Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the younger field in computer science ready to accept challenges. Software engineering (SE) is the dominating industrial field. So, automating SE is the most relevant challenge today. AI has the capacity to empower SE in that way. Here in this paper we present a state of the art literature review which reveals the past and present work done for automating Softwar...

Introduction Estrous synchronization and artificial insemination (AI) are reproductive management tools that have been available to beef producers for over 40 years. Synchronization of the estrous cycle has the potential to shorten the calving season, increase calf uniformity, and enhance the possibilities for utilizing AI. Artificial insemination allows producers the opportunity to infuse supe...

Estrous synchronization and artificial insemination (AI) are reproductive management tools that have been available to beef producers for over 30 years. Synchronization of the estrous cycle has the potential to shorten the calving season, increase calf uniformity, and enhance the possibilities for utilizing AI. Artificial insemination allows producers the opportunity to infuse superior genetics...

Background & aim: There are conflicting results regarding the benefit of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist treatment on frozen embryo transfer (FET) outcome. No study was found to compare pregnancy outcome between patients undergoing short and long acting types of GnRH agonist for FET cycles. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of short and long ac...

This paper describes the work carried out to develop EcoBotIII, which is a robot with an artificial digestion system. The robot is powered by Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) and it is designed to collect food and water from the environment, digest the collected food and at the end of the digestion cycle, egest the waste. EcoBot-III operated successfully for 7 days when fed with anaerobic or pasteur...

Introduction: Many previous studies have proved that the anatomical features of cervix can affect the success of artificial insemination. These characteristics differ in sheep breeds. This study aimed to describe the anatomical features of cervix in Zell ewes; the only tailed sheep in Iran. Methods: Eighty nonpregnant and clinically healthy reproductive tracts of adult Zel sheep were collected...

Background: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) or microinjection is one of the most commonly used assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in the treatment of patients with infertility problems. At each stage of this treatment cycle, many dependent and independent variables may affect the results, according to which, estimating the accuracy of fertility rate for physicians will be difficul...

This paper introduces Icarus, a language for specifying the behavior of artificial agents that require extremely reactive, yet goal-focused control programs which include non-trivial cognitive elements. The key features of Icarus are the ability to express hierarchical objectives, actions, and plans, the use of function call semantics, and the ability to express processes as objectives, all emb...

The progress to date is described in an ongoing project in which the aim is to investigate the combination of case-based reasoning and artificial neural networks as a strategy for cooperative problem solving. The paper describes a successful application in which a Radial Basis Function artificial neural network is used for the adaptation of cases, during the reuse phase of the CBR life cycle. T...

Supernumerary pronucleated stage oocytes (PN) are usually cryopreserved. PN are transferred in spontaneous, stimulated or artificial cycles. In this study, an artificial cycle with a transdermal therapeutic system was used for oestradiol release (Estraderm TTS 100) in combination with a targeted drug delivery system for vaginal progesterone release (Crinone 8%). Patients started transdermal 17b...