The jaundice that develops after obstruction of the common duct in the absence of complications, expresses the physiological wastage of corpuscles occurring from day to day; and the intensity of the bilirubinemia varies as does the total of functioning hemoglobin-containing tissue from which this wastage takes place. There is to be observed a constantly readjusted direct relationship between he...

The association between stress and reproductive outcome is unclear. In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is psychologically stressful and has been shown to alter psychological markers such as cortisol, prolactin and progesterone. This study was designed to assess prospectively psychological and physiological markers of stress and to determine if they are related to pregnancy outcome. Forty patients wer...

There is growing evidence that oxidative stress is increased in myocardial failure and may contribute to the structural and functional changes that lead to disease progression. The report by Ide et al,1 in this issue of Circulation Research, provides the first direct measurement of increased oxidative stress in the myocardium of an animal model of heart failure. In this same model, the authors ...

Problem statement The research carried out aimed to encourage evidencebased cost-effective pharmaceutical prescribing, reduce medicine related adverse reactions, improve patient quality of life and reduce pharmaceutical wastage. Prescribing data was evaluated and interventions were subsequently developed in an attempt to improve pharmaceutical prescribing by General Practitioners (GPs) across a...

Dynamic Mechanism Design for Online Commerce Jérémle Gallien An Optimal Lot-Sizing and Offline Inspection Policy in the Case of Nonrigid Demaild Shoshana Anily and Abraham Grosfe(d-Nir Inventory Policies in a Decentralized Assembly System Fernando Bernstein and Gregory A. DeCroix Effective Heuristics for Multiproduct Partial Shipment Models Milind Dawande, Srinagesh Gavirneni, and Sridhar Tayur...

This paper presents the modeling and characterization of an Apodized optical fiber Bragg grating for maximum reflectivity and minimum side lobe power wastage and narrow spectral response. The modeling is based upon coupled mode theory together with transfer matrix method. This matrix approach is effective at treating a single grating as a series of separate

Sources of rehabilitation medicine, the need for rehabilitation and its practice in Croatia were studied, based on available data. The study revealed that current practice has advanced since the country's independence, but that there are many shortcomings; adequate care is not provided to all who could benefit from it, and there is wastage of resources.

Methods. We conducted a quality improvement program to examine the effect of a transfusion strategy algorithm in primary knee (TKA) and hip arthroplasty (THA). Our algorithm is presented as a diagram and is based on tolerated and expected blood losses. Patient characteristics, blood loss, transfusions given, autologous blood wastage, and costs were examined during an initial evaluation and afte...

Hypermodal chromosomal spreads occurred significantly more frequently in lymphocytes from couples with recurrent spontaneous abortion than from comparison populations. Previously, we reported a similarly increased frequency in couples with aneuploid offspring. Considering the frequency of aneuploidy among first trimester spontaneous abortions, we suggest that there may be a sub-population of pe...