Introduction. Annually, more than 13 million neonates are born with fetal growth retardation (FGR) worldwide. FGR increases prenatal mortality and morbidity. Due to no effective treatments for available, its prevention prognosis of extreme relevance. Aim: development prognostic clinical anamnestic mathematical model assessing a risk developing during pregnancy. Materials Methods. A prospective,...

Collective action among producers is a corrective measure for power imbalance, which affects primary in agro-food supply chains. As associations of and processors, Interbranch Organisations (IBOs) promote dialogue, best practice, market transparency. However, interbranch cooperation still less explored subject governance studies. Therefore, the present paper aims to analyse role IBO North Italy...

In Brief OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the accuracy and diagnostic value of genome-wide noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for detection fetal aneuploidies in multiple gestations, with a focus on dichorionic–diamniotic twin pregnancies. METHODS: We performed retrospective cohort study including data from pregnant women or higher-order gestation who underwent NIPT at one eight Belgian genetic centers ...

We show that the existence of stable, ordered 3d-5d intermetallics CuAu and NiPt, as opposed to the unstable 3d-4d isovalent analogs CuAg and NiPd, results from relativity. First, in shrinking the equilibrium volume of the 5d element, relativity reduces the atomic size mismatch with respect to the 3d element, thus lowering the elastic packing strain. Second, in lowering the energy of the bondin...

The term 'Non invasive prenatal testing' is used to describe the rapidly emerging molecular technologies related to cell free DNA assessment that are being applied to prenatal screening for Down syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities. This technology is now available to Australian women through a number of off-shore laboratories. We review the basis of this method of testing, the literatu...

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a technique first developed in the early 1990’s that enables testing of a fetus for genetic conditions, based on a sample of maternal blood [1]. Small fragments of extracellular DNA from both mother and fetus are present in maternal plasma, and by excluding fragments of maternal origin, the fetus can be tested for sex, aneuploidy and some specific genetic...