a true estimation of gestational age (ga) plays an important role in quality maternity care and scheduling the labor date. this study aimed to evaluate the normal fetal kidney length (kl) and its correlation with ga. a cross-sectional study on 92 pregnant women between 8th and 10th week of gestation with normal singleton pregnancy underwent standard ultrasound fetal biometry and kidney length m...

This paper deals with the amount of disorder that is left in a permutation after one of its elements has been selected with quickselect with or without median-of-three pivoting. Five measures of disorder are considered: inversions, cycles of length less than or equal to some m, cycles of any length, expected cycle length, and the distance to the identity permutation. “Grand averages” for each m...

The seemingly unrelated Poisson (SUP) model (King (1989a), see also Aptech (1994)) is a model for bior multi-variate counted outcomes. Correlation between equations is introduced through a convolution structure with a common additive factor. Previous economic applications include the joint analysis of voluntary and involuntary labour mobility (Jung and Winkelmann, 1993) and the number of recrea...

OBJECTIVES This study considered whether the time employers allotted to medical consultations in many working environments in Argentina might be inadequate to carry out an interview. The objective was to conduct a survey to gather information on the length of cardiologic medical consultations in Argentina. METHODS During 2007, a survey was carried out that included 816 cardiologists. RESULT...

KcsA is a proton-activated, voltage-modulated K(+) channel that has served as the archetype pore domain in the Kv channel superfamily. Here, we have used synthetic antigen-binding fragments (Fabs) as crystallographic chaperones to determine the structure of full-length KcsA at 3.8 A, as well as that of its isolated C-terminal domain at 2.6 A. The structure of the full-length KcsA-Fab complex re...

STUDY QUESTION How variable is the length of human pregnancy, and are early hormonal events related to gestational length? SUMMARY ANSWER Among natural conceptions where the date of conception (ovulation) is known, the variation in pregnancy length spanned 37 days, even after excluding women with complications or preterm births. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Previous studies of length of gestation ...

Previous findings show that rats in a maze tend to choose the shortest path reach food. But it is not clear whether this choice based on length solely, or some other factors. The aim of experiment was investigate which factor dominates behavior maze: (longer and shorter), time effort (more less strenuous). involved 40 mice (4 groups), learning with two paths. Each group went through only one si...