Main results 2 trials met the selection criteria: 1 trial compared the Prentif Cavity Rim Cervical Cap (Lamberts Ltd, Oxford, UK) with the Ortho diaphragm (Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, Raritan, NJ, USA) (n=1529, 6–24 mo follow up), and 1 trial compared the FemCap cervical cap (rubber manufactured by Hi-Tech Rubber, Anaheim, CA, USA) with the All-Flex diaphragm (Ortho) (n=841, 28 wk follow ...

Results The study included a total of 334 women with mean age 57 ± 5 years. According to the 10-FRS and the WHOS, 96% and 91% of the population were respectively classified as “low risk”. A fair level of agreement between both scores was found (kappa 0.31). CAP occurred in 29% of cases. Score estimated risk correlated with CAP prevalence. Women with CAP presented higher incidence of hypertensio...

An amphiphilic gelatin-iron oxide core/calcium phosphate shell (AGIO@CaP-DOX) nanoparticle was successfully synthesized as an efficient anti-cancer drug delivery system, where doxorubicin (DOX) as a model molecule was encapsulated by electrolytic co-deposition during CaP shell formation. The shell of CaP precipitate played a pivotal role, not only in acting as a drug depot, but also in renderin...

OBJECTIVE To characterise patterns of enamel thickness on deciduous (dm1, dm2) and permanent first (M1) mandibular molars and evaluate these against functional and morphological interpretative models. METHODS Histological sections of mesial and distal cusps from 69 unworn molars were produced and examined using transmitted light microscopy. Enamel cap area, dentine area, as well as average an...

This work addresses two classification problems that fall under the heading of domain adaptation, wherein the distributions of training and testing examples differ. The first problem studied is that of class proportion estimation, which is the problem of estimating the class proportions in an unlabeled testing data set given labeled examples of each class. Compared to previous work on this prob...

A synthesis of well logs was carried out and drilling mud weight data were analyzed to figure out anomalous high fluid pressure within the Triassic evaporitic cap rock (the Dashtak formation) and study its impact on the geometry of anticlinal traps in the gas rich Gavbandi province located in the southeast part of the Zagros Mountains. The results indicated that the location of anticlinal traps...

China is experiencing a syphilis epidemic of enormous proportions. The regions most heavily affected by syphilis correspond to regions where sexually transmitted HIV infection is also a major public health threat. Many high-risk patients in China fail to receive routine syphilis screening. This missed public health opportunity stems from both a failure of many high-risk individuals to seek clin...