OBJECTIVE Our aim was to figure out whether volumetric gray-scale histogram difference between anterior and posterior cervix can indicate the extent of cervical consistency. METHODS We collected data of 95 patients who were appropriate for vaginal delivery with 36th to 37th weeks of gestational age from September 2010 to October 2011 in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Korea Unive...

• J Penny, A. Eaton, P. Bishop and R. Bloomfield, “The Practicalities of Goal-Based Safety Regulation”, paper in Aspects of Safety Management: Proceedings of the Ninth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 6-8 February 2001, Felix Redmill and Tom Anderson (eds.), Springer, 2001, ISBN: 1-85233-411-8, pages 35-48 • P.G. Bishop, R.E Bloomfield, P.D.F. Froome “Justifying the use of softwa...

The paper presents a theorem for representation a given cone as a Bishop–Phelps cone in normed spaces and studies interior and separation properties for Bishop–Phelps cones. The representation theorem is formulated in the form of a necessary and sufficient condition and provides relationship between the parameters determining the BishopPhelps cone. The necessity is given in reflexive Banach spa...

Induction of labor is common in obstetric practice. According to the most current studies, the rate varies from 9.5 to 33.7 percent of all pregnancies annually. In the absence of a ripe or favorable cervix, a successful vaginal birth is less likely. Therefore, cervical ripening or preparedness for induction should be assessed before a regimen is selected. Assessment is accomplished by calculati...

One of the most successful relationships for effective stresses on unsaturated soils was proposed by Bishop in the middle of the last century. However, only recently Bishop ́s effective stress equation has been implemented in various constitutive models for unsaturated soils. These models have the advantage of naturally include the coupling between the hydraulic and the mechanical behavior exper...