Acknowledgements We want to thanks the research assistance of Islamic Azad University, Sari Branch and also to all the personnel of Saint Mary infertility Center in Sari, Iran. It is known that body mass index (BMI) correlate with female fertility; however, little information is available on the effect of BMI on male fertility or sperm parameters. Therefore, the study objective was to determine...

In this paper we study n-dimensional compact minimal submanifolds in S with scalar curvature S satisfying the pinching condition S > n(n − 2). We show that for p ≤ 2 these submanifolds are totally geodesic (cf. Theorem 3.2 and Corollary 3.1). However, for codimension p ≥ 2, we prove the result under an additional restrictions on the curvature tensor corresponding to the normal connection (cf. T...

www.aafp.org / fpm ■ F A M I L Y P R A C T I C E M A N A G E M E N T ■ 47 IL LU ST R A TI O N B Y C .M . SC H N EI D ER In certain areas of the country, skyrocketing medical liability insurance premiums are pushing physicians out of practice and denying patients access to needed services. In eight states, premiums increased an average of 30 percent or more last year. Another 12 states saw avera...

BACKGROUND Cystic fibrosis (CF) is considered to be rare among individuals from the Indian subcontinent. Furthermore, affected individuals are reported to experience a more severe clinical course. AIMS It was hypothesised that CF is under diagnosed in people of South Asian origin and therefore the prevalence may be higher than previously estimated. METHODS The prevalence of CF in the South ...

T he March 16, 2003, edition of The New York Times Magazine’s cover reads, “Half of What Doctors Know Is Wrong.” Inside, the lead story, entitled “The Biggest Mistake of Their Lives,” chronicles the struggles of four survivors of medical errors. The article also makes a projection that in 2003, as many as 98,000 people in the United States would die as a result of medical errors (Burton 2003). ...

The compound 2,11-dithia[3.3]orthocyclophane (L) is a mesocyclic dithioether that can act as a bidentate ligand in different conformations. In the ionic heteroleptic complexes [PtL(eta(4)-cod)][CF(3)SO(3)](2) (1), [RhL(eta(4)-cod)][CF(3)SO(3)] (2), and [IrL(eta(4)-cod)][CF(3)SO(3)] (3) (cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene), L is coordinated in the anti I conformation both in solution and in the solid stat...

Obesity is a common disease; its frequency is gradually and progressively increasing. Some 15 years ago, the incidence of obesity in the U.S. was roughly 15 to 16 percent; now it is between 20 and 25 percent. People are more likely to be obese at the end of their lives. The incidence of obesity in boys is about five percent; it is almost eight percent in girls. By the age of 20, however, 25 per...

BACKGROUND On the basis of previous findings on random individuals, we hypothesized a preferential association of CF causing mutations with the M allele of the M470V polymorphic site of the CFTR gene. METHODS We have determined the M/V-CF mutation haplotype in a series of 201 North East Italian and 73 Czech CF patients who were not F508del homozygotes, as F508del was already known to be fully...

in order to study of use advantage in the intercropping system fennel (foeniculum vulgare mill) and fenugreek (trigonella foenum-graecum l) in different ratios of intercropping and sole cropping, an experiment with use replacement and additive intercropping based on randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted at the research station of faculty of agriculture, universi...

Let s(n,m) denote the (unsigned) Stirling numbers of the first kind: s(n,m) := [w] (w(w + 1) · · · (w + n− 1)) (1 ≤ m ≤ n, n ≥ 1). Many different asymptotic expressions for s(n,m), as n→∞, have been proposed in the literature due to their wide applications, cf. Temme [8] for a brief survey of known results together with a uniform asymptotic expansion valid for all m, 1 ≤ m ≤ n. Recently, Wilf [...