Background and Objectives: There are different types of vascular access. We compared the patency rate for six months in ulnar-basilic fistula and Radio-Cephalic fistula for vascular access in hemodialysis patients.   Methods: The study was performed on 60 patients of 50.6±13.5 years of age with end-stage renal failure undergoing hemodialysis from 2012-2014 in Imam Ali hospital in Zahedan. Pat...

This study aimed to evaluate the quality of sperm morphology evaluation skills of 16 technologists who are responsible for semen analyses in their institution. The 1-day workshop was held at the Centre for Research in Reproductive Health in Sagamu, Nigeria. Participants were requested to complete a questionnaire that provided information regarding their experience and training as technologists ...

Abstract Business leaders, policymakers and technologists regularly portray Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an easy way to make sense of increasingly complex world. Unsurprisingly, AI plays a central role in strategy papers, TED talks speeches about the future mobility.

This essay complicates interpretations of digital architectures in online journalism production terms journalistic interlopers and intralopers during an age increased influence technologists on news development. While much normative scholarship revolves around social media, metrics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, VR, other forms innovation applied to journalism, the argues that such work ...

The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to provide readers with a tutorial on biofilms, their purposeful mechanism of interaction (quorum sensing), and recent findings on how to inhibit their formation.