Objective: To compare the effectiveness of carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide-free incubation system in extracting motile, morphologically normal and chromatin intact sperm populations from the individual semen samples. Materials and Methods: Semen samples were obtained from normozoospermic men presenting for infertility evaluation. Individual samples were divided into two equal aliquots for spe...

introduction: the objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between spermiogenic defects such as protamine deficiency, and acrosomal integrity with fertilization and pregnancy rate in ivf patients. material and methods: density, motility and morpology of semen samples from 70 infertile couples undergoing ivf at isfahan fertility and infertility center were analyzed according to w...

The integrity of a graph G, I(G), is defined by I(G) = minS⊆V (G){|S| + m(G − S)} where m(G− S) is the maximum order of the components of G− S. In general the integrity of r-regular graph is not known [?]. We answer the following question for special regular graphs. For any given two integers p and r such that pr 2 is an integer, is there a r-regular graph, say G ∗, on p vertices having size q ...

We present a systematic treatment of the properties of digital payment systems. By properties, we mean that we abstract from internal details and only consider what kind of service the system offers its users, which may be people or other processes. In particular, the integrity properties are meant as a sketch of a general formal definition of payment systems, which can be filled in with modera...

Communication systems check integrity to protect information against alteration introduced by natural means such as noise and by malicious security attacks. This paper proposes that some integrity checks used for security should also be used for error control, since there are similarities between the functions used for both purposes, and repeated checking can have a high cost. The paper extensi...

Identifying and protecting the trusted computing base (TCB) of a system is an important task, which is typically performed by designing and enforcing a system security policy and verifying whether an existing policy satisfies security objectives. To efficiently support these, an intuitive and cognitive policy analysis mechanism is desired for policy designers or security administrators due to t...

Background: Telomeres are particular sequences of DNA located at the end of the eukaryotic chromosomes that are essential for genome integrity. Telomere length in spermatozoa differs among males, as well as spermatozoa. Also, decreased telomere length in spermatozoa of infertile men is associated with the reduction of fertility potential and embryo quality. Density gradient centrifugation (DGC)...

Stanford’s Integrity Beacon Landing System uses ground-based pseudo-satellite transmitters known as Integrity Beacons to resolve carrier phase ambiguities on final approach, giving IBLS both high integrity and centimeter-level accuracy. This paper discusses two improved Integrity Beacon designs and the results of flight tests with these new beacons. The original Integrity Beacons were not synch...