introduction the morphologic features of human sperms are key indicators for monitoring fertility problems in men. therefore, automated analyzing methods via microscopic videos have become the most favorite policy in infertility treatment during the last decades. materials and methods in the proposed method, firstly a hypothesis testing framework was defined to distinguish sperms from backgroun...

et al. Improved sexual function during recombinant human erythropoietin therapy. The effects of normal as compared with low hematocrit values in patients with cardiac disease who are receiving hemodialysis and epoetin [see comments]. Valderrabano F. Increasing the hematocrit has a beneficial effect on quality of life and is safe in selected hemodialysis patients. Spanish Cooperative Renal Patie...

Climate change due to increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases (especially CO2) in the atmosphere causes changes in the rainfall regime, runoff rate, wind speed and solar radiation of atmosphere. In the present research, the maximum and minimum temperature parameters were simulated during the base period of 1979-2088 and two future periods of 1979-2070 and 2070-2090 using daily ...

background: the number of people aged 60 and older is increasing faster than other age groups worldwide. iran will experience a sharp aging population increase in the next decades, and this will pose new challenges to the healthcare system. since providing high quality aged-care services would be the major concern of the policymakers, this question arises that what types of aged care services s...

Rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. Rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. Urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...

In the traditional economic order quantity/economic production quantity model, most of the items considered are of perfect type. But this situation rarely takes place in practice. Thus, in this paper, an economic order quantity model with imperfectquality items is developed. 100% screening process is performed, and the items of imperfect quality are sold as a single batch. A proportionate ra...