ectopic pregnancy (ep) and miscarriage are important differential diagnosis of first trimester vaginal bleeding. in first trimester, serum progesterone value can be 5-20 ng/ml in ep and miscarriage. since delay in diagnosis of ep could have high mortality and morbidity, the aim of this study was comparison of serum progesterone value in ep and miscarriage in order to differentiate these conditi...

background: ectopic pregnancy (ep) is a prevalent problem and the most common cause of maternal mortality at the first trimester. results from different studies are not consistent regarding the risk factors associated with ep. the current study aimed to investigate about risk factors associated with ep in kermanshah-iran. methods: a case–control study conducted to compare risk factors of ep amo...

SYNOPSIS. The extant jawless fishes (Agnatha) include the hagfishes and lampreys whose ancestry can be traced through a conserved evolution to the earliest of vertebrates. This review traces the study of the enteropancreatic (EP), endocrine cells and their products in hagfishes and lampreys over the past two centuries. Erika Plisetskaya is one of several prominent comparative endocrinologists w...

BACKGROUND Tissue permeabilization by electroporation (EP) is a promising technique to treat certain cancers. Non-invasive methods for verification of induced permeabilization are important, especially in deep-seated cancers. In this study we evaluated diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) as a quantitative method for detecting EP-induced membrane permeabilization of brain tiss...

We have studied the efficiency of research in the EU by a percentile-based citation approach that analyzes the distribution of country papers among the world papers. Going up in the citation scale, the frequency of papers from efficient countries increases while the frequency from inefficient countries decreases. In the percentile-based approach, this trend, which is permanent at any citation l...

Multilayer Neural Networks (MNNs) are commonly trained using gradient descent-based methods, such as BackPropagation (BP). Inference in probabilistic graphical models is often done using variational Bayes methods, such as Expectation Propagation (EP). We show how an EP based approach can also be used to train deterministic MNNs. Specifically, we approximate the posterior of the weights given th...

Production of pork, the most consumed meat globally, is estimated to emit 668 m tonnes CO2-eq of greenhouse gases each year. Amongst various production systems that comprise the pig industry, grain-based intensive production is widely regarded as the largest polluter of the environment, and thus it is imperative to develop alternative systems that can provide the right balance between sustainab...

The purpose of this study was to understand the mechanism of cardiovascular disease (CVD) caused by exposure to hazardous chemicals. We investigated changes in the symptoms of metabolic syndrome, which is strongly related to CVD, and in levels of other CVD risk factors, with a special emphasis on the roles of catecholamines and oxidative stress. The results revealed that neither body mass index...

We consider the pulsar velocity problem and relate it to some unconven-tional neutrino oscillation mechanisms based on a violation of the equivalence principle by neutrinos. We show that the observed pulsar velocities may be explained by violations at the level from 10 −9 to 10 −10 in the case of a non-universal tensor neutrino-gravity coupling, whereas there is no solution in the case of a non...