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Psychological, social, and sexual challenges affecting men receiving male infertility treatment: a systematic review and implications for clinical care

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Asian journal of Andrology 2023年第4期25卷 448-453页

作者： Winston Wu justin La Kathryn M Schubach Daniel Lantsberg Darren j Katz Department of Urology Western HealthSt AlbansVIC 3021Australia Department of Urology Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical CenterSan RafaelCA 94903USA Men’s Health Melbourne MelbourneVIC 3000Australia Reproductive Services Unit The Royal Women’s HospitalParkvilleVIC 3052Australia Melbourne IVF East MelbourneVIC 3002Australia Department of Surgery Western PrecinctUniversity of MelbourneParkvilleVIC 3010Australia

In recent years, social research surrounding the consequences of infertility has increasingly focused on the male perspective;however, a gap exists in the understanding of men’s experiences of male infertility treatment. This review aims to synthesize theexisting evidence concerning the psychological, social, and sexual burden of male infertility treatment on men, as well as patientneeds during clinical care. A systematic search identified 12 studies that are diverse in design, setting, and methods. Psychologicalevaluations have found that urological surgery may have a lasting impact on infertility-specific stress, and treatment failure canlead to feelings of depression, grief, and inadequacy. Men tended to have an avoidant coping mechanism throughout fertilitytreatment, and their self-esteem, relationship quality, and sexual functions can be tied to outcomes of treatment. Partner bonds canbe strengthened by mutual support and enhanced communication;couple separation, however, has been noted as a predominantreason for discontinuing male infertility treatment and may be associated with difficult circumstances surrounding severe maleinfertility. Surgical treatments can affect the sexual functioning of infertile men;however, the impact of testicular sperm extractionoutcomes appears to be psychologically driven whereas the improvements after microsurgical varicocelectomy are only evident inhypogonadal men. Clinically, there is a need for better inclusion, communication, education, and resource provision, to addressreported issues of marginalization and uncertainty in men. Routine psychosocial screening in cases of severe male infertility andfollow-up in cases of surgical treatment failure are likely beneficial.

关键词： male infertility male infertility treatment patient experience patient-centered care psychosocial sexual

Survivorship, attained diameter, height and volume of three Paulownia species after 9 years in the southern Appalachians, USA

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journal of Forestry Research 2020年第6期31卷 2181-2191页

作者： Erik C.Berg Stanley j.Zarnoch W.Henry McNab University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic ResearchMissoulaMT 59812USA USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station AshevilleNC 28806USA

Little is known of the tree and stand dynamics of varied species of planted Paulownia left unmanaged until harvest in the southeastern United *** sought to remedy this lack of information needed by land managers to make informed decisions by investigating diff erences in survivorship,attained diameter breast height(DBH),diameter at ground level,total height,tree volume and standlevel volume yields of planted ***,***,and *** in the cool-moist environment of the southern Appalachian *** 9 years,combined-species survivorship was only 27.3%.Low survivorship was likely related to several inclement weather *** was signifi cantly smaller in DBH and total *** combined-species stem(bole)volume models were developed as functions of(1)DBH squared,(2)the product DBH squared and total height,and(3)the product diameter ground line squared and total *** total volume production of unmanaged stands was greatest for *** and *** 4 years after planting;by the 9th year,total volume of *** was greater than the other two *** of our study provide managers information on productivity of three species of Paulownia that can be used for estimating plantation yields.

关键词： Diameter Tree height Stand structure Stem volume Paulownia

Editorial for Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology

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Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology 2017年第1期1卷 I0001-I0002页

作者： Zhang Baichun jürgen Renn Institute for the History of Natural Sciences CASBeijing 100190China Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin 14195Germany

Chinese science and technology have interacted with other cultural traditions,both directly and indirectly,for thousands of *** ongoing discussions of“Silk Road,”or rather“Silk Roads”are emblematic of knowledge dissemination and the global connectivity of Chinese *** Chinese science and technology can be understood as the product of practical,technical and theoretical knowledge developments in China,and an exchange with Western learning and other knowledge *** distinctive history of Chinese science and technology can help us to understand how science and technology emerges and evolves and how it is communicated in globalization *** sources and new archaeological discoveries in China have been intensively studied since the beginning of the twentieth *** results of this research,however,have been published mainly in Chinese,so that the vast majority of results and historical data remain unknown to the international community.

关键词： discussions History knowledge

Sleep disturbances and predictors of nondeployability among active-duty army soldiers: an odds ratio analysis of medical healthcare data from fiscal year 2018

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Military Medical Research 2020年第3期7卷 335-342页

作者： jaime K.Devine jacob Collen jake j.Choynowski Vincent Capaldi Institutes for Behavior Resources Operational Fatigue and Performance2104 Maryland AveBaltimoreMD 21218USA Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Walter Reed National Military Medical CenterBethesdaMD 20889USA Behavioral Biology Branch Center for Military Psychiatry and NeuroscienceWalter Reed Army Institute of ResearchSilver SpringMD 20910USA

Background:The impact of sleep disorders on active-duty soldiers’medical readiness is not currently *** data generated at military treatment facilities can be accessed to create research reports and thus can be used to estimate the prevalence of sleep disturbances and the role of sleep on overall health in service *** current study aimed to quantify sleep-related health issues and their impact on health and nondeployability through the analysis of *** healthcare records from fiscal year 2018(FY2018).Methods:Medical diagnosis information and deployability profiles(e-Profiles)were queried for all active-duty *** patients with a concurrent sleep disorder diagnosis receiving medical care within *** was predicted from medical reasons for having an e-Profile(categorized as sleep,behavioral health,musculoskeletal,cardiometabolic,injury,or accident)using binomial logistic *** e-Profiles were investigated as a moderator between other e-Profile categories and ***:Out of 582,031 soldiers,48.4%(n=281,738)had a sleep-related diagnosis in their healthcare records,9.7%(n=56,247)of soldiers had e-Profiles,and 1.9%(n=10,885)had a sleep *** with sleep e-Profiles were more likely to have had a motor vehicle accident(p OR(prevalence odds ratio)=4.7,95%CI 2.63–8.39,P≤0.001)or work/duty-related injury(p OR=1.6,95%CI 1.32–1.94,P≤0.001).The likelihood of nondeployability was greater in soldiers with a sleep e-Profile and a musculoskeletal e-Profile(p OR=4.25,95%CI 3.75–4.81,P≤0.001)or work/dutyrelated injury(p OR=2.62,95%CI 1.63–4.21,P≤0.001).Conclusion:Nearly half of soldiers had a sleep disorder or sleep-related medical diagnosis in 2018,but their sleep problems are largely not profiled as limitations to medical *** issues and physical injury predict nondeployability,and nondeployability is more likely to occur in soldiers who have sleep e-Profiles in addition t

关键词： Medical readiness Behavioral sleep medicine Deployability Healthcare records Military Big data Data mining

Sex-specific relationships between urbanization,parasitism,and plumage coloration in house finches

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Current Zoology 2021年第3期67卷 237-244页

作者： Brooke E.Sykes Pierce Hutton Kevin j.McGraw School of Life Sciences Arizona State UniversityTempeAZ85287USA

Historically,studies of condition-dependent signals in animals have been male-centric,but recent work suggests that female ornaments can also communicate individual quality(e.g.,disease state,fecundity).There also has been a surge of interest in how urbanization alters signaling traits,but we know little about if and how cities affect signal expression in female *** measured carotenoid-based plumage coloration and coccidian(Isospora spp.)parasite burden in desert and city populations of house finches Haemorhous mexicanus to examine links between urbanization,health state,and feather pigmentation in males and *** earlier work,we showed that male house finches are less colorful and more parasitized in the city,and we again detected such patterns in this study for males;however,urban females were less colorful,but not more parasitized,than rural ***,contrary to rural populations,we found that urban birds(regardless of sex)with larger patches of carotenoid coloration were also more heavily infected with *** results show that urban environments can disrupt condition-dependent color expression and highlight the need for more studies on how cities affect disease and signaling traits in both male and female animals.

关键词： carotenoid pigmentation female ornaments Haemorhous mexicanus parasites urban ecology

Computational study on influence of RF shielding box on inductance of coil

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Plasma Science and Technology 2019年第6期21卷 23-28页

作者： S j KIM j j LEE Y S LEE j H KIM S j YOU Applied Physics lab for PLasma Engineering(APPLE) Department of Physics Chungnam National University Daejeon 34134 Republic of Korea Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science(KRISS) Daejeon 34113 Republic of Korea

Despite the fact that a radio frequency (RF) shielding box affects a coil inductance used in matching network,RF engineers have used a coil inductance measured in open space on designing matching networks since it is difficult to precisely measure the coil inductance within the RF shielding *** this work,we investigate the influences of the RF shielding box on the coil inductance via a 3D full electromagnetic wave *** results shows that the coil inductance decreases from-6.0% to-11.9% compared with its ideal inductance depending on coil positions within the RF shielding *** inductive and capacitive coupling between the coil and surfaces of the RF shielding box contribute to the reduction of the coil *** expect that these results would be useful for those who design RF matching networks.

关键词： 3D full EM wave simulation RF matching component RF shield inductive and capacitive coupling

Mathematical model derivation of an unmanned circulation control aerial vehicle UC^2AV

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Control Theory and Technology 2020年第1期18卷 1-18页

作者： Mohammed AGHA Konstantinos KANISTRAS Matthew j.RUTHERFORD Kimon P.VALAVANIS University of Denver DenverCO80210U.S.A. University of Alabama Huntsville HuntsvilleAL35899U.S.A.

This paper presents a system identification method to derive accurate mathematical models for an unmanned circulation control aerial vehicle(UC2AV)that account for the effects of circulation control(CC)on the vehicle *** X-plane flight simulator and the CIFER system identification software are utilized to first derive simulation models to verify and validate the proposed system identification *** is followed by flight tests to derive mathematical models and stability derivatives for the aircraft with CC-on and *** tests indicate a nose down pitching moment effect induced by CC,which in turn alter the UAV trim values and *** of the two sets of mathematical models reveal that CC changes the longitudinal trim values and improves the lateral maneuverability of the *** experiments indicate an acceptable match between the derived models and UAV dynamics by calculating root mean square(RMS)error values and by quantifying the model predictive ability through calculating the Theil inequality coefficient(TIC).

关键词： Mathematical modeling control system UAV circulation control

Towards rapid and automated vulnerability classification of concrete buildings

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Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration 2023年第2期22卷 309-332页

作者： Lissette Iturburu jean Kwannandar Shirley j.Dyke Xiaoyu Liu Xin Zhang julio Ramirez Lyles School of Civil Engineering Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteIN 47907United States School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteIN 47907United States

With the overwhelming number of older reinforced concrete buildings that need to be assessed for seismic vulnerability in a city,local governments face the question of how to assess their building *** leveraging engineering drawings that are stored in a digital format,a well-established method for classification reinforced concrete buildings with respect to seismic vulnerability,and machine learning techniques,we have developed a technique to automatically extract quantitative information from the drawings to classify *** this technique,stakeholders will be able to rapidly classify buildings according to their seismic vulnerability and have access to information they need to prioritize a large building *** approach has the potential to have significant impact on our ability to rapidly make decisions related to retrofit and improvements in our *** the Los Angeles County alone it is estimated that several thousand buildings of this type *** Hassan index is adopted here as the method for automation due to its simple application during the classification of the vulnerable reinforced concrete *** paper will present the technique used for automating information extraction to compute the Hassan index for a large building inventory.

关键词： object detection segmentation U-Net vulnerability hazards earthquakes reinforced concrete building inventories and databases

Profiling elite male 100-m sprint performance:The role of maximum velocity and relative acceleration

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journal of Sport and Health Science 2022年第1期11卷 75-84页

作者： Robin Healy Ian C.Kenny Andrew j.Harrison Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences University of LimerickV94 T9PXIreland Department of Sport and Health Sciences Athlone Institute of TechnologyN37 HD68Ireland Health Research Institute University of LimerickLimerickV94 T9PXIreland

Purpose:This study aimed to determine the accuracy of a 4 split time modelling method to generate velocity-time and velocity-distance variables in elite male 100-m sprinters and subsequently to assess the roles of key sprint parameters with respect to 100-m sprint ***,this study aimed to assess the differences between faster and slower sprinters in key sprint variables that have not been assessed in previous ***:Velocity-time and velocity-distance curves were generated using a mono-exponential function from 4 split times for 82 male sprinters during major athletics *** race variables-maximum velocity,the acceleration time constant(τ),and percentage of velocity lost(vLoss)-were derived for each *** were divided into tertiles,based on 100-m time,with the first and third tertiles considered to be the faster and slower groups,respectively,to facilitate further ***:Modelled split times and velocities displayed excellent accuracy and close agreement with raw measures(range of mean bias was-0.2%to 0.2%,and range of intraclass correlation coefficients(ICCs)was 0.935 to 0.999)except for 10-m time(mean bias was 1.6%±1.3%,and the ICC was 0.600).The 100-m sprint performance time and all 20-m split times had a significant near-perfect negative correlation with maximum velocity(r≥-0.90)except for the 0 to 20-m split time,where a significantly large negative correlation was found(r=-0.57).The faster group had a significantly higher maximum velocity andτ(p<0.001),and no significant difference was found for vLoss(p=0.085).Conclusion:Coaches and researchers are encouraged to utilize the 4 split time method proposed in the current study to assess several key race variables that describe a sprinter’s performance capacities,which can be subsequently used to further inform training.

关键词： Deceleration Modelling Race phases Reaction time Split times