Valor preditivo do potencial de implantação embrionário pela análise do perfil químico de meios de cultivo por espectrometria de massas (ESI-Q-ToF)

Objective: This case-control study analyzed mass spectrometry fingerprinting patterns of culture media samples used for embryo culture to predict embryo implantation. Methods: The culture medium harvested after embryo transfer of 22 embryos from 13 patients was used for the experiments. After embryo transfer, the remaining culture media were collected and samples were split in positive (n=8) and negative (n=14) implantation groups according to implantation outcomes (100% or 0% of implantation). Samples were individually diluted and injected directly to the Electrospray ionization (ESI) MS coupled to a Quadrupole Time-of-flight MS (Q-ToF-MS).Ions relative intensities of each spectrum were considered. Data analysis was conducted in MatLab 7.0 version using Partial Least Squares - Discriminant Analysis toolbox. Results: There were 3027 observed ions at 100% and 0% implantation groups by ESI-Q-ToF-MS. The statistical model could categorize the samples in two clusters, based on their positive and negative implantation outcomes. Less intense ions present in the mass spectra with statistical significance have contributed to the major differences to group distinction. Conclusions: Positive and negative implantation embryos showed a specific biochemical pattern present in culture media, which could be detected as a fast, simple and non-invasive way. This biochemical profile could help the selection of the most viable embryo, improving single embryo transfer and thus eliminating the risk and undesirable outcomes of multiple pregnancies. © Todos os direitos reservados a SBRA - Sociedade Brasileira de Reprodução Assistida.

A comparison between neutron-fluence measurements using metal-activation monitors and standard glasses calibrated via thin uranium-fission monitors and via ηq method

The two fundamental approaches to fission-track dating involve either an explicit determination of the thermal neutron fluence (φ-method) or a calibration against age standards (ζ-method). The neutron fluence measurements are carried out with metal-activation monitors or with uranium-fission monitors, co-irradiated with the samples. Uranium-fission monitors consist of either a thin mono-atomic) film, or a thick fission source (standard uranium glass) irradiated against a muscovite external track detector. In this work, different techniques for performing neutron-fluence measurements were compared: based on thin-film calibration, based on thick-source calibration, and based on gamma spectrometry of co-irradiated metal monitors (Au, Co). The results suggest that more experiments are needed to make all calibrations consistent, including new measurements of the length of etched induced tracks in mica. Also the standard glass calibration carried out with thin films should be confirmed with a greater number of calibrating irradiations. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Um estudo sobre o fator de forma 'gkk*'pi'(q POT. 2)' usando regras de soma da QCD

Pós-graduação em Física - IFT

Representação geométrica em Q(zeta_pq)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Um ensaio teórico sobre a geografia da saúde e q questão do ar como agentes de influência na soberania nacional

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Análise de ambiguidade em métodos de campo potenciais através de análise fatorial, Q-Modal

Este trabalho apresenta uma metodologia para o estudo da ambiguidade na interpretação de dados geofísicos. Várias soluções alternativas, representativas da região de maior ambiguidade no espaço de parâmetros são obtidas, sendo posteriormente grupadas e ordenadas pela análise fatorial modo Q. Esta metodologia foi aplicada a dados sintéticos de campo potencial simulando-se causas de ambiguidade como discretização e truncamento da anomalia e a presença de ruídos aleatório e geológico. Um único prisma foi usado como modelo interpretativo, sendo a espessura a principal causa de ambiguidade tanto na gravimetria como na magnetometria. Segue-se a profundidade do topo sempre associada à espessura, quando o sinal da anomalia é alto. Quando a anomalia tem sinal baixo, a largura torna-se o segundo parâmetro mais importante, também associada à espessura. Ao contrário da presença de interferências geológicas, a presença de ruído aleatório nos campos, não é fator importante na ambiguidade. A aplicação da metodologia a dados reais ilustra o papel desta análise na caracterização de soluções alternativas e a importância da informação a priori na caracterização das causas de ambiguidade. A metodologia apresentada pode ser empregada em diversos estágios de um programa de prospecção fornecendo em cada estágio uma análise dos principais fatores causadores da ambiguidade, que poderá ser util no planejamento dos estágios seguintes. Comparada a outros métodos de análise de ambiguidade, como por exemplo regiões de confiança, a metodologia estudada destaca-se por não precisar satisfazer premissas estatísticas sobre a distribuição dos erros.

S Q E D (4) and Q E D (4) on the Null-Plane

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

NIL_004 Summary of session C6: Q&A-everything you wanted to know about gravitational waves but were afraid to ask

The paper summarizes the parallel session C6 Q&A-everything you wanted to know about gravitational waves but were afraid to ask of the joint 10th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves and 20th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation.

Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neutrino detector, including periods of joint operation between 2007-2010. These include parts of the 2005-2007 run and the 2009-2010 run for LIGO-Virgo, and IceCube's observation periods with 22, 59 and 79 strings. We find no significant coincident events, and use the search results to derive upper limits on the rate of joint sources for a range of source emission parameters. For the optimistic assumption of gravitational-wave emission energy of 10(-2) M(circle dot)c(2) at similar to 150 Hz with similar to 60 ms duration, and high-energy neutrino emission of 1051 erg comparable to the isotropic gamma-ray energy of gamma-ray bursts, we limit the source rate below 1.6 x 10(-2) Mpc(-3) yr(-1). We also examine how combining information from gravitational waves and neutrinos will aid discovery in the advanced gravitational-wave detector era.

Cyclic codes through B[X;(a/b)Z_0, with (a/b) in Q^{+} and b=a+1, and Encoding

Let B[X; S] be a monoid ring with any fixed finite unitary commutative ring B and is the monoid S such that b = a + 1, where a is any positive integer. In this paper we constructed cyclic codes, BCH codes, alternant codes, Goppa codes, Srivastava codes through monoid ring . For a = 1, almost all the results contained in [16] stands as a very particular case of this study.

Organização genômima e análise da expressão do gene hnRNP Q-like (Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A-like) retroinserido no cromossomo B de Astatotilapia latifasciata

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

First report of Bemisia tabaci Mediterranean (Q biotype) species in Brazil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Observation of the rare B-s(0)->mu(+)mu(-) decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Lattices from subfields of Q (xi n)

In this paper we present a method for evaluating the center density of algebraic lattices from subfields of Q(xi n), where n is a positive integer. This method allows to reproduce rotated versions of dense lattices in some dimensions. Constellations on algebraic lattices with high packing density have been proposed for use in communications in Gaussian channels and also in Rayleigh fading channels in case they have high diversity.