We explore the effect of complete oral motor intervention (OMI) and nonnutritive sucking (NNS) alone on oral feeding in preterm infants through a meta-analysis. We searched the Embased, Medline, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases for randomized controlled trials up to 8 August 2023, based on established selection criteria. Quality evaluations of the studies were carried out by applying both the Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool and the Jadad scale.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObstetric brachial plexus injury, also known as neonatal brachial plexus injury, is not unusual in newborns. Given the lack of a comprehensive synthesis of the available data on the effectiveness of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) in treating children with obstetric brachial plexus injury, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis. We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane databases from inception to 25 November 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLearning effective representations that exhibit semantic content is crucial to image retrieval applications. Recent advances in deep learning have made significant improvements in performance on a number of visual recognition tasks. Studies have also revealed that visual features extracted from a deep network learned on a large-scale image data set (e.
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