objective: this study aimed to evaluate the levels of two oxidative stress (os) markers including lipid peroxide (lpo) and total antioxidant capacity (tac) in both serum and follicular fluid (ff) of women with endometriosis after puncture. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a total number of sixty-three women younger than 40 years old with laparoscopy (gold standard for endom...

The experimental recombination lifetime ref f of quasiparticles in superconducting films in general exceeds the intrinsic recombination lifetime vR by phonon trapping. On the basis of geometric acoustic propagation and reabsorption of phonons emitted in quasiparticle recombination, %ff is calculated as a function of film thickness d taking into account longitudinal and transverse phonon reabsor...

A bimetallic pentadecanuclear cyanido-bridged {Fe9[W(CN)8]6 (MeOH)24}·xMeOH cluster of an Fe(II/III)-W(IV/V) mixed valence nature, reveals a reversible single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation, concomitant with metal-to-metal charge transfer between Fe and W ions. The dominance of (HS)Fe(II)-NC-W(V) units at a high temperature, and (HS)Fe(III)-NC-W(IV) units at a low temperature, leads t...

We present a new algorithm for solving the real roots of a bivariate polynomial system R 1⁄4 ff ðx; yÞ; gðx; yÞg with a finite number of solutions by using a zero-matching method. The method is based on a lower bound for the bivariate polynomial system when the system is non-zero. Moreover, the multiplicities of the roots of R 1⁄4 0 can be obtained by the associated quotient ring technique and ...

Objective: The role of vitamin D has soared to a pinnacle in recent years with functions affecting 229 human genes linked to cardiovascular, autoimmune, humoral, pulmonary and neurological diseases. Relationship between obesity and vitamin D has not as yet been fully established. The objective of the study was to determine the possible relationship between Vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorp...

In this paper, we construct a q-deformation of the Witt-Burnside ring of a profinite group over a commutative ring, where q ranges over the ring of integers. When q = 1, this coincides with the Witt-Burnside ring introduced by A. Dress and C. Siebeneicher (Adv. Math. 70 (1988), 87-132). To achieve our goal we first show that there exists a q-deformation of the necklace ring of a profinite group...

In this paper, we present an assessment of the blocking performance in wavelength routed chordal ring networks. The performance is focused on chord lengths of w = 3, w = N/4, and w = √ N + 3, being N the number of nodes. It is shown that, in a 100-node chordal ring network, the use of the chord length of w = N/4 instead of w = 3 clearly reduces the blocking probability. A reduction of the block...

Background: The biochemical characteristics of the follicular fluid (FF) play essential role in oocyte quality, the subsequent fertilization potential and embryo development. The oocyte quality and metabolism largely depends on follicular microenvironment. Present study aimed to investigate the relationship between oocyte quality and FF homocysteine (Hcy) level in women undergoing to IVF treatm...

In this paper, we define the almost uniform convergence and the almost everywhere convergence for cone-valued functions with respect to an operator valued measure. We prove the Egoroff theorem for Pvalued functions and operator valued measure θ : R → L(P, Q), where R is a σ-ring of subsets of X≠ ∅, (P, V) is a quasi-full locally convex cone and (Q, W) is a locally ...