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BACKGROUND Ectopic pregnancy (EP) remains the most life-threatening acute condition in modern gynaecology. It remains difficult to diagnose early and accurately. Women often present at emergency departments in early pregnancy with a 'pregnancy of unknown location' (PUL) and diagnosis/exclusion of EP is challenging due to a lack of reliable biomarkers. Recent studies suggest that serum levels of...

While exploding trucks and collapsing buildings are rare occurrences in everyday life, they are frequently depicted in films, video games, and training simulations. Filming such effects in the real world can be dangerous and obtaining a specific outcome is often difficult. Consequently, such effects are increasingly generated through physical simulations where initial conditions and parameters ...

I n The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, Adam Smith famously argued that economic behavior was motivated by self-interest. But 17 years earlier in 1759, Smith had proposed a theory of human behavior that looks anything but selfinterested. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith argued that behavior was determined by the struggle between what Smith termed the “passions” and...