New Features for the Detection of Fetal QRS Complexes in Non-Invasive Fetal Electrocardiograms.

Non-invasive fetal electrocardiography (NI-fECG) is a promising technique for continuous fetal heart rate (fHR) monitoring. However, the weak amplitude of the fetal electrocardiogram (fECG), and the presence of the dominant maternal ECG (mECG), makes it highly challenging to detect the fetal QRS (fQRS) complex, which is needed to obtain the fHR. This paper proposes a new method for automated fQRS detection from single-channel NI-fECG signals, without cancelling out the mECG.

CAPSCNet: A novel scattering network for automated identification of phasic cyclic alternating patterns of human sleep using multivariate EEG signals.

The Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP) can be considered a physiological marker of sleep instability. The CAP can examine various sleep-related disorders. Certain short events (A and B phases) manifest related to a specific physiological process or pathology during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep.

The role of religion in One Health. Lessons from the Hanuman langur (Semnopithecus entellus) and other human-non-human primate interactions.

Being revered as deities in some religions of the world, non-human primates (NHPs) often share the same space as humans. Such coexistence and interactions with humans, especially around places of worship, have been known to cause significant changes to the behavior and diet of the NHPs in India. Moreover, the interface may also create an opportunity for zoonotic spillover, similar to the majority of newly emerging or re-emerging infections that are found to originate from animal sources.

Do the existing systemic diseases overstate anaesthetic intervention during cataract surgery under local anaesthesia? An observational study to correlate the association.

Context: The objective was to study the extent of anaesthetic intervention and its association with systemic comorbidities. The secondary objectives were to estimate the prevalence of systemic comorbidities in age-related cataracts.

Aims: To determine the prevalence of systemic comorbidities in cataract surgery patients and association with anaesthesiologists' intervention.

Iteratively reweighted ℓ-ℓ norm minimization using wavelets in inverse scattering: publisher's note.

This publisher's note corrects the author list in J. Opt. Soc.

Iteratively reweighted ℓ-ℓ norm minimization using wavelets in inverse scattering.

Recently, many techniques have been employed to solve inverse scattering problems by exploiting the sparsity of the scatterer in the wavelet basis. In this paper, we propose an iteratively reweighted $ {\ell _1} $ norm regularization scheme within the settings of the Born iterative method (BIM) to effectively leverage the sparsity of the wavelet coefficients. This "iteratively reweighted $ {\ell _1} $ minimization" method is then used along with $ {\ell _2} $ norm minimization in order to achieve solutions that are not over-smoothened at the discontinuities.

Introducing a teaching module to impart communication skills in the learning anaesthesiologists.

Background And Aims: Pre-operative negative valence communications adversely affect intra and post-operative pain experience. This study was conducted to evaluate the teaching of communication skills by teachers in anaesthesia department and whether the post-operative pain is effectively modified due to the skill of communication acquired by students.

Methods: All students and teachers in the department participated in the study.

Tobacco usage in school children in Bombay, India. A study of knowledge, attitude and practise.

A study of knowledge, attitude and practice with regard to tobacco usage was conducted in 1278 boys and 353 girls studying in the final year in various schools in Bombay. The proportion of boys given to one or the other form of tobacco usage (including experimenters/triers) was significantly higher in private English median schools (22.5%) compared to private Indian language schools (6.