BACKGROUND There is some controversy about the extent of changes in different sperm cell features in stored boar semen, especially regarding the potential role of the DNA fragmentation assay for assessment of sperm fertilizing ability. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of time of storage and the dynamic changes in sperm cell characteristics in normospermic boar semen stored in long...

Object detection is one of the most widespread applications for numerous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) tasks. Due to shooting angle and flying height UAV, compared with general scenarios, small objects account a large proportion aerial images, common object detectors are not extremely effective in images. Moreover, since computing resources UAV platforms generally limited, deployment number par...

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. We read the commentary by Dr. Ferlin with interest (1). The author first stated the drawbacks of semen analysis in the diagnosis of male infertility and the need for sperm function tests. It is followed by illustrating the limitation of the current evidence in supporting the routine use of sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF...

Predicting Attack-prone Components with Source Code Static Analyzers Report Title No single vulnerability detection technique can identify all vulnerabilities in a software system. However, the vulnerabilities that are identified from a detection technique may be predictive of the residuals. We focus on creating and evaluating statistical models that predict the components that contain the high...

OBJECTIVE To determine DNA damage as measured by the sperm chromatin structure assay (SCSA) in subsets of human spermatozoa at different stages of maturation in patients who are undergoing infertility evaluation. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Andrology laboratory at a tertiary care hospital. PATIENT(S) Fifty-six patients undergoing infertility evaluation. Patients with normal semen pa...

Background and objective: Blood pressure (BP) is one of the crucial indicators that contains valuable medical information about cardiovascular activities. Developing photoplethysmography (PPG)-based cuffless BP estimation algorithms with enough robustness accuracy clinically useful in practice, due to its simplicity noninvasiveness. In this paper, we have developed tested two frameworks for art...

In this paper, we propose a 1-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN) based Blood Pressure (BP) estimation using Photo plethysmography (PPG) signals and their features obtained through Semi-classical Signal Analysis (SCSA). The procedure of the proposed BP technique is as follows. First, PPG are divided into each beat. Then, 9 SCSA for beats. addition, 5 biometric data used. Biometric...

Infertility is a common yet complex problem affecting approximately 10-15% of couples attempting to conceive a baby. Especially, 40-50% of these factors are known as male-related disorders. Unlike female infertility, the cause of which is often easily identified, diagnosing male factors can be difficult. Male infertility is due to low sperm production, abnormal sperm function or blockages of sp...