Prenatal testing
Drawing technical contrasts to address prenatal testing
... Weighing the stakes But before I get to it, I would like to address the very sensitive, vital stake of prenatal testing, the famous “elephant in the room” Stefan talked about during his keynote speech: ...
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A mixed method review and quality criteria analysis : towards improving decision aids and informing care models in prenatal testing
... Among the strengths of the thesis one may highlight the methodological approach which consisted of a mixed method review that relied on a meta-ethnography of qualitative studies and a systematic review of quantitative ...
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Co-production of technology and socio-political orders: Prenatal testing in Belgium and Argentina
... Presentation 1. Co-productionist approach imported form the STS : useful for policy analysis ? 2. Prenatal surveillance « apparatus » in Belgium and Argentina : a mature policy 3. Co-productionist analysis of ...
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Moral Responsibility in the Context of Prenatal Testing: What can be Expected?
... of testing affects the way that we, as a society, view people living with the conditions detected by these tests ...that testing increases the stigmatization of people affected by disability and their ...
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Strategy for Use of Genome-Wide Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing for Rare Autosomal Aneuploidies and Unbalanced Structural Chromosomal Anomalies
... Several tests are available to screen for chromosomal abnormalities. The most common are first- or second-trimester traditional maternal serum screenings (MSS), which typically screen for common fetal aneuploidies ...
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Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Review of Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
... Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) using cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) from maternal blood has recently entered clinical practice in many countries, including ...other prenatal tests (amniocentesis ...
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Analysis of the Ethical, Social and Legal Issues Related to the Delivery of the Prenatal Genetic Testing in Argentina
... The existence of major inequalities between citizens accessing health services in Argentina is a matter of justice that needs political response (Daniels, 2001); in a just society, the population’s health needs should ...
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Written consent and reproductive autonomy in the context of prenatal screening
... The implications for future research from the findings herein are twofold. First of all, and more specifically, it is recommended that questions be formulated around concrete practices whose use or lack thereof is easily ...
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On Testing Constraint Programs
... A. Testing B before using it on large instances of the problem (when m > 15) is highly desirable as computing the global minimum of the problem for these instances may require computation time greater than a ...
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Prenatal diagnosis of abnormally invasive placenta reduces maternal peripartum hemorrhage and morbidity.
... Material and methods Abnormally invasive placenta was staged clinically and histologically as shown in Table 1. All women with con- firmed placenta increta or percreta treated between 1998 and 2011 were collected; women ...
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Testing Peers' Volatility
... for testing a distributed system consists of a centralized tester which sends the test inputs, con- trols the synchronization of the distributed system and receives the outputs (or local verdicts) of each node of ...
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On Testing Constraint Programs
... A. Testing B before using it on large instances of the problem (when m > 15) is highly desirable as computing the global minimum of the problem for these instances may require computation time greater than a ...
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Does pre-testing promote better retention than post-testing?
... In 2007, the US Department of Education published a summary report with several recommendations for improving teaching to reinforce learning. 31 One of them was to “use pre-questions to introduce a new topic ”. Yet the ...
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Couple-oriented prenatal HIV counseling for HIV primary prevention: an acceptability study.
... oriented prenatal HIV counseling, with a strengthened post-test session, was considered useful and beneficial by all key informants in the four study ...and testing after their wives received ...
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BRCA1 expression during prenatal development of the human mammary gland
... Figure 1 Morphological changes of the mammary gland in human females during prenatal development. (a) Mammary sprout of a 19-week-old female human fetus. Lobular structure of the fat pad is seen below the mammary ...
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Effects of prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupters on cerebral cortex development
... This paper will review the role of thyroid hormones and sex steroids in cerebral cortex development and will illustrate, with PCBs and bisphenol A, the potential effects of[r] ...
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Acoustical Testing
... TYPES OF MOUNTING (Used in Conducting Sound Absorption Tests). Cemented to pla8ter board with ｾＢ air space[r] ...
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Reconsidering Prenatal Hormonal Influences on Human Sexual Orientation: Lessons from Animal Research.
... concerns prenatal influences on human sexual orientation, we were surprised that he barely mentions a sizable animal literature on the hormonal and neural control of male-typical, as well as female-typical, sexual ...
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Air leakage testing
... / La version de cette publication peut être l’une des suivantes : la version prépublication de l’auteur, la version acceptée du manuscrit ou la version de l’éditeur. Access and use of [r] ...
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Truncated Sequential Non-Parametric Hypothesis Testing Based on Random Distortion Testing
... knowledge of the signal, is able to provide sufficient perfor- mance guarantees while making a decision faster on average compared to BlockRDT. Furthermore, with the knowledge of a few parameters only, instead of the ...
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