BMC Pregnancy and ChildbirthBackground Non-invasive chromosome screening (NICS) and trophectoderm biopsy preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (TE-PGT) were both applied for embryo ploidy detection, However, the cumulative live birth rates (CLBR) of NICS and TE-PGT in ...
Qin Sun +7 more
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Fatal Gaps: How Missing Records in the Federal Background Check System Put Guns in the Hands of Killers [PDF]
, 2011 This report analyzes newly released FBI data showing millions of records identifying seriously mentally ill people and drug abusers are missing from the NICS database because of lax state reporting.
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The rest-frame UV-to-optical spectroscopy of APM 08279+5255 - BAL classification and black hole mass estimates [PDF]
, 2018 We present the analysis of the rest-frame optical-to-UV spectrum of APM 08279+5255, a well-known lensed broad absorption line (BAL) quasar at $z = 3.911$.
Bischetti, M. +11 more
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Bolometric correction and spectral energy distribution of cool stars in Galactic clusters [PDF]
, 2010 We have investigated the relevant trend of the bolometric correction (BC) at the cool-temperature regime of red giant stars and its possible dependence on stellar metallicity.
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Commonsense Solutions: How State Laws Can Reduce Gun Deaths Associated with Mental Illness [PDF]
, 2014 Guns in the hands of the dangerously mentally ill have taken the lives of too many people. Mass shootings, like the shooting in a parking lot in Tucson, Arizona in January 2011, and the shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012, have ...
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A review of the ever increasing threat to European crayfish from non-indigenous crayfish species [PDF]
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2009 Non-indigenous crayfish species (NICS) in Europe now outnumber indigenous crayfish species (ICS) 2:1, and it has been predicted that they may dominate completely in the next few decades unless something is done to protect them. Of the ten NICS introduced
D.M. Holdich +3 more
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The Study of Substituent Effect on Osmabenzene Complexes [PDF]
International Journal of New Chemistry, 2014 The electronic structure and properties of the osmaabenzenes and para substituted osmabenzenes have been explored using the hybrid density functional mpw1pw91 theory. Systematic studies on the substituent effect in para substituted osmabenzenes complexes
Reza Ghiasi, Roya Ahmadi
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Beilstein Journal of Organic ChemistryOxidized states of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are of importance as they represent charged conductive species in organic semiconductor substrates. In this work, we investigated the properties of radical cations and dications of linear and angular [3]
Abel Cárdenas +6 more
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Sensitivity study of energy transfer between mesoscale eddies and wind-induced near-inertial oscillations [PDF]
Ocean ScienceAnalyses of current observations and numerical simulations at two moorings in the northern South China Sea reveal the transfer of near-inertial energy between the background currents associated with mesoscale eddies and near-inertial currents (NICs).
Y. Zhang +5 more
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Significance of Development Stage Theory for Explaining Industrial Growth Pattern between Asian NICs and Selected Advanced Economies [PDF]
The East Asian miracle was real. Prior to the 1997 economic and currency crises, Asian NICs — Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan — achieved remarkable annual GDP growth. In these countries the overall economic performance was significantly determined
Chang Woon Nam
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