Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) affects many people and is often distressing. Much medical literature about diagnosis and treatment exists, but little is known about PCOS menstrual cycle-related experiences except that cycles tend to be far-apart and unpredictable. Our purpose was to examine the menstrual cycle and daily life experiences in those with PCOS having approximately month-apart cycles compared with age and BMI-matched cohort controls using data from the Menstruation & Ovulation Study 2 (MOS2) during the first 1.
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March 2021
Porous metallic scaffolds show promise in orthopedic applications due to favorable mechanical and biological properties. In vivo stress conditions on orthopedic implants are complex, often including multiaxial loading across off axis orientations. In this study, unit cell orientation was rotated in the XZ plane of a strut-based architecture, Diamond Crystal, and two sheet-based, triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) architectures, Schwartz D and Gyroid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA previous study reported thermal effects resulting from millimeter wave exposures at 35 and 94 GHz on non-human primates, specifically rhesus monkeys' (Macaca mulatta) corneas, but the data exhibited large variations in the observed temperatures and uncertainties in the millimeter wave dosimetry. By incorporating improvements in models and dosimetry, a non-human primate experiment was conducted involving corneal exposures that agreed well with a three-layer, one-dimensional, thermodynamic model to predict the expected surface temperature rise. The new data indicated that the originally reported safety margins for eye exposures were underestimated by 41 ± 20% over the power densities explored.
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