background: male are involved in near 50% of cases of infertility and reactive oxygen species (ros) playing an important role in decreasing fertility potential. accurate measurement of ros seems to be important in evaluation of infertile male patients. objective: to compare ros measurement in neat and washed semen samples of infertile men and define the best method for evaluation of ros in thes...

The CN/CN and CN/CN isotopic ratios have been determined in comets C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) and C/2003 K4 (LINEAR) at heliocentric distances of, respectively, 2.7, 3.7 and 2.6 AU. These ratios have also been measured at r ∼ 1 AU. No significant differences were found between all determinations, nor with the value obtained for other comets. If confirmed, the discrepancy between th...

a very important book. However, its value is somewhat marred by the deficiencies which often accompany the publishing of proceedings, in particular the very variable quality of the chapters. It could have benefited greatly from more ruthless editing. Overall, the book is very well organized into sections covering 'The magnitude, determinants and measurement of compliance' (four chapters), 'Stra...

Based on the increased interest in ANT in Media Studies, this paper discusses similarities and differences in the epistemological premises of ANT and German Media Studies and, in particular, Media Aesthetics. Proceeding from well received ANT investigations on the transformational processes of scientific research and the discussion of their importance and suitability for media aesthetic approac...

Physical activity improves health in patients with mental disorders. Nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) represents energy expenditure due to daily physical activities other than volitional exercise. We aimed to evaluate NEAT in type 2 diabetic patients with and without accompanying mental disorders.Between September 2010 and September 2014, we studied 150 patients with type 2 diabetes, 5...

Let \(2<n<\omega\). Then \({\sf CA}_n\) denotes the class of cylindric algebras dimension \(n\), RCA}_n\) representable \(\sf CA_n\)s, CRCA}_n\) completely CA}_n\)s, and Nr}_n{\sf CA}_{\omega}(\subseteq {\sf CA}_n\)) \(n\)-neat reducts CA}_{\omega}\)s. The elementary closure CRCA}_n\)s (\(\mathbf{K_n}\)) non-elementary At}({\sf CA}_{\omega})\) are characterized using two-player zero-sum g...

We defined the basal levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in normal donors in neat (whole unprocessed) semen specimens, and in mature and immature spermatozoa isolated by a double-density gradient technique. In addition, we demonstrated that the ROS levels were significantly lower in neat semen compared with washed spermatozoa. The reference values of ROS in neat semen and mature spermatozoa...

In bacteria, laterally acquired genes are often concentrated within chromosomal regions known as genomic islands. Using a recently developed zebrafish infection model, we set out to identify unique factors encoded within genomic islands that contribute to the fitness and virulence of a reference urosepsis isolate-extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli strain CFT073. By screening a series o...