Globally, infertility rates are increasing, with 2.5\% of all births being assisted by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in 2022. Male infertility is the cause for approximately half of these cases. The quality of sperm DNA has substantial impact on the success of IVF. The assessment of sperm DNA is traditionally done through chemical assays which render sperm cells ineligible for IVF. Many compounding factors lead to the population crisis, with fertility rates dropping globally in recent history. As such assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have been the focus of recent research efforts. Simultaneously, artificial intelligence has grown ubiquitous and is permeating more aspects of modern life. With the advent of state-of-the-art machine learning and its exceptional performance in many sectors, this work builds on these successes and proposes a novel framework for the prediction of sperm cell DNA fragmentation from images of unstained sperm. Rendering a predictive model which preserves sperm integrity and allows for optimal selection of sperm for IVF.

Witnesses described unthinkable scenes of heavy flooding in northern Italy as Storm Boris continued its journey across Europe on Thursday. People were seen climbing on roofs to escape the water as buildings collapsed in Traversara di Bagnacavallo. The Italian emergency services carried out helicopter rescues after what one eyewitness said was 36 hours of rain. Storm Boris had earlier swept across Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Austria, killing at least 23 people. One of Kyiv's main government buildings was hit in overnight missile and drone strikes by Russia.

Surgeon'became robotic' to treat sheer volume of wounded Lebanese A Lebanese surgeon has described how the sheer volume of severe wounds from two days of exploding device attacks forced him to act robotic just to be able to keep working. Surgeon Elias Jaradeh said he treated women and children but most of the patients he saw were young men. The surgeon said a large proportion were "severely injured" and many had lost the sight in both eyes. The dead and injured in Lebanon include fighters from Hezbollah - the Iranian backed armed group which has been trading cross-border fire with Israel for months and is classed as a terrorist organisation by the UK and the US. But members of their families have also been killed or wounded, along with innocent bystanders.

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The State Department also plans to expand access soon. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The State Department has announced that its online passport renewal website is live and taking submissions. The modernization move, highlighted in the department's statement and press conference, marks a major shift in what has long been a notoriously tedious process for citizens traveling in and out of the country. While not available to all US citizens, officials promised expansions are coming in the near future.

The suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination has been captured, FBI director Kash Patel announced MSNBC sparks outrage for'disgusting' Charlie Kirk comments following Utah shooting Tragedy as Charlie Kirk's wife left behind with two young children after conservative activist is fatally shot A DEI mayor, an inconvenient crime and video they never wanted you to see: MAUREEN CALLAHAN knows why the Left has sympathy for that killer... but none for his victim Sweater weather starts here - the cozy, chic pieces from Soft Surroundings you'll actually wear all season We only had one symptom we dismissed... but then we were diagnosed with the rarest form of melanoma Soft-touch prosecutor let felon walk free... before crook'slit Auburn professor's throat in random attack' I tried the 30 cent'miracle chill pill' before a big event.. now I'm taking it for everything Donald Trump and House Republicans lead prayers for Charlie Kirk's family after conservative star is fatally shot Prince Harry says his father King Charles is'great' following their first meeting in 19 months... which was over a cup of tea and just 55 minutes long Liberal media defends thug who killed Ukrainian woman in cold blood: 'This man was hurting' Knifeman accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee to death gives chilling reason for the attack... as he speaks for the first time from jail on the murder that shocked America Fox News reveals new lineup and elevates star White House reporter who's sparred with Trump Horrific new details of passenger injuries after they were'thrown' around Delta flight during'severe turbulence' Hilarious video reveals how apes dance just like humans - with moves'like a cross between the robot and vogueing' Like a cross between Peter Crouch and Michael Jackson, a hilarious video reveals the moment a cheeky gibbon performs a dance for a captive audience. The female, filmed at a rescue centre in Ninh Bình, Vietnam, has her back turned as she dramatically drops and shifts, described as a'cross between a robot dance and vogueing'. Scientists have observed seven gibbons performing the elaborate dance, consisting of jerky sideways and upward movements worthy of a 1970s New York nightclub. Not only is the dance human-like, but the gibbons perform it for humans - possibly to get attention when they're hungry. Already, primates other than humans are known to dance - some even while listening to music - but few are quite as remarkably stylized as this.

The suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination has been captured, FBI director Kash Patel announced MSNBC sparks outrage for'disgusting' Charlie Kirk comments following Utah shooting Tragedy as Charlie Kirk's wife left behind with two young children after conservative activist is fatally shot A DEI mayor, an inconvenient crime and video they never wanted you to see: MAUREEN CALLAHAN knows why the Left has sympathy for that killer... but none for his victim Sweater weather starts here - the cozy, chic pieces from Soft Surroundings you'll actually wear all season We only had one symptom we dismissed... but then we were diagnosed with the rarest form of melanoma Soft-touch prosecutor let felon walk free... before crook'slit Auburn professor's throat in random attack' I tried the 30 cent'miracle chill pill' before a big event.. now I'm taking it for everything Donald Trump and House Republicans lead prayers for Charlie Kirk's family after conservative star is fatally shot Prince Harry says his father King Charles is'great' following their first meeting in 19 months... which was over a cup of tea and just 55 minutes long Liberal media defends thug who killed Ukrainian woman in cold blood: 'This man was hurting' Knifeman accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee to death gives chilling reason for the attack... as he speaks for the first time from jail on the murder that shocked America Fox News reveals new lineup and elevates star White House reporter who's sparred with Trump Horrific new details of passenger injuries after they were'thrown' around Delta flight during'severe turbulence' British rail operator BANS passengers from using dating apps on board - but claims there's a'good reason' for the move For many singletons, the daily commute is the perfect opportunity to get online and browse through your dating apps. But if you travel with Northern, there's bad news for you. The rail operator's on-board WiFi will now block access to all dating apps and websites. Northern says the ban has been driven by the fear that children on board its trains will see inappropriate content. 'Whilst some dating websites - and users - will operate with appropriate levels of self-moderation, some might not and it's important that content not suitable for everyone to see or hear - particularly children - isn't viewed on our trains,' said Matt Rice, chief operating officer at Northern.

'You can harness the power of death in a controlled way.' Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. While only about 10 percent of the roughly 4,000 known snake species have venom that can harm a human, using genetics to determine which snakes could be deadly could speed up developing better treatments for bites. A new tool called VenomCap can help scientists hone in on venom at a genetic level, so we can know which ones are likely carrying deadly toxins. The method is detailed in a study published September 19 in the journal Molecular . "We've developed a tool that can tell us which venom-producing genes are present across an entire snake family in one fell swoop," Sara Ruane, a study co-author and the Assistant Curator of Herpetology at the Field Museum in Chicago, said in a statement .

The suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination has been captured, FBI director Kash Patel announced MSNBC sparks outrage for'disgusting' Charlie Kirk comments following Utah shooting Tragedy as Charlie Kirk's wife left behind with two young children after conservative activist is fatally shot A DEI mayor, an inconvenient crime and video they never wanted you to see: MAUREEN CALLAHAN knows why the Left has sympathy for that killer... but none for his victim Sweater weather starts here - the cozy, chic pieces from Soft Surroundings you'll actually wear all season We only had one symptom we dismissed... but then we were diagnosed with the rarest form of melanoma Soft-touch prosecutor let felon walk free... before crook'slit Auburn professor's throat in random attack' I tried the 30 cent'miracle chill pill' before a big event.. now I'm taking it for everything Donald Trump and House Republicans lead prayers for Charlie Kirk's family after conservative star is fatally shot Prince Harry says his father King Charles is'great' following their first meeting in 19 months... which was over a cup of tea and just 55 minutes long Liberal media defends thug who killed Ukrainian woman in cold blood: 'This man was hurting' Knifeman accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee to death gives chilling reason for the attack... as he speaks for the first time from jail on the murder that shocked America Fox News reveals new lineup and elevates star White House reporter who's sparred with Trump Horrific new details of passenger injuries after they were'thrown' around Delta flight during'severe turbulence' Artificial Intelligence if left unchecked could pose a serious danger to democracy and peace, the United Nations has warned. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the comments as a panel of experts warned of the dangers of increasingly realistic deepfakes as well as the evolution of autonomous weapons and AI use by criminal and terrorist groups. The group called for greater global collaboration on the technology and said its development should not be left to market forces. The panel of around 40 experts from the fields of technology, law and data protection was established by Guterres in October. Their report raised the alarm over the lack of global governance of AI as well as the effective exclusion of developing countries from debates about the technology's future.

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely studied by researchers for their roles in various downstream NLP tasks. As a fundamental task in the NLP field, Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) aims to correct all potential grammatical errors in the input sentences. Previous studies have shown that LLMs' performance as correctors on CGEC remains unsatisfactory due to its challenging task focus. To promote the CGEC field to better adapt to the era of LLMs, we rethink the roles of LLMs in the CGEC task so that they can be better utilized and explored in CGEC. Considering the rich grammatical knowledge stored in LLMs and their powerful semantic understanding capabilities, we utilize LLMs as explainers to provide explanation information for the CGEC small models during error correction to enhance performance. We also use LLMs as evaluators to bring more reasonable CGEC evaluations, thus alleviating the troubles caused by the subjectivity of the CGEC task. In particular, our work is also an active exploration of how LLMs and small models better collaborate in downstream tasks. Extensive experiments and detailed analyses on widely used datasets verify the effectiveness of our thinking intuition and the proposed methods.