Abstract Background Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is known to be associated with chronic low-grade inflammation and endometrial dysfunction.Chronic endometritis (CE) is a type of local inflammation that can contribute to endometrial dysfunction in infertile women.Some clinicians recommend screening for CE in women at high risk, such as those wit

In this work, a new constrained numerical optimization approach is proposed for solving offline the Inverse Kinematics Problem (IKP) of articulated robots, which consists on optimizing the joint displacement while the end effector is positioned and oriented in a desired pose.The novelty of this approach is in the formulation of the optimization pro

The successful establishment of a species in a given habitat depends on the ability of each of its developing stages to adapt to the environment.In order to understand this process we have studied the adaptation of a euryhaline fish, the sea-bass Dicentrarchus labrax, to various salinities during its ontogeny.The expression and localization of Aqua

In addition to buildings, the terrain forms an important part of a 3D city model.Although in GIS terrains are usually represented with 2D grids, TINs are also increasingly being used in practice.One example is 3DTOP10NL, the 3D city model covering the whole of the Netherlands, which stores the relief with a constrained TIN containing more than 1 bi