background: recent reports have suggested that ultrasound-guided embryo transfer (ug-et) might improve pregnancy rates. objective: to determine whether transabdominal ug-et is a useful tool for increasing pregnancy and implantation rates in patients undergoing ivf or icsi. materials and methods: a prospective randomized clinical trial was conducted in 180 patients in order to compare embryo tra...

frozen section and touch imprint cytology are important diagnostic procedures for surgeons during operation and must be accurate if the patient is to receive maximum benefit. to assess the accuracy of intraoperative pathologic consultation including frozen section and touch imprint cytology during a five year period (1995- 2000), a retrospective survey of 1000 consecutive cases of frozen sectio...

34 Understanding how animals control locomotion in different behaviors requires understanding 35 both the kinematics of leg movements and the neural activity underlying these movements. 36 Stick insect leg kinematics differ in forward and backward walking. Describing leg muscle 37 activity in these behaviors is a first step towards understanding the neuronal basis for these 38 differences. 39 4...

abstract background: nausea and vomiting are the worst and the most prevalent complications experienced by 70–80% of patients. complementary treatments including therapeutic touch are cost‑effective and low‑risk, independent nursing interventions. present research aims at investigating the effect of therapeutic touch on the intensity of acute chemotherapy‑induced vomiting in these patients. mat...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of aging on the tactile and pain sensitivity, and the factors influencing threshold change in the oral mucosa using Semmes-Weinstein Pressure Aesthesiometer. The touch and pain thresholds of 81 healthy elderly (40 males and 41 females, 77 +/- 4.5 years) were compared with those of 58 young volunteers (27 males and 31 females, 27 +/- 2.5 year...

The effectiveness of a direct quantification assay is essential to the adoption of the combined direct quantification/direct STR workflow. In this paper, the feasibility of using the Quantifiler(®) Trio DNA quantification kit for the direct quantification of forensic casework samples was investigated. Both low-level touch DNA samples and blood samples were collected on PE swabs and quantified d...