Altitude hypoxia is often associated with impairment of human reproduction. In this study, hormones and macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF, a proinflammatory cytokine with key roles in human reproduction) were determined in seven regularly menstruating, lowlander native women living at sea level participating in 14 days of trekking at moderate and high altitude. Blood and saliva sample...

P. Andreakou,1 A. V. Mikhailov,1,2 S. Cronenberger,1 D. Scalbert,1 A. Nalitov,3 A. V. Kavokin,2,3,4 M. Nawrocki,5 L. V. Butov,6 K. L. Campman,7 A. C. Gossard,7 and M. Vladimirova1 1Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, UMR 5221 CNRS/Université de Montpellier, F-34095, Montpellier, France 2Spin Optics Laboratory, St-Petersburg State University, 1, Ulianovskaya, St-Peterbsurg, 198504, Russia 3School of Ph...

A. X. Gray,1,2 A. Janotti,3 J. Son,3 J. M. LeBeau,3 S. Ueda,4 Y. Yamashita,4 K. Kobayashi,4 A. M. Kaiser,1,2 R. Sutarto,5,6 H. Wadati,5,* G. A. Sawatzky,5 C. G. Van de Walle,3 S. Stemmer,3 and C. S. Fadley1,2 1Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA 2Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 3Materia...

In this study, a poly(azomethine) compound (SBP) containing sulfur and oxygen bridge was obtained from 4,4'-[thiobis(4,1-phenyleneoxy)]dibenzaldehyde (DBA) 4,4'diamino-2,2'-biphenyl sulfonic acid condensation reaction. Structural, optical, electrochemical morphological analyzes of the polymeric material were performed. Structural characterizations performed 1H-NMR FT-IR spectra. Optical propert...

In recent years, Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) has received a lot of interest from the networking community. Today the Bundle Protocol (RFC 5050) is the standard communication protocol in DTNs and three major implementations are available. Since DTN is still a young research area, specifications as well as implementations have not yet reached the same state of maturity as e.g. TCP protocol st...