Methods and kits are provided for diagnosing, monitoring, or predicting preeclaimpsia in a pregnant woman, trisomy 18 and trisomy 21 in a fetus, as well as for detecting pregnancy in a woman, by quantitatively measuring in the maternal blood the amount of one or more RNA species derived from a set o.....
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The prevalence of obesity has increased rapidly in the past two decades in both industrialized and developing countries. For the evaluation and management of obesity, a simple and clear definition of obesity is indispensable. So far, the most widely used definition of obesity is based on Body Mass.....
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Conventional metallic white decorative hard coatings such as chromium and nickel coatings are deposited by electrochemical processes, and are known to reach a maximum hardness level of about 10-11 GPa. However, pollution problems associated with these processes, particularly those for chromium depo.....
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