OBJECTIVE To compare sonographic endometrial characteristics in in-vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles between women who conceive and those who do not. METHODS Thirty-five women undergoing IVF treatment participated in the study. Using three-dimensional (3D) power Doppler ultrasound, we assessed endometrial patterns, volume and vascularization, after follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) stimulatio...

Let X be a smooth algebraic curve. Suppose that there exists a triple covering f : X → Y where Y is a smooth algebraic curve. In this paper, we investigate the existence of morphisms from X to the projective line P which do not factor through the covering f . For this purpose, we generalize the classical results of Maroni concerning base-point-free pencils on trigonal curves to the case of trip...

We study whether people’s behavior in unbalanced gift exchange markets with repeated interaction are affected by whether they are on the excess supply side or the excess demand side of the market. Our analysis is based on the comparison of behavior between two types of experimental gift exchange markets, which vary only with respect to whether first or second movers are on the long side of the ...

A novel planar ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with triple-notched bands using triple-mode stub loaded resonator (SLR) is presented in this paper. The basic UWB antenna consists of a circularshaped radiating element, a 50Ω microstrip feed line, and a partially truncated ground plane. Then, the resonance properties of the SLR are studied. Results reveal that the multiple-mode property of the SLR ca...

objective: hypoxia-inducible factor (hif)-1 plays an essential role in the body’s response to low oxygen concentrations and regulates expression of several genes implicated in homeostasis, vascularization, anaerobic metabolism as well as immunological responses. increased levels of hif-1α are associated with increased proliferation and more aggressive breast tumor development. lactobacilli have...

We present numerical solutions of a two-dimensional Riemann problem for the unsteady transonic small disturbance equations that provides an asymptotic description of the Mach reflection of weak shock waves. We develop a new numerical scheme to solve the equations in selfsimilar coordinates and use local grid refinement to resolve the solution in the reflection region. The solutions contain a re...

A new microstrip ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) with triple-notched bands is presented in this paper. The circuit topology and its corresponding electrical parameters of the initial microstrip UWB BPF are desired by a variation of genetic algorithm (VGA). Then, triple-notched bands inside the UWB passband are implemented by coupling a square ring short stub loaded resonator (SRSSLR)...

There are five possible structures for a set of three lines of a Steiner triple system. Each of these three-line "configurations" gives rise to a colouring problem in which a partition of all the lines of an STS( v) is sought, the components of the partition each having the property of not containing any copy of the configuration in question. For a three-line configuration B, and STS ( v) S, th...

Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) play an important role in interfacing critical loads such as computers, communication systems, medical/life support systems, and industrial controls to the utility power grid. Among the various UPS topologies, on-line UPS provides the most protection to such loads against any utility power problem. However, because of the multiple power conversion stages, on...