Title: A preliminary evaluation of influence of body mass index on in vitro fertilization outcome in non-obese endometriosis patients. An observational cross-sectional study Authors: Eliana Garalejic ([email protected]) Biljana Arsic ([email protected]) Jovana Radakovic ([email protected]) Dragana Bojovic Jovic ([email protected]) Dragana Lekic ([email protected]) Biljana M...

Ivan Illich's attack on modern medicine, Medical Nemesis, appeared in 1974. The book famously opened with the statement: 'The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.' Forty years after its publication, this paper examines the major themes of the book, and asks whether events since its publication have added weight to Illich's thesis.

The Padmakar–Ivan (PI) index of a graph G is defined as the sum of terms [mu(e) + mv(e)] over all edges of G, where e is an edge, connecting the vertices u and v, wheremu(e) is the number of edges of G lying closer to the vertex u than to the vertex v, and where mv(e) is defined analogously. The extremal values of the PI index are determined in the class of connected bipartite graphs with a giv...

The article introduces the notion of probabilistic net present value which is used as a criterion for choice between a franchise purchase or creation of independent company.

Ivan Bradford is a fifty-five year old, white male in need of a liver transplant. Ivan has been an alcoholic since he was thirty-two years old, and has developed an irreversible advanced liver disease, cirrhosis. In essence, the disease is the end result in scarring of the liver due to prolonged alcohol abuse. This scarring prevents the liver from performing many of its vital functions. Without...

1031 Vertex-degree-based molecular structure descriptors of benzenoid systems and phenylenes IVAN GUTMAN* and BORIS FURTULA** Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, P. O. Box 60, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia (Received 12 December 2011) Abstract. Several recently published papers report expressions for various vertex-degree-based molecular structure descriptors of benzenoid systems and phenyl...

It is with a heavy heart that I serve as guest editor of this commemorative issue of Ad Hoc Sensors & Wireless Networks. My father founded this journal 10 years ago in the field that he loved and contributed most to. Research was his passion, and he conveyed this passion to me throughout his life. We worked in different fields of computer science, mine being computer vision, but always looked f...

Our mouth waters when we think of our favourite food, and so does that of a dog. But can we know what a dog is thinking about? An experimental entry to a dog's mind was achieved by Pavlov through a rather convoluted chain of studies performed at the beginning of the century that is now coming to an end. His approach is now common knowledge. If presentation of food is preceded every time by a be...