OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess whether an age younger than 25 years at conization affected future pregnancy outcome as an independent factor. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective study of 115 women who underwent both loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) and subsequent pregnancy follow-up in a referral center was conducted. Two groups were considered: patients younger ...

Wenyu Zhou, Michael Choi, Daciana Margineantu, Lilyana Margaretha, Jennifer Hesson, Christopher Cavanaugh, C Anthony Blau, Marshall S Horwitz, David Hockenbery*, Carol Ware* and Hannele Ruohola-Baker* H Ruohola-Baker Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM), Seattle, WA, USA, Department of Biochemistry, Universi...

S. Wang; J. Tang; J.A. Johnson; E. Mitcham; J.D. Hansen; G. Hallman; S.R. Drake; Y. Wang Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, 213 L. J. Smith Hall, Pullman, WA 99164-6120, USA; e-mail of corresponding author: [email protected] USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, 9611 S. Riverbend Ave., Parlier, CA 93648, USA; e-mail: [email protected]....

A new wide-angle (WA) beam propagation method (BPM) is developed whereby the exact scalar Helmholtz propagator is replaced by any one of a sequence of higher-order m ,n Padé approximant operators. Unlike the previous well-known WA-BPM proposed by Hadley [Opt. Lett. 17, 1426 (1992)], the resulting formulations allow one a direct solution of the second-order scalar wave equation without having to...

Low levels of high-density cholesterol (HDLc) accompany chronic kidney disease, but the association between HDLc and the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in the general population is unclear. We investigated the HDLc-eGFR association in nondiabetic Han Chinese (HC, n = 1100), West Africans (WA, n = 1497), and African Americans (AA, n = 1539). There were significant differences by anc...

Weighted A* (WA*) is a popular search technique that scales up A* while sacrificing solution quality. Recently, researchers have proposed two variants of WA*: KWA* adds diversity to WA*, and MSC-WA* adds commitment to WA*. In this paper, we demonstrate that there is benefit in combining them. The resulting MSC-KWA* scales up to larger domains than WA*, KWA* and MSC-WA*, which is rather surprisi...

Since 1995 the school education sector has been a dominant focus for education for sustainabi li ty (EfS) in Austra lia (Tilbury, Coleman, & Garlick, 2005, p. 1). The commencement of the Austra lian Susta inable Schools In it iative (AuSSI) in 2003, with its whole school approach, dramatically increased this focus (Department of Education and Training, 2005b). The pilot for the Western Australi...