OBJECTIVE To compare the two GnRH-a protocols (long GnRH-a protocol and short GnRH-a protocol) for ovarian stimulation in IVF/ICSI cycles in patients of various age ranges. METHODS A total of 5662 IVF-ET/ICSI cycles from 2010 to 2013 were retrospectively identified. The cycles were divided into two groups: a long protocol group and short protocol group. In each group, the patients were divide...

Background: Aflatoxins are fungal secondary metabolites negatively affecting ruminant performance; however, little information is available on their impact on rumen fermentation. Aims: This study aimed at determining the effects of different concentrations of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) from Aspergillus flavus on in vitro gas production and ruminal fe...

Exploiting short packets for communications is one of the key technologies realizing emerging application scenarios such as massive machine type (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low-latency (uRLLC). In this paper, we investigate short-packet to provide both reliability security guarantees simultaneously with an eavesdropper. particular, outage probability considering secrecy defined according characte...

This letter investigates the resource allocation problem for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)-served Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. Our goal is to maximize sum-rate of UAVs-served M2M communications by jointly considering transmission power, mode, frequency spectrum, relay selection and trajectory UAVs. In order model uncertainty stochastic environments, we formulate be a Mark...

Can monetary policy committees, accustomed to describing their plans and actions in terms of the level of a short-term nominal interest rate, find effective means of conducting and communicating their policies when that rate is zero or close to zero? The very low levels of interest rates in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States in recent years have stimulated much interesting research on th...

This month’s special issue provides an overview of the state-of-the-art technology and theory for future networks with wireless power transfer energy harvesting. Wireless communication using radio frequency (RF) radiation has been around over 100 years shaped our society significantly past 40 years. However, is not just about communications. For very short ranges, supply by inductive become a r...