background: there is increasing evidence that psychological factors like anxiety and depression can affect ivf/icsi treatment results. objective: this study aimed to clarify the role of women’s anxiety and depression on the outcome of art cycles using intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi). materials and methods: this was a prospective pilot study. one hundred six (106) consecutive women unde...

Cumulative risk (CR) models provide some of the most robust findings in the developmental literature, predicting numerous and varied outcomes. Typically, however, these outcomes are predicted one at a time, across different samples, using concurrent designs, longitudinal designs of short duration, or retrospective designs. We predicted that a single CR index, applied within a single sample, wou...

Local motion is known to produce strong illusory displacement in the perceived position of globally static objects. For example, if a dot-cloud or grating drifts to the left within a stationary aperture, the perceived position of the whole aperture will also be shifted to the left. Previously, we used a simple tracking task to demonstrate that active control over the global position of an objec...

PURPOSE Hip dislocation in cerebral palsy (CP) is a serious complication. By radiographic screening and prophylactic surgery of children at risk most dislocations can be prevented. CPUP, the Swedish CP registry and follow-up program, includes annual radiographic examinations of children at Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels III-V. Data from CPUP were analysed to assess th...

Abstract The Pearson’s $$X^2$$ X 2 statistic and the likelihood ratio $$G^2$$ G are most frequently used for testing independence or homogeneity, in two-way contingency table. These indexes members of a continuous family Power Divergence (PD) statistics...

The city of Staufen im Breisgau in southwest Germany suffers from a localized land uplift, which has occurred in the past six years in relation to geothermal drilling activities in 2007. So far, severe damages at 269 buildings have been recorded. The chemical transformation of anhydrite and water to gypsum, resulting in a volume increase, has been attributed as the cause of the uplift. Previous...

Displacement tracking is an important step in realization of compression optical coherence elastography (C-OCE), especially the context obtaining nonlinear stress-strain dependences and subsequent evaluation tissue Young’s modulus. The rapidly progressing phase-sensitive C-OCE, however, enables direct measurements only rather small interframe strains (below 1%), for which displacements are also...

Hertzian contact of a rigid sphere and highly deformable soft solid is investigated using integrated photoelasticity. The experiments are performed by pressing styrene 15 mm diameter against 44 × 47 mm3 cuboid made 5% wt. gelatin, inside circular polariscope, with range forces. emerging light rays processed considering that the retardation each ray carries cumulative effect traversing contact-i...

the doruneh fault is one of the longest and most prominent faults in iran. however, only two recorded historical earthquakes with magnitudes more than 7 might be related to this fault. for getting more information on this fault more investigation in different fields are required. fault displacement is one of the most important parameters needed to explore the fault activity. in this study, with...

This paper is devoted to bulk-mediated surface diffusion of a particle which can diffuse both on a flat surface and in the bulk layer above the surface. It is assumed that the particle is on the surface initially (at t = 0) and at time t, while in between it may escape from the surface and come back any number of times. We propose a new approach to the problem, which reduces its solution to tha...