The central nervous system continues to develop during gestation and after birth, and folate is an essential nutrient in this process. Folate deficiency and folate receptor alpha autoantibodies (FRα-AuAb) have been associated with pregnancy-related complications and neurodevelopmental disorders. In this pilot study, we investigated the effect of exposure to FRα antibodies (Ab) during gestation ...

BACKGROUND The prediction of sites and products of metabolism in xenobiotic compounds is key to the development of new chemical entities, where screening potential metabolites for toxicity or unwanted side-effects is of crucial importance. In this work 2D topological fingerprints are used to encode atomic sites and three probabilistic machine learning methods are applied: Parzen-Rosenblatt Wind...

The work reported here pertains to the design, modelling and analysis of a testbed for a Gearless Pitch-Roll Wrist (PRW), currently under development at McGill University’s Centre for Intelligent Machines. This work aims at the mechanical-parameter identification of the Spherical Epicyclic Cam Train (SECT) prototype of the PRW. The testbed is constructed and set-up, in order to conduct experime...

The urease activity index (UI) is a laboratory test to identify underprocessed soybeans. An experiment was conducted to compare the cor­ relation coefficient of laboratory test with some biological experiment to evaluation of extruded full fat soybean (EFFSB). One hundred fortyfour day-old male broiler chicks were divided into 12 groups including 3 treatments with 4 replicates and fed 3 diets c...

In this paper we study the distributional properties (mean, variance, characteristic function) of the discounted warranty cost (DWC) for general warranty programs including free replacement (FRW) pro rata (PRW) and FRW/PRW in the context of perfect repair. Since only failure times and types are needed in the derivation of these properties, the reliability of the systems is modeled according to ...

Frédéric ABRARD Laboratoire d’Acoustique, de Métrologie et d’Instrumentation Université Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse cedex FRANCE [email protected] Yannick DEVILLE Laboratoire d’Acoustique, de Métrologie et d’Instrumentation Université Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse cedex FRANCE [email protected] Paul WHITE Signal Processing and Control Group, Institute of ...