A sudden rise in intra-abdominal pressure that causes the pressure in the bladder to rise during physical movement and/or activity, such as coughing, sneezing, laughing, running, or weightlifting, is known as stress urinary incontinence. This condition causes an uncontrollable overflow of urine. The study's goal was to determine whether effector molecules, specifically ADP ribosylation factor GTPase activated protein 3, might play a part in the female pelvic floor muscle's ability to heal after suffering damage during vaginal delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe hippocampus is critical to the temporal organization of our experiences. Although this fundamental capacity is conserved across modalities and species, its underlying neuronal mechanisms remain unclear. Here we recorded hippocampal activity as rats remembered an extended sequence of nonspatial events unfolding over several seconds, as in daily life episodes in humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore the effect of holographic meridian scraping combined with free body positions on the stages of labor, the perineal lateral resection rate, and the delivery outcomes of the primipara.
Methods: A total of 120 primiparous women in natural labor admitted to Hebei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (HPH-TCM) from January 2020 to September 2020 were recruited as the study cohort. The cohort of parturients was divided into a conventional treatment group (the conventional group) or a combined treatment group (the combined group).
Adv Neural Inf Process Syst
December 2019
Dynamic functional connectivity, as measured by the time-varying covariance of neurological signals, is believed to play an important role in many aspects of cognition. While many methods have been proposed, reliably establishing the presence and characteristics of brain connectivity is challenging due to the high dimensionality and noisiness of neuroimaging data. We present a latent factor Gaussian process model which addresses these challenges by learning a parsimonious representation of connectivity dynamics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHamiltonian Monte Carlo is a widely used algorithm for sampling from posterior distributions of complex Bayesian models. It can efficiently explore high-dimensional parameter spaces guided by simulated Hamiltonian flows. However, the algorithm requires repeated gradient calculations, and these computations become increasingly burdensome as data sets scale.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF