BACKGROUND The collection of information on infertility treatments is important for the surveillance of potential health consequences and to monitor service provision. STUDY DESIGN We compared the coverage and outcomes of IVF children reported in aggregated IVF statistics, the Medical Birth Register (subsequently: MBR) and research data based on reimbursements for IVF treatments in Finland in...

This paper presents the submissions of the pattern recognition and human language technology (PRHLT) group to the system combination task of the sixth workshop on statistical machine translation (WMT 2011). Each submissions is generated by a multi-system minimum Bayes risk (MBR) technique. Our technique uses the MBR decision rule and a linear combination of the component systems’ probability di...

Membrane bioreactor (MBR) is an efficient wastewater treatment technology, which produced by combining membrane technology and biological has the characteristics of stable water quality shock load resistance, been widely used in domestic treatment. Anaerobic ammonia oxidation (ANAMMOX) a new type denitrification with advantages low energy consumption, oxygen demand, carbon source saving good ec...

INTRODUCTION Separation of polyphenolics in different plant materials using high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) represents an effective method for their detection and quantification. OBJECTIVE To develop a simple, specific, precise, sensitive and accurate method for the simultaneous quantification of tiliroside (TRS), methyl brevifolincarboxylate (MBR) and ellagic acid (EA) in ...

The continued depletion of fresh drinking water resources throughout the world has increased the need for a variety of water treatment and recycling strategies. Conventional wastewater treatment processes rely on extensive chemical post-disinfection to comply with the stringent microbiological safety for water reuse. When well designed and operated, membrane bioreactors (MBRs) can consistently ...

We present Mixture Model-based Minimum Bayes Risk (MMMBR) decoding, an approach that makes use of multiple SMT systems to improve translation accuracy. Unlike existing MBR decoding methods defined on the basis of single SMT systems, an MMMBR decoder reranks translation outputs in the combined search space of multiple systems using the MBR decision rule and a mixture distribution of component SM...

The evaluation of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for pretreatment of reverse osmosis (RO) in order to reuse and reclamation of industrial town wastewater treatment plant was investigated in this study. Performance of MBR effluent through water quality in term of parameters such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), total nitrogen (TN) and total coliform (TC) were measured....

In conventional activated sludge (CAS) involving aerobic biological processes, the retention of silica nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs) has no detrimental effect on chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia nitrogen (NH3–N) removal. However, for the membrane bioreactor (MBR) system, which is also based on the activated sludge process in addition to the membrane separation process, it has implications no...

OBJECTIVE While there has been a large increase in scientific studies on spirituality, there has been too few of studies of the core of spirituality: spiritual experiences (SE), which often involve altered states of consciousness, reports of anomalous experiences and of consciousness beyond the body. This paper argues that SE, although usually neglected in debates regarding mind-brain relations...