Pancreatic islet transplantation is a promising option for the treatment of type 1 diabetic patients. After the successful demonstration of the Edmonton protocol, islet transplantation has advanced significantly on several fronts, including improved pancreas procurement and preservation systems. Since we frequently use pancreata from donors after cardiac death in Japan,we have applied the in si...

One of the many challenges in large-scale web archiving is long-time preservation of the amounts of data generated by the harvester. We describe the bit preservation solution chosen by Netarkivet. We then define a programmatic, probabilistic model of hardware failures and repair operations in the solution. The mean time to failure of this model is then computed in a number of experiments based ...