Background: Leukocytospermia is found in both fertile and infertile men with and without evidence of infections of the genital tract. However, despite extensive research done in this subject, the clinical implications of this condition remain unclear. Leukocytes are also commonly found in semen samples, and a level above 1×106/mL is considered pathologic according to WHO criteria. Non-steroidal...

Finishing 90-epoch ImageNet-1k training with ResNet-50 on a NVIDIA M40 GPU takes 14 days. This training requires 10 single precision operations in total. On the other hand, the world’s current fastest supercomputer can finish 2× 10 single precision operations per second (Dongarra et al. 2017). If we can make full use of the supercomputer for DNN training, we should be able to finish the 90-epoc...

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AIM To study continuously cerebral blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery before, during, and after tube feeding in neonates. METHOD Cerebral blood flow velocity was measured in 14 neonates using a Doppler ultrasound device. Blood pressure, respiration, and oxygen saturation were monitored. RESULTS Mean blood flow velocity decreased from 37 cm/s before feeding to 33 cm/s (P < 0.0...

munication, we investigated its effect on humanimmunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and replication. The experiment analyzing effects on primarily infection was performed as follows. H9 cells4) were pretreated with serially diluted eulicin at 37°C for 60 minutes and infected with HIV-1 IIIB at 2x 103 TCID50. The cells were incubated for an additional 60 minutes to permit adsorption of viral p...

WEMM:Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7621. JB, JO’C: Department of Anatomy, Physiological Science and Radiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-8401.␣ AB, GN: United States Animal Health Technical Services, The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001. Effect of injecting sows with prostaglandin F2α ...

Two strains of Azadinium poporum, one from the Korean West coast and the other from the North Sea, were mass cultured for isolation of new azaspiracids. Approximately 0.9 mg of pure AZA-36 (1) and 1.3 mg of pure AZA-37 (2) were isolated from the Korean (870 L) and North Sea (120 L) strains, respectively. The structures were determined to be 3-hydroxy-8-methyl-39-demethyl-azaspiracid-1 (1) and 3...