OBJECTIVES To construct a clinical management matrix using serial fetal abdominal circumference measurements (ACMs) that will predict normal birth weight in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes (GDM) and reduce unnecessary ultrasound examination in women with GDM. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of 144 women with GDM in a specialist obstetric-diabetes clinic. Women with GDM...

DNA microarrays were rapidly scaled up from 256 to 6.5 million targets, and although antibody microarrays were proposed earlier, sensitive multiplex sandwich assays have only been scaled up to a few tens of targets. Cross-reactivity, arising because detection antibodies are mixed, is a known weakness of multiplex sandwich assays that is mitigated by lengthy optimization. Here, we introduce (1) ...

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a certain class of local arithmetical congruence monoids (or ACMs) to have accepted elasticity. Let a and b be positive integers with a ≤ b and a ≡ a (mod b). Under these conditions, the arithmetic sequence a, a+ b, a+ 2b, a+ 3b, . . . is closed under multiplication and is a multiplicative semigroup. Setting M(a, b) = {a+ kb | k ∈ N0} ∪ {1} produc...

This paper presents new algorithms for the Signal and Message asynchronous data communication mechanisms (ACMs) and their modelling and analysis using Petri net techniques.

Health risks from asbestos exposures have been evaluated, considering past professional histories when exposures at workplaces were higher than today. A linear no-threshold (LNT) model has been applied, although its relevance is unproven. Fibers are often found in the lungs and pleura of deceased people. Fiber findings do not prove that a disease is caused by asbestos. It is reasonable to assum...

this study was performed during the abatement of two asbestos-containing materials (acm):baumlite board (cement flat board) and ceiling textile. the concentrations of total dust for personal sampling were 0.28 and 1.70 mg/m3 during baumlite board and ceiling textile abatements, respectively, when calculated with 8-hr time-weighted average (twa). the geometric mean (gm) asbestos concentrations w...

this study was performed during the abatement of two asbestos-containing materials (acm):baumlite board (cement flat board) and ceiling textile. the concentrations of total dust for personal sampling were 0.28 and 1.70 mg/m3 during baumlite board and ceiling textile abatements, respectively, when calculated with 8-hr time-weighted average (twa). the geometric mean (gm) asbestos concentrations w...