platelet activating factor (paf) is a novel signaling phospholipids that in addition to platelet activation has many biological properties. the acrosome reaction, as an essential step in mammalian fertilization, can occur in response to several agents such as paf. therefore, the present study aimed to assess the effect of paf on the motility and acrosome reaction of ram spermatozoa. semen was c...

the hypothesis of this experiment was that the various sources of dietary fat with different dietary ratios of polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufas) to saturated fatty acids (sfas) would alter the reproduction parameters of mature rams. twelve mature rams were randomly allotted to one of four dietary treatments in a completely randomized design. dietary treatments were: 1) ration with 4% soybean ...

Contents-addressable memory (CAM) is a special that searches the input data with entire pre-loaded database and generates corresponding address information. CAMs are advancing to be core technology in computer networking systems. As field programmable gate array (FPGA) recently being used for network acceleration applications, demand integrate CAM on FPGA increasing. FPGA-based divided into thr...

We study the molecular gas content and distribution in the Coma cluster spiral galaxy NGC 4848 which is Hi deficient and where the remaining atomic gas is on one side of the galaxy, presumably because of the strong ram-pressure in the rich Coma cluster. Plateau de Bure interferometric CO(1–0) observations reveal a lopsided H2 distribution with an off-center secondary maximum coincident with the...

This paper reviews the cache designs of processors from 1995 until today, studying the development of multi-level caches, especially the chosen device technology, and how it has evolved with the needs of multi-core processors. It is found that SRAM, while fast, has the drawbacks of high energy use and a constant need for power, making it power for storage over an extended time. STT-RAM enters t...

We reinvestigate the oblivious RAM concept introduced by Goldreich and Ostrovsky, which enables a client, that can store locally only a constant amount of data, to store remotely n data items, and access them while hiding the identities of the items which are being accessed. Oblivious RAM is often cited as a powerful tool, which can be used, for example, for search on encrypted data or for prev...

Uniform-sized molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for (S)-naproxen and -ibuprofen selectively modified with hydrophilic external layer, restricted access media (RAM)-MIPs, have been prepared. First, the MIP for (S)-naproxen or -ibuprofen was prepared using 4-vinylpyridine and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate as a functional monomer and cross-linker, respectively, by a multistep swelling and the...

In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, polarized morphogenesis is critical for bud site selection, bud development, and cell separation. The latter is mediated by Ace2p transcription factor, which controls the daughter cell-specific expression of cell separation genes. Recently, a set of proteins that include Cbk1p kinase, its binding partner Mob2p, Tao3p (Pag1p), and Hym1p were shown to regulate both Ac...

The rapidly declining cost of persistent RAM technologies prompts the question of when, not whether, such memory will become the preferred storage medium for many computers. Conquest is a file system that provides a transition from disk to persistent RAM as the primary storage medium. Conquest provides two specialized and simplified data paths to in-core and on-disk storage, and Conquest realiz...

Network DRAM is the idea of using RAM on another workstation instead of local disk as a backing store for virtual memory. Network RAM generally has a lower access time than disk but has inferior fault tolerance. In this paper, we examine the benefit of network RAM when running some of the most popular LAPACK programs. We found that network RAM does not help these LAPACK programs as much as one ...