Glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1) null genotype has been indicated to be correlated with preterm delivery (PTD) susceptibility, but study results were still debatable. Thus, a meta-analysis was conducted. PubMed, EMBASE, and CNKI were searched. Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to calculate the strength of association in the random-effects model or fixed-effects...

Interactive visualisation has been one of the most exciting areas in HCI over recent years. The key term here is 'interactive', and in this paper we assert that virtually any static representation can become more powerful by the addition of simple interactive elements. This is demonstrated by adding interactivity to standard representations including stacked histograms, pie charts and scatter p...

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We compute in this note the full homotopy type of the space of symplectic embeddings of the standard ball B(c) ⊂ R (where c = πr is the capacity of the standard ball of radius r) into the 4-dimensional rational symplectic manifold Mμ = (S 2 × S, μω0 ⊕ ω0) where ω0 is the area form on the sphere with total area 1 and μ belongs to the interval (1, 2]. We know, by the work of Lalonde-Pinsonnault, ...

x = 0. That is, one would like the function δ(x) = 0 for all x 6 = 0, but with δ(x)dx = 1 for any inThese notes give a brief introduction to the motegration region that includes ́ x = 0; this concept tivations, concepts, and properties of distributions, is called a “Dirac delta function” or simply a “delta which generalize the notion of functions f(x) to alfunction.” δ(x) is usually the simplest...

From an evolutionary perspective, the normal social play of children involves kids of various ages. Our human and great-ape ancestors most likely lived in small groups with low birth rates, which made play with others of nearly the same age rare. Consequently, the evolutionary functions of children’s social play are best understood by examining play in groups that include children of different ...