Gender and sex diverse individuals-transgender individuals and those with disorders of sex development (DSD)-both face medical treatments that may impair biological fertility potential. Young DSD patients also often have abnormal gonadal development. Fertility preservation for these populations has historically been poorly understood and rarely addressed. Future fertility should be discussed wi...

Social networks have received dramatic interest in research and development. In this chapter, we survey the very recent research development on privacy-preserving publishing of graphs and social network data. We categorize the state-of-the-art anonymization methods on simple graphs in three main categories: K-anonymity based privacy preservation via edge modification, probabilistic privacy pres...

Up-to-date preservation of project knowledge like developer communication and design documents is essential for the successful evolution of software systems. Ideally, all knowledge should be preserved, but since projects only have limited resources, and software systems continuously grow in scope and complexity, one needs to prioritize the subsystems and development periods for which knowledge ...

In spite of the technologies developed during the last decade, the level of food loss is still high and is reported in many countries. According to the United Nations, more than 30 per cent of the mortality rate world-wide is caused by alimentary diseases. The desire of most countries to make food safer for consumption requires better food preservation and production techniques. In this regard,...

Traditional Qiang culture is the sum of all civilizations created by Qiang people in the long historical development of the national minority, and is an important component of Chinese civilization. However, traditional Qiang culture suffered from the attack of the great 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake in the more and more vigorous process of industralization and globalization nowadays. Based on diffic...

Background Increasing survival rates in patients who suffer from oncological disease and improvement in reproductive medicine techniques has led to increasing use of different fertility preservation methods. The evidence supporting current and forthcoming options for fertility preservation consisted of two main parts as for female and male. Fertility preservation options for female and male dep...

This paper examines preservation planning as it is implemented within the National Library’s preservation repository (Rosetta) and compares it directly to the PLATO tool created as part of the PLANETS project. Preservation planning is both a business precondition and the systematic framework defining any preservation action. At the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, ...

In this paper, the authors describe the work done within the NSLA Digital Preservation Group to create a list and description of the functional components of an ideal digital preservation environment and a matrix of the current stage of development against each component for each NSLA library. After defining underlying assumptions, the functional components were derived from the OAIS standard. ...

HEP software stacks are not shallow. Indeed, HEP experiments’ software is usually many applications in one (reconstruction, simulation, analysis, . . . ) and thus require many libraries – developed in-house or by third parties – to be properly compiled and installed. Moreover, because of resource constraints, experiments’ software is usually installed, tested, validated and deployed on a very n...