Acquisition of functional receptivity by the endometrium is assumed to be effected by progesterone-dependent expression and repression of several genes during the implantation window in a menstrual cycle. In the present study, we employed differential display (DD) reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to identify progesterone-dependent gene/gene fragments that are differentia...

The corner polyhedron is described by minimal valid inequalities from maximal lattice-free convex sets. For the Relaxed Corner Polyhedron (RCP) with two free integer variables and any number of non-negative continuous variables, it is known that such facet defining inequalities arise from maximal lattice-free splits, triangles and quadrilaterals. We improve on the tightest known upper bound for...

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) organised an inaugural 1-day conference, the aim of which was to look into some of the key issues that junior doctors need to address when beginning their careers. The target audience was medical students but a few foundation doctors were also in attendance. The conference also helped to increase RCP engagement with medical students and foundation doctors. ...

complications and that postoperative ventilation time was significantly longer in the ACP group than the RCP group. This was true for the total cohort of patients as well as for the riskadjusted analysis and propensity-matched pairing analysis. Recently, another propensity-matched analysis was carried out by a group from Duke University to examine the superiority of ACP or RCP in proximal (hemi...

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is to host the European School of Internal Medicine for two years from 2009-10. This affords a unique opportunity for specialist registrars to exchange ideas about professional development and training and to make contacts with young internists from across Europe. Such links should prove useful for future RCP initiatives in European medicine.

This paper studies the Robust Coloring Problem (RCP), a variant of the Minimal Coloring Problem which maintains the number of colors fixed. In this problem, two non-adjacent vertex that have the same color are penalized. The sum of penalties of a coloring is called rigidity level. To solve the RCP, an Iterated Local Search (ILS) algorithm using the Random Variable Neighborhood Descent (RVND) lo...

Horticultural crop production and changes in physiological aspects during the growing season may be affected by climate change factors (CC), which include increased temperature and the associated doubling or tripling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, the potential effects are complex and many parameters might impact on the observed effects. To evaluate the effects of CC, the growth, y...

BACKGROUND The benefit of retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) with profound hypothermic circulatory arrest has been subject to much debate. We examined our experience with ascending and transverse arch repairs to determine the impact of retrograde cerebral perfusion on stroke and mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS Between August 1991 and June 2007, we performed 1107 repairs of the ascending and t...

BACKGROUND The current standard of care for men with muscle-invasive bladder cancer is radical cystoprostatectomy (RCP). One-third of RCP specimens demonstrate incidental prostate cancer, primarily reported in small series with limited follow-up. The aim of this study is to report mature outcomes, including patterns of failure and disease-specific recurrence rates, and survival, for a large coh...