Objectives: this research was conducted to describe the ultrasonic measurements of the foot full measurements (FFM) and their importance in the antenatal care (ANC). Material and methods: the Descriptive quantitative ...Objectives: this research was conducted to describe the ultrasonic measurements of the foot full measurements (FFM) and their importance in the antenatal care (ANC). Material and methods: the Descriptive quantitative cross-sectional study conducted in the ultrasound department at Alshaekh Mohammed Ali Fadol hospital in Omdurman locality. The study included 400 healthy Sudanese pregnant women whom in the 1st (late), 2nd and 3rd trimesters (i.e., after 10 weeks gestational age) of different parity and ages (15 years old and above);they have regular menstrual cycle and well certain of their last menstrual period and calculated date of delivery. Ultrasonographic measurement of Full Foot Length1 (FFL1), Foot Full Length2 (FFL2), and Foot Full Width (FFW) of all pregnant women were done. Sonographically we measured fetal foot from 14 to 40 weeks of gestation. Results: the study revealed that the mean FFL1 was 58.7 ± 12.9 mm. The minimum measurement was 18.8 mm, and the maximum was 89.1 mm, while the mean value of FFL2 was 53.4 ± 11.4 mm, with minimum value 17.5 mm and maximum 81.7 mm, and the mean FFW was 23.7 ± 5.1 mm, with minimum value 7.0 mm and maximum 38.0 mm. Conclusion: a strongly significant relationships were observed between (FFL1, FFL2, FFW) and gestational age (p = 0.00). However there is no significant difference between the FFL1, FFL2, and correlations with sex of embryo, residence, occupation, parity, maternal height, socioeconomic status, bleeding during this pregnancy, chronic illness, and caesarian section, moreover there are significant correlations between the FFL1, FFL2 and the (maternal age, maternal weight, and body mass index), but in the measurement of the fetal FFW there were no significant correlations with (sex of embryo, maternal age, body mass index, residence, occupation, parity, socioeconomic status, bleeding during this pregnancy, chronic illness, and caesarian section). Also there are significant correlations between the FFW and the maternal weight and height.展开更多
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study a nascent theory and an emerging concept of solving a fully fuzzy linear system(FFLS)with no non negative restrictions on the triangular fuzzy numbers chosen as parameter...Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study a nascent theory and an emerging concept of solving a fully fuzzy linear system(FFLS)with no non negative restrictions on the triangular fuzzy numbers chosen as parameters.Two new simplified computational methods are proposed to solve a FFLS without any sign restrictions.The first method eliminates the non-negativity constraint from the coefficient matrix while the second method eliminates the constraint of non-negativity on the solution vector.The methods are introduced with an objective to broaden the domain of fuzzy linear systems to encompass a wide range of problems occurring in reality.Design/methodology/approach–The design of numerical methods is motivated by decomposing the fuzzy based linear system into its equivalent crisp linear form which can be further solved by variety of classical methods to solve a crisp linear system.Further the paper investigates Schur complement technique to solve the crisp equivalent of the FFLS.Findings–The results that are obtained reveal interesting properties of a FFLS.By using the proposed methods,the authors are able to check the consistency of the fuzzy linear system as well as obtain the nature of obtained solutions,i.e.trivial,unique or infinite.Further it is also seen that an n£n FFLS may yield finitely many solutions which may not be entirely feasible(strong).Also the methods successfully remove the non-negativity restriction on the coefficient matrix and the solution vector,respectively.Research limitations/implications–Evolving methods with better computational complexity and that which remove the non-negativity restriction jointly on all the parameters are left as an open problem.Originality/value–The proposed methods are new and conceptually simple to understand and apply in several scientific areas where fuzziness persists.The methods successfully remove several constraints that have been employed exhaustively by researchers and thus eventually tend to widen the breadth of applicability and usability of fuzzy linear models in real life situations.Heretofore,the usability of FFLS is largely dormant.展开更多
文摘Objectives: this research was conducted to describe the ultrasonic measurements of the foot full measurements (FFM) and their importance in the antenatal care (ANC). Material and methods: the Descriptive quantitative cross-sectional study conducted in the ultrasound department at Alshaekh Mohammed Ali Fadol hospital in Omdurman locality. The study included 400 healthy Sudanese pregnant women whom in the 1st (late), 2nd and 3rd trimesters (i.e., after 10 weeks gestational age) of different parity and ages (15 years old and above);they have regular menstrual cycle and well certain of their last menstrual period and calculated date of delivery. Ultrasonographic measurement of Full Foot Length1 (FFL1), Foot Full Length2 (FFL2), and Foot Full Width (FFW) of all pregnant women were done. Sonographically we measured fetal foot from 14 to 40 weeks of gestation. Results: the study revealed that the mean FFL1 was 58.7 ± 12.9 mm. The minimum measurement was 18.8 mm, and the maximum was 89.1 mm, while the mean value of FFL2 was 53.4 ± 11.4 mm, with minimum value 17.5 mm and maximum 81.7 mm, and the mean FFW was 23.7 ± 5.1 mm, with minimum value 7.0 mm and maximum 38.0 mm. Conclusion: a strongly significant relationships were observed between (FFL1, FFL2, FFW) and gestational age (p = 0.00). However there is no significant difference between the FFL1, FFL2, and correlations with sex of embryo, residence, occupation, parity, maternal height, socioeconomic status, bleeding during this pregnancy, chronic illness, and caesarian section, moreover there are significant correlations between the FFL1, FFL2 and the (maternal age, maternal weight, and body mass index), but in the measurement of the fetal FFW there were no significant correlations with (sex of embryo, maternal age, body mass index, residence, occupation, parity, socioeconomic status, bleeding during this pregnancy, chronic illness, and caesarian section). Also there are significant correlations between the FFW and the maternal weight and height.
文摘Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study a nascent theory and an emerging concept of solving a fully fuzzy linear system(FFLS)with no non negative restrictions on the triangular fuzzy numbers chosen as parameters.Two new simplified computational methods are proposed to solve a FFLS without any sign restrictions.The first method eliminates the non-negativity constraint from the coefficient matrix while the second method eliminates the constraint of non-negativity on the solution vector.The methods are introduced with an objective to broaden the domain of fuzzy linear systems to encompass a wide range of problems occurring in reality.Design/methodology/approach–The design of numerical methods is motivated by decomposing the fuzzy based linear system into its equivalent crisp linear form which can be further solved by variety of classical methods to solve a crisp linear system.Further the paper investigates Schur complement technique to solve the crisp equivalent of the FFLS.Findings–The results that are obtained reveal interesting properties of a FFLS.By using the proposed methods,the authors are able to check the consistency of the fuzzy linear system as well as obtain the nature of obtained solutions,i.e.trivial,unique or infinite.Further it is also seen that an n£n FFLS may yield finitely many solutions which may not be entirely feasible(strong).Also the methods successfully remove the non-negativity restriction on the coefficient matrix and the solution vector,respectively.Research limitations/implications–Evolving methods with better computational complexity and that which remove the non-negativity restriction jointly on all the parameters are left as an open problem.Originality/value–The proposed methods are new and conceptually simple to understand and apply in several scientific areas where fuzziness persists.The methods successfully remove several constraints that have been employed exhaustively by researchers and thus eventually tend to widen the breadth of applicability and usability of fuzzy linear models in real life situations.Heretofore,the usability of FFLS is largely dormant.
