LAKE GALICH DURING THE LATE VALDAI (WEICHSELIAN) GLACIATION

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LAKE GALICH DURING THE LATE VALDAI (WEICHSELIAN) GLACIATION

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Mifepristone versus balloon catheter for labor induction: a cohort study

Objective: to compare trans-cervical balloon catheter with oral administration of mifepristone for induction of labor. Methods: Retrospective cohort study including a total of 325 patients; labor was induced with Foley catheter (group I, n = 220) or mifepristone (group II, n = 105). We selected patients with cervical ripening ≤5 cm according to Bishop score (n = 208) and divided into 2 subgroups depending on the parity: group I, primiparous with a Bishop score of ≤5, n = 70–I (1, ≤5); group I, multiparous with a Bishop score of ≤5, n = 44 - I (2,≤5); group II, primiparous with a Bishop score of ≤5, n = 65–II (1, ≤5); group II, multiparous with a Bishop score of ≤5, n = 29–II (2, ≤5). Frequencies and percentages were presented using analysis of variance. Results: Vaginal delivery occurred more frequently in patients induced by mifepristone (76.5%) vs. Foley catheter (74.5%). However, vaginal delivery within 24 h from the onset of induction occurred in the majority of patients in the Foley catheter groups: 39 (55.7%) and 28 (63.6%) versus 15 (23.1%) and 6 (20.7%) in groups induced with mifepristone. The frequency of cesarean section in the primiparas induced using a Foley catheter was 14%, with the use of mifepristone 21%. However, all multiparas induced with mifepristone delivered vaginally, in contrast to 30.7% of multiparas with the placement of a Foley catheter which required a cesarean delivery. Conclusion: Comparison of the effectiveness of induction of labor with the use of mifepristone and an intracervical balloon Foley catheter showed that both of these methods are successful, with more deliveries within the first 24 hrs achieved by using Foley catheter. The results of this study support the postulate that the success of an induction is largely dependent on the degree of cervical ripening and parity. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

Semi dwarf continental woolly mammoth from the East Siberian Sea coast, continental Russia

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The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support studies of past climate, land cover, and land use using fossil pollen. The EMPD is part of, and complementary to, the European Pollen Database (EPD) which contains data on fossil pollen found in Late Quaternary sedimentary archives throughout the Eurasian region. The EPD is in turn part of the rapidly growing Neotoma database, which is now the primary home for global palaeoecological data. This paper describes version 2 of the EMPD in which the number of samples held in the database has been increased by 60 % from 4826 to 8134. Much of the improvement in data coverage has come from northern Asia, and the database has consequently been renamed the Eurasian Modern Pollen Database to reflect this geographical enlargement. The EMPD can be viewed online using a dedicated map-based viewer at https://empd2.github.io and downloaded in a variety of file formats at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909130 (Chevalier et al., 2019)