Background: Before human MII oocytes are vitrified they are usually denuded from their cumulus cells. In this study we wanted to investigate the effects of an intact corona radiata on the vitrification and fertilization of human oocytes. Materials and Methods: The study comprised two different parts. In Part 1, 36 MII stage oocytes, from 6 patients, were randomly assigned into a control group, ...

in this paper, the degree distance and the gutman index of the corona product of two graphs are determined. using the results obtained, the exact degree distance and gutman index of certain classes of graphs are computed.

We present an analytic description of turbulent, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disk accretion around black holes that specifically addresses the relationship between radial and vertical, mean-field transport of mass, momentum and energy, thereby complementing and extending numerical simulations. The azimuthal-vertical component of the magnetic stress is fundamental to an understanding of disk– coro...

let $g$ be a simple graph of order $n$ and size $m$.the edge covering of $g$ is a set of edges such that every vertex of $g$ is incident to at least one edge of the set. the edge cover polynomial of $g$ is the polynomial$e(g,x)=sum_{i=rho(g)}^{m} e(g,i) x^{i}$,where $e(g,i)$ is the number of edge coverings of $g$ of size $i$, and$rho(g)$ is the edge covering number of $g$. in this paper we stud...

in this study, a rapid, simple and sensitive ion mobility spectrometry (ims) method with corona discharge as ionization source was described for the morphine determination in human urine. morphine was extracted and purified from urine samples using solid phase extraction procedure with c18 column. it can offer the clean extracts which no extra peaks were observed in ims. under operating experim...

since nox family, one of the most important causes of air pollution, is the primary source of acid rains, ozone layer depletion, and breathing disorders, mitigation of these pollutants is now a global concern. in the off-gases of internal combustion engines running with oxygen excess, non-thermal plasmas (ntps) have an oxidative potential, which results in an effective conversion of no to no2. ...

results low concentrations of agnps and short incubation times can have the maximum positive impact on the peroxidase activity, and in the present study the highest activity was seen at a concentration of 40 mg/l and two hours of incubation time. conclusions this study suggests that changes of enzyme activity can occur as a result of the effect of silver nanoparticles on enzyme conformation, in...

We study state transfer in quantum walks on graphs relative to the adjacency matrix. Our motivation is to understand how the addition of pendant subgraphs affect state transfer. For two graphs G and H, the Frucht-Harary corona product G ◦H is obtained by taking |G| copies of the cone K1 + H and by identifying the conical vertices according to G. Our work explores conditions under which the coro...

The corona charging technique is widely utilized in commercial Si/SiO2 semiconductor device reliability characterization tools and has been used in numerous electron spin resonance (ESR) experiments, by several groups to study defect centers in Si/SiO2 system. A recent ESR study argued that the corona charging approaches are inherently unreliable and invasive. In this work we show that this is ...

This tutorial focuses on basic physical concepts relevant to the heating of the corona and acceleration of the solar wind. We begin with a discussion of observations of the solar wind and solar corona and then develop a simple theoretical framework that allows us to explore some implications of the observations. Next we turn to observations of the lower solar atmosphere and their implications f...