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Epidemiology of varicocele

Armand S. Zini, Bader H. Alsaikhan, Khalid A. Alrabeeah, Guila Delouya • Asian Journal of Andrology (2015)

Varicocele is a common problem in reproductive medicine practice. A varicocele is identified in 15% of healthy men and up to 35% of men with primary infertility. The exact pathophysiology of varicoceles is not very well understood, especial...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-sa DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/1008-682x.172640 PMC: 4770482

Quality of life, psychological distress and violence among women in close relationships: a population-based study in Finland

Tomomi Hisasue, Marie Kruse, Jani Raitanen, Eija Paavilainen et al. • BMC Women's Health (2020)

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to examine associations between exposure to violence, quality of life, and psychological distress. Women aged 19–54 years who had been exposed to violence by someone in a close relationship were...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12905-020-00950-6

The niche-derived glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) induces migration of mouse spermatogonial stem/progenitor cells.

Lisa Dovere, Stefania Fera, Margherita Grasso, Dante Lamberti et al. • PLoS ONE (2013)

In mammals, the biological activity of the stem/progenitor compartment sustains production of mature gametes through spermatogenesis. Spermatogonial stem cells and their progeny belong to the class of undifferentiated spermatogonia, a germ ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059431

Emergence of chaotic resonance controlled by extremely weak feedback signals in neural systems

Anh Tu Tran, Sou Nobukawa, Sou Nobukawa, Sou Nobukawa et al. • Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2024)

IntroductionChaotic resonance is similar to stochastic resonance, which emerges from chaos as an internal dynamical fluctuation. In chaotic resonance, chaos-chaos intermittency (CCI), in which the chaotic orbits shift between the separated ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fams.2024.1434119

Benchmarking spiking neurons for linear quadratic regulator control of multi-linked pole on a cart: from single neuron to ensemble

Shreyan Banerjee, Luna Gava, Aasifa Rounak, Vikram Pakrashi • Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering (2025)

The emerging field of neuromorphic computing for edge control applications poses the need to quantitatively estimate and limit the number of spiking neurons, to reduce network complexity and optimize the number of neurons per core and hence...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1088/2634-4386/ae0fc0

Socially Assistive Robotics

David Feil-Seifer, Maja J. Matarić • International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (2005)

This paper defines the research area of socially assistive robotics, focusing on assisting people through social interaction. While much attention has been paid to robots that provide assistance to people through physical contact (which we ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icorr.2005.1501143

Promoting inclusiveness in exoskeleton robotics: Addressing challenges for pediatric access

Fosch-Villaronga Eduard, Čartolovni Anto, Pierce Robin L. • Paladyn (2020)

Pediatric access to exoskeletons lags far behind that of adults. In this article, we promote inclusiveness in exoskeleton robotics by identifying and addressing challenges and barriers to pediatric access to this potentially life-changing t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1515/pjbr-2020-0021

Boosting precision crop protection towards agriculture 5.0 via machine learning and emerging technologies: A contextual review

Gustavo A. Mesías-Ruiz, Gustavo A. Mesías-Ruiz, María Pérez-Ortiz, José Dorado et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2023)

Crop protection is a key activity for the sustainability and feasibility of agriculture in a current context of climate change, which is causing the destabilization of agricultural practices and an increase in the incidence of current or in...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1143326

Socially assistive robotics [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

Adriana Tapus, Maja J. Matarić, Brian Michael Scassellati • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (2007)

Socially intelligent robotics is the pursuit of creating robots capable of exhibiting natural-appearing social qualities. Beyond the basic capabilities of moving and acting autonomously, the field has focused on the use of the robot's physi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2007.339605

Evolutionary Robotics

Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano • The MIT Press eBooks (2000)

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their ow...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2889.001.0001

Controlling chaos in distributed systems

Tad Hogg, Bernardo A. Huberman • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (1991)

A simple and robust procedure for freezing out chaotic behavior in systems composed of interacting agents making decisions based on imperfect and delayed information is described. It is based on a reward mechanism whereby the relative numbe...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/21.135679

Human factors in cybersecurity

Esmeralda Kadëna, Marsidi Gupi • Security science journal (2021)

Technological solutions in the mobile and digital era are becoming more helpful in informing the population, educational systems, monitoring, tracking the individuals, working, and spending time from home. On the other hand, the valuable in...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.37458/ssj.2.2.3

Natural Language Processing of Nursing Notes

Shazia A. Mitha, Jessica Schwartz, Mollie Hobensack, Kenrick Cato et al. • CIN Computers Informatics Nursing (2022)

Natural language processing includes a variety of techniques that help to extract meaning from narrative data. In healthcare, medical natural language processing has been a growing field of study; however, little is known about its use in n...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/cin.0000000000000967 PMC: 11499545

Automation of a problem list using natural language processing

Stéphane M. Meystre, Peter John Haug • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2005)

BACKGROUND: The medical problem list is an important part of the electronic medical record in development in our institution. To serve the functions it is designed for, the problem list has to be as accurate and timely as possible. However,...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-5-30 PMC: 1208893

Data Statements for Natural Language Processing: Toward Mitigating System Bias and Enabling Better Science

Emily M. Bender, Batya Friedman • Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2018)

In this paper, we propose data statements as a design solution and professional practice for natural language processing technologists, in both research and development. Through the adoption and widespread use of data statements, the field ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00041

Learning and Evolution in Neural Networks

Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi, Jeffrey L. Elman • Adaptive Behavior (1994)

This article describes simulations on populations of neural networks that both evolve at the population level and learn at the individual level. Unlike other simulations, the evolutionary task (finding food in the environment) and the learn...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/105971239400300102

Seeding Cores: A Pathway for Nuclear Star Clusters from Bound Star Clusters in the First Billion Years

Fred Angelo Batan Garcia, Massimo Ricotti, Kazuyuki Sugimura • The Open Journal of Astrophysics (2025)

We model the formation of star clusters in a dwarf galaxy progenitor during the first 700 Myr of cosmic history using a cosmological radiation-hydrodynamic simulation with a sub-grid star formation efficiency (SFE) model calibrated from AU-...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.33232/001c.145064

White dwarf + M dwarf Detached Binaries in Long Period Radio Transients: Observed Binary Parameters, Evolution, and Population Constraints

Antonio Rodriguez, Kareem El-Badry, Iris de Ruiter, Kaustubh Rajwade et al. • The Open Journal of Astrophysics (2026)

Long period radio transients (LPTs) are the slowest radio-pulsing sources ever found, with the current population spanning periods of seven minutes to over six hours. Two of the thirteen published LPTs, ILT J1101+5521 and GLEAM-X J0704--37,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.33232/001c.167716