INTRODUCTION Annexin A5 is an essential component of placental integrity that may potentially mediate susceptibility to phenotypes of compromised pregnancy. A promoter haplotype termed M2 of the coding gene ANXA5 has been implicated in various pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), however with inconclusive results. STUDY SUBJECTS AND METHODS A retros...

In this brief report, we provide an initial account of the association between love and athletic performance from the perspective of Olympic athletes. We posit that Romantic Passionate Love (RPL) and athletic performance may both involve the reward-motivation system of the brain. Based on this premise, we explored whether activation in one domain (love) might influence the other (sport). Our in...

The advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is an architecture for two-way communication between electric, gas and water meters and city utilities. The AMI network is a wireless sensor network that provides communication for metering devices in the neighborhood area of the smart grid. Recently, the applicability of a routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks (RPL) has been considered in ...

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate variation in the migration behaviour across individuals. Both a random parameters logit (RPL) and a standard logit model are employed. The migration models are estimated using a register-based data from Finland. The RPL model proves to be a flexible way to control for random variation in the parameters: the results suggest that many migrat...

Specifying communication routines transparently and explicitly as part of robots’ plans rather than hiding them in separate modules makes robots’ communication behavior more effective, efficient, and robust. It enables robot control systems to generate, reason about and revise their communication behavior. The controllers can also synchronize the robots’ conversations with other actions and use...

This master-thesis engages in the security aspect of the newly introduced IPv6-based routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks RPL. In an analysis of the security of RPL, it is shown that RPL protects against most attacks launched by an adversary that does not have access to the security keys. The major threat lies within an attacker who has compromised these keys and who is consequentl...

Background: Studies have been carried out to evaluate the association of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) gene promoter region polymorphisms with recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) risk. However, the results remain controversial and incomplete. Hence, we performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the association of TNF-α -308G>A and -238G>A polymorphisms with RPL risk. Materials and Methods: A comprehens...

It is known that sperm samples from recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) couples have an increase in their sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF), but no studies have been performed in order to identify differences between single stranded SDF (ssSDF) and double stranded SDF (dsSDF) in these patients. This could be relevant because the type of DNA damage could have different effects. Semen samples were classif...