Background: Infertility as a stressful life crisis devastates the person’s mental health.One of the latest methods of ART is surrogacy. The unique aspects of surrogacy have led to it becoming the most controversial of all the assisted reproductive techniques in recent years and arises ethnical, moral, psychological and social issues. So this study performed with the purpose of determining the k...

In this paper an imaging system for road traffic conflict analysis is proposed. The system exploits geo-referenced stereo sequences and tracking procedure to compute traffic conflict measures which can be analysed by experts. Using the potentiality of the traffic conflict technique as a surrogate safety measure could constitute an effective tool in understanding how the driver interacts and ada...

The Baby M case 1 has forced us to take sides in the public debate over surrogate motherhood. Last year, advocates of this form of noncoital reproduction praised the New Jersey trial court for supporting the freedom to contract for such "womb renting" services, while critics warned that enforcement of such surrogacy contracts would condone the sale of babies and the exploitation of women as bab...

On April 2, 2012 the Eindhoven University of Technology published the first adaptive PhD thesis [4] describing the research on the adaptation language and engine GALE, and served (adaptively) by the GALE engine. The aim of the this research was twofold: to make the authoring of adaptive documents feasible without much technical knowledge, and to create an adaptation and user modeling service th...

AIM To describe the development and testing of a monitoring model with quantitative indicators or progress markers that could measure the progress of individual hospitals in the implementation of kangaroo mother care (KMC). METHODS Three qualitative data sets in the larger research programme on the implementation of KMC of the MRC Research Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies i...

To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-mo-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared with the basal condition of maternal rearing (MR), leukocytes from peer-reared (PR) animals and PR animals provided wit...

A learning-based exploration approach is proposed to escape from the basins of attraction of converged-to optima, by selecting on what is termed the interestingness of a solution. This interestingness is based on the modeling error made by a surrogate model that is trained on all solutions encountered earlier during the search. Compared to multiple standard optimization runs, a learning-guided ...

Germ cell transplantation (GCT) is a promising assisted reproductive technology for the conservation and propagation of endangered and valuable genetic resources. In teleost fish, GCT in adult gonads has been achieved only in male recipients, limiting greatly the usefulness of this technique in situations where both sexes need equal and timely attention for conservation and/or propagation. Here...