A standard description of growth stages for crops/plants is necessary not only for determining and improving cultural practices, but also to facilitate enhanced communication among producers, researchers, and educators. It also could help in unifying experimental results. Many different descriptions of growth stages are currently available for many crops, but there are no codes for sesame (Sesa...

introduction: to improve the development of embryo in vitro several attempts have been made, including the application of leukemia inhibitory factor (lif). this factor plays an important role in embryo development and has been shown to enhance in vitro development rate in sheep and mice. there is controversy regarding the effect of lif on the different stages of embryo development. the aim of t...

This paper describes two alternative approaches to the automatic inference of a fuzzy classification system applied to computerised sleep staging. Both approaches use genetic algorithms to evolve a fuzzy classifier per sleep stage. In the first case, each stage classifier is independently evolved while in the second case, the classifiers are evolved simultaneously. Satisfactory results where ob...

the effect of modified vitrification was assessed on cellular development capability in mouse embryos cultured in vitro. in this study, 466 embryos (from zygote to morula stages) were vitrified then thawed embryos have been incubated for in vitro farther development up to blastocyst stage. also, vitrification and thawing procedures were the same for all experimental groups. mouse different embr...

The study's purpose was to identify the mediating role of intention and the stages of change (SOC) in physical activity (PA) over a 6-month period using two models (theory of planned behavior [TPB] and TPB/SOC). Participants were 143 adults with physical disabilities (70.68% response rate; M age = 46.03). The TPB constructs, SOC (time 1), and PA (time 2) were assessed using standardized self-re...

abstractbackground and objectives: all changes in the development stages of plants results in the change of one or more yield components and finally, the ultimate yield and manipulation of these periods means to create new possibilities for increasing yield. accordingly, planting date has a significant impact on plant growth and development during the growth season, so that any shift in plantin...