Background: Caesarean section has been a part of human culture since ancient times.It has been used effectively throughout the 20th century and among the major abdominal surgeries, it is the most common, oldest worldwide surgery performed in obstetrics.Despite the life saving advantages, there are several adverse consequences of caesarean delivery
The Kjeldahl method is the most utilized method for total protein content analysis in food.Using the universal nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor Cream Serum of 6.25, the protein content of insects is likely to be overestimated due to their chitin content.We have calculated nitrogen-to-protein conversion factors for two crickets, house cricket (
BackgroundAntibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is a major cause of graft loss in Stoppers kidney transplantation, often associated with de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA).The detection of clinically relevant dnDSA relies on evaluating reactivity in single antigen bead (SAB) assays.Immunogenetic mismatches between donor and recipient, particula
As part of two research projects for analysing bycatch and discards, we quantified catch composition, catch rates, bycatch and discards in two important commercial bottom Wireless Cameras trawl fisheries (crustacean and fish trawls) off the southern coast of Portugal (Algarve).Stratified sampling by onboard observers took place from February 1999 t
We propose a novel probabilistic framework for the extraction of density-based 3D shape descriptors using kernel density estimation.Our descriptors are derived from the probability density functions (pdf) of local surface features Stoppers characterizing the 3D object geometry.Assuming that the shape of the 3D object is represented as a mesh consis