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Variability of Clinical Practice in the Third Stage of Labour in Spain

  • Inmaculada Ortiz-Esquinas,
  • Juan Gómez-Salgado,
  • Ana I. Pascual-Pedreño,
  • Julián Rodríguez-Almagro,
  • Juan Miguel Martínez-Galiano and
  • Antonio Hernández-Martínez
J. Clin. Med.2019, 8(5), 637;https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm8050637

9 May 2019

Clinical practice guidelines recommend the active management of the third stage of labour, but it is currently unknown what practices professionals actually perform. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the variability of professional pr...

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Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Methods of Labour Pain Relief—Establishment of Effectiveness and Comparison

  • Iwona Czech,
  • Piotr Fuchs,
  • Anna Fuchs,
  • Miłosz Lorek,
  • Dominika Tobolska-Lorek,
  • Agnieszka Drosdzol-Cop and
  • Jerzy Sikora
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2018, 15(12), 2792;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122792

9 December 2018

Background: To evaluate the effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain relief methods and to compare them. Materials and methods: 258 women were included in the study and interviewed using a questionnaire and the visual analogue sc...

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A Physiologically Explainable Classifier for Labour Prediction Based on Electrohysterographical Signals

  • Dariusz S. Radomski,
  • Zuzanna Oscik,
  • Rafal Jozwiak and
  • Ewa Dmoch-Gajzlerska
Appl. Sci.2025, 15(24), 12960;https://doi.org/10.3390/app152412960

9 December 2025

BACKGROUND. Managing women in pregnancy or labour is becoming a serious challenge because of delayed conception age and higher morbidity. The main negative factor is increasing numbers of overweight and obese women. Fatty tissue significantly biases...

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The Effects of Weather on Oilseed Rape (OSR) Yield in China: Future Implications of Climate Change

  • Yaqin He,
  • Brian J. Revell,
  • Bofeng Leng and
  • Zhongchao Feng
Sustainability2017, 9(3), 418;https://doi.org/10.3390/su9030418

15 March 2017

Understanding the role of climatic factors on crop yields is essential in predicting the future impact of climate change. In order to understand the influence of climatic factors on OSR, detailed farm-level panel data from 2566 farms across 67 counti...

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Characteristics of Homebirth in Hungary: A Retrospective Cohort Study

  • Girma A. Wami,
  • Viktória Prémusz,
  • György M. Csákány,
  • Kovács Kálmán,
  • Viola Vértes and
  • Péter Tamás
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2022, 19(16), 10461;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610461

22 August 2022

Homebirth is legal and has been regulated by law in Hungary since 2012. Despite the obvious advantages of homebirth, it has not yet been broadly accepted, due to various opinions related to safety and risks associated with giving birth outside of a h...

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Growing Degree Day Targets for Fruit Development of Australian Mango Cultivars

  • Marcelo H. Amaral,
  • Cameron McConchie,
  • Geoffrey Dickinson and
  • Kerry B. Walsh
Horticulturae2023, 9(4), 489;https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9040489

13 April 2023

A forward estimate of mango (Mangifera indica L.) harvest timing is required for farm management (e.g., for organization of harvest labour and marketing). This forward estimate can be based on accumulated growing degree days (GDD) from an early stage...

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The Revolution in Breast Cancer Diagnostics: From Visual Inspection of Histopathology Slides to Using Desktop Tissue Analysers for Automated Nanomechanical Profiling of Tumours

  • Martin Stolz
Bioengineering2024, 11(3), 237;https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11030237

28 February 2024

We aim to develop new portable desktop tissue analysers (DTAs) to provide fast, low-cost, and precise test results for fast nanomechanical profiling of tumours. This paper will explain the reasoning for choosing indentation-type atomic force microsco...

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Antenatal Betamethasone Every 12 Hours in Imminent Preterm Labour

  • Natalia Saldaña-García,
  • María Gracia Espinosa-Fernández,
  • Jose David Martínez-Pajares,
  • Elías Tapia-Moreno,
  • María Moreno-Samos,
  • Celia Cuenca-Marín,
  • Francisca Rius-Díaz and
  • Tomás Sánchez-Tamayo
J. Clin. Med.2022, 11(5), 1227;https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11051227

24 February 2022

Background: Benefits of antenatal corticosteroids have been established for preterm infants who have received the full course. In imminent preterm labours there is no time to administer the second dose 24 h later. Objective: To determine whether the...

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