• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.49-56
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• 2022

Objective: Oxidative stress and sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) have been linked to idiopathic male infertility (IMI). Various antioxidants have been tried to improve semen parameters and fertility potential in IMI patients, but with inconsistent results. The study aimed to compare the effects of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and Centrum multivitamins on semen parameters, seminal antioxidant capacity, and SDF in infertile men with idiopathic oligoasthenospermia (OA). Methods: This prospective controlled clinical study involved 130 patients with idiopathic OA and 58 fertile controls. The patients were divided randomly into two groups: the first group received CoQ10 (200 mg/day orally) and the second group received Centrum multivitamins (1 tablet/day) for 3 months. Semen parameters, CoQ10 levels, reactive oxygen species (ROS), total antioxidant capacity (TAC), catalase, SDF, and serum hormone levels (follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, testosterone, and prolactin) were compared at baseline and after 3 months. Results: Both CoQ10 and Centrum improved sperm concentration and motility, but the improvement was greater with Centrum therapy (p<0.05). Similarly, both therapies improved antioxidant capacity, but TAC and catalase improvement was greater (p<0.01 and p<0.001 respectively) with CoQ10, whereas ROS (p<0.01) and SDF (p<0.001) improvements were greater with Centrum administration. Centrum therapy was associated with reduced serum testosterone (p<0.05). Conclusion: In conclusion, both CoQ10 and Centrum were effective in improving semen parameters, antioxidant capacity, and SDF, but the improvement was greater with Centrum than with CoQ10. Therefore, Centrum-as a source of combined antioxidants-may provide more effective results than individual antioxidants such as CoQ10 in the treatment of infertile men with idiopathic OA.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.117-122
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• 2010

In this paper, we introduce the concepts of 1-prime ideals and 2-prime ideals in semirings. We have also introduced $m_1$-system and $m_2$-system in semiring. We have shown that if Q is an ideal in the semiring R and if M is an $m_2$-system of R such that $\overline{Q}{\bigcap}M={\emptyset}$ then there exists as 2-prime ideal P of R such that Q $\subseteq$ P with $P{\bigcap}M={\emptyset}$.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.41-50
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• 1982

The effects of $NaHCO_3$ on the electrocardiogram of rats were studied in the induced hyperkalemia. The subjects were divided into 4 groups: the group 1 was normal control and the data on this normal control had teen obtained from the following three groups before administration of KCl or $NaHCO_3$, the group 2 (KCl) was administered 40 ml per kg body weight of the 10 per cent KCl solution, the group 3 $(NaHCO_3)$ was administered 40 ml per kg body weight of the 10 per cent $NaHCO_3$ solution, and the group 4 $(KCl+NaHCO_3)$ was received 10 per cent KCl, which was followed by administration of 10 per cent $NaHCO_3$ at one and half hours later. In KCl, the heart rate was decreased rapidly, and then maintained its level, later rapid decreasing heart rate was followed by the cardiac stand still. The mean electrical axis of QRS complex became progressively deviated to the left. The amplitude of T wave was increased transiently but was not changed thereafter. There was prolongation of the P-Q interval and the Q-T interval at the beginning and then they were shortened. In $NaHCO_3$, the heart rate was decreased rapidly at the beginning, later showed a tendency of recovery. The mean electrical axis of QRS was not changed initially, but later became deviated to the left. The amplitude of T wave was not changed. There was prolongation of the P-Q interval and the Q-T interval at the beginning and then they were shortened. In $KCl+NaHCO_3$, there were a tendency of recovery of both the amplitude of the T wave and the electrical axis of the QRS complex after administration of $NaHCO_3$ but the heart rate was not recovered. There was prolonged P-Q interval, but the Q-T interval was relatively unchanged.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.38 no.1_2
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• pp.145-157
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• 2020

In this article, we define a generating function of the generalized (p, q)-poly-Bernoulli polynomials with variable a by using the polylogarithm function. From the definition, we derive some properties that is concerned with other numbers and polynomials. Furthermore, we construct a special functions and give some symmetric identities involving the generalized (p, q)-poly-Bernoulli polynomials and power sums of the first integers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.40-40
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• 2005

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.89-96
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• 2000

In this paper, a differential polynomial ring $R[x;\delta]$ of ring R with a derivation $\delta$ are investigated as follows: For a reduced ring R, a ring R is Baer(resp. quasi-Baer, p.q.-Baer, p.p.-ring) if and only if the differential polynomial ring $R[x;\delta]$ is Baer(resp. quasi-Baer, p.q.-Baer, p.p.-ring).

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.71-84
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• 2007

J. Bernoulli first discovered the method which one can produce those formulae for the sum $S_n(k)=\sum_{{\iota}=1}^n\;{\iota}^k$ for any natural numbers k. After then, there has been increasing interest in Bernoulli and Euler numbers associated with Riemann zeta functions. Recently, Kim have been studied extended q-Bernoulli numbers and q-Euler numbers associated with p-adic q-integral on $\mathbb{Z}_p$, and sums of powers of consecutive q-integers, etc. In this paper, we investigate for the historical background and evolution process of the sums of powers of consecutive q-integers and discuss for Euler zeta functions subjects which are studying related to these areas in the recent.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.29-37
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• 2018

We introduce formal symbols of product type, of zero class, and of minimum type and show that the formal power series representations for $e^p$ and $e^q$ are formal symbols of product type giving the same pseudodifferential operator, where p and q are formal symbols of minimum type and p - q is of zero class.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.317-323
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• 2018

We study the nonlinear eigenvalue problem for some of the (p, q)-Laplacian on compact manifolds with zero boundary condition. In particular, we obtain some geometric estimates for the first eigenvalue.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.129-131
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• 2001

Let $q=p^{e1}_1{\cdots}p^{em}_m$ be the product of distinct prime elements. In this short paper, we show that the largest value of M such that there exists an ($n$, M, $n-1$) $q$-ary code is $q^2$ if $n-1{\leq}p^{ei}_i$ for all $i$.