This paper describes Rapture | a system for revising probabilistic theories that combines symbolic and neural-network learning methods. Rapture uses a modi ed version of backpropagation to re ne the certainty factors of a Mycin-style rule-base and it uses ID3's information gain heuristic to add new rules. Results on two real-world domains demonstrate that this combined approach performs as well...

072 supplies are not that good. So, a specifically-tailored recommendation for extending the pregnancy for more 2 weeks (i.e. till 36 weeks of pregnancy) was advised. This latter recommendation was principally built on senior staff opinions. The goal of the current article was to retrospectively evaluate the neonatal and maternal outcomes of delivery prior to and beyond 34 weeks of pregnancy in...

OBJECTIVE To compare the abortion rate and preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) after amniocentesis in women who have undergone antibiotic prophylaxis with uterine fibroids and control. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study using the Antibiotic Prophylaxis before Second-Trimester Genetic Amniocentesis trial database carried out between January 1999 and December 2005 at the Artemisia Feta...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to determine if antibiotics given for latency to women with twins and previable preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) affect the duration from membrane rupture to delivery. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of twin pregnancies at a single center from 2000 to 2015 with previable (14 (0/7)-22 (6/7) weeks) PPROM was conducted. Women who were not candidates f...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the review was to evaluate the effectiveness and the immediate and long-term safety of the effects of administering antibiotics to women with preterm prelabour rupture of membranes on maternal infectious morbidity, fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality, and longer term childhood development. SEARCH STRATEGY All randomized trials identified using the search strategy ...

The common management in most centers in cases of multiple pregnancies with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) before 22 weeks of gestation is termination of the pregnancy or the expectant approach. Expectant management of previable PPROM in twin pregnancies results in an increased rate of fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality of both twins. Selective fetocide of the twin with ...

OBJECTIVE To study the incidence and outcome of preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. SUBJECTS Ninety five PPROM women who were expectant management and delivered between January 1, 1997 and December 31, 1997. RESULTS The incidence of PPROM was 7.2 per ...