PURPOSE This research is aimed at studying the possibilities of the long-term preservation of thyrocytes xenogenic culture in the recipient without using immunosuppressive therapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS The research was carried out on the experimental model "rabbit-dog." Using sixteen dogs having undergone total thyroidectomy, a macroencapsulated culture of a rabbit's thyrocytes was transplant...

The requirements to support large-scale and complex research collections are growing at an accelerated pace. Considering the continuous evolution of the collections, their increasing sizes, the technologies supporting them, and the importance of adequate data management to long-term preservation, a team at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) developed a cyberinfrastructure to aid researc...

Digital Preservation Testbed was a practical research project with the overall goal of investigating options to secure sustained accessibility to authentic archival records over the long-term, by carrying out experiments in a controlled and secure environment. This allowed the project to ascertain the effects of undertaken preservation action on different archival records. Testbed researched th...

The traditional life cycle of books has gone through many changes in the digital environment enough to start questioning the effects of such changes on the process of creating, publishing, distributing, reading and preserving books. This paper focuses on issues concerning the preservation and archiving of published authors’ works in the digital environment for the purpose of their long-term acc...

BACKGROUND Currently, it is challenging to treat massive bone defects of proximal tibia. Although numerous methods are available for reconstruction with epiphysis preservation, limitations in knee function and complications are noted with these methods. Our paper describes our attempt to reconstruct a marked defect in the proximal tibia with an uncemented three-dimensional (3D)-printed prosthes...

Decisions in digital preservation pose the delicate mission of balancing desired goals of authentic long-term access with the technical means available to date. Organisations with a commitment to the long-term value of information and knowledge have to take decisions on several levels to achieve their business goals with the evolving technology of the day. This article explores the decision spa...

Data from high-energy physics (HEP) experiments are collected with significant financial and human effort and are mostly unique. At the same time, HEP has no coherent strategy for data preservation and re-use. An inter-experimental Study Group on HEP data preservation and long-term analysis was convened at the end of 2008 and held two workshops, at DESY Large data sets accumulated during many y...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Cold storage as a method for the long-term preservation of tropical dissolved organic carbon (DOC) Journal Article (2016). Cold storage as a method for the long-term preservation of tropical dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual a...

Meniscal allograft transplantation is now gradually transforming from an interesting alternative in meniscal restoration algorithms to a reliable treatment of unicompartmental knee pain after meniscectomy. The past decade has allowed refinements in sizing, preservation, and fixation of the meniscal allograft. Current techniques focus on adherence to biomechanical principles in attempting to dup...

This article presents an ingest level system which has been developed as part of the Digital Preservation for Libraries (DP4lib) project. The purpose of the system and its implementation is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking of digital materials. It represents an essential part of the risk management system within the long-term preservation processes of the German National Libra...