Article
Environmental Sciences
Benhong Gu, Shangren Wang, Feng Liu, Yuxuan Song, Jun Li, Yongtao Ni, Min Chen, Jianlin Hu, Luobu Ouzhu, Zheng Li, Li Liu, Xia Li, Xiaoqiang Liu
Summary: The study found that the plateau environment caused adaptive changes in male reproductive endocrine hormones and sperm parameters. Although the total number of sperm decreased and DNA fragmentation index increased in males from plateau areas, the Tibetan population in high-altitude regions continues to grow.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Nikolai Miklin, Anubhav Chaturvedi, Mohamed Bourennane, Marcin Pawlowski, Adan Cabello
Summary: We address the problem of closing the detection efficiency loophole in Bell experiments and propose a general method for reducing the critical detection efficiency of any Bell inequality. This is accomplished by entangling two particles in multiple orthogonal subspaces and conducting multiple Bell tests. The proposed method closes the simultaneous measurement loophole by introducing penalized N-product Bell inequalities.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zina Wen, Zhen Lei, Erpo Tian, Yiyan Wang, Ying Zhong, Ren-shan Ge
Summary: Ziram, an endocrine disruptor, can effectively inhibit sperm motility and forward motility, reduce the level of tyrosine protein kinase, and irreversibly impact sperm capacitation.
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Isaac Tranter-Entwistle, Tim Eglinton, Thomas J. J. Hugh, Saxon Connor
Summary: There are significant discrepancies between surgeon-documented and actual achievement rates of critical view of safety (CVS) in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. This study aims to characterize the use of the artery first technique (AFT) and hypothesize its use as an adjunct in difficult dissections to ensure safe cholecystectomy.
SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES
(2023)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Akhil Muthigi, Samad Jahandideh, Lauren A. Bishop, Firoozeh K. Naeemi, Sharon K. Shipley, Jeanne E. O'Brien, Paul R. Shin, Kate Devine, Cigdem Tanrikut
Summary: This study analyzed 92,471 insemination cycles from a large fertility clinic to examine the relationship between postwash total motile sperm count and IUI outcomes. It was found that a TMSC of >= 9 x 10(6) optimized pregnancy rates, with a gradual decline in success below this threshold. The data can be used for personalized counseling and clinical decision making.
FERTILITY AND STERILITY
(2021)
Review
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Elizandra Cardoso, Maria da Luz Mathias, Rita I. Monarca, Sofia I. Gabriel
Summary: This study reviewed literature on sperm cell counts in assessing sperm shape abnormalities and proposed standardizing counts to 1000 cells per animal for robust statistical results and cost-effectiveness.
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Huimin Xu, Linghua Piao, Yundi Wu, Xiande Liu
Summary: This study demonstrates that IFN-gamma/BCI combination therapy can enhance the killing efficacy of bacteria against tumor cells and inhibit tumor progression. IFN-gamma also attenuates the immune responses stimulated by bacteria and promotes immune cell infiltration, leading to tumor eradication. These findings suggest that IFN-gamma/BCI is a promising approach to immunotherapy.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Yinsong Xu, Zhuqing Jiang, Aidong Men, Haiying Wang, Haiyong Luo
Summary: This paper proposes a method to alleviate view bias in person re-identification by generating multi-view features using MVMP and MFFN in testing and training, respectively, which are parameter-free and can be applied to CNNs without extra supervision. Extensive experiments show the superiority of this method on four benchmark datasets.
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Xu Wang, Yi Jin, Chenning Li, Yigang Cen, Yidong Li
Summary: Cross-view vehicle Reidentification is an important vision task in intelligent transportation and urban surveillance. This paper proposes a novel network model, VSLN, for identifying vehicles in different views. The model extracts sphere-based features by constraining images into hypersphere using a Sphere Feature Embedding Network, and it also introduces a Vehicle Viewpoint Predictor and global attention mechanism to address the challenges of small interclass discrepancy and large intraclass distance. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed VSLN outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Maingredy Rodrigues Souza, Renata Mazaro-Costa, Thiago Lopes Rocha
Summary: A bibliometric and systematic review on the toxic effects of different types of NMs on the male reproductive system in mammalian models revealed that NMs have the ability to cross the blood-testis barrier and bioaccumulate in several organs. The reproductive toxicity of NMs is mainly related to ROS production, oxidative stress, DNA damage and apoptosis.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Shangzhi Teng, Shiliang Zhang, Qingming Huang, Nicu Sebe
Summary: Vehicle Re-Identification (Re-ID) is a challenging vision task due to the significant variations in vehicle appearance under different viewpoints. The proposed multi-view branch network and spatial attention model provide a new approach to address this issue, with extensive experiments demonstrating significantly improved performance.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Lei Zhang, Fangyi Liu, David Zhang
Summary: This paper proposes a method to learn view-invariant features by eliminating view-specific information, which consists of three parts and achieves superior performance in person re-identification tasks with the guidance of view information.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Roberta Yonara Nascimento Reis, Lorena Athie Goulart, Lucia Helena Mascaro, Suellen Aparecida Alves
Summary: The deterioration of water quality and the need for its reuse have led to the development of various water treatment processes. The presence of different types of water contaminants has grown with urbanization, industrialization, agriculture, and livestock. Photoelectrochemical processes have gained popularity due to their ability to degrade pharmaceutical compounds, improving water quality for reuse.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Menghan Li, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Eyup Dogan, Xiao Gu, Hong Zhang
Summary: This study examines the influencing factors of ecological footprints in China from the perspective of COP27. The empirical results indicate that economic growth is the significant factor in environmental quality degradation in China, while improving renewable energy usage, research and development, and foreign direct investment can reduce the country's ecological footprint. Therefore, the study recommends increased investment in these areas.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Surgery
Evelien M. J. Beelen, C. Janneke van der Woude, Marie J. Pierik, Frank Hoentjen, Nanne K. de Boer, Bas Oldenburg, Andrea E. van der Meulen, Cyriel I. J. Ponsioen, Gerard Dijkstra, Annette H. Bruggink, Nicole S. Erler, W. Rudolph Schouten, Annemarie C. de Vries
Summary: The study found that over the past 25 years, there has been a significant decrease in the rate of intestinal resections in Crohn's disease patients, with a 75% lower risk of intestinal re-resection for postoperative CD patients.
