Pathogenic missense variation in PABPC1L/EPAB causes female infertility due to oocyte maturation arrest at the germinal vesicle stage.

Women undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF) are treated using various protocols to induce multiple follicular growths. Complete failure of all oocytes to mature during IVF cycles is rare; however, it is a known cause of primary female infertility. Recently, pathogenic variations in a few genes have been identified in women with oocyte maturation defects; however, the underlying genetic causes remain largely unknown.

Propagation of classical and low booms through kinematic turbulence with uncertain parameters.

The propagation of sonic boom through kinematic turbulence is known to have an important impact on the noise perceived at the ground. In this work, a recent numerical method called FLHOWARD3D based on a one-way approach is used to simulate the propagation of classical and low-boom waveforms. Kinematic turbulence is synthesized following a von Kármán energy spectrum.

Mapping the International Geopolitical Agenda: Still National Conceptions of the Emerging European Crisi.

This study proposes a geopolitical analysis of opinion dynamics based on a statistical exploration of a press dataset covering 2014-2019. This exploration questions three case studies of geopolitical and international interest: international migration, political borders, and pandemics. Through the framework of , the aim of this study is to question the "crisis" status of changes in the media coverage of the three topics in a cross-analysis and multilingual analysis of 20 western European newspapers.

Human odor and forensics: Towards Bayesian suspect identification using GC × GC-MS characterization of hand odor.

A new method for identifying people by their odor is proposed. In this approach, subjects are characterized by a GC × GC-MS chromatogram of a sample of their hand odor. The method is based on the definition of a distance between odor chromatograms and the application of Bayesian hypothesis testing.

Impacts of global change on the concentrations and dilution of combined sewer overflows in a drinking water source.

This study presents an analysis of climate change impacts on a large river located in Québec (Canada) used as a drinking water source. Combined sewer overflow (CSO) effluents are the primary source of fecal contamination of the river. An analysis of river flowrates was conducted using historical data and predicted flows from a future climate scenario.