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The influence of paternal overweight on sperm chromatin integrity, fertilization rate and pregnancy outcome among males attending fertility clinic for IVF/ICSI treatment

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Low and middle-income countries are facing a rapid increase in obesity and overweight burden, particularly in urban settings. Being overweight in men is associated with infertility and a higher risk to have a low sperm count or no sperm in ...
Riffat Bibi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The physiological significance of insemination in programming pregnancy outcome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The cellular and molecular environment of the uterus during the pre - and peri - implantation period of early pregnancy is critical for implantation success and optimal fetal and placental development.
Andreas Krug, Ciaran Meachan
core   +4 more sources

A Knowledge‐Based Approach for Understanding and Managing Additive Manufacturing Data

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Additive manufacturing processes generate a large amount of data. Effectively managing, understanding, and retrieving information from this data remains a major challenge. Therefore, we propose an ontology‐based approach to integrate heterogeneous data, enable semantic queries, and support decision‐making.
Mina Abd Nikooie Pour   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of COVID-19 on mental health of infertile couple: A rapid systematic review

open access: yesJournal of Education and Health Promotion, 2022
Infertile couples experience a lot of psychological stress due to the inability to achieve the desired social role. Couples who decide to continue assisted reproductive therapy (ART) during the epidemic also experience the psychological impact of the ...
Morvarid Irani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Pre‐Oxidation Treatments on a Recycled MgO/Steel‐Composite as Carbon Free Anode in Aluminum‐Electrolysis Environments

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Cermets (60 vol.% AISI 316L stainless steel, 40 vol.% recycled MgO), intended for use in aluminum electrolysis, were pre‐oxidized in three furnaces with different heating technologies and subjected to a cryolite corrosion test. The different atmospheres influenced the formation of oxide layers, which in turn affected corrosion resistance and ...
Patricia Kaiser   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

CLINICAL ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN OVARIAN TISSUES

open access: yesEuromediterranean Biomedical Journal, 2019
Electron microscopy (EM) is a revolutionary imaging technique for obtaining high-resolution images of biological specimens in many fields, including the study of human ovarian tissues.
Vincenza Dolo
doaj   +1 more source

Welfare in horse breeding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Welfare problems related to the way horses are bred, whether by coitus or by the application of artificial reproduction techniques (ARTs), have been given no discrete consideration within the academic literature. This paper reviews the existing knowledge
ALLEN   +53 more
core   +2 more sources

A Topology Optimization Framework for the Inverse Design of Nonlinear Mechanical Metamaterials

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This work uses topology optimization to design unit cells for mechanical metamaterials with a prescribed nonlinear stress–strain response. The framework adds contact and postbuckling modeling to synthesize microstructures for three highly nonlinear responses, including pseudoductile behavior, monostable with snap‐through buckling, and bistable ...
Charlie Aveline   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neurodevelopmental outcomes in children conceived by assisted reproductive treatment

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry
Introduction Impact of assisted reproductive treatment (ART) techniques on the child’s mental development is the focus of numerous studies. Whereas several studies have found potential negative effects on ART children’s psychosocial health, others ...
B. Abdelmoula   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

`Human clones talk about their lives': Media representations of assisted reproductive and biogenetic technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article examines New Zealand print media representations of assisted reproductive and related biogenetic technologies, conceptualized as the products of a concordance of interest between media workers and reproductive specialists, biogenetic ...
Michelle, Carolyn
core   +2 more sources

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