OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of etanercept immunotherapy on peripheral natural killer (NK) cell activity in women with a history of recurrent miscarriage (RM) or failed in vitro fertilization (IVF). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty nonpregnant women with reproductive failure and increased peripheral NK-cell number and/or activity before conception were studied. Women ...

Introduction A high reproductive rate is essential to the success of most swine enterprises. When space in the nursery and growing-finishing facilities or farrowing crates are empty because of reproductive failure, the cost of that failure must be covered by those spaces that are occupied. Therefore, buildings must be occupied at 100% capacity for maximum return on investment. Producers should ...

The main goal of this work is to introduce theoretical background of the extended forward inference algorithm. Proposed algorithm allow to continue inference after its failure. Inference failure means that the inference engine is unable to obtain the solutions — the new facts or goals confirmation. Two-phase extension of classical inference algorithm is considered. In the first phase, classical...

Some reproductive failure occurs in all swine breeding operations, but for practical purposes reproductive failure is regarded significant only when production levels fall below the expected norm. These norms may vary from operation to operation and are based on such things as percentage of animals cycling, conception and farrowing rates, average litter size and number of pigs produced per sow ...

During the last century the conception of circulatory failure in the course of acute infectious diseases has been subjected to changes in several instances. Circulatory failure of every kind has, of course, a serious influence on the action of the heart itself, and for this reason in infectious diseases it was considered in those early days (1860-95) as heart failure, and the anatomical damage ...

the study was undertaken to compare the efficacy of an estradiol-17β + cidr based protocol with the conventional ovsynch + cidr based protocol for synchrony of wave emergence and ovulation in murrah buffalos. in group i (n=25), on day 0 (beginning of experiment), buffaloes were administered a cidr device (1.38 g p4) and concurrently received 1.5 mg e-17β. on day 9, the cidr was removed and a pr...

After describing the criterion scores which have been used to assess behavior in the interrupted task paradigm (ITP), a summary of the research literature is presented. ITP as a source of data for evaluating the psychoanalytic theory of repression is found not to allow for the separation of learning and retention effects, and so is not well suited to the study of repression. Similarly, the medi...

This paper explores the interplay between the human rights and drug control frameworks and critiques case law on medicinal cannabis use to demonstrate that a bona fide human rights perspective allows for a broader conception of 'health'. This broad conception, encompassing both medicalised and social constructionist definitions, can inform public health policies relating to medicinal cannabis u...