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Sexual satisfaction in male infertility.
1999
Infertility is proposed to be a continuing stressor for couples suffering from involuntary childlessness. A long duration of the desire for a child and, correspondingly, a longer period of diagnostic and treatment procedures could have a negative impact on sexual satisfaction, thus leading to an unfavorable psychological circuit. The present evaluation should clarify the state of sexual satisfaction and relationships, with relevant parameters in 68 men with fertility problems, of couples with involuntary childlessness. Subjects reported relatively high average levels of present sexual satisfaction with only nonsignificant lower scores (p = .08) compared to recalled sexual satisfaction prior…
Inflation anchoring and growth: The role of credit constraints
2022
Abstract Can inflation anchoring foster growth? To answer this question, we use panel data on sectoral growth for 22 manufacturing industries from 39 advanced and emerging market economies over 1990–2014 and employ a difference-in-differences strategy based on the theoretical prediction that higher inflation uncertainty particularly depresses investment in industries that are more credit constrained. Industries characterized by high external financial dependence, liquidity needs, and R&D intensity, and low asset tangibility, tend to grow faster in countries with well-anchored inflation expectations. The results, based on an IV approach—using indicators of monetary policy transparency and ce…
Extraction of the mismatch negativity elicited by sound duration decrements: A comparison of three procedures
2009
This study focuses on comparison of procedures for extracting the brain event-related potentials (ERPs) - brain responses to stimuli recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). These responses are used to study how the synchronization of brain electrical responses is associated with cognition such as how the brain detects changes in the auditory world. One such event-related response to auditory change is called mismatch negativity (MMN). It is typically observed by computing a difference wave between ERPs elicited by a frequently repeated sound and ERPs elicited by an infrequently occurring sound which differs from the repeated sounds. Fast and reliable extraction of the ERPs, such as the…
Analysis of dust exposure during chainsaw forest operations
2017
Abstract: In 1999, the European Union proclaimed hardwood dust carcinogenic based on the classification of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued in 1995. The operational exposure limit (OEL) for inhalable wood dust has been set to 5 mg m-3 by EU directives, though in different countries the OEL ranges from 1 to 5 mg m-3. The objective of this study was to determine the exposure to wood dust of forest workers in chainsaw cutting and processing and suggest possible countermeasures. The study took into consideration different silvicultural treatments (coppice clear cut, conifer thinning, conifer pruning, and sanitary cut) and chainsaw fuel (normal two-stroke gasoline mi…
On the solution growth of single crystals of solid solutions
1986
Abstract Homogeneous solid solution crystals are needed for studying the behaviour of systems with a glass state or incommensurate phases. A simple solution growth procedure is described. It is based on a temperature difference growth method with thermally enforced convection and the use of equilibrated solid and liquid solutions. First results of its application to the [(CH3)4N]2ZnCl 4−xBrx and the Rb1−x(NH4)xH2PO4 systems are presented.
A Finite Difference Model of a PV-PCM System
2012
Abstract The performances of a photovoltaic panel (PV) are defined according to the “peak power” that identifies the maximum electric power supplied by the panel when it receives an insolation of 1 kW/m2 and the temperature of the cell is maintained at 25 °C. These conditions are only nominal since the solar radiation has a variable intensity and also the panel is subjected to thermal excursions; due to these reasons the real power efficiency of the panel is considerably lower than that obtainable in the nominal conditions. The study focused on assessing a method to reduce the peak temperatures of PV systems using Phase Change Materials (PCM). To this aim it was created a numerical model ca…
Architectural improvements and FPGA implementation of a multimodel neuroprocessor
2003
Since neural networks (NNs) require an enormous amount of learning time, various kinds of dedicated parallel computers have been developed. In the paper a 2-D systolic array (SA) of dedicated processing elements (PEs) also called systolic cells (SCs) is presented as the heart of a multimodel neural-network accelerator. The instruction set of the SA allows the implementation of several neural algorithms, including error back propagation and a self organizing feature map algorithm. Several special architectural facilities are presented in the paper in order to improve the 2-D SA performance. A swapping mechanism of the weight matrix allows the implementation of NNs larger than 2-D SA. A systo…
Properties of the intermediate point from a mean value theorem of the integral calculus - II
2019
Abstract In this paper we consider two continuous functions f, g : [a, b] → ℝ and we study for these ones, under which circumstances the intermediate point function is four order di erentiable at the point x = a and we calculate its derivative.
Integrazione, espressioni delle differenze: una ricerca a Palermo
2018
Il fenomeno migratorio verso l’UE negli ultimi decenni ha rivelato la debolezza dei modelli di integrazione. Sul piano sociale non si è riusciti a governare un cambiamento di convivenza oggi improcrastinabile. Le comunità di immigrati popolano le nostre città lavorano, consumano, si incontrano, e non smettono di praticare le proprie espressioni religiose e culturali di origine. Quale ruolo gioca l’espressione delle differenze, modellate dall’adattamento, nei processi di integrazione locale? Queste dinamiche sono state analizzate in una ricerca qualitativa condotta a Palermo, i cui principali risultati sono presentati in questo saggio. The migratory phenomenon to the EU in recent decades sho…