OBJECTIVE To investigate the cognitive functioning of low-risk singletons born after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF) at the age of 5 or 10 years. METHODS Sixty-nine children (35 ICSI, 34 IVF) participated voluntarily in the study that had been approved by the local IRB. Their intellectual functioning was examined by the Kaufmann Assessment Battery for C...

Background. The coexistence of psychiatric disorders in people with intellectual disability (ID) is common. This study determined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in children with ID in Barwani, India. Method. A total of 262 children with ID were evaluated for psychiatric disorders using the diagnostic criteria outlined in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). Results. P...

The notion of Isoperimetric Quotient (IQ) of a polyhedron has been already introduced by Polya. It is a measure that tells us how spherical is a given polyhedron. If we are given a polyhedral graph it can be drawn in a variety of ways in 3D space. As the coordinates of vertices belonging to the same face may not be co-planar the usual deenition of IQ fails. Therefore, a method based on a proper...

BACKGROUND Fragile-X syndrome (FXS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with intellectual disability and neurobiological abnormalities including white matter microstructural differences. White matter differences have been found relative to neurotypical individuals. AIMS To examine whether FXS white matter differences are related specifically to FXS or more generally to the presence of...

IQ signal processing is widely utilized in today’s communication system. However, it usually faces a common problem of front-end distortion such as IQ imbalance and frequency offset. Effective algorithms exist for estimating and compensating for IQ imbalance as well as frequency offset, when the two problems are treated separately. With both effects present, such algorithms do not lead to usefu...

‎In this paper‎, ‎a numerical procedure for an inverse problem of‎ ‎simultaneously determining an unknown coefficient in a semilinear ‎parabolic equation subject to the specification of the solution at‎ ‎an internal point along with the usual initial boundary conditions ‎is considered‎. ‎The method consists of expanding the required‎ ‎approximate solution as the elements of the inverse quadrati...

OBJECTIVE A premorbid IQ deficit supports a developmental dimension to schizophrenia and its cognitive aspects that are crucial to functional outcome. Better characterisation of the association between premorbid IQ and the disorder may provide further insight into its origin and etiology. We aimed to quantify premorbid cognitive function in schizophrenia through systematic review and meta-analy...

This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel five degrees-of- freedom (DOF) parallel kinematic manipulator (PKM) for part-handling, sorting, general positioning, robotic machining applications. The 2- R(Pa-IQ)RR, R(Pa-IQ)R has two rotational DOFs, one parasitic rotation, three translational DOFs. In comparison with other 5- 6- DOF PKMs, this PKM possesses pairs coplanar legs that cont...