For artificial insemination (AI) in pigs, preservation of liquid boar semen at 16-20 degrees C is still common practice as sperm cryopreservation remains suboptimal in this species. To meet the different needs of the swine industry, several extenders have been developed to preserve semen in liquid form for short--and long-term storage. In the present study, three different commercial extenders ...

Due to rapid changes in information technology, digital data, documents, and records are doomed to become uninterpretable bit-streams within short time periods. Digital Preservation deals with the longterm storage, access, and maintenance of digital data objects. In order to prevent a loss of information, digital libraries and archives are increasingly faced with the need to electronically pres...

Tate has a small but growing collection of software-based artworks. From the outset basic preservation procedures, like testing equipment, backing up hard-drives and assets or thoroughly documenting the hardware and software were put in place, but it was clear that these procedures would need revising over time and as our experience grew. Tate’s earliest softwarebased artwork was created in 200...

The mucosal layer is the initial site of small bowel (SB) graft injury sustained during cold storage. Vascular administration of preservation solutions alone is unable to prevent ischemic injury of this layer during clinically relevant storage periods. The SB is unique in that it possesses both a vascular and a luminal route by which preservation solutions can be administered. We hypothesized t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the need for further surgery after laparoscopic excision of endometriosis or hysterectomy. METHODS In this retrospective study, women who had surgery for endometriosis-associated pain at the Cleveland Clinic were assessed for requirement for subsequent surgery. One hundred twenty patients who underwent hysterectomy with or without oophorectomy for endometriosis and 12...

This review of material relevant to the Conference on Biosignature Preservation and Detection in Mars Analog Environments summarizes the meeting materials and discussions and is further expanded upon by detailed references to the published literature. From this diverse source material, there is a detailed discussion on the habitability and biosignature preservation potential of five primary ana...

Machine perfusion techniques are becoming standard care in the clinical donation and transplantation setting. However, more research is needed to understand mechanisms of protective effects machine perfusion. For preservation related experiments, porcine kidneys acceptable alternatives human kidneys, because their size similar physiology. In this experiment, use slaughterhouse was evaluated wit...

BACKGROUND It is common for patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 to develop bilateral profound hearing loss hearing loss, and this is one of the main determinants of quality of life in this patient group. OBJECTIVES The aim of this systematic review was to review the current literature regarding hearing outcomes of treatments for vestibular schwannomas in neurofibromatosis type 2 including ...

this study aimed to evaluate freeze-dried sera as an alternative to non-freeze dried for detection of anti-leishmania infantum antibodies over the course of 11 months using the direct agglutination test (dat).altogether, 60 serum samples (30 from humans and 30 from dogs) were collected from various geographical locations in iran. all the collected sera were pooled and each pooled serum sample c...