Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the location of the balloon placement into either the cervical canal or uterine cavity during sonohysterography can affect the intensity of pain. Materials and Methods: A total of 300 infertile women undergoing sonohysterography were randomized to intracervical or intrauterine balloon placement. The examination was scheduled in the early ...

statement of problem comprehensive diagnosis is regarded as an important base for orthodontic treatment. an effective way to reach a correct diagnosis is to compare the craniofacial skeleton of patients with normal cases in the same race through lateral cephalograms. purpose the present study was designed to determine the cephalometric standards of senior high school students in the city of ham...

background although heller myotomy is one of the most effective treatments for achalasia, it may be associated with early or late symptom relapse in some patients. therefore, additional treatment is required to achieve better control of symptoms. aim : to evaluate the safety and efficacy of pneumatic balloon dilation (pbd) in patients with symptom relapse after heller myotomy. methods thirty si...

In this study, ochratoxin A (OTA) occurrence in Argentinean musts, wines and dried vine fruits was evaluated, alongside with the performance of OchraStar(TM) columns for OTA extraction. In all the three matrices analyzed, the OchraStar(TM) columns showed good performance. The analysis of natural occurrence of OTA in the red must and the red wine samples showed low incidence with low levels of m...

Ground-based proximal sensing of vineyard features is gaining interest due to its ability to serve in even quite small plots with the advantage of being conducted concurrently with normal vineyard practices (i.e., spraying, pruning or soil tilling) with no dependence upon weather conditions, external services or law-imposed limitations. The purpose of the present work was to test performance of...

Congenital esophageal atresia needs to be surgically corrected as soon as possible. Some will present with post surgical stricture that needs to be dilated by a balloon dilator. This procedure is difficult in premature born due to infant esophageal size and availability of equipments. We herby report the first case in a premature infant with post surgical esophageal stricture of esophageal atre...

in order to investigate the effect of application methods of znso4 on qualitative, quantitative and correction of zinc deficiency in grapevine, an experiment was conducted in completely randomized block design with 10 treatments and 4 replications. treatments included control, trunk injection three levels 1.5, 3 and 5 g/l, spray in three levels 1.5, 3 and 5 g/l and soil application (soil drench...

S. Afr. J. Enol. Vitic., Vol. 36, No. 2, 2015 Corresponding author: E-mail address: [email protected] Acknowledgements: The author wishes to thank Levocia Williams and Lydia Maart of the Pest Management Division at the ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij for technical assistance, and Marika van der Merwe and Elize Jooste of the ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute for the PCR analyses. Funding for...

Recently, several copula-based approaches have been proposed for modeling stationary multivariate time series. All of them are based on vine copulas, and they differ in the choice of the regular vine structure. In this article, we consider a copula autoregressive (COPAR) approach to model the dependence of unobserved multivariate factors resulting from two dynamic factor models. However, the pr...