BACKGROUND Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The aim of this study was to measure circulating AMH before laparoscopic ovarian diathermy (LOD) to evaluate its prognostic value for an ovulatory response and to investigate AMH changes after LOD to further explore the effects of LOD. METHODS This prospective study included an...

Nowadays, there are many natural languages on the Web, and we can expect that they will stay there even with the development of the Semantic Web. Though the RDF model enables structuring information in a unified way, the resources can be described using different natural languages. To find information about the same resource across different languages, we need to link identical resources togeth...

For the decimation of polygonal models and generating their LODs (Levels of detail), an automatic edge-collapse based simplification method has been proposed. The measure of geometric fidelity employed is motivated by the normal space deviation of a polygonal model occurred during its decimation process and forces the algorithm to minimize the normal space deviation. Inspite of being global nat...

This paper investigates the relation between the level of detail (LoD) in UML models and defect density of the associated implementation. We propose LoD measures that are applicable to both classand sequence diagrams. Based on empirical data from an industrial software project we have found that classes with higher LoD, calculated using sequence diagram LoD metrics, correlates with lower defect...

esults: Significant linkage for P3 amplitude was observed on chromosome 7q for the central recording site (logarithm-of-odds [LOD] .88, p .00002) and in the same region for both frontal (LOD 2.19, p .0015) and parietal (LOD 1.67, p .0053) sites, with multivariate nalysis also identifying linkage in this region (LOD 2.14, p .0017). Suggestive linkage was also identified on 6p (LODmax 2.49) and 1...

OBJECTIVE The LEW/OlaHsd and BC/CpbU rat inbred strains differ markedly in blood and hepatic cholesterol levels before and after a cholesterol-rich diet. To define loci controlling these traits and related phenotypes, an F2 population derived from these strains was genetically analyzed. METHODS AND RESULTS For each of the 192 F2 animals, phenotypes were determined, and genomic DNA was screene...

We conducted a genome-wide scan using variance components linkage analysis to localize quantitative-trait loci (QTLs) influencing triglyceride (TG), high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein-cholesterol, and total cholesterol (TC) levels in 3,071 subjects from 459 families with atherogenic dyslipidemia. The most significant evidence for linkage to TG levels was found...

The distribution of the leading digits in data sets will be influenced by the method used to substitute values below the limits of detection (LOD). If values below the LOD are substituted by a single value, for example LOD/√(2) (Hornung and Reed 1990), all these data points will have one single leading digit. Fig. 2 shows the influence of such a substitution if 30% of the values are below the LOD.

Searching for Linked Open Data (LOD) has yet not reached the easiness and comfort we are accustomed with when using document search engines such as Google. To get closer to this “Google feeling” when searching for LOD, we have developed LODatio . Our system supports various kinds of queries on LOD such as searching for LOD sources containing specific types, properties, sets of types and propert...

With the popularity of Linked Open Data (LOD) and the associated rise in freely accessible knowledge that can be accessed via LOD, exploiting LOD for recommender systems has been widely studied based on various approaches such as graph-based or using different machine learning models with LOD-enabled features. Many of the previous approaches require construction of an additional graph to run gr...