BACKGROUND The Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS, De Broyer et al. 2015) is the regional component of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial Board 2015) in the Southern Ocean. It has been operating for the last ten years, with a special effort devoted towards its completion after the International Polar Year (IPY) in 2007-2008, in the framework of the Census of Antarctic...

Two experiments were carried out to determine the effect of sexual activity and confinement in a semen collection centers (SCC) on plasma hormonal concentrations of rams. In experiment 1, rams were introduced into the flocks (active, n=29) or not, remained stabled with no access to the ewes (inactive, n=22). In experiment 2, animals were either at commercial flocks (n=89) or at a SCC (n=62). Ra...

Almost all software for aerospace and defense applications is required to satisfy reliable, available, maintainable, and safe (RAMS) objectives. While many RAMS issues are best addressed by requiring that software developers consistently adhere to particular development methodologies, a development team’s selection of commercial off-the-shelf technologies, including choice of programming langua...

BACKGROUND Risk assessment models (RAMs) may allow the clinician to determine need for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis. Individual healthcare facilities often develop their own RAMs. The purpose of this study was to determine: 1.) inter-RAM variability in DVT risk factors and contraindications; 2.) inter-rater variability and inter-RAM variability when applying a RAM to a standard case; ...

This paper presents all simple (i.e., not linked) static fault models that have been shown to exist for Random Access Memories (RAMs), and shows that none of the current industrial march tests has the capability to detect all these faults. It therefore introduces a new test (March SS), with a test length of 22n, that detects all realistic simple static faults in RAMs.

BACKGROUND In the ECHO/THRIVE 96-week efficacy analysis, the response rate was 78% with rilpivirine (RPV) and efavirenz (EFV) plus two nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors. METHODS For resistance analyses, virological failures (VFs) were genotyped and/or phenotyped at baseline and failure. RESULTS In the overall 96-week resistance analyses, the proportion of VFs was higher...

OBJECTIVES The objectives were to conduct a comprehensive, systematic review of the literature for risk adjustment measures (RAMs) and outcome measures (OMs) for prehospital trauma research and to use a structured expert panel process to recommend measures for use in future emergency medical services (EMS) trauma outcomes research. METHODS A systematic literature search and review was perform...

The effects of hemi-castration upon compensatory hypertrophy, serum gonadotropin and testosterone concentrations, testicular gonadotropin receptors and daily sperm production (DSP) were studied in 10 crossbred ram lambs. At 4 mo of age lambs were either hemi-castrated (HC; n = 5) or left intact (INT; n = 5). Blood samples were collected every 2 h for the first 24 h post-surgery, every 6 h for t...

Hypophysial portal blood and peripheral blood were obtained from conscious, unrestrained rams to measure simultaneously the secretion of LHRH and LH in entire rams and rams which had been castrated for 2-15 days (short-term castration) and for 1-6 months (long-term castration). The apparatus for portal blood collection was surgically implanted using a transnasal trans-sphenoidal approach and, 4...