasure correction informat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the use of locked plating (LP) and retrograde nailing (RN) for treating extra-articular distal femoral fractures. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 2004 to March 2009, 36 patients with extra-articular distal femoral fractures were surgically treated at our Trauma Center. The patients were divided into two groups according to...