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Postpartum Mental Health among Young Women
Background: A number of studies have highlighted the physical health problems associated with adolescent pregnancy in Saudi Arabia , However there were few studies dealing with the postpartum psychiatric disorders .The study aims to determine the prevalence of postpartum psychological distress and to evaluate the associated risk factors in a sample of primigravid young women in Al Ahsa region, Saudi Arabia. Methods: We assessed the prevalence of postnatal mental health in 190 young mothers attending the maternity hospital using general health questionnaire. We also assessed the relationship between socio-demographic, psychiatric and obstetric risk factors and the mental health. Results: The percent of women with psychological distress was 35.2%. Significant risk of psychological distress was associated with several socio-demographic, psychiatric and obstetric risk factors. Only four items were found to be significant predictors of postpartum psychological distress; low family income, poor husband support, birth of female baby and gestational diabetes. Conclusions: These results highlighted importance of screening for psychological distress and its associated risk factors in the implementation of proper perinatal care for the pregnant Saudi adolescents
Energy Efficient Multiuser Scheduling: Statistical Guarantees on Bursty Packet Loss
In this paper, we consider energy efficient multiuser scheduling. Packet loss
tolerance of the applications is exploited to minimize average system energy.
There is a constraint on average packet drop rate and maximum number of packets
dropped successively (bursty loss). A finite buffer size is assumed. We propose
a scheme which schedules the users opportunistically according to the channel
conditions, packet loss constraints and buffer size parameters. We assume
imperfect channel state information at the transmitter side and analyze the
scheme in large user limit using stochastic optimization techniques. First, we
optimize system energy for a fixed buffer size which results in a corresponding
statistical guarantee on successive packet drop. Then, we determine the minimum
buffer size to achieve a target (improved) energy efficiency for the same (or
better) statistical guarantee. We show that buffer size can be traded
effectively to achieve system energy efficiency for target statistical
guarantees on packet loss parameters.Comment: Proc. Physcomnet in conjunction with WIOPT 201
Optimal Energy Allocation For Delay-Constrained Traffic Over Fading Multiple Access Channels
In this paper, we consider a multiple-access fading channel where users
transmit to a single base station (BS) within a limited number of time slots.
We assume that each user has a fixed amount of energy available to be consumed
over the transmission window. We derive the optimal energy allocation policy
for each user that maximizes the total system throughput under two different
assumptions on the channel state information. First, we consider the offline
allocation problem where the channel states are known a priori before
transmission. We solve a convex optimization problem to maximize the
sum-throughput under energy and delay constraints. Next, we consider the online
allocation problem, where the channels are causally known to the BS and obtain
the optimal energy allocation via dynamic programming when the number of users
is small. We also develop a suboptimal resource allocation algorithm whose
performance is close to the optimal one. Numerical results are presented
showing the superiority of the proposed algorithms over baseline algorithms in
various scenarios.Comment: IEEE Global Communications Conference: Wireless Communications
(Globecom2016 WC
Trading Wireless Information and Power Transfer: Relay Selection to Minimize the Outage Probability
This paper studies the outage probability minimization problem for a multiple
relay network with energy harvesting constraints. The relays are hybrid nodes
used for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer from the source
radio frequency (RF) signals. There is a trade-off associated with the amount
of time a relay node is used for energy and information transfer. Large
intervals of information transfer implies little time for energy harvesting
from RF signals and thus, high probability of outage events. We propose relay
selection schemes for a cooperative system with a fixed number of RF powered
relays. We address both causal and non-causal channel state information cases
at the relay--destination link and evaluate the trade-off associated with
information/power transfer in the context of minimization of outage
probability.Comment: IEEE GlobalSiP, 201
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