The Web has become a popular starting point for many innovations targeting infrastructure, services, and applications. One of the challenges of today’s vast Web landscape is to monitor ongoing developments, put them into context, and assess their chances of success. One of the main virtues of a more scientific approach towards the Web landscape would be a clear differentiation between approache...

Introduction: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and sexual self-esteem in female sex workers. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study conducted in February 2015, 108 female sex workers residing in Toos women's care center in Mashhad were selected through convenience sampling method. For data collection, Young Early M...

Because the Spitzer Space Telescope is in an Earth-trailing orbit, losing about 0.1 AU/yr, it is excellently located to perform microlens parallax observations toward the Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC) and the Galactic bulge. These yield the so-called “projected velocity” of the lens, which can distinguish statistically among different populations. A few such measurements toward the LMC/SMC would ...

Internal and external qualities of eggs deteriorate with time. This process deterioration cannot be stopped but the rate at which it occurs can reduced. The aim this study is to evaluate main effect temperature storage duration on egg quality characteristics sensory evaluation fertile non-fertile eggs. A total 600 were obtained from Lohmann Brown hen, 44 weeks age. Roosters removed hen that lai...

Cells isolated from the ejaculates of a high proportion of patients exhibiting oligozoospermia are characterized by generation rates of reactive oxygen species that considerably exceed those obtained for the normal fertile population. The purpose of this study was to resolve the cellular source of this enhanced activity. Semen samples from a cohort of oligozoospermic patients and a group of fer...

BACKGROUND Infertility is a severely distressing experience for many couples. Depression is considered as one of the main psychological disorders associated with infertility and it may significantly affect the life of infertile individuals, their treatment, and follow-up. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to determining the prevalence and predisposing factors of depressive disorders am...

OBJECTIVE To explore the difference between anxiety and depression among infertile and fertile women. METHODS The study was conducted in 2009 and comprised fertile and infertile women. The sample of infertile women was drawn from the Liaquat National Hospital, Patel Hospital, Infertility Concept and Zainub Hospital, located in urban areas of Karachi, while fertile women were drawn from the ge...

The presence of antiidiotypic antibodies (ab-2) to sperm was investigated in the sera of fertile, infertile, and virgin women using sperm-specific anti-FA-1 monoclonal antibody Fab'.ab-2 were detected in 71% (17/24) of sera from fertile women and in none (0/12) of the sera from virgin females by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Western blot procedure, and immunoprecipitation procedure. Se...

This study was conducted in order to determine the prevalence of hydatidosis due to Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato and the fertility rate of hydatid cysts in sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs slaughtered at the abattoir of Lagkada, in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. Lungs and livers from a total of 294 sheep (31.3% infected), 126 goats (8.7% infected), 372 cattle (4.8% infecte...