Members : P. Amblard, M. Bahmani, A. Chagoya-Garzon, H. Chen, F. Dubois, A. ElMrabti, S. Foroutan, N. Fournel, P. Gerin, M. Gligor, G. Godet-Bar, X. Guérin, P. Guironnet de Massas, K. Hassan, M.-M. Hamayun, D. Hedde, P.H. Horrein, H. Jabber, A. Kouadri Mostéfaoui, S. Lagraa, S. Mancini, Q. Meunier, O. Muller, F. Pétrot, A. Prost-Boucle, K. Rahmouni, F. Rousseau, H. Shen, A. Sheibanyrad, J. Tan,...

A matched follow-up study design was used to test the hypothesis that pregnancy rates following assisted reproduction procedures do not differ between women with or without intramural or sub-serosal uterine leiomyomas. Women undergoing their first in-vitro fertilization (IVF)-embryo transfer or zygote intra-Fallopian transfer (ZIFT) cycle between January 1993 and June 1995 were included. Cases ...

The objective of the study was to investigate whether transferring zygotes on day 1 would result in similar pregnancy rates compared to transferring cleavage stage embryos on day 3 in a prospective randomized trial, using the office microlaparoscopic procedure. Patients undergoing IVF/ICSI treatments were randomized to either day 1 or day 3 transfers after previous failed ICSI trials due to fai...

We implement a volume-of-fluid algorithm with a parabolic re-construction of the interface for the calculation of the surface tension force VOF-PROST). This achieves higher accuracy for drop deformation simulations in comparison with existing VOF methods based on a piecewise inear interface re-construction. The algorithm is formulated for the Giesekus constitutive law. The evolution of a drop s...

Investigations on the nature of both linear and nonlinear electrooptic eeects in columnar mesophases of chiral discotic dibenzopy-rene and triphenylene derivatives and their mixtures are presented. We specially focus on the innuence of chirality on the switching process. INTRODUCTION Ferroelectricity in tilted smectic phases of chiral molecules was predicted to occur by R. B. Meyer et al. in 19...

Perspectives Cash transfer schemes can be important contributors to human development and social protection. Although they have significant health benefits, they have rarely been considered an integral part of the health policy portfolio. We believe that a case can be made for greater health sector involvement in the design, implementation and evaluation of such schemes. Cash transfers (CTs) ar...

PROGRESS IN THE HIGH CURRENT EXPERIMENT (HCX) FEBRUARY-JULY 20021 P.A. Seidl, D. Baca, F.M. Bieniosek, B. Bukh, C.M. Celata, A. Coorey, C. Dugan, A. Faltens, A. Friedman, D.P. Grote, I. Haber, K. Jordan, J.W. Kwan, S.M. Lund, E.P. Lee, B.G. Logan, A.W. Molvik, L. Prost, G. Sabbi, W.W. Waldron (a) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 & The Heavy Ion Fusion Virtual National L...

2014 We have carried out an extensive high resolution x-ray scattering study of the nematic-smectic A (NSA) and reentrant nematic-smectic A (RN-SA) phase transition behaviour in mixtures of octyloxycyanobiphenyl (8OCB and hexyloxycyanobiphenyl (60CB). The smectic A phase boundary is found to be parabolic in the temperature-concentration plane with a median temperature TM = 38.06 °C and a critic...

H3K9 methylation is an important histone modification that is correlated with gene transcription repression. The asymmetric H3K9 dimethylation (H3K9me2) pattern between paternal and maternal genomes is generated soon after fertilization. In the present study, we carefully determined the dynamics of H3K9me2 changes in mouse zygotes, and investigated the regulatory mechanisms. The results indicat...

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