These tests however have inherent biological variation in relation to menstrual cycle and ageing; and are also influenced by the intra and inter observer variations. The aim of this thesis was to develop a reliable method of examining the effect of ovarian cystectomy on ovarian reserve.I began by examining the ultrasound markers of ovarian reserve. AFC is measured using 2D ultrasound and there is some evidence that 3D ultrasound can make more reliable counts than 2D.

But that’s not the fault of the pilots on either side. We are just trying to go to work. Being upset with the management of your, or a competing, or a unfortunate ownership situation is completely fair, I just wish that pilots would stop hating on each other.

The low cost, simplicity and agricultural relevance of morphological characterisation makes it an important tool in germplasm genetic variation studies.Thirty four lines from field experiments were investigated for genetic diversity based on 20 microsatellites. The expected heterozygosity (He) had an average of 1 in agreement with the fact that bambara groundnut is predominantly self pollinating. Both cluster analysis and principle component analysis (PCoA) grouped landraces based mainly on their areas of origin.A thorough molecular analysis of genetic and morphological variation in bambara groundnut was conducted to investigate the relationship between the two assessment techniques.

While some applications might require a fast and reliable way of disseminating messages amongst members of the network, other applications might be more delay tolerant without adding extra risks to the dependents of such application. Data dissemination methods are therefore important aspects of VANET that ensure messages are delivered to areas beyond the scope of the originating node.However, several types of research have shown that message propagation for each geographical route is unique to that route, owing to the number of network participants, their speed, and distribution of objects on that route. Many research designs do not consider the vehicles and their traffic characteristics and as such vehicular ad hoc networks are under utilised.One of the problems present in the emerging field of vehicular communications is that of optimally disseminating messages within the network to support services such as collision warnings, traffic management, and driverless vehicles amongst others.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the principal neuroimaging techniques for studying human audition, but it generates an intense background sound which hinders listening performance and confounds measures of the auditory response. This paper reports the perceptual effects of an active noise control (ANC) system that operates in the electromagnetically hostile and physically compact neuroimaging environment to provide significant noise reduction, without interfering with image quality. Cancellation was first evaluated at 600 Hz, corresponding to the dominant peak in the power spectrum of the background sound and at which cancellation is maximally effective.