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The goal of our study is to explore the association of assisted reproductive technology (ART) as contributing factor for obstetric complications and perinatal outcome in twin pregnancies during a 14-year period at a single tertiary centre. We collected the data (from maternal and neonatal medical records) from 731 twin pregnancies; 192 conceived by ART and 539 twin pregnancies conceived naturally during a 14-year period. Pregnancy complications in twin pregnancies mainly included preterm premature rupture of membranes, gestational diabetes mellitus, and preeclampsia. Higher occurrence of placenta praevia in the ART group was the only perinatal risk related to twin pregnancies in the ART group as compared to those conceived naturally. Over 71% of ART twins were delivered by caesarean section, which is considerably increased as compared to non-ART twins (p=0.042). Neonatal complications in both groups mainly included low Apgar score in the 1st minute, low birth weight and admission to NICU, and the incidences of these complications were comparable between the groups. Our results indicated that ART procedures were not followed by adverse obstetric and perinatal outcome in twin pregnancy delivered at single tertiary centre, except for the slightly higher risk of placenta praevia.

Data presented in this article are supplementary material to our article entitled "Identification and diagnosis of patients with familial chylomicronaemia syndrome (FCS): expert panel recommendations and proposal of an "FCS Score" (Moulin et al., 2018, in press). The data describe the genotypes of patients with familial chylomicronaemia syndrome (FCS) and multifactorial chylomicronaemia syndrome (MCS), from the validation and replication cohorts.

We report 105Pd NMR and NQR measurements on a single crystal of Ce3Pd20Si6, where antiferroquadrupolar and antiferromagnetic orders develop at low temperature. From the analysis of NQR and NMR spectra, we have determined the electric eld gradient (EFG) tensors and the anisotropic Knight shift (K) components for both inequivalent Pd sites - Pd(32f) and Pd(48h). The observed EFG values are in excellent agreement with our state-of-the-art DFT calculations. The principal values of the quadrupolar coupling are (20.37 +/- 0.02) MHz and (5.45 +/- 0.02) MHz, for the Pd(32f) and Pd(48h) site, respectively, which is large compared to the Larmor frequency de ned by the gyromagnetic constant gamma = 1.94838 MHz/T for 105Pd. Therefore, the complete knowledge of K and the EFG tensors is crucial to establish the correspondence between NMR spectra and crystallographic sites, which is needed for a complete analysis of the magnetic structure, static spin susceptibility, and the spin-lattice relaxation rate data and a better understanding of the groundstate of Ce3Pd20Si6.

In a previous article [M. S. Grbić et al., Phys. Rev. B 83, 144508 (2011)] we reported data on the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7−δ collected by a contactless microwave absorption technique, which provided evidence for superconducting correlations over a limited temperature range (10–20 K above Tc). The paraconductivity signal was determined by subtraction of zero-magnetic-field data from 16-T data. In the preceding Comment [D. Sóñora et al., preceding Comment, Phys. Rev. B 102, 176501 (2020)] D. Sóñora et al. argue that a 16-T magnetic field is not enough to quench all superconducting fluctuations in the microwave spectral range above Tc. As is obvious from the experimental data presented here, as well as from the data shown in the original paper, such conclusions disagree with our experimental results. Moreover, our initial experimental findings recently received independent robust confirmation from several different experimental techniques.

The VINI in silico model of cancer approaches cancer in the spirit of system biology, and is oriented towards analysis of metabolic pathways. It was tested with the data from KEGG database, which, along with Reactome is considered the most reliable source of experimentally confirmed metabolic reactions. The VINI model expresses near 92% in vitro and 80% in vivo accuracy in predicting the efficacy of cancer drugs. Because of the current situation with COVID-19 disease, its functionality was extended, and VINI is now able to predict the efficacy of drugs and chemical compounds in inhibiting the SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein.

Understanding modernity seems to be inflected in the narrative conditions of Hamlet: Hamlet may be to modernity what the story of Oedipus is to psychoanalysis, a specimen story in which the intellectual constitution of modernity is decided. In this essay I analyze how industrial modernity finds its articulation in Hamlet, especially in the positions where Hamlet is claimed for realism; realism is taken to mean not a poetics so much as an apparatus instrumental to negotiating the modern condition in the nineteenth century. With a focus on John Everett Millais’s Ophelia (1851–2), I discuss how Ophelia replaces Hamlet as a figure where realism is negotiated in Victorian modernity, also as a figure where modern psychopolitics, with its investment in mourning, finds its foothold in the world of the Industrial Revolution. Lastly, I argue that Ophelia may be where the unresolved narrative conditions of Antigone are retained in Hamlet, along with the political concerns implicit to Antigone’s mourning.

This paper has two main goals. First, it aims to answer the question on how the usage of ICT and digital technologies affects firm productivity. Second, it aims to analyze how change in the share of the manufacturing sector and/or the service sector in a given region direct changes in firm productivity. The analysis was carried out using a financial dataset of Croatian enterprises in the period from 2009 to 2019 and Eurostats’ Digital Economy and Society data, based on “Community survey on ICT usage and ecommerce in enterprises”. The data were analyzed using principal component analysis and panel data methods. The results indicate a positive relationship between adoption of ICT technologies and firm productivity, and a negative correlation between adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. Furthermore, the results show a high degree of deindustrialization of certain regions and a positive correlation between industry intensity in certain regions and firm productivity. Finally, there seems to be a positive premium on productivity for larger-sized firms, firms participating in international trade, companies situated near to key international markets (i.e., located in counties bordering with the City of Zagreb).

This is a correction of Biochemia Medica 2018;28(2):020501. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11613/ BM.2018.020501