Abstract Introduction Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) use has recently been a topic of debate amongst clinicians. The discussion most prevalent in the fields gynecology, urology, and endocrinology. Current research suggests HRT can prevent development lethal diseases such as myocardial infarction, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s genitourinary syndrome menopau...

We document a parallel non-recursive beam search GPGPU FCA CbO like algorithm written in nVidia CUDA C and test it on software module dependency graphs. Despite removing repeated calculations and optimising data structures and kernels, we do not yet see major speed ups. Instead GeForce 295 GTX and Tesla C2050 report 141 072 concepts (maximal rectangles, clusters) in about one second. Future imp...

072 supplies are not that good. So, a specifically-tailored recommendation for extending the pregnancy for more 2 weeks (i.e. till 36 weeks of pregnancy) was advised. This latter recommendation was principally built on senior staff opinions. The goal of the current article was to retrospectively evaluate the neonatal and maternal outcomes of delivery prior to and beyond 34 weeks of pregnancy in...

Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal b Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Rua Augusto Rosa, 24, 4000-098 Porto, Portugal c Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portuga...

We propose a priority-pricing scheme for zonal access to the electric power grid that is uniform across all buses in a zone. The Independent System Operator (ISO) charges bulk power traders a per unit ex ante transmission access fee. The zonal access fee serves as an access insurance premium that entitles a bulk power trader to either physical injection of one unit of energy or a compensation p...

Four members of the new class of pulsating sdB stars are analysed from Keck HIRES spectra using NLTE and LTE model atmospheres. Atmospheric parameters (Teff , log g, log(He/H)), metal abundances and rotational velocities are determined. Balmer line fitting is found to be consistent with the helium ionization equilibrium for PG1605+072 but not so for PG 1219+534 indicating that systematic errors...

The recently discovered new class of sdB pulsators (sdBV) offers a powerful possibility for the investigation of their interior and thus their evolutionary history. The first step towards applying asteroseismologic tools is the identification of pulsation modes. The best target for such an investigation is PG 1605+072 because of its outstanding properties among the sdBVs: it is the brightest ob...

We report on high spectral resolution observations of five damped Lyman-α absorbers: zabs = 3.0248 toward Q 0347–383, zabs = 2.1411 and 2.8112 toward Q 0528–250, zabs = 2.6184 toward Q 0913+072, and zabs = 2.5226 toward Q 1213+093. Line velocity profiles and heavy element abundances are discussed. Nitrogen is found to have abundances less than silicon in the systems toward Q 0347−383, Q 0913+07...

Received ; accepted – 2 – ABSTRACT We report the detection of velocity variations in the pulsating sdB star, PG 1605+072. Oscillations are detected at the same frequencies found from photom-etry and have amplitudes of up to 14 km s −1 for Hβ. The strongest oscillation found in previous photometric observations is not evident in our spectroscopy or photometry, and may be absent due to beating of...