immune infertility, in terms of reproductive failure, has become a serious health issue involving approximately 1 out of 5 couples at reproductive age. semen that is defined as a complex fluid containing sperm, cellular vesicles and other cells and components, could sensitize the female genital tract. the immune rejection of male semen in the female reproductive tract is explained as the failur...

current mainstay of treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-infected patients is highly active antiretroviral therapy (haart) but little is known about the long-term clinical outcome for hiv-infected patients who have received haart. determining factors associated with longterm survival in the course of treatment may allow modification to be made for patients who are at a greater risk ...

Wayfinding support is an important application of mobile systems and often an (integral) part of location based services (LBS). If needed, these systems may offer their users information on getting to a specific destination. Usually, these instructions are given incrementally, i.e. only the next decision due is communicated to the user. Thus, such systems do not offer any survey information; us...

mediate-risk scores from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) revealed little difference in the primary outcome in terms of the strategies (7.7% early, 6.7% delayed; P = 0.43); however, the difference favoring the early strategy was significant for the group with high GRACE risk scores (14.1% early vs. 21.6% delayed; P = 0.0097). There were no significant differences in major bl...

We present an approach to robust, real-time person tracking in crowded and/or unknown environments using multimodal integration. We combine stereo, color, and face detection modules into a single robust system, and show an initial application for an interactive display where the user sees his face distorted into various comic poses in real-time. Stereo processing is used to isolate the figure o...

0010-0277/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.12.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Anthropology, University of California, 341 Haines Hall, Box 951553, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States. Tel.: +1 (310) 794 9252; fax: +1 (310) 206 7833. E-mail address: [email protected] (C. Holbrook). Colin Holbrook ⇑, Danie...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to democratize education by providing learners with access to rich sources of information. However, evidence supporting this democratization across countries is limited. We explored the question of democratization by investigating whether females from different countries were more likely to enroll in and complete STEM MOOCs compared with ma...

Recent surveys of hemodialysis studies strongly support the fact that dialysis prescription is a modifiable risk factor. Six tracks to improve dialysis patient outcomes have been identified: change in vascular access option strategy and restricting catheter use; increasing time or frequency of dialysis sessions; assessment and management of fluid status; favoring removal of middle and large mol...