the present study was carried out to characterize the cervical mucus (cm) collected when inseminating holstein cows and to relate the secretion pattern with pregnancy. the mucus was collected from mid-cervix of 64 cows with spontaneus estrus (se) and induced estrus (ie). the quantity, pattern and consistency of the mucus, ph, arborization patterns and the sperm motility were observed. the level...

We present analysis of spatial patterns of generic disease spread simulated by a stochastic long-range correlation SIR model, where individuals can be infected at long distance in a power law distribution. We integrated various tools, namely perimeter, circularity, fractal dimension, and aggregation index to characterize and investigate spatial pattern formations. Our primary goal was to unders...

We adapt belief-propagation techniques to study the equilibrium behavior of a bipartite spin glass, with interactions between two sets of N and P=αN spins each having an arbitrary degree, i.e., number of interaction partners in the opposite set. An equivalent view is then of a system of N neurons storing P diluted patterns via Hebbian learning, in the high storage regime. Our method allows anal...

background: essential hypertension tends to a familial mode. its pattern of inheritance is heterogeneous, but the frequencies of different mode of inheritance vary in different populations. determining of the mode of inheritance in each family is the basic information that is needed for the risk estimation in those family members. determination of pattern of inheritance in families with at leas...

Let R = k[x 1 ,. .. , xn] and let I be the ideal of n + 1 generically chosen forms of degrees d 1 ≤ · · · ≤ d n+1. We give the precise graded Betti numbers of R/I in the following cases: • n = 3; • n = 4 and 5 i=1 d i is even; • n = 4, 5 i=1 d i is odd and d 2 + d 3 + d 4 < d 1 + d 5 + 4; • n is even and all generators have the same degree, a, which is even; • (n+1 i=1 d i) − n is even and d 2 ...

We establish concrete mathematical criteria to distinguish between different kinds of written storytelling, fictional and non-fictional. Specifically, we constructed a semantic network from both novels and news stories, with N independent words as vertices or nodes, and edges or links allotted to words occurring within m places of a given vertex; we call m the word distance. We then used measur...

Simple network-level measures can tell us a great deal about the shape of a network, e.g., the mean degree, the degree distribution, local or global clustering coefficients, edge reciprocity, mean geodesic distance or diameter, etc. However, these simple measures are not sensitive to how the structural pattern they measure might vary non-uniformly across the network. For example, reciprocity te...

Purpose. To compare three 360°-laser retinopexy (LRP) approaches (using navigated pattern laser system, single-spot slit-lamp (SL) laser delivery, and single-spot indirect ophthalmoscope (IO) laser delivery) in regard to procedure duration, procedural pain score, technical difficulties, and the ability to achieve surgical goals. Material and Methods. Eighty-six rhegmatogenous retinal detachment...