OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic value of sonographic measurement of fetal abdominal circumference (AC) for the prediction of fetal macrosomia. MATERIAL AND METHOD A prospective clinical trial was conducted at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. The study consisted of 361 singleton pregnant women who were admitted for deliv...

Aromatase, a cytochrome P450, catalyzes the formation of aromatic C-18 estrogenic steroids from C-19 androgens. Four mutants of human aromatase have been expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells using a stable expression method. The activities of these mutants were determined using [1 beta,2 beta-3H]androstenedione, [19-14C]androstenedione, and [1 beta,2 beta-3H]testosterone as substrates. The ...

Shippers are daily users of the French gas grid. Differences between planned and effective gas demand unbalance the grid. To restore the balance, GRTgaz computes every day amounts of gas transiting on the grid. Amounts injected or withdrawn from the storages, balancing tolerances use rates are also computed. Finally, if the grid is still unbalanced, amounts of gas (associated with penalties) bo...

The Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter has become a widely used tool for detrending integrated time series in applied econometric analysis. Even though the theoretical time series literature sums up an extensive catalogue of severe criticism against an econometric analysis of HP filtered data, the original Hodrick and Prescott (1980, 1997) suggestion to measure the strength of association between (ma...

In this paper two different approaches to unification will be compared, Relational Blockworld (RBW) and Hiley’s implicate order. Both approaches are monistic in that they attempt to derive matter and spacetime geometry ‘at once’ in an interdependent and background independent fashion from something underneath both quantum theory and relativity. Hiley’s monism resides in the implicate order via ...