Background Male infertility is a multifactorial syndrome encompassing a wide variety of disorders. In more than half of infertile men, the cause of their infertility is unknown (idiopathic) and could be congenital or acquired. OGG1 is a bifunctional glycosylaseii, in that it has both AP lyase and DNA glycosylase activity and one of its functions is to excise and remove 8-oxo-dGuo from DNA. Amon...

the first step to quantify crop phenology is precise estimation of the parameters, which affect it. these parameters are mainly temperature and photoperiod. this study was conducted with eight sowing dates to quantify response of stem elongation rate (ser) to temperature and photoperiod in wheat (tajan cultivar). the regression models fitted to ser against temperature were flat, logistic, quadr...

Morphological, numerical and chemical taxonomy of the genus Crataegus was studied in the East and northeast of Iran. More than 80 fresh specimens as well as 50 herbarium specimens from different localities were examind. Using vegetative and reproductive morphological characters an identification key is provided for all taxa. For numerical taxonomy 85 morphological characters were measured and t...

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is an important part of speech-based Human-Computer Interface (HCI) applications. Previous SER methods rely on the extraction of features and training an appropriate classifier. However, most of those features can be affected by emotionally irrelevant factors such as gender, speaking styles and environment. Here, an SER method has been proposed based on a concat...