OBJECTIVES Screening studies for trisomy 21 demonstrate that low maternal serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) at 11-13 weeks' gestation is associated with stillbirth, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and pre-eclampsia in chromosomally normal fetuses. However, the strength of these associations is too weak to justify screening for these placental insufficiency syndromes. O...

OBJECTIVE To compare the degree of impaired placentation in women with and those without chronic hypertension (CH) who develop pre-eclampsia (PE) in pregnancy. METHODS Data were derived from prospective screening for adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with singleton pregnancy attending their first routine hospital visit at 11 + 0 to 13 + 6 weeks' gestation. This visit included recording of m...

Aim: We aimed to prospectively investigate the effect of first trimester vaginal bleeding on screening test, uterine artery (UtA) Doppler results and perinatal outcomes. Material Methods: Fifty cases that presented with in between 2019 2020 constituted early (abortus imminens-threatened abortion) group fifty without a history pregnancy control group. Demographic datas were noted at visit. Both ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate periosteal vessels location as intra-operative landmarks in distal femoral osteotomies and focused on the branching pattern of the vascular supply of the medial and lateral femoral condyle, its constancy, and the relationship to the height of distal femoral osteotomies. Anastomoses of relevant vessels were studied to analyze the risk of va...

(CSE@UTA) was designed to give three sponsored undergraduate students theoretical knowledge, exposure to advanced programming tools, and participation with applied research in parallel and distributed processing. This was achieved through classroom instruction, hands-on application development, introduction to the state-of-the-art PARSA TM Software Development Environment and the ThreadMan TM T...

Phagocytosis is important during development and in the immune response for the removal of apoptotic cells and pathogens, yet its molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the CED2/5/10/12 pathway regulates actin during phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, whereas the role of the CED1/6/7 pathway in phagocytosis is unclear. We report that Undertaker (UTA), a Drosophila ...

In this study we tried to replicate the unconscious thought advantage (UTA), which states that complex decisions are better handled by unconscious thinking. We designed an experiment in e-prime using similar material as the original study (choosing between four different apartments, each described by 12 attributes). A total of 73 participants (52 women (71.2%); 18 to 62 age: M=24.63; SD=8.7) to...

OBJECTIVE To develop a predictive model for pre-eclampsia using clinical, biochemical and ultrasound markers during the first trimester of pregnancy. METHODS This was a nested case-control study within a pre-eclampsia screening project that involved 5367 asymptomatic pregnant women undergoing routine transvaginal uterine artery (UtA) Doppler at 11 + 0 to 13 + 6 weeks. Following exclusions, th...

This article explores Rosanna Raymond’s performative intervention titled “Soli I Tai—Soli Uta” (Tread on the Sea—Tread Land). Today, many cultural institutions try to develop progressive strategies facilitate “intercultural dialogue.” In this endeavor, are explored, some of which developed in collaboration with experts from so-called “source communities.” Such collaborations have longer histori...