objective: to determine marital satisfaction and its influencing factors among fertile and infertile women in shahroud. materials and methods: in this comparative study, 1528 participants (511 infertile and1017 fertile women) were evaluated using enrich marital satisfaction scale. data were analyzed using chi-square and t-test. results: a total of 1402 participants (78.7%) had high marital sati...

It might be useful to start by stating arguments for the positive image of, or even prejudice about, Croatia as a country with some key and untapped advantages in comparison with other countries. Can we consider as founded the claims that this country has a preserved and relatively clean environment – air, land, water, soil, flora and fauna – an advantageous geo-strategic location and creative,...

BACKGROUND Algae are becoming an increasingly important component of land plant metabolic engineering projects. Land plants and algae have similar enough genetics to allow relatively straightforward gene transfer and they also share enough metabolic similarities that algal enzymes often function in a plant cell environment. Understanding metabolic systems in algae can provide insights into homo...

Fertility reduction due to sub-fertile males is a major concern in breeder flocks. Phenotypic traits of broiler breeder males and their relationships with fertility can be used as reliable indicators for identification and removal of sub-fertile males from the breeder flocks. This study was conducted to investigate semen traits (semen volume, sperm motility, sperm viability and sperm count) and...

Coastal marine ecosystems can be managed by actions undertaken both on the land and in the ocean. Quantifying and comparing the costs and benefits of actions in both realms is therefore necessary for efficient management. Here, we quantify the link between terrestrial sediment runoff and a downstream coastal marine ecosystem and contrast the cost-effectiveness of marine- and land-based conserva...

Anosov representations give a higher-rank analogue of convex cocompactness in rank-one Lie group which shares many its good geometric and dynamical properties; finiteness rank one may be seen as controlled weakening to allow for isolated failures hyperbolicity. We introduce relatively dominated relativization representations, or other words finiteness. prove that groups admitting must hyperboli...