Exogenous P supplementation is a common element of treatment regimens for infertility, particularly those relating to the assisted reproductive technologies.

BY DAVID H. KAYE O ne might expect to hear phrases like ‘‘Not statistical significance there!’’ and, ‘‘There is no way that anybody would tell you that these ten cases are statistically significant’’ hurled by a disgruntled professor at an underperforming statistics student. Yet, in January 2011, they came from the Supreme Court bench during the argument in Matrixx Initiatives Inc. v. Siracusano.

This Article discusses potential policies regarding assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). The initial question is whether ARTs should be viewed as private matters or as issues that affect overall social good. The author explains that this question may be answered by the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the principles of procreative liberty. He then examines Supreme Court decisions regardi...

BACKGROUND Higher rates of admission to residential early parenting services (REPSs) after assisted conception compared with spontaneous conception have been reported. The aim of this study was to characterize early post-partum psychological functioning and the rate of, and risks factors for, admission to REPSs in women conceiving with assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Australia. METH...

Investigating fuzzy-input fuzzy-output support vector machines for robust voice quality classification Stefan Scherer a,c,∗, John Kane b, Christer Gobl b, Friedhelm Schwenker c a University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, 90094 Playa Vista, CA, United States b Trinity College Dublin, Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sci...

Ubiquitous IS enables novel services and business models, yet require a careful balancing of consumer privacy concerns (PC) – induced by the provision of particular sensors and information types – with functional performance in order to maximize acceptance. For the exemplary case of Usage-based Insurance (UBI), this paper presents a design science approach to the mitigation of PC under parallel...

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to observe one fact about Mars: it has a lot of rocks. While each is typically given a name based on protocols of scientific classification, many are known by informal, often humorous names like "Grandma" and "Space Ghost." And now on Mars, there’s a rock for fans of Civil War history—"Chamberlain," named of course for Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the her...

The optical opacity of biological tissue has long been a challenge in biomedical optics due to the strong scattering nature of tissue in the optical regime. While most conventional optical techniques attempt to gate out multiply scattered light and use only unscattered light, new approaches in the field of wavefront shaping exploit the time reversible symmetry of optical scattering in order to ...

Shortly after Dr. Ian Wilmut made international news in 1997 by announcing the successful cloning of an adult sheep, Chicago physicist Dr. Richard Seed made an announcement of his own that caused similar alarm. At a law school symposium on reproduction, the Harvard-educated physicist announced plans to perfect cloning procedures and then to open a human cloning clinic for infertile couples. At ...

A lens system for shaping a laser beam profile has been designed, built, and tested. It consists of two plano-aspherical lenses which convert a Gaussian input beam into a uniform irradiance output beam. The optical design is based on solving differential equations expressing conservation of energy and constant optical path length condition as the beam passes through the system. Experimental res...