Background: Premature ovarian failure (POF) is defined by the association of amenorrhea, hypoestrogenism and elevated (menopausal) levels of serum gonadotropins before age of 40 years-old. This condition affects approximately %1 of women under 40 years of age. Physiologic replacement of ovarian steroid hormones seems rational until the age of normal menopause. Temporary return of ovarian functi...

Random matrix theory has successfully modeled many systems in physics and mathematics, and often analysis in one area guides development in the other. Hughes and Rudnick computed 1-level density statistics for low-lying zeros of the family of primitive Dirichlet L-functions of fixed prime conductor Q, as Q→∞, and verified the unitary symmetry predicted by random matrix theory. We compute 1and 2...

Endothelium forms the inner cellular lining of blood vessels and plays an important role in many physiological functions including the control of vasomotor tone. Cerebral endothelium is probably one of the most specific types but until recently it was impossible to determine its function. In this review, the role of cerebrovascular reactivity to L-arginine (CVR-L-Arg) for assessment of cerebral...

REDUCIBILITIES IN RECURSIVE FUNCTION THEORY Carl Groos Jockusch, Jr. Submitted to the Department of Mathematics on May 13, 1966 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In this dissertation some reducibilities of recursive function theory are analyzed, with particular emphasis on the relationships between many-one reducibility and various kinds of truth...

BACKGROUND Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is an Andean plant of the brassica (mustard) family. Preparations from maca root have been reported to improve sexual function. The aim of this review was to assess the clinical evidence for or against the effectiveness of the maca plant as a treatment for sexual dysfunction. METHODS We searched 17 databases from their inception to April 2010 and included al...

Our subject is irregularities of distribution of points with respect to rectangles in the unit cube. It is a familiar theme of the subject is to show that no matter how N points are selected, they must be far from uniform. We give a new proof of a well-known theorem in the subject (Halász, 1981), concerning the L norm of the Discrepancy function, and show that this result admits an extension to...

= 1 1− q1−s , where we have convergence for all s with <(s) > 1. This automatically gives us analytic continuation of ζ to all of C. We note the following simple observations: 1. The Riemann hypothesis: All zeroes of ζ lie on the line <(s) = 1/2, simply because there are no zeroes! 2. ζ has poles at s = 1 + 2πin log q . 3. Locally around s = 1, ζ has the Laurent series expansion: 1 (s− 1) log q...

L-arginine plays an important role in immune regulation by affecting the immune response and inflammation. This meta-analysis was performed to assess whether L-arginine supplementation could improve the outcomes of immune function, and to evaluate the safety of L-arginine supplementation. Four databases (PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library) for all randomized controlled trials ...