A prospective study was conducted at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, between 3 January and 31May 2004, to compare the accuracy of clinical and ultrasonographic estimation of foetal weight at term. One hundred pregnant women who fulfilled the inclusion criteria had their foetal weight estimated independently using clinical and ultrasonographic methods. Acc...

We use this theorem to derive the same corollaries for the theories covered by the theorem as were derived for the strongly minimal case in [2]. We also note that the theorem is in some senses optimal. Specifically we can easily construct trivial Morley Rank 1 theories which are not categorical and for which the conclusion of the theorem fails. Also Marker in [3] constructs trivial totally cate...

The doomsday argument purports to show that starting solely from the information of what your birth rank is amongst some population the extinction of that population is near at hand, or at any rate signiicantly nearer than you had previously supposed. Various authors have suggested that this is a straightforward consequence of Bayesian reasoning. We show that Bayesian reasoning is both more sub...

We analyze the evolution of cumulative national shares of Nobel Prizes since 1901, properly taking into account that most prizes were divided among several laureates. We rank by citizenship at the moment of the award, and by country of birth. Surprisingly, graphs of this type have not been published before, even though they powerfully illustrate the century’s migration patterns (brain drains an...

in order to determine the exact birth rate and also percent of birth - orders in all births in the province of west azerbaijan, all centres of birth registration in the province were asked to fill a questionnaire at the time of issuing identity document for children. in the questionnaire, parents were asked to mention the place of birth, sex and birth order of the children and also the occupati...

This paper proposes a novel automatic pronunciation scoring framework using learning to rank. Human scores of the utterances are treated as ranks and are used as the ranking ground truths. Scores generated from various existing scoring methods are used as the features to train the learning to rank function. The output of the function is then segmented by the proposed DP-based method and hence b...

We introduce various notions of rank for a high order symmetric tensor, namely: rank, border rank, catalecticant rank, generalized rank, scheme length, border scheme length, extension rank and smoothable rank. We analyze the stratification induced by these ranks. The mutual relations between these stratifications, allow us to describe the hierarchy among all the ranks. We show that strict inequ...

introduction preterm birth is still a major health problem throughout the world. preterm birth results in 75% of neonatal mortality. we sought to identify risk factors which cause preterm birth. materials and methods this cross-sectional study assessed all preterm neonates born in asali hospital in khorram abad (either by nvd or c/s) during the first 6 months of 2007. sampling method was census...

Abstract Background: There is further evidence of breast feeding benefits for mother and infant health. In some regions of the world the rate of exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of infant’s life has been decreased. The most important factors associated with the problem are socio-economic variables such as maternal age, mother’s employment status, level of education, and infant...