The objective of this study was to determine the clinical pregnancy rate with 2 inseminations compared to a single intrauterine insemination (IUI) in a given cycle using frozen-thawed donor sperm. This was a retrospective study at a university practice; patients were women using donor sperm. We conducted a comparison of single IUI, intracervical insemination (ICI) followed by an IUI on the...

Is the risk of metastasis equivalent between a class 2 tumor (GEP) and monosomy 3 tumor as determined by MLPA? The concordance between these tests in patients with uveal melanoma undergoing a prognostic fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) has not been studied until recently. In a retrospective study, GEP and FISH (44 patients) or GEP and MLPA (49 patients – 6 technical failures GEP [3] and MLP...

Page 1 of 2 Final Report for Period: 09/2009 08/2010 Submitted on: 07/13/2010 Principal Investigator: Feamster, Nicholas G. Award ID: 0626950 Organization: GA Tech Res Corp GIT Submitted By: Feamster, Nicholas Principal Investigator Title: NeTS-FIND: Collaborative Research: Concurrent Architectures are Better than One Project Participants Senior Personnel Name: Feamster, Nicholas Worked for mor...

Information about the position of an object that is held in both hands, such as a golf club or a tennis racquet, is transmitted to the human central nervous system from peripheral sensors in both left and right arms. How does the brain combine these two sources of information? Using a robot to move participant's passive limbs, we performed psychophysical estimates of proprioceptive function for...

We show that jointly parsing a bitext can substantially improve parse quality on both sides. In a maximum entropy bitext parsing model, we define a distribution over source trees, target trees, and node-to-node alignments between them. Features include monolingual parse scores and various measures of syntactic divergence. Using the translated portion of the Chinese treebank, our model is traine...

Are Two Motor-Control Systems Better Than One? Kyle Reed, Michael Peshkin, Mitra J. Hartmann, Marcia Grabowecky, James Patton, and Peter M. Vishton Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University; Department of Psychology, Northwestern University; Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and Department o...

How do emperor penguins find their mates on a featureless ice flow, packed at densities of ten animals per square meter? A recent study has revealed how use of their 'two-voice' calls enables emperor penguins to locate their mates and chicks under some of nature's most extreme conditions.

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact on the reported cause-of-death patterns of a verbal autopsy coding strategy based on a review of every death by multiple coders versus a single coder. METHODS Deaths in 45 villages (total population 180,162) in southern India were documented during 12 months in 2003-2004, and a standard verbal autopsy questionnaire was completed for each death. Two physician cod...

Meetings and collaborative work are part of the everyday business life. Audio communication in the form of VoIP and instant messaging-based chat communication offer new and inexpensive ways to communicate in groups. Our previous research has shown that the selection of either audio or chat has a significant impact on the collaborative productivity. This experiment observes the impact of selecti...

Motivated by the success of ensemble methods in machine learning and other areas of natural language processing, we developed a multistrategy and multi-source approach to question answering which is based on combining the results from different answering agents searching for answers in multiple corpora. The answering agents adopt fundamentally different strategies, one utilizing primarily knowl...