Background According to the global increasing trend of infertility, using assisted reproductive technologies to solve this issue is recommended. It seems that vitamin E is an antioxidant with protective role in the body. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the relation between levels of vitamin E in Follicular fluid with the morphology of oocytes and the quality of embryos in patients with IVF. ...

Languages differ in how they represent numerical information, and specifically whether the verbal notation of numbers follows the same order as the symbolic notation (in non-inverted languages, e.g., Hebrew, "25, twenty-five") or whether the two notations diverge (in inverted languages, e.g., Arabic, "25, five-and-twenty"). We examined how the structure of number-words affects how arithmetic op...

This paper proposes a method of robust optimal stabilization for balance systems such as rocket and missile systems, Segway human transportation systems, and inverted pendulum systems. Constant-gain controllers such as linear-quadratic regulators may not guarantee stability let alone optimality for balance systems affected by parametric variations. The robust stability and robust performance ac...

Highly heterogeneous XML collections are thematic collections exploiting different structures: the parent-child or ancestor-descendant relationships are not preserved and vocabulary discrepancies in the element names can occur. In this setting current approaches return answers with low precision. By means of similarity measures and semantic inverted indices we present an approach for improving ...

Management and retrieval of large volumes of text can be expensive in both space and time. Moreover, the range of document sizes in a large collection such as trec presents difficulties for both the retrieval mechanism and the user. We consider division of documents into parts as a solution to the problem of the range of document sizes and show that, for databases with long documents, use of do...

An approach for solving a matrix game whose pay off elements are symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy numbers is proposed. P.Grzegorzewski’s theorem[1]has been used to transform symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy numbers to interval fuzzy number such that length of all intervals are different.Acceptability index has been defined and ordering of fuzzy numbers has been established.

For the 2005 Terabyte track in TREC Dublin City University participated in all three tasks: Adhoc, Efficiency and Named Page Finding. Our runs for TREC in all tasks were primarily focussed on the application of “Top Subset Retrieval” to the Terabyte Track. This retrieval utilises different types of sorted inverted indices so that less documents are processed in order to reduce query times, and ...