BACKGROUND Iran has the second highest rate of cesarean section in the world. the corresponding rate in the third metropolitan city of Iran, Isfahan, is even higher. This paper aimed to assess correlates and determinants of intention for cesarean section versus normal vaginal delivery (NVD) among pregnant women in Isfahan. METHODS A study was conducted among 400 pregnant women aged 18-38 year...

Timely imaging examinations are critical for stroke patients due to the potential life threat. We have proposed a contract-based Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reservation process [1] in order to reduce their waiting time for MRI examinations. Contracted time slots (CTS) are especially reserved for Neural Vascular Department (NVD) treating stroke patients. Patients either wait in a CTS queue ...

This study aims to describe the types of intrafamilial violence perpetrated against children according to living conditions, family factors, and child characteristics, and to identify the association between types of intrafamilial violence and asthma symptoms in atopic and non-atopic children. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 1,370 caregivers as part of the Social Changes, Asthma an...

Road geometry (e.g. slope and curvature) has significant impacts on driving behaviours of low-level automated vehicles (AVs), but it been largely ignored in microscopic traffic models. To capture these effects, this study proposes a generic approach to extend any (free-flow or car-following) models characterized by acceleration functions. end, three model extensions are developed, each which ca...

One of the key benefits of using intrusion-tolerant systems is the possibility of ensuring correct behavior in the presence of attacks and intrusions. These security gains are directly dependent on the components exhibiting failure diversity. To what extent failure diversity is observed in practical deployment depends on how diverse are the components that constitute the system. In this paper, ...

One of the key benefits of using intrusion-tolerant systems is the possibility of ensuring correct behavior in the presence of attacks and intrusions. These security gains are directly dependent on the components exhibiting failure diversity. To what extent failure diversity is observed in practical deployment depends on how diverse are the components that constitute the system. In this paper w...

Background: To analyse the impact of time insertion Copper T to presentation and intervention for management missing Cu-T thread.Methods: After approval study by research institutional Ethics Committee, present was carried out partly prospectively on patients presenting with Cu thread. Retrospective data also collected from minor OT or admission records those admitted removal IUCD duly complete...

Estimating the distance covered by a spreading event on network can lead to better understanding of epidemics, economic growth, and human behavior. There are many methods solving this problem—which has been called Node Vector Distance (NVD)—for single layer networks. However, phenomena represented multilayer networks: networks in which nodes connect qualitatively different ways. In article, we ...

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) provides unstructured descriptions of computer security vulnerabilities. These descriptions do not directly provide the information necessary to formally analyze how the user’s and the attacker’s actions lead to the exploit. Moreover, the descriptions vary in how they describe the vulnerabilities. In this paper, we describe a system for automatically ex...

This paper presents a multiscale method to detect neovascularization in the optic disc (NVD) using fundus images. Our method is applied to a manually selected region of interest (ROI) containing the optic disc. All the vessels in the ROI are segmented by adaptively combining contrast enhancement methods with a vessel segmentation technique. Textural features extracted using multiscale amplitude...