background: androgens play critical role in secondary sexual and male gonads differentiations such as spermatogenesis, via androgen receptor. the human androgen receptor (ar) encoding gene contains two regions with three nucleotide polymorphic repeats (cag and ggn) in the first exon. unlike the cag repeats, the ggn has been less studied because of technical difficulties, so the functional role ...

The use of extended reality (XR) technologies, namely Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual (VR) and Mixed (MR) in education, has attracted much attention recent years. Many educators have described how XR benefits learners useful AR VR technologies are the classroom. However, creating educational tools, apps or learning environments is a complex process, hence providing an immersive experience using...

Construction equipment operation and management is a process that operates the machine in different working conditions, monitors the operation condition of equipment, maintains and repairs equipment components by referring to technical specifications, and generates more information for future access (Wang & Dunston 2006a). These construction operations are being carried out on different platfor...

Organizations producing products based on technical standards are interested in the factors that influence a customers’ intention to adopt that product, and accordingly that standard. In general, standards-based products are expected to be affected by factors similar to those that affect ordinary innovations, as described in Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations with the addition of a few factors in...

Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service West Lafayette, IN 47907 Authors: T. S. Stewart, Purdue University; S. M. Neal, Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute; K. M. Irvin, Ohio State University, Reviewers: Jeff Chewning, The Pork Group Inc. Rogers, AR; Don Levis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Fields Gunsett, Genetic Improvement Services, Newton Grove, NC Introduc...