OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examin the psychometric characteristics of the Persian version of Reproductive Health Assessment Questionnaire for Women of Reproductive Age (RHAQWRA). MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a cross sectional study. We selected 150 women aged 18- 45 years based on convenience sampling method who lived in the Quake-hit areas in eastern part of Iran in 2013. Some pre...

This study compared the potential of assessing sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) from neat semen and the subsequent swim-up (SU) procedure to predict pregnancy when conducting ICSI of fertile donor oocytes. Infertile females (n=81) were transferred embryos resulting from intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) of their partner's spermatozoa and proven donor oocytes. This model normalized the impact...

We perform sensitivity analyses on a mathematical model of malaria transmission to determine the relative importance of model parameters to disease transmission and prevalence. We compile two sets of baseline parameter values: one for areas of high transmission and one for low transmission. We compute sensitivity indices of the reproductive number (which measures initial disease transmission) a...

5 Reproductive traits in plants tend to evolve rapidly due to various causes that include plant6 pollinator coevolution and pollen competition, but the genomic basis of reproductive trait evolution 7 is still largely unknown. To characterise evolutionary patterns of genome wide gene expression 8 in reproductive tissues and to compare them to developmental stages of the sporophyte, we anal9 ysed...

Smallholder farmers depend on healthy and productive crop yields to sustain their socio-economic status ensure livelihood security. Advances in South African precision agriculture the form of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide spatially explicit near-real-time information that can be used assess dynamics inform smallholder farmers. The use UAVs with remote-sensing techniques allows for acq...

Two methods were used to estimate the reproductive output of female Pacific oysters reared in Normandy: histology with image analysis and ELISA (Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay) which allowed the quantification of egg protein. Condition indices, gonad area and gametogenetic stages of the oysters were determined in the entire population (males and females) between May and October 2005. All inv...

Background: Phytoestrogens are some plant compounds with estrogenic biological effects which are found in many nutritional sources as soybean, flaxseed, and sesame. Vitex agnus-castus, also called Vitex, owns  phytoestrogen properties. Studies have shown that phytoestrogens have different impacts on the gestation process and reproduction indices. Objective: The present study was aimed to inves...