This work was designed to study how this ability is affected by different sperm treatments routinely used for in vitro fertilization (IVF) assay. In this study, boar sperm samples from epididymal or ejaculated origin were processed by three different methods: left unwashed (NW group), washed in Dulbecco's phosphate-buffered saline supplemented with 0.1% BSA (BSA group), and washed on a Percoll(...

This work aims to identify the impacts of vermicompost leachate (VCL) toward its salt resistance stress in plants. Young Capsicum annuum L seedlings were subjected salinity (160 mM NaCl added a nutrient solution) over course seven days during or following adding 7 mL L−1 VCL. The exposure resulted notable decrease dry and fresh leaf weights, K+ concentrations, water content; whereas root ...

There are some major distinctions between the military and commercial communications. We can enumerate the most basic two of them as the hostile environment, and the rapid deployment requirement. In our study, we discuss how to employ emerged and evolving civilian technologies, namely the third generation (3G) Personal Communications Services (PCS) techniques for military communications in spit...

Managing and delivering virtualised cloud-based services in systems like the virtual computing lab (VCL) is an open challenge. Current research is focused on enhancing specific components like service discovery, composition and monitoring and there is no holistic view of what would constitute a lifecycle of virtualised services delivered on a cloud environment. We have developed a policy-based ...

Introduction Increased bandwidth of wireless technologies motivated delivery of video over wireless networks. H.264 compressed video source, applied to video coding layer (VCL) for high compression representation of video content, has a number of error resilience tools. Data partitioning (DP) creates partitions on highest data structure called slices. By enabling DP technique, VCL divides origi...

The Fourier pseudospectral time-domain method is an efficient wave-based method to model sound propagation in inhomogeneous media. One of the limitations of the method for atmospheric sound propagation purposes is its restriction to a Cartesian grid, confining it to staircase-like geometries. A transform from the physical coordinate system to the curvilinear coordinate system has been applied t...

Sperm competition theory predicts semen characteristics to be affected by the social environment. We used the polygamous horse (Equus caballus) to experimentally study within-subject plasticity in response to different social environments. Stallions were sequentially exposed, over a period of 8 weeks each, to other stallions and then singly to mares, or vice versa (in adjacent boxes separated b...

Migration of seismic reflection data to common image-point gathers is an integral part of both migration velocity analysis (MVA) and amplitude (AVA) analysis. Its applicability in complex geology depends on whether these gathers will be artifact free, and is related to the formation of caustics and turning ‘rays’ due to the heterogeneity of the velocity model used. Here, we discuss an angle tra...

Interest in cloud computing has grown significantly over the past few years both in the commercial and non-profit sectors. In the commercial sector, various companies have advanced economic arguments for the installation of cloud computing systems to service their clients’ needs. This paper focuses on non-profit educational institutions and analyzes some operational data from the Virtual Comput...