AIM To study whether additional measurements of motility characteristics of spermatozoa by computer assisted semen analysis (CASA) were more sensitive indicators of reduced semen quality than estimates of percentages of motile, rapid or progressive cells. METHODS Intermittent scrotal insulation was applied to 6 rams for 16 h per day for 21 days or to 2 of these for 12 h per day for 28 days in...

* Trabalho realizado no Centro de Tomografia Computadorizada, na Santa Casa e no Hospital Fornecedores de Cana de Piracicaba, SP. 1. Médico Radiologista do Centro de Tomografia Computadorizada, da Santa Casa e do Hospital Fornecedores de Cana de Piracicaba, Doutor em Radiologia Odontológica pela Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba – Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FOP-Unicamp). 2. Profess...

1MD, PhD in Endocrinology, Full professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)/Hospital das Clínicas de Porto Alegre and Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 2MSc, Graduate student in Health Sciences at Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 3MSc, Graduate student in Gynecology and Obstetrics (PPGGO UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS...

* Expert in ENT and Legal Medicine. Assistant Teacher of Cervical-Facial Surgery at Santa Casa da Bahia, Hospital Santa Izabel; and Teacher of Cervical-Facial Anatomy at UNIMEBA. ** PhD in ENT by USP – Head of the ENT Discipline and Cervical-Facial Surgery at Santa Casa da Bahia, Hospital Santa Izabel. *** Master Degree in Pathology by Fio Cruz/ UFBA Assistant Professor of ENT and Cervical-Faci...

Sequential pattern mining deals with data represented as sequences (a sequence contains sorted sets of items). Compared to the association rule problem, a study of such data provides “inter-transaction” analysis (Agrawal & Srikant, 1995). Applications for sequential pattern extraction are numerous and the problem definition has been slightly modified in different ways. Associated to elegant sol...

Júlio Leonardo Barbosa Pereira, Lucas Alverne Freitas de Albuquerque, Mauro Cruz Machado Borgo, Gerival Vieira Junior, Paulo Pereira Christo, Gervásio Teles C. de Carvalho I Neurosurgery, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil. II Research Program of the Santa Casa, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil. III Neurosurgery, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte and Faculdade de Ciências Medicas de Mi...

INTRODUCTION Sequential pattern mining deals with data represented as sequences (a sequence contains sorted sets of items). Compared to the association rule problem, a study of such data provides " inter-transaction " analysis (Agrawal and Srikant, 1995). Applications for sequential pattern extraction are numerous and the problem definition has been slightly modified in different ways. Associat...