AIM The objective of the study was to determine the effect of the management system (intensive and semi-intensive) and season (autumn and winter) on semen freezability in Jakhrana bucks. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 24 Jakhrana bucks of same body weight and age (BW=30 kg, age=1 year) were randomly allotted into two groups, viz., Group I (intensive system, 12 bucks) and Group II (semi-inte...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have reported abnormal functional connectivity patterns in the brains of people with autism that may be accompanied by decreases in white matter integrity. Since autism is a developmental disorder, we aim to investigate the nature and location of decreases in white and grey matter integrity in an adolescent sample while accounting for age. METHODS We used structural ...

This paper considers the estimation of the coe cient vector in a linear regression model subject to a set of stochastic linear restrictions binding the regression coe cients and presents the method of weighted mixed regression estimation which permits to assign possibly unequal weights to the prior information in relation to the sample information E ciency properties of this estimation procedur...

background: this case-control study was designed with the aim of evaluating the role of sperm, oxidative stress and dna damage in idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss (irpl). this pilot study is the first study done on the indian population which reports the association between dfi, tac and ros in couples experiencing irsa. methods: twenty infertile men with a history of irpl and 20 fertile cont...

Until recently, research focus has been on a variety of demographic, attitudinal, and organizational variables in predicting and explaining absenteeism. If personality traits predict absenteeism, then it may be possible to use measures of these traits to identify and select job applicants and thereby reduce absenteeism rates. In this research, our goal was to examine whether integrity tests cou...

PURPOSE To investigate the potential of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters as in-vivo biomarkers of axon and myelin sheath integrity of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel as validated by correlation with electrophysiology. METHODS MRI examinations at 3T including DTI were conducted on wrists in 30 healthy subjects. After manual segmentation of the median nerve quantitative analysis ...

Previous research has established that age-related decline occurs in measures of cerebral white matter integrity, but the role of this decline in age-related cognitive changes is not clear. To conclude that white matter integrity has a mediating (causal) contribution, it is necessary to demonstrate that statistical control of the white matter-cognition relation reduces the magnitude of age-cogn...

Neuroimaging studies have shown that speech comprehension involves a number of widely distributed regions within the frontal and temporal lobes. We aimed to examine the differential contributions of white matter connectivity to auditory word and sentence comprehension in chronic post-stroke aphasia. Structural and diffusion MRI data were acquired on 40 patients with chronic post-stroke aphasia....

How often are politicians confronted with public allegations of integrity violations? Which types violations, government levels, and parties do these scandals involve? The Political Integrity Index developed in Netherlands offers information about the number political country since 2013. This article presents a brief overview relevant literature on corruption scandals, summary conceptual framew...