Premature activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis manifests as gonadotropin-dependent precocious puberty. The mechanisms behind HPG activation are complex and a clear etiology for early activation is often not elucidated. Though collectively uncommon, the neoplastic and developmental causes of gonadotropin-dependent precocious puberty are very important to consider, as a del...

We measure the magnetic-field dependence of the c-axis resistivity, ρc(H), in a series of Bi2Sr2−xLaxCuO6+δ (BSLCO) single crystals for a wide range of doping using pulsed magnetic fields up to 58 T. The behavior of ρc(H) is examined in light of the recent determination of the upper critical field Hc2 for this material using Nernst effect measurements. We find that the peak in ρc(H) shows up at...

RDG/ The Fish Short-Term Reproductive Assay described in the Integrated Summary Report (ISR) and supported by ample supporting materials is overall an excellent approach for Tier 1 screening for chemicals that might perturb the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. The rationale for the design of the 21 day test, the endpoints selected, and approaches for analyzing data clearly have been c...

The High-Performance Group of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC/HPG) [1] is developing a next release of its high-performance computer benchmark suite. The current suite, SPEChpc96 [2] is expected to be replaced by the SPEC HPC2002 suite in the second quarter of the year 2002. HPC2002 represents a minor update to SPEC’s current high-performance computing benchmarks. In the l...

We hypothesize that various prosody output styles can be predicted and simulated from one default base form by accounting for contributions from higher level information to cross-phrase prosodic relationship. Speech materials of four prosody styles were selected: (1.) Han and Tang poetry, (2.) Tang Ballads and Song poetry, (3.) Qin, Tang and Song classic prose and (4.) contemporary TV weather f...

Photovoltaic energy sources are increasingly in demand due to the cost of petroleum fuels and concerns about carbon emissions. For this reason, it is important determine photovoltaic properties compounds that thought be suitable for these sources. Here, 1,1,2,3,4,5-Hexaphenyl-1H-silole (HPS) 1,1,2,3,4,5-Hexaphenyl-1H-germole (HPG) have excellent properties, electronic charge transport were inve...

To address the problems of low resolution, compression artifacts, complex noise, and color loss in image restoration, we propose a High-Quality Prior-Guided Blind Face Restoration Generative Adversarial Network (HPG-GAN). This mainly consists Coarse Sub-Network (CR-Net) Fine (FR-Net). HPG-GAN extracts high-quality structural textural priors facial feature from coarse restoration images to recon...