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In conclusion, the addition of AST to freezing extenders inhibited lipid peroxidation and regulated fatty acid composition of the sperm membrane, improved post-thaw sperm quality, and had no adverse effect on boar sperm in vitro fertilization (IVF) capacity and potential for embryonic development. Our data provide a novel insight into understanding the mechanisms of AST concerning protecting boar sperm quality against ROS damage during cryopreservation.The objective of this study was to study the changes in salivary proteins that occur in the dog after the ejaculation process. Saliva samples from eight dogs before and after induced ejaculation were analyzed by proteomic using Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) labeling and LC-MS/MS analysis. A total of 33 salivary proteins showed significant changes after the ejaculation process. The up-regulated proteins that showed changes of higher magnitude were mucin-7 (MUC-7), peroxiredoxin-4 (PRDX4) and galectin-3 (LEGALS3) whereas proteins such as alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (A1G1) and alpha-1B-glycoprotein (A1BG) were the most down-regulated. MUC-7 and PRDX4 expression in saliva after ejaculation could be associated with the protective “environment” created by the organism to exert pr 3o-fertility activities and antioxidants benefits in spermatozoa. Also LEGALS3 increment could be associated with an improvement of wellbeing and could contribute to a positive global effect in the body. Down-regulations of A1G1 and A1GB proteins found in saliva after ejaculation could be associated with a reduction in systemic inflammation. check details Overall it can be concluded that, changes in proteins in saliva that are produced after ejaculation can reflect a state of increase immune defenses, improvement of antioxidant status and low inflammation.Surface mount electronic devices (like resistors, capacitors, and inductors) extracted from the portable electronic devices (mobile phones, USB drives, etc.) have been studied for dose reconstruction using luminescence techniques for radiological or nuclear emergencies. In this work, carbon coated ceramic resistors removed from the electronic instruments are analyzed using thermo luminescence (TL) technique for the retrospective dose reconstruction. TL measurements on beta irradiated ceramic resistors exhibited one major dosimetric peak at around 540 K in addition to three other low temperature peaks. A linear beta dose response has been observed from 1 Gy to 125 Gy with Minimum Detectable Dose (MDD) of 0.1 Gy. The dose response is found to be supralinear below 1 Gy. The fading studies have been carried out and investigated up to 30 days. The important kinetic parameters for the material like TL trap depth, frequency factor and order of kinetics are evaluated by deconvolution method.Future international nuclear disarmament may involve the dismantlement of nuclear warheads. In nuclear warhead dismantlement verification, the mass information of the fissile material in the pit is an important attribute of nuclear warheads, and can be used to verify that the nuclear warheads demanded by the nuclear disarmament treaty have indeed been dismantled. In this paper, a method of reconstructing the fissile material mass of the pit based on the activation effect of the explosive and the neural network is proposed, and may be applied in the future nuclear warhead dismantlement verification. Firstly, the number and average abundance of 14C produced by the neutron activation reactions in the explosive inside the nuclear warhead was calculated based on the Monte Carlo numerical simulation. Secondly, it is found that the spatial distribution of the 14C abundances in the explosive is closely related to the fissile material mass of the pit through the numerical simulation. Then, neural networks were established to reconstruct the fissile material mass of the pit through the training. The testing results show that, the fissile material mass of the pit can be reconstructed accurately based on the activation effect of the explosive and the neural network, and the reconstruction precision is better than 10%.An attempt was made in this work to evaluate a simple flat sheet supported liquid membrane technique for the separation of carrier free 90Y from 90Sr using two diglycolamide carrier ligands, (i) N,N,N’,N’-tetra-n-octyl-diglycolamide (TODGA), and (ii) N,N,N’,N’-tetra-(2-ethylhexyl)-diglycolamide (TEHDGA). Various experimental parameters were optimized to get selective transport of 90Y over 90Sr. At 6 M HNO3 feed acidity, >95% 90Y could be recovered selectively in just 4 h with both the ligands. Under identical experimental conditions, about 0.1% transport of Sr was also recorded which could be completely removed by passing through a Sr selective column to get medical grade 90Y pure product. A mathematical model equation was also derived and experimentally validated for predicting the transport of 90Y through membrane.The triple-to-double coincidence ratio (TDCR) and the CIEMAT/NIST efficiency tracing (CNET) methods are important techniques for accurate activity determination in radionuclide metrology and other fields. The methods require liquid scintillation (LS) counters with three (TDCR) or two (CNET) photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), respectively, and the original techniques assume that the responses of all PMTs in a counter system are identical. This assumption is, however, often not fulfilled. This may have significant consequences for the activity determination, and dedicated corrections are required. Corresponding effects and possible corrections for the TDCR method were discussed in a recent article (Kossert et al., 2020) while the CNET method was not included in that work. The intention of this paper is to present a brief theoretical consideration of this problem. This paper makes clear that for most radionuclides potential PMT asymmetries in CNET counters are of minor importance. In addition, measures to identify potential asymmetries in these counters are discussed.The paper presents a study of surface acoustic waves propagation in a damage layer with finite thickness and residual stress on an orthotropic semi-infinite medium to reveal the application of laser ultrasound in the surface inspection of ground silicon wafers. Biot’s theory of small deformations influenced by initial stress forms the basis for this study. Considering the case that the displacement and boundary forces are continuous at the interface and the forces vanish on the free surface, the required dispersion relation is obtained. We consider a sample of (100) silicon wafer by grinding with fine abrasive grains, which has a machined face with a micrometer-level thickness of surface damage and residual stress. In order to discuss the impact of propagation directions, degree of surface damage, residual compressive stress on the velocity characteristics of surface waves, the numerical computation of the dispersion equations is performed. It has been found that surface damage has a significant effect on the dispersion curve, while the residual compressive stress can only cause a small decrease Δc in the surface wave velocity.