To study the influence of season on oxidative status of buffalo semen and their association with semen characteristics and seminal plasma proteins, ejaculates were collected twice a week in winter, summer and rainy seasons from six adult Bhadawari buffalo bulls. The neat semen was analyzed for semen characteristics immediately after collection and oxidative status viz. lipid peroxidation (LPO),...

OBJECTIVE To verify the 24-hour repeatability of diurnal intraocular pressure patterns in glaucomatous and ocular hypertensive individuals. METHODS A prospective analysis of 88 eyes from 88 ocular hypertensive or open-angle glaucoma patients was conducted on diurnal tension curves obtained by the same examiner on two consecutive days. The intraclass correlation coefficient test was used for s...

background: malocclusion, as a worldwide issue, can cause a lot of problems for patients. panoramic (pr) and lateral cephalometric (lcr) radiographs are both usually indicated for orthodontic treatments. the aim of this study was to analyze vertical and sagittal parameters of both jaws on prs and to compare them on lcrs. materials and methods: in this cross sectional study, 61 samples from all ...

Maintenance is an important way to ensure the best performance of repairable systems. This paper considers how reduce system maintenance cost while ensuring consistent performance. Due budget constraints, preventive (PM) can be done on only some components. Also, different selections components maintained have markedly effects On basis above issues, this proposes importance-based priority (IBMP...

We have utilized a range of manufactured or commercial nanoparticulate materials, including surrogate carbon nano-PM along with combustion-generated carbonaceous (soot) nano-PM characteristic of environmental nano- PM (both indoor and outdoor) to investigate and compare their cytotoxic response in vitro with an immortalized human epithelial (lung model) cell line (A549). These have included nan...

A fast algorithm for DOA estimation without eigendecomposition is proposed. Unlike the available propagation method (PM), the proposed method need only use partial cross-correlation of array output data, and hence the computational complexity is further reduced. Moreover, the proposed method is suitable for the case of spatially nonuniform colored noise. Simulation results show the performance ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate vascular flow density in pathological myopia with optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography. DESIGN A prospective comparative study was conducted from December 2015 to March 2016. SETTING Participants were recruited in Beijing Tongren Hospital. PARTICIPANTS A total of 131 eyes were enrolled, which were divided into three groups: 45 eyes with emmetropia (EM; ...

Magnetic fields and turbulence are important components of the interstellar medium (ISM) star-forming galaxies. It is challenging to measure properties small-scale ISM magnetic (magnetic at scales smaller than driving scale). Using numerical simulations, we demonstrate how second-order rotation (RM, which depends on thermal electron density, $n_{\rm e}$, field, $b$) structure function can probe...

BACKGROUND Polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) are idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. Genetic variability in human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes plays an important role in the pathogenesis of PM and DM. However, few studies on the subject in Chinese populations have been reported thus far. METHODS We studied the influence of HLA polymorphisms on DM and PM susceptibility by analyzing H...