The aim of the present study was to undertake a longitudinal study of systolic and diastolic cardiac function during normal pregnancy. At a median of 16 weeks of gestation, 100 primiparous women underwent echocardiography, including tissue Doppler imaging, determining left ventricular mass, cardiac output, systolic and diastolic velocities, and wall stress. A total of 32 were assessed again at ...

Design of organic–inorganic hybrids by anchoring plasmonic materials such as gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on self-assembled organic substrates is useful but challenging. Herein, in situ the surface a designed spherical assembly via AuS bond formation presented. First, thiol tailed pyrene derivative (2) undergoes solvent dependent self-assembly, transforming into an aggregate (2agg). The (-SH) ri...

Tailed viruses are the most common isolates infecting prokaryotic hosts residing in hypersaline environments. Archaeal tailed viruses represent only a small portion of all characterized tailed viruses of prokaryotes. But even this small dataset revealed that archaeal tailed viruses have many similarities to their counterparts infecting bacteria, the bacteriophages. Shared functional homologs an...

Grasslands are among the most endangered ecosystems, with <1% of Victorian grasslands remaining. Extinctions many grassland fauna species have occurred since European settlement due to loss suitable habitat, and dramatic range reductions continue for those that still exist. Fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) only small ground-dwelling marsupial known persist in habitats. The las...

Recent research in queuing focuses more on the impacts of heavy-tailed service times, neglecting the fact that stochastic inter-arrival times are often heavy-tailed as well. We investigate the impacts of heavy-tailed gamma inter-arrival time distributions on the waiting-time distribution of a GI/G/2 queue, and simulate the tail properties of waiting-time distribution using real data.