OBJECTIVE To compare cost and efficacy of tubal anastomosis to in vitro fertilization (IVF) in women who desired fertility after a tubal ligation. DESIGN Cost-effectiveness analysis. SETTING Not applicable. PATIENT(S) Not applicable. INTERVENTION(S) Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Cost per ongoing pregnancy. RESULT(S) Cost per ongoing pregnancy for women after tubal anastomo...

Retraction This article [1] was submitted to International Seminars of Surgical Oncology without the knowledge or consent of either Prof Karakayali or Prof Haberal, and is being retracted for this reason. An apology is extended to Prof Karakayali and Prof Haberal as well as the editorial and publishing staff and readers of the journal. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduct...

1.1. Sites. We begin with the underlying idea for a Grothendieck topology. Consider your favorite topological space X. Its topology, don’t use the Zariski topology, is determined by the partially ordered category UX consisting of all the open subsets of X ordered with respect to inclusion. In order to verify that a presheaf is a sheaf on X, we must first construct all possible coverings U = (Ui...

Normally ordered forms of functions of boson operators are important in many contexts in particular concerning Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Optics. Beginning with the seminal work of Katriel (Lett. Nuovo Cimento 10(13):565–567, 1974), in the last few years, normally ordered forms have been shown to have a rich combinatorial structure, mainly in virtue of a link with the theory of partitions...

This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic...

This study focused on the factor structure of the victimization form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2). A sample of 1,266 women participated in the study, including a subgroup of battered women. Results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a model that integrates the five original scales with the severity of violence (minor, severe). In addition, the distinction between minor a...

Institutional analysis that aims to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty needs to focus first of all on the ways in which institutions influence poverty and the livelihoods of the poor. Therefore the starting point has to be poor people themselves. This means understanding their diversity and the different characteristics of people who are affected by poverty and experience it in differ...

Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are a group of strong human carcinogen viruses considered to be the fourth leading cause of mortality among women in the world. HPV is the most important cause of cervical cancer, which is the second most common cancer in women living in low and middle-income countries. To date, there is no effective cure for an ongoing HPV infection; therefore, it is required to in...

In this study, no empirical evidence was found for the notion that most patients recover memories of childhood sexual abuse because their therapist had suggested to them that they were abused as children. Instead, our data seem to suggest that memory recovery is a spontaneous phenomenon, triggered by abuse-related stimuli. The issue of traumatic versus ordinary memories was investigated by comp...