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Furthermore, we demonstrated the refractometric sensing and enhanced IR absorption of the FPM device for its potential in chemical and biomolecule sensing applications.Aim This study evaluated the competency of oocytes/embryos derived from follicles >15 mm in diameter from obese patients, compared with nonobese patients. Patients and methods A cohort study was conducted in a single tertiary medical center between July 2018 and May 2019. Before ultrasound-guided follicular aspiration, follicles were measured and those with maximal dimensional size >15 mm were tracked. Microscopic examination of the follicular aspirates was performed by an embryologist. Each follicle aspirated was evaluated for oocyte maturation, oocyte fertilization, and embryo quality. Results 457 follicles were measured 380 (83.2%) in nonobese and 77 (16.8%) in obese patients. No in-between group differences were observed in the causes of infertility, patients' demographics, or ovarian stimulation characteristics. Oocytes were achieved during aspiration from 277 (72.8%) and 54 (70.0%) of the nonobese and obese groups, respectively (p = 0.67). No in-between group differences were observed in fertilization (2PN/oocyte), top quality embryo (TQE) per zygote (2PN), and TQE per follicle. Conclusion Oocyte recovery rate from follicles >15 mm is unrelated to patients' BMI. Moreover, the oocytes recovered from obese patients are competent yielding comparable zygote and TQE per follicle/oocyte, compared with nonobese patients. Further investigation is required to strengthen this finding.Objective Obesity induced by a high fat diet is associated with chronic up-regulation of inflammatory cytokines which stimulate osteoclast activity and bone resorption. However, the role of high-fat diet on bone-implant connectivity has not been studied in detail. In this study, we investigated whether a high-fat diet (HFD) affects bone implant connection (BIC) in periimplant bone. Methods Twenty female Sprague Dawley rats were divided in two groups 1) Control rats were fed with normal chow and titanium implants were integrated into tibial bones at the end of 3rd month and no treatment was applied 2) HFD group; rats were fed a high-fat diet (42 % of calories as fat), then the titanium implants were integrated into tibial bones at the end 3rd month. Following surgical integration of the implants, the rats were fed with control and HFD diets for 3 months. After the 6 months experimental period all rats were sacrificed and the implants and surrounded bone tissues were collected and the BIC was assessed histomorphometrically after the non-decalcifiing histological methods. Bone implant connection was detected with the ratio of the implant surface directly connected with the peri-implant bone tissues to the total implant surface length. Results Histologic analysis showed that HFD was not impaired BIC (p>0.05). Conclusion In conclusion, within the limitation of this research, HFD did not effect the BIC rat tibias (Tab. 2, Fig. 2, Ref. 26). Text in PDF www.elis.sk.Treatment of [Ph3EMe][I] with [NaN(SiMe3)2] affords the ylides [Ph3E=CH2] (E = As, 1As; P, 1P). For 1As this overcomes prior difficulties in the synthesis of this classical arsonium-ylide that have historically impeded its wider study. The structure of 1As has now been determined, 45 years after it was first convincingly isolated, and compared to 1P, confirming the long-proposed hypothesis of increasing pyramidalisation of the ylide-carbon, highlighting the increasing dominance of E+-C- dipolar resonance form (sp3-C) over the E=C ene p-bonded form (sp2-C), as group 15 is descended. The uranium(IV)-cyclometallate complex [UN(CH2CH2NSiPri3)2(CH2CH2SiPri2CH(Me)CH2)] reacts with 1As and 1P by a-proton abstraction to give [U(TrenTIPS)(CHEPh3)] (TrenTIPS = N(CH2CH2NSiPri3)3; E = As, 2As; P, 2P), where 2As is an unprecedented structurally characterised arsonium-carbene complex. The short U-C distances and obtuse U-C-E angles suggest significant U=C double bond character. A shorter U-C distance is found for 2As than 2P, consistent with increased uranium- and reduced pnictonium-stabilisation of the carbene as group 15 is descended, which is supported by quantum chemical calculations.Context Learning technologies are ubiquitous in medical schools implemented in anticipation of more effective, active and authentic learning and teaching. Such thinking appears to be an instance of solutionism. The evidence is that academics' adoption of learning technologies is often limited in scale and scope and frequently fails to transform their teaching practices. Methods This paper aims to provide a contextualised analysis of considerations pertinent to the adoption of learning technologies by teaching staff. Pexidartinib We contextualise a framework for understanding adoption of learning technologies in higher education to medical education. Conclusions We identify multiple precursors that predict individual patterns of adoption, illuminating factors related to the technology, the individual staff member charged with adoption and the working environment. We offer conceptual clarity to the vexed issue of learning technology adoption and provide evidence explaining why, despite their widely promulgated potential, learning technologies do not offer an easy route to the transformation of medical education.Herein an efficient Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution cascade of both (E)- and (Z)-but-2-ene-1,4-diyl dimethyl dicarbonates with α-substituted cyano ketones is described for the preparation of chiral 2,3-dihydrofurans in up to 97% yield with 98% ee. A suggested steric control process has been proposed to illustrate the differences in enantioselectivity between the reactions of (E)- and (Z)-allyl substrates. The cascade reaction could be conducted on a gram-scale, and the resulting product allows for several transformations.SLC30A8 encodes the zinc transporter ZnT8. SLC30A8 haploinsufficiency protects against type 2 diabetes (T2D), suggesting that ZnT8 inhibitors may prevent T2D. We show here that, while adult chow fed Slc30a8 haploinsufficient and knockout (KO) mice have normal glucose tolerance, they are protected against diet-induced obesity (DIO), resulting in improved glucose tolerance. We hypothesize that this protection against DIO may represent one mechanism whereby SLC30A8 haploinsufficiency protects against T2D in humans and that, while SLC30A8 is predominantly expressed in pancreatic islet beta cells, this may involve a role for ZnT8 in extra-pancreatic tissues. Consistent with this latter concept we show in humans, using electronic health record-derived phenotype analyses, that the 'C' allele of the non-synonymous rs13266634 single nucleotide polymorphism, which confers a gain of ZnT8 function, is associated not only with increased T2D risk and blood glucose but also but also increased risk for hemolytic anemia and decreased mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH).