conclusions no significant differences were observed between the groups based on the neonatal outcome including neonatal anthropometric parameters and lack of congenital anomaly. results there was no difference between the groups in the mean age of mother and the mean age of gestation. no differences were found between the groups regarding birth weight (3006.93 ± 441.86 versus 2949.65 ± 457.36 ...

Suppose two agents, S1 and S2, are epistemic peers regarding a proposition p: that is, suppose S1 and S2 are equally competent, equally impartial, and equally able to evaluate and assess the relevant evidence regarding p (we will call such propositions p peer-propositions for S1 and S2). After carefully reflecting on the salient evidence for p, suppose S1 and S2 discover that they disagree abou...

Response to divergent selection for “high” and “low” survival during the summer period, from July to October, was investigated in juvenile (six-month-old) Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas, by producing two sets of progenies in 2002 (Generation 2) and three sets of progenies in 2003 (Generation 3). A strict between-family approach was used and resistance of these selected progenies to summer m...

Reef-building corals depend for much of their energy on photosynthesis by symbiotic dinoflagellate algae (genus Symbiodinium) that live within their gastrodermal cells. However, the cellular mechanisms underpinning this ecologically critical symbiosis, including those governing the specificity of symbiont uptake by the host, remain poorly understood, in part because of the difficulties of worki...

Gut Month 2017 Vol 0 No 0 Figure 1 Schematic illustration of the PRSS1 (as well as PRSS2) duplication CNVs whose breakpoints have been characterised at the nucleotide sequence level. The start and end positions of each duplicated segment are indicated in accordance with human GRCh38/hg38. The critical region contained within these duplicated sequences is indicated by vertical dotted lines. Wher...

Target of the study was to predict the biomechanics of the instrumented and adjacent levels due to the insertion of the DIAM spinal stabilization system (Medtronic Ltd). For this purpose, a 3-dimensional finite element model of the intact L3/S1 segment was developed and subjected to different loading conditions (flexion, extension, lateral bending, axial rotation). The model was then instrument...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous full-endoscopic discectomy (PED) is being increasingly used because of its potential to minimalize soft-tissue damage and decrease hospital stay. PED using the interlaminar approach (PED-IL) at L4-L5 is performed by only a few surgeons. To the best of our knowledge, the safety and efficacy of PED-IL at L4-L5, without experience in PED via a transforaminal approach (PED-T...

It was previously shown that a one-dimensional Ising model could successfully simulate the equilibrium binding of myosin S1 to regulated actin filaments (T. L. Hill, E. Eisenberg and L. Greene, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77:3186-3190, 1980). However, the time course of myosin S1 binding to regulated actin was thought to be incompatible with this model, and a three-state model was subsequentl...