BACKGROUND The use of therapeutic ultrasound as a contraceptive approach has involved nonhuman primates as well as rats and dogs. The current study was undertaken to determine whether this treatment could be a method for reversible contraception, using a model with testes size similar to adult humans. METHODS Two methods of ultrasound exposure were used, either the transducer probe at the bot...

The best and most detailed structural information is obtained when the diffraction pattern of a single crystal a few tenths of a millimetre in each dimension is analyzed, but growing high-quality crystals of this size is often difficult, sometimes impossible. However, many crystallization experiments that do not yield single crystals do yield showers of randomly oriented microcrystals that can ...

the present study investigates the effect of different exposure densities on third grade iranian junior high school (ijhs) students’ efl development and retention. it also attempts to explore whether there is any differential performance due to type of post-exposure assessment tasks (recognition vs. written production). performances of five groups of learners receiving equal amount of exposure ...

abstract wenner direct contact method is a method of estimating apparent electrical conductivity (eca) of agricultural soils in situ. this method can be affected by factors such as quality of electrodes in contact with soil, type of employed electric current, moisture content, clay content and compaction of soil. in this research, the effect of electrode type (rod and plate) and electric curren...

We study methods for the numerical solution of the Helmholtz equation for twodimensional applications in geophysics. The common framework of the iterative methods in our study is a combination of an inner iteration with a geometric multigrid method used as a preconditioner and an outer iteration with a Krylov subspace method. The preconditioning system is based on either a pure or shifted Helmh...

We develop a general method for computing extreme value distribution (Gumbel, 1958) parameters for gapped alignments. Our approach uses mixture distribution theory to obtain associated BLOSUM matrices for gapped alignments, which in turn are used for determining significance of gapped alignment scores for pairs of biological sequences. We compare our results with parameters already obtained in ...

This paper establishes a direct method for solving variational problems via a set of Radial basis functions (RBFs) with Gauss-Chebyshev collocation centers. The method consist of reducing a variational problem into a mathematical programming problem. The authors use some optimization techniques to solve the reduced problem. Accuracy and stability of the multiquadric, Gaussian and inverse multiq...