My husband and I have been trying to conceive for two months now with no success. I'm 34 and he is 35. I have bought early ovulation tests and everything. My question to you is that it seems that my cervical fluid is never "egg white" slippery until a few days before my period. So what are some other symptoms that I need to pay attention to? I have been pregnant before but I terminated it. I wa...

My husband and I have been trying to conceive for two months now with no success. I'm 34 and he is 35. I have bought early ovulation tests and everything. My question to you is that it seems that my cervical fluid is never "egg white" slippery until a few days before my period. So what are some other symptoms that I need to pay attention to? I have been pregnant before but I terminated it. I wa...

BACKGROUND In Bangladesh, the average excise tax on cigarettes accounted for just 38% of the average retail price of cigarettes in 2009, and 45% in 2010. Both these rates are well below the WHO recommended share of 70% of the retail price at a minimum. There is thus ample room for raising taxes on cigarettes in Bangladesh. The objective of the present work was therefore to estimate the price el...

The third Marshall-Hicks-Allen rule of elasticity of derived demand purports to show that labor demand is less elastic when labor is a smaller share of total costs. As Hicks, Allen, and then Bronfenbrenner showed, this rule is not quite correct, and actually is complicated by an unexpected negative relationship involving labor’s share of total costs and the elasticity of substitution. The stand...

The authors derive an expression for the price elasticity of demand in the presence of reference price effects that includes a component resulting from the presence of gains and losses in consumer evaluations. The effect of reference price is most noticeable immediately after a price change, before consumers have had time to adjust their reference price. As a result, immediate-term price elasti...

Pulmonary diseases of the lung often cause the change of elasticity. This article proposes a novel elasticity imaging method using multidetector-row CT (MDCT). The new method is based on non-rigid image registration from MDCT images of the inspiratory lung to those of the expiratory lung. The elasticity is calculated by local volume change between respirations. Also, this article introduces a n...

Cloud elasticity is a unique feature of cloud environments, which allows for the on demand (de-)provisioning or reconfiguration of the resources of cloud deployments. The efficient handling of cloud elasticity is a challenge that attracts the interest of the research community. This work constitutes a survey of research efforts towards this direction. The main contribution of this work is an up...

We are developing a system for real-time estimation and display of tissue elastic properties using a clinical ultrasonic imaging system. Our hypothesis is that real-time feedback of elasticity images is essential in obtaining high-quality data. Extensive experience with laboratory fixtures and off-line processing of elasticity data showed that problems occurring in data acquisition often result...

It has been observed that older high traffic motorways experience lower traffic growth than newer ones (ceteris paribus). This phenomenon is known as traffic maturity; however, it is not captured through traditional time-series long-term forecasts, due to constant elasticity to GDP these models assume. In this paper we argue that traffic maturity results from decreasing marginal utility of tran...

‎In this paper‎, ‎by using the sequence of multipliers‎, ‎we introduce frames with algebraic bounds in Hilbert pro-$ C^* $-modules‎. ‎We investigate the relations between frames and $ ast $-frames‎. ‎Some properties of $ ast $-frames in Hilbert pro-$ C^* $-modules are studied‎. ‎Also‎, ‎we show that there exist two differences between $ ast $-frames in Hilbert pro-$ C^* $-modules and Hilbert $ ...