Plasma LH and testosterone levels did not differ significantly between high and low fertility rams before or after sexual stimulation (ejaculation or teasing). Repeated stimulation caused significant elevation of mean plasma LH and an almost significant rise in testosterone concentration. Plasma testosterone peaks followed those of LH after 30-60 min. A single sexual stimulation did not always ...

For 3D model-based approaches, building the 3D shape model from a training set of segmented instances of an object is a major challenge and currently remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a novel, general method for the generation of 3D statistical shape models. Given a set of training 3D shapes, 3D model generation is achieved by 1) building the mean model from the distance transf...

In the eld of mobile robotics, one important issue is to allow the robot to navigate in an a priori unknown and non speciic large scale environment. Large dimensions raise strong limitations of geometric model-ing, and topological or mixed metric-topological models are now studied to better t the problem. In this paper, we present a new method for incre-mentally building a topological model of ...

in this study, the relationship between components of knowledge management on the basis of m. mc olrvy model and social capital has been studied, statistical population consisted of employees of ministry of energy, who were selected among employees of hamedan regional power and were 420 subjects. research tool is a questionnaire and spss statistical software is used for data analysis and struct...

Physically based regional scale hydrologic modeling is gaining importance for planning and management of water resources. Calibration and validation of such regional scale model is necessary before applying it for scenario assessment. However, in most regional scale hydrologic modeling, flow validation is performed at the river basin outlet without accounting for spatial variations in hydrologi...

Numerical modeling of infrasound propagation is necessary to support accurate infrasound source location and phase identification. Predicting the details of infrasound propagation relies both on propagation models that capture the fundamental physical processes and on characterization of the propagation medium, namely the global atmosphere from the ground to altitudes above 100 km. The accuracy...

Given below is a summary of the relative ozone impact (reactivity) metrics proposed for use in the presentations of the reactivity modeling data for the regional model calculations the preliminary RRWG reactivity modeling projects. A total of 8 scales will be calculated for each episode, using two different methods to quantify ozone impacts in a cell and four different methods to use the multi-...

This paper investigates the role of economic variables in predicting regional disparities in reported life satisfaction of European Union (EU) citizens. European subnational units (regions) are defined according to the first-level EU nomenclature of territorial units. We use multilevel modeling to explicitly account for the hierarchical nature of our data, respondents within regions and countri...