This study targets the behavior of shear buildings equipped with tuned liquid column dampers (TLCD) which attenuate dynamic load-induced vibrations. TLCDs are a passive damping system used in tall buildings. This kind of damper has proven to be very efficient, being an excellent alternative to mass dampers. A dynamic analysis of the structure-damper system was made using the software DynaPy, de...

The acrosome reaction (AR) is a process of membrane fusion and lytic enzyme release, which enables sperm to penetrate the egg surroundings. It is widely recognized that specific sperm proteins form an active network prior to fertilization, and their dynamic relocation is crucial for the sperm-egg fusion. The unique presence of the membrane cofactor protein CD46 in the sperm acrosomal membrane w...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have described an association between sperm with DNA damage and a history of recurrent miscarriage (RM), although it is not clear whether there is benefit in screening for sperm DNA fragmentation and to what extent DNA fragmentation impacts upon RM. AIMS To identify what proportion of couples experiencing RM are affected by DNA fragmentation abnormalities. MATERI...

sperm cells are one of the most stellar and fas-cinating cells in all species. one of the most distinctive characteristic of these cells is their movement dynamics which can be observed through a light microscope. the first paper regarding sperm cell biology that appeared on pubmed was pres-ented by dr. w.f. whitney (1). there, he showed the staining properties of spermatozoa and it was publish...

Background During mammalian spermatogenesis unique and dynamic epigenetic events occur leading to chromatin condensation. Through these events, histone demethylases such as JMJD1A play important roles in compaction of sperm chromatin, due to regulation of histone methylation dynamics and alteration of chromatin structure. As �histone methylation� is one of the best-characterized modifications i...

Architecture recovery from legacy systems has been claimed to offer great contributions to software maintenance and reuse. Most of the approaches to architecture recovery is based on the static analysis of systems and lack a sound support to architectural elements identification. In this context, this paper presents an approach to architecture recovery based on dynamic analysis of systems. The ...

Background: Although AI practices have been introduced little over 60 years, the success rate remains relatively low. This might be due to the exclusive selection of semen based on motility analysis. Recent advancement in sperm sexing using flow cytometry with an increased throughput from next generation cell sorters, made use of this technology in studding sperm qualitative aspects other than ...

Safety-critical software in industry is typically subjected to both dynamic testing as well as static program analysis. However, while testing is expensive to scale, static analysis is prone to false positives and/or false negatives. In this work we propose a solution based on a combination of static analysis to zoom into potential bug candidates in large code bases and symbolic execution to co...