The goal of this study was to examine the effect of caffeine on motility parameters of cooling-stored ram sperm – total motility and progressive movement. Caffeine is a cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase inhibitor, which can affect sperm motility. The semen was kept at 4 ̊C for several days. Caffeine was added to fresh ram semen diluted in Triladyl at concentrations of 1, 2 and 4 mmol.l -1 ever...

In translating HPF programs, a compiler has to generate local iteration and communication sets. Apart from local enumeration, local storage compression is an issue, because in HPF array alignment functions can introduce local storage inefficiencies. Storage compression, however, may not lead to serious performance penalties. A problem in semi-automatic translation is that a compiler should gene...

Rock structures are subjected to cyclic tension-compression loading due to a blasting, earthquake, traffic and injection-production in underground storage case. Therefore study the fatigue behavior of rock samples under this type of loading is required. In this study, the accumulated fatigue damage for a Green Onyx rock sample which consisted of only one mineral composition with two-step high-l...

A two-dimensional transient axi-symmetric model was developed to study the effects of various thermal and geometric parameters on cyclic heating and cooling modes of a phase-change thermal energy storage system. The high-temperature thermal energy storage device utilizes LiH for heat sink applications to store the waste heat generated during power-burst periods. The stored heat is then discharg...

Glacier storage is a widely used term, applied to different processes and time-scales by different disciplines in hydrology and glaciology. We identify that storage occurs as ice, snow, and water associated with three time-scales. Long-term storage concerns storage of ice and firn as glaciers on time-scales of years to centuries and longer. This storage affects global sea level and long-term wa...

in this study, a researching program is conducted by cyclic triaxial test to determine the post-cyclic behavior of bushehr carbonate sand retrieved from the north of the persian gulf, under anisotropic consolidation at 200 kpa confining pressure. the article compares the post-cyclic monotonic strength and excess pore water pressures generated after the test with the pre-cyclic monotonic results...

Partially purified storage granule fractions obtained from rat anterior pituitaries have been utilized to study some properties of the isolated growth hormone granules during incubation in vitro. The isolated granules showed optimal stability at room temperature in the pH range 5-5-6-5 and dissolved progressively with time at a rate which was unaffected by the presence of EDTA, EGTA, ouabain, m...

abstract: this paper presents the results of pullout tests on uniaxial geogrid embedded in silica sand under monotonic and cyclic pullout forces. the new testing device as a recently developed automated pullout test device for soil-geogrid strength and deformation behavior investigation is capable of applying load/displacement controlled monotonic/cyclic forces at different rates/frequencies an...

The mechanical damage and failure of cement sheaths in gas storage wells under cyclic loading have been studied extensively. However, because the test device cannot restore wellbore condition, most studies theoretical or regular experimental. If load-bearing mode stress environment a differ from those wellbore, then modes will deviate what occurs actual wellbore. Therefore, it is necessary to e...