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Recombinant Luteinizing Hormone (rLH) for controlled ovarian hyperstimulation in assisted reproductive cycles.

BACKGROUND
During in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment cycles, controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) is performed with recombinant follicle stimulating hormone (rFSH) in combination with a gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogue for the prevention of premature luteinizing hormone (LH) surges. The use of GnRH analogues however deprives the growing follicles of LH. The effectiveness of co-administrating rLH to rFSH for COH is at present unclear.


OBJECTIVES
To compare the effectiveness and safety of a combination of recombinant LH and recombinant FSH with recombinant FSH alone in COH protocols in (IVF or ICSI followed by embryo transfer (ET).


SEARCH STRATEGY
We searched the MDSG Group Specialised Register (searched up to Nov 2006) and CENTRAL, MEDLINE and EMBASE (1980 to November 2006) and reference lists of articles.


SELECTION CRITERIA
Randomised controlled trials comparing COH with rFSH alone or in combination with rLH in IVF/ICSI were included.


DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Three review authors independently assessed trial quality and extracted data. We sought additional information if necessary.


MAIN RESULTS
Fourteen trials involving 2612 women were included. Eleven trials involving 2396 women used a GnRH agonist . There was no evidence of a statistical difference in live birth rate reported in two trials (OR 1.51, 95% CI 0.79 to 2.87). There was no evidence of a statistical difference in clinical pregnancy rates reported in seven trials OR 1.15, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.45. There was no evidence of a statistical difference or in ongoing pregnancy rates seven trials OR 1.22, 95% CI 0.95 to 1.56. Three trials used a GnRH antagonist. No data on live birth rates was available. There was no evidence of a statistical difference in clinical pregnancy rates (one trial: OR 0.79, 95% CI 0.26 to 2.43) or in ongoing pregnancy rates (two trials: OR 0.83, 95% CI 0.39 to 1.80) comparing both groups. The pooled pregnancy estimates of trials including only poor responders showed significant increase in pregnancy rate, in favour of co-administrating rLH (three trials: OR 1.85, 95% CI 1.10 to 3.11)


AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS
There was no evidence of a statistical difference in pregnancy outcomes when rLH was used. Nevertheless, further large RCTs should be undertaken in long GnRH agonist down regulation protocols, since all pooled pregnancy estimates, although not statistically different probably due to the small numbers, point towards a beneficial effect of co-treatment with rLH, in particular with respect to pregnancy-loss and poor-responders.
Coronary bypass surgery performed off pump does not result in lower in-hospital morbidity than coronary artery bypass grafting performed on pump.

BACKGROUND
There is increasing evidence that cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) may be responsible for the morbidity associated with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. Recent developments in cardiac stabilization devices have made CABG without CPB feasible. However, there is conflicting evidence to date from published trials comparing outcomes between CABG performed with and without CPB, with some trials indicating an advantage to the avoidance of CPB and others showing little benefit.


METHODS AND RESULTS
In a single-center randomized trial, 300 patients requiring CABG surgery at a single institution were prospectively randomized to have the procedure performed with CPB (n=150) or on the beating heart (n=150). Exclusion criteria for the trial included emergency procedure, concomitant major cardiac procedures, ejection fraction <30%, and reoperation. In-hospital outcomes were analyzed on an intention-to-treat basis. A mean of 3.0+/-0.9 grafts were performed in the CPB group compared with 2.8+/-0.9 grafts in the beating-heart group (P=0.06). There were no significant differences between the CPB group and the beating-heart group in mortality (0.7% versus 1.3%; P=1.0), transfusion (8.7% versus 9.3%), perioperative myocardial infarction (0.7% versus 2.7%; P=0.37), permanent stroke (0% versus 1.3%; P=0.50), new atrial fibrillation (32% versus 25%; P=0.20), and deep sternal wound infection (0.7% versus 0%; P=1.0). The mean time to extubation was 4 hours, the mean stay in the intensive care unit was 22 hours, and the median length of hospitalization was 5 days in both groups (P=NS).


CONCLUSIONS
In contrast to published trials, we were unable to demonstrate any advantage with CABG performed without CPB in terms of patient morbidity. Excellent results can be obtained with either surgical approach.
Query based information retrieval and knowledge extraction using Hadith datasets

In Natural language processing, one of the fundamental tasks is Named Entity Recognition (NER) that include identifying names of peoples, locations and other entities. Applications of NER include catboats, speech recognition, machine translation, knowledge extraction and intelligent search systems. NER is an active research domain for the last 10 years. In this paper, we propose a knowledge extraction framework to extract Named entities from Sahih AlBukhari Urdu translation which is a world known Hadith book. The proposed framework is based on finite state transducer system to extract entities and process the Hadith content using Part of Speech (POS) tagging. Conditional Random Field, an ensemble based algorithm, processes the extracted nouns for NER and classification. In the future, we aim to implement the proposed framework to rank the hadith content and apply the Vector Space Model.
Distance-Based Image Classification: Generalizing to New Classes at Near-Zero Cost

We study large-scale image classification methods that can incorporate new classes and training images continuously over time at negligible cost. To this end, we consider two distance-based classifiers, the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) and nearest class mean (NCM) classifiers, and introduce a new metric learning approach for the latter. We also introduce an extension of the NCM classifier to allow for richer class representations. Experiments on the ImageNet 2010 challenge dataset, which contains over 106 training images of 1,000 classes, show that, surprisingly, the NCM classifier compares favorably to the more flexible k-NN classifier. Moreover, the NCM performance is comparable to that of linear SVMs which obtain current state-of-the-art performance. Experimentally, we study the generalization performance to classes that were not used to learn the metrics. Using a metric learned on 1,000 classes, we show results for the ImageNet-10K dataset which contains 10,000 classes, and obtain performance that is competitive with the current state-of-the-art while being orders of magnitude faster. Furthermore, we show how a zero-shot class prior based on the ImageNet hierarchy can improve performance when few training images are available.
Analysis of Hash Functions and Cellular Automata Based Schemes

In this paper, we summarize hash functions and cellular automata based architectures, and discuss some pros and cons. We introduce the background knowledge of hash functions. The properties and theory of cellular automata are also presented with typical works. We show that cellular automata based schemes are very useful to design hash functions with a low hardware complexity because of its logical operation attributes and parallel properties.
Systematic review: Eosinophilic esophagitis in Asian countries.

AIM
To investigate the prevalence and the clinical characteristics of Asian patients with eosinophilic esophagitis.


METHODS
We conducted a systematic search of the PubMed and Web of Science databases for original studies, case series, and individual case reports of eosinophilic esophagitis in Asian countries published from January 1980 to January 2015. We found 66 and 80 articles in the PubMed and Web of Science databases, respectively; 24 duplicate articles were removed. After excluding animal studies, articles not written in English, and meeting abstracts, 25 articles containing 217 patients were selected for analysis.


RESULTS
Sample size-weighted mean values were determined for all pooled prevalence data and clinical characteristics. The mean age of the adult patients with eosinophilic esophagitis was approximately 50 years, and 73% of these patients were male. They frequently presented with allergic diseases including bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergy, and atopic dermatitis. Bronchial asthma was the most frequent comorbid allergic disease, occurring in 24% of patients with eosinophilic esophagitis. Dysphagia was the primary symptom reported; 44% of the patients complained of dysphagia. Although laboratory blood tests are not adequately sensitive for an accurate diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis, endoscopic examinations revealed abnormal findings typical of this disease, including longitudinal furrows and concentric rings, in 82% of the cases. One-third of the cases responded to proton pump inhibitor administration.


CONCLUSION
The characteristics of eosinophilic esophagitis in Asian patients were similar to those reported in Western patients, indicating that this disease displays a similar pathogenesis between Western and Asian patients.
Topical Word Embeddings

Most word embedding models typically represent each word using a single vector, which makes these models indiscriminative for ubiquitous homonymy and polysemy. In order to enhance discriminativeness, we employ latent topic models to assign topics for each word in the text corpus, and learn topical word embeddings (TWE) based on both words and their topics. In this way, contextual word embeddings can be flexibly obtained to measure contextual word similarity. We can also build document representations, which are more expressive than some widely-used document models such as latent topic models. In the experiments, we evaluate the TWE models on two tasks, contextual word similarity and text classification. The experimental results show that our models outperform typical word embedding models including the multi-prototype version on contextual word similarity, and also exceed latent topic models and other representative document models on text classification. The source code of this paper can be obtained from https://github.com/largelymfs/ topical word embeddings.
Characterization of breast lesions with CE-MR multimodal morphological and kinetic analysis: comparison with conventional mammography and high-resolution ultrasound.

OBJECTIVE
Evaluation of the diagnostic value of magnetic resonance mammography and comparison with conventional mammography and ultrasonography in cases of women with suspicious breast lesions.


SUBJECTS AND METHODS
Sixty-nine women (age range 39-68 years) with 78 focal breast lesions were examined with mammography, ultrasonography and dynamic magnetic resonance mammography. The lesions were classified according to the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) lexicon of the American College of Radiology for each diagnostic method. Histological reports were available after biopsy or surgical excision of the lesions.


RESULTS
Pathological examination confirmed that 53 lesions were malignant and 25 benign. Conventional mammography estimated a total of 59/78 lesions as malignant with 44 true positive lesions, ultrasonography estimated a total of 50/78 lesions as malignant with 44 true positive lesions and magnetic resonance mammography estimated a total of 66/78 lesions as malignant with 52 true positive lesions. Sensitivity and specificity of magnetic resonance mammography in the diagnosis of malignancy was 98.1% and 44%, of conventional mammography 83% and 40% and of ultrasonography 83% and 76%. Negative predictive value for magnetic resonance mammography was 91.7%, for ultrasonography 67.9% and for mammography 52.6% for malignancies.


CONCLUSION
Magnetic resonance mammography has the highest negative predictive value compared with mammography and ultrasound in cases of suspicious breast lesions. The combination of morphologic and enhancement criteria can improve the diagnostic capability of magnetic resonance mammography (MRM) in breast lesion characterization.
Physical and Technological Aspects of Precision Laser Treatment of Ceramic Materials. Effect of Treatment Regime

A geometric model is constructed of the complete profile for a cavity cut in Al2O3–TiC ceramic specimens. The effect is established for the main production parameters of a pulsed laser treatment regime on geometric characteristics of cavities cut in ceramic specimens.
An effective log mining approach for database intrusion detection

Organizations spend a significant amount of resources securing their servers and network perimeters. However, these mechanisms are not sufficient for protecting databases. In this paper, we present a new technique for identifying malicious database transactions. Compared to many existing approaches which profile SQL query structures and database user activities to detect intrusions, the novelty of this approach is the automatic discovery and use of essential data dependencies, namely, multi-dimensional and multi-level data dependencies, for identifying anomalous database transactions. Since essential data dependencies reflect semantic relationships among data items and are less likely to change than SQL query structures or database user behaviors, they are ideal for profiling data correlations for identifying malicious database activities.1
The pair correlation of zeros of the Riemann zeta function and distribution of primes

Assuming a special version of the Montgomery-Odlyzko law on the pair correlation of zeros of the Riemann zeta function conjectured by Rudnick and Sarnak and assuming the Riemann Hypothesis, we prove new results on the prime number theorem, difference of consecutive primes, and the twin prime conjecture. 1. Introduction. Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis (RH), let us denote by  1=2 ig a nontrivial zero of a primitive L-function Ls;p attached to an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of GLm; m ^ 1, over Q. When m  1, this L-function is the Riemann zeta function zs or the Dirichlet L-function Ls; c for a primitive character c. Rudnick and Sarnak [13] examined the n-level correlation for these zeros and made a far reaching conjecture which is called the Montgomery [9]-Odlyzko [11], [12] Law by Katz and Sarnak [6]. Rudnick and Sarnak also proved a case of their conjecture when a test function f has its Fourier transform b f supported in a restricted region. In this article, we will show that a version of the above conjecture for the pair correlation of zeros of the zeta function zs implies interesting arithmetical results on prime distribution (Theorems 2, 3, and 4). These results can give us deep insight on possible ultimate bounds of these prime distribution problems. One can also see that the pair (and nlevel) correlation of zeros of zeta and L-functions is a powerful method in number theory. Our computation shows that the test function f and the support of its Fourier transform b f play a crucial role in the conjecture. To see the conjecture in Rudnick and Sarnak [13] in the case of the zeta function zs and n  2, the pair correlation, we use a test function f x; y which satisfies the following three conditions: (i) f x; y  f y; x for any x; y 2 R, (ii) f x t; y t  f x; y for any t 2 R, and (iii) f x; y tends to 0 rapidly as jx; yj ! 1 on the hyperplane x y  0. Arch. Math. 76 (2001) 41±50 0003-889X/01/010041-10 $ 3.50/0 Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2001 Archiv der Mathematik Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 11M26, 11N05, 11N75. 1) Supported in part by China NNSF Grant # 19701019. 2) Supported in part by USA NSF Grant # DMS 97-01225. Define the function W2x; y  1ÿ sin pxÿ y pxÿ y : Denote the Dirac function by dx which satisfies  R dxdx  1 and defines a distribution f 7! f 0. We then define the pair correlation sum of zeros gj of the zeta function: R2T; f ; h  P g1;g2 distinct h g1 T ; g2 T f Lg1 2p ; Lg2 2p ; where T ^ 2, L  log T, and hx; y is a localized cutoff function which tends to zero rapidly when jx; yj tends to infinity. The conjecture proposed by Rudnick and Sarnak [13] is that R2T; f ; h 1 2p TL
A Quasi-experimental outcomes analysis of a psychoeducation intervention for pregnant women with abuse-related posttraumatic stress.

OBJECTIVE
To test the effectiveness of a trauma-specific, psychoeducational intervention for pregnant women with a history of childhood maltreatment on six intrapartum and postpartum psychological outcomes.


DESIGN
Quasi-experimental study comparing women from a single-group, pretest-posttest pilot intervention study with women matched from a prospective observational study.


SETTING
Rural and university-based prenatal clinics.


PARTICIPANTS
Pregnant women entered the study by responding to an advertisement or by referral from a maternity care provider. Women could take part whether or not they met posttraumatic stress disorder diagnostic criteria. Outcomes data exist for 17 pilot intervention study participants and 43 matched observational study participants.


INTERVENTIONS
Participants in the observational study received usual care. Participants in the pilot intervention study received usual care plus the intervention, a fully manualized, self-study program supported by weekly phone tutoring sessions with a health professional.


MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
The National Women's Study PTSD Module, the Peritraumatic Dissociation Experience Questionnaire, the Perception of Care Questionnaire, the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale, the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire, and a semantic differential appraisal of the labor experience.


RESULTS
Participants in the intervention study had better scores on all measures. Differences in means between participants in the intervention study and participants in the observational study equated to medium effect sized for dissociation during labor, rating of labor experience, and perception of care in labor and small effect sizes for postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, postpartum depression symptoms, and motherinfant bonding.


CONCLUSION
This trauma-specific intervention reaches and benefits pregnant women with a history of childhood maltreatment.
A Design Of Omni-Directional Mobile Robot Based On Mecanum Wheels

As one of the important branch of mobile robotics, wheel mobile robot has long been paid atten tion to by the research people at home and abroad for its high load ability, positioning accuracy, high efficiency, simple control, etc. Mobile robot has close relation to many technologies suc-h as control theory, computer tech nology, sensor technology, etc. Therefore, research on the mobile robot has important significance. keywords: Mobile robot; Four wheel drive and steering; Mecanum wheels
SHE–PWM Cascaded Multilevel Inverter With Adjustable DC Voltage Levels Control for STATCOM Applications

This paper presents a new multilevel selective harmonic elimination pulse-width modulation (MSHE-PWM) technique for transformerless static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) system employing cascaded H-bridge inverter (CHI) configuration. The proposed MSHE-PWM method optimizes both the dc-voltage levels and the switching angles, enabling more harmonics to be eliminated without affecting the structure of the inverter circuit. The method provides constant switching angles and linear pattern of dc-voltage levels over the modulation index range. This in turns eliminates the tedious steps required for manipulating the offline calculated switching angles and therefore, easing the implementation of the MSHE-PWM for dynamic systems. Although the method relies on the availability of the variable dc-voltage levels which can be obtained by various topologies, however, the rapid growth and development in the field of power semiconductor devices led to produce high-efficiency dc-dc converters with a relatively high-voltage capacity and for simplicity, a buck dc-dc converter is considered in this paper. Current and voltage closed loop controllers are implemented for both the STATCOM and the buck converter to meet the reactive power demand at different loading conditions. The technique is further compared with an equivalent conventional carrier-based pulse-width modulation to illustrate its enhanced characteristics. The effectiveness and the theoretical analysis of the proposed approach are verified through both simulation and experimental studies.
The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics, 2nd edition

This series title was created by CTheory Books - http://pactac.net/ctheory-books/ This title was digitized by CTheory Books in 2001.
Detection of new human metabolic urinary markers in chronic alcoholism and their reversal by aqueous extract of Tinospora cordifolia stem.

AIMS
We have studied urine metabolic signature of chronic alcoholism (CA) before and after treatment with an Ayurvedic drug Tinospora cordifolia aqueous extract (TCE).


METHODS
Urinary metabolites of chronic alcoholics and apparently healthy subjects were profiled using HPLC-Q-TOF-MS. Discrimination models from the initial data sets were able to correctly assign the unknown samples to the CA, treated or healthy groups in validation sets with r(2) > 0.98.


RESULTS
Metabolic signature in CA patients include changed tryptophan, fatty acids and pyrimidines metabolism. Several novel biomarkers of alcoholism were observed in urine for the first time which includes, 5-hydroxyindole, phenylacetic acid, picolinic acid, quinaldic acid, histidine, cystathionine, riboflavin, tetrahydrobiopterin and chenodeoxyglycocholic acid, in addition to previously reported biomarkers. Treatment of CA with TCE reverted the levels of most of the biomarkers except tetrahydrobiopterin levels.


CONCLUSIONS
These results suggested that the measurement of these urine metabolites could be used as a non-invasive diagnostic method for the detection of CA. As TCE treatment significantly reversed the affected pathways without any side effect. Overall, the present data depicts that TCE may be used either alone or adjunct in reducing alcohol-induced disorders.
Jurists and judges : an essay on influence

The dynamics of influence - citation and its significance, the elusiveness of influence the USA - judges on scholarship, academics on scholarship, what is to be done? France - history of the "note d'arret", case notes and influence England - the value of death, silver linings - better read when dead?, Pollock, Goodhart and case notes, modern times, conclusion envoi.