Objective To assess the relationship between longitudinal changes in placental Doppler indices and maternal circulating angiogenic factors in the first half of pregnancy and delivery of a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonate, and ascertain whether longitudinal evaluation of these variables improves the prediction achieved by second-trimester cross-sectional evaluation. Methods From a prospec...

The Information Technology Laboratory (or ITLab) at the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington was established by Sharma Chakravarthy in Spring 2000. The mission of the ITLab is to conduct research and development on all aspects of information technology. Some of the topics currently being investigated are: Data Warehousing/Information Integration, D...

BACKGROUND The normal development of the uteroplacental circulation in pregnancy depends on angiogenic and vasodilatory factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Reduced uterine artery blood flow (UABF) is a common cause of fetal growth restriction; abnormalities in angiogenic factors are implicated. Previously we showed that adenovirus (Ad)-mediated VEGF-A165 expression in the...

USING THE RESULTS OF IMAGE ANALYSIS Uta Naeve Gudrun Socher Gernot A. Fink Franz Kummert Gerhard Sagerer Universit at Bielefeld, Technische Fakult at, AG Angewandte Informatik, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany, e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT We present a new approach towards using contextual information to enhance speech recognition and understanding. Dynamically infer...

We present a new method, called UTA, for multiple criteria ranking of alternatives from set A using a set of additive value functions which result from an ordinal regression. The preference information provided by the decision maker is a set of pairwise comparisons on a subset of alternatives A A, called reference alternatives. The preference model built via ordinal regression is the set of all...

OBJECTIVE To explore the predictive capacity of fetoplacental Doppler at 37 weeks' gestation in identifying small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonates, fetal growth restriction (FGR) and adverse perinatal outcome. METHODS This was a prospective cohort study of low-risk singleton pregnancies undergoing ultrasound assessment at 37 weeks. At study inclusion, biometry for estimated fetal weight (EF...

Laser-produced plasma source development for Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) lithography has concentrated on xenon, since XeXI emits at 13.5 nm, the wavelength at which the reflectivity of MoSi mirrors is centred. However it is not obvious that the required conversion efficiencies can be achieved using xenon, and tin has been identified as a strong emitter at this wavelength. The transitions respons...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine plasma levels of fibronectin and plasminogen inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1), and alterations in uterine artery (UtA) waveforms throughout normotensive and preeclamptic pregnancies and to analyze its predictive value for the detection of preeclampsia within the second trimester of pregnancy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Blood samples were collected from 102...