reactive oxygen species (ros)plays an important role in sperm motility. the physiological generation at low concentration induces beneficial effects on sperm functions and plays a significant role in sperm metabolism. meanwhile, the excessive generation of reactive oxygen species can overwhelm protective mechanism and triggers changes in lipid and protein layers of sperm plasma membrane, which ...

The use of indomethacin is associated with a relatively high incidence of adverse reactions such as agranulocytosis. Many other drugs associated with agranulocytosis are metabolized to reactive metabolites by activated neutrophils. Therefore, we studied the oxidation of indomethacin and its metabolites by activated neutrophils, myeloperoxidase (MPO) (the major oxidizing enzyme in neutrophils), ...

Cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) particles can adaptively respond to constant changes in external stimuli and thus are widely used solvent-sensing, pattern fabrication, anti-counterfeiting. Previous studies discussed the color change at center of for various applications. However, few analyzed brush structure response applications because complicated birefringence effect. In this paper, we pres...

While human personal assistants routinely take actions on behalf of their supervisors, proactive assistance in personal information management (PIM) software today remains limited to basic reminding and e-mail filtering functions. In this chapter, we introduce a prototype information assistance engine that lets endusers delegate to it various simple, routine but contextand activityreactive task...

This paper presents an approach conducive to an evaluation of the probability density function (pdf) of spatio-temporal distributions of concentrations of reactive solutes (and associated reaction rates) evolving in a randomly heterogeneous aquifer. Most existing approaches to solute transport in heterogeneous media focus on providing expressions for space–time moments of concentrations. In gen...

Risk-based assessment methods are commonly used at the contaminated sites by hydrocarbon pollutants. This paper presents the results of a two-dimensional finite volume model of reactive transport of biodegradable BTEX which have been developed for the saturated zone of an unconfined aquifer in the Pump station area of Tehran oil refinery, Iran. The model governing equations were numerically sol...

risk-based assessment methods are commonly used at the contaminated sites by hydrocarbon pollutants. this paper presents the results of a two-dimensional finite volume model of reactive transport of biodegradable btex which have been developed for the saturated zone of an unconfined aquifer in the pump station area of tehran oil refinery, iran. the model governing equations were numerically sol...