background: determination of oocyte fertilization and embryo quality are one of the most important purposes in art cycles. follicular fluid provides an important microenvironment for development of oocytes and some biochemical characteristics of the follicular fluid, such as pregnancy-associated plasma protein-a (papp-a), may play an important role in prediction of success rate of art. objectiv...

objectives: to evaluate the effect of two simultaneous protocols in reducing recovery time and assessment of adverse effects of different fluid replacement therapy in management of diabetic ketoacidosis. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial study, two standard protocols were chosen to evaluate recovery time and incidence of dka complications. results: 18 subjects who had sev...

Introduction: The ability of quadratic dose protocol to maintain a good quality image for an overweight and obese patient is well reported. However, a practical approach to the implementation of this protocol in whole-body imaging in Malaysia is currently lacking. Hence, the aim of this study is to derive the quadratic dose formula that suits our PET system. Metho...

introduction: this research was aimed at examining acute responses of hormones such as growth hormone (gh), total testosterone (tt), free testosterone (ft), free fatty acid (ffa) and cortisol to resistance (r), endurance (e) and endurance-resistance (er) exercise. methods: the participants of this study were 10 healthy young men. r protocol included bench press, lateral pull down, leg extension...

To the Editor: As authors of a guideline and a systematic review on interventions for preventing and reducing physical restraints (PR) in long-term geriatric care, we eagerly awaited the publication by Koczy and colleagues on the Redufix trial that had been completed 5 years before. Since then, without public access to the final results, the intervention has been promoted throughout Germany as ...

Research has often been considered an enigma by most of us a privilege of the exclusives of the profession. But research simply means 're-search' the existing facts either to solve a problem or improve an existing system all along the process adding more new facts to the profession. Being an action packed speciality, most of us aspire to be a clinician rather than an academician or a scientist.

Nishimura (2003) first pointed out that in Japanese loanwords, voiced geminates devoice optionally when they co-occur with another voiced obstruent i.e. when they violate OCP(voice) (e.g. /baggu/ → [bakku] ‘bag’). This devoicing of geminates has been used to make several theoretical claims in the recent phonological literature. However, these claims have so far largely been based on intuition-b...

DSM-PM2 is a platform for designing, implementing and experimenting multithreaded DSM consistency protocols. It provides a generic toolbox which facilitates protocol design and allows for easy experimentation with alternative protocols for a given consistency model. DSM-PM2 is portable across a wide range of clusters. We illustrate its power with figures obtained for different protocols impleme...

Overview Current trends in drug development are placing more emphasis on characterization of potential drug candidates earlier in the discovery process. The goal is to take more qualified drug candidates to preclinical testing and clinical trials. This shift in focus will enable drug researchers to save time and money. Nearly 60% of the costs to develop a new drug are incurred in the clinical t...

Classical software configuration management which deals with source code versioning becomes insufficient when most components are distributed in binary form. As an important aspect of software configuration, protocol configuration also encounters those problems. This paper focuses on solving protocol component versioning issues for protocol configuration management on embedded system, incorpora...