The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of time of first postpartum ovulation after calving on uterine involution in dairy cows with and without uterine puerperal disease. Transvaginal follicular puncture (FP) of follicles >6 mm suppressed ovulation and development of a CL until Day 42 after calving. Fifty-three lactating Holstein Friesian cows (3.4 ± 1.2 years old, parity 2.5...

INTRODUCTION Lack of knowledge of where to obtain correct family planning (FP) information and methods can be a critical barrier to eventual uptake of FP services. We assessed knowledge, sources and use of FP methods among women of reproductive age in rural Uganda. METHODS This secondary analysis uses data from a larger cross-sectional study conducted to measure changes in perceptions towards...

The paper is concerned with distributed learning and optimization in large-scale settings. The wellknown Fictitious Play (FP) algorithm has been shown to achieve Nash equilibrium learning in certain classes of multi-agent games. However, FP can be computationally difficult to implement when the number of players is large. Sampled FP is a variant of FP that mitigates the computational difficulti...

A series of poly(esteramine)s (PEAs) constructed from low molecular weight polyethyleneimine (LPEI) and Pluronic were evaluated for the delivery of antisense oligonuclotides (AOs), 2'-O-methyl phosphorothioate RNA (2'-OMePS) and phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO) in cell culture and dystrophic mdx mice. Improved exon-skipping efficiency of both 2'-OMePS and PMO was observed in the C2C...

A recombinant plasmid designated pLVS3 previously was described that harbored a 14-kilobase insert of Treponema pallidum genomic DNA. Escherichia coli maxicells programmed with this plasmid synthesized three treponemal protein antigens of molecular weights 39,000, 35,000, and 25,000 (39K, 35K, and 25K proteins, respectively). In this study, a detailed deletion analysis of pLVS3 demonstrated tha...

The prostaglandins comprise a group of bioactive lipids generated from arachidonic acid by cyclooxygenases and cell type-specific prostaglandin and thromboxane synthases. Prostaglandins mediate local cell signaling interactions by activation of G-protein coupled prostanoid receptors. Because the prostaglandins and their receptors are active in all tissues, they have an extraordinarily broad spe...

There are little independent data available about how well single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping technologies perform in the typical molecular genetics laboratory. We evaluated the utility and accuracy of a widely used technology, template-directed dye-terminator incorporation with fluorescence-polarization detection (FP-TDI), in a sample of 177 SNPs selected solely on the basis of ma...

Background Family Planning (FP) program in Pakistan has been struggling to achieve the desired indicators. Despite a well-timed initiation of the program in late 50s, fertility decline has been sparingly slow. As a result, rapid population growth is impeding economic development in the country. A high population growth rate, the current fertility rate, a stagnant contraceptive prevalence rate a...