BACKGROUND There is a need to have uniformed reporting of perinatal mortality for births following assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment to enable international comparison and benchmarking of ART practice. METHODS The Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproduction Database was used in this study. Births of ≥ 20 weeks gestation and/or ≥ 400 grams of birth weight following embryos ...

The experiment was conducted at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University farm, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from March to June 2007 with seven treatments viz; T1: Hand picking of infested fruits of bitter gourd at 7 days interval; T2: Neem seed kernel at 5 gm/l of water at 5 days interval +T1; T3: Spray of shobicron 425EC @ 2ml/l of water at 7 days interval + T1; T4: Micronutrient-Zn @ 6.72...

Combined with weight of samples and kernel function, fuzzy clustering method with generalized entropy is studied. Objective function for fuzzy clustering with generalized entropy based on sample weighting is obtained. Following that, fuzzy clustering algorithm with generalized entropy based on sample weighting is presented. In addition, by introducing kernel into the presented objective functio...

A preoperative weight loss of 8 % is a prerequisite to undergo bariatric surgery (BS) in Denmark. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of a 7- or an 11-week low-energy diet (LCD) for achieving preoperative target weight before BS. A total of thirty obese patients (BMI 46·0 (sd 4·4) kg/m(2)) followed an LCD (Cambridge Weight Plan(®), 4184 kJ/d (1000 kcal/d)) for 7 or 11 week...

We provide a new definition for reproducing kernel space with weighted integral and present a method to construct and calculate the reproducing kernel for the space. The new reproducing kernel space is an enlarged reproducing kernel space, which contains the traditional reproducing kernel space. The proposed method of this paper is a universal method and is suitable for the case of that the wei...

For food security, it is essential to identify stable, high-yielding wheat varieties with lower disease severity. This particularly important due climate change, which results in pressure the increasing occurrence of Fusarium head blight (FHB). The objective this study was evaluate stability winter (Triticum aestivum L.) grain yield under different environmental conditions. Twenty-five were eva...