OBJECTIVE To establish parameters associated with successful fimbriectomy reversal and to estimate monthly fecundability and cumulative pregnancy rates through life-table analysis. DESIGN Series report. SETTING University-based infertility clinic. PATIENT(S) Forty-one women undergoing surgery for tubal sterilization reversal. INTERVENTION(S) Surgical fimbriectomy reversal. MAIN OUTCOM...

PURPOSE Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) are major adverse effects of cancer chemotherapy. We compared the impact of acute (during the first 24 hours postchemotherapy) and delayed (days 2 through 5 postchemotherapy) CINV on patients' quality of life (QoL) after highly or moderately emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC and MEC, respectively). PATIENTS AND METHODS This prospective, multi...

We investigate how the employment-based health insurance system in the U.S. affects individuals' life-cycle health-care decisions. We take the viewpoint that health is a form of human capital that affects workers' productivities on the job, and derive implications of employees' turnover on the incentives to undertake health investment. Our model suggests that employee turnovers lead to dynamic ...

We report on a multiwavelength campaign on the TeV γ-ray blazar Markarian (Mrk) 421 performed during December 2002 and January 2003. These target of opportunity observations were initiated by the detection of X-ray and TeV Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA Physics Department, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt Department of Physics, University of Massachussetts,...

This study presents a grounded theory analysis of a case study in the banking industry with a view to showing the enabling role of ‘‘Web services’’ technology in information system development practices. The grounded theory analysis of the Cashier Management System development project at the Central Europe Bank (a pseudonym) shows that Web services technology is a key technological enabler for ...

A large variety of problems and results in Extremal Set Theory deal with estimates on the size of a family of sets with some restrictions on the intersections of its members. Notable examples of such results, among others, are the celebrated theorems of Fischer, RayChaudhuri–Wilson and Frankl–Wilson on set systems with restricted pairwise intersections. These also can be considered as estimates...

Expected Shortfall (ES) is the average return on a risky asset conditional on the return being below some quantile of its distribution, namely its Value-at-Risk (VaR). The Basel III Accord, which will be implemented in the years leading up to 2019, places new attention on ES, but unlike VaR, there is little existing work on modeling ES. We use recent results from statistical decision theory to ...

In [4] we introduced a product construction for cyclic Steiner quadruple systems. The purpose of this paper is to modify the construction so that it is applicable to cyclic Steiner 2-designs. A cyclic Steiner 2-design is a Steiner system s(t, k, u), 2 d t < k < u, in which t = 2 and which has an automorphism of order u. We denote such a system by CS(2, k, u). Under suitable conditions we show h...

AIM To investigate the effects of semaglutide on fasting and postprandial glucose and lipid responses, and on gastric emptying. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 2-period, crossover trial. Subjects with obesity (N = 30) received once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide, dose-escalated to 1.0 mg, or placebo. After each 12-week treatment period, glucose ...