For research libraries, the long-term preservation of digital collections may well be the most important issue in digital libraries. In certain ways, digital materials are incredibly fragile, dependent for their continued utility upon technologies that undergo rapid and continual change. In the world of physical research materials, a great number of valuable research resources have been saved p...

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Carotid wall elastography to assess midterm vascular dysfunction secondary to intrauterine growth restriction: feasibility and comparison with standardized intima–media thickness Roch ML, Vaujois L, Dahdah N, Chibab N, Maurice A, Nuyt AM, Lévy E, and Bigras JL. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 2014; 40 (5): 864–69 Intima-media thickness is an ultrasound based biomarker for measurin...

Dias T, Ladd S, Mahsud-Dornan S, Bhide A, Papageorghiou AT, Thilaganathan B. Systematic labeling of twin pregnancies on ultrasound. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2011; 38: 130–33 Sometimes a paper comes along with the simple answer to a common question so that the reader has a “Why didn’t I think of that?” moment. This is one of those. We have all come across the potential errors in labeling twins ...

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This report describes a survey of the sexual behaviour of teenagers’ aged 14 years in Scotland. The questionnaire is part of an on going trial of sex education in Scotland. The participation rate was 94%, resulting in 7395 usable questionnaires. Eighteen percent (n = 661) of boys and 15.4% (n = 576) of girls reported heterosexual intercourse. Condom use was reported by 60.2% of respondents. Mor...

Practice Guidelines for Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Obstetric Sonography Rousseau T, Mottet N, Mace G, Franceschini C, Sagot P Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine 2013; 32: 157–164 It is important that all sonographers know the different musculoskeletal disorders related to their work. Their prevalence is five times higher amongst sonographers than in the general population. It is ...

Noninvasive prenatal testing and fetal sonographic screening roundtable discussion Lee W, Yagel S, Cohen, SM, Benacerraf BR, Cuckle H, Kagan KO, Van den Veyver I, Wapner R. J Ultrasound Med 2015; 34 (3): 363–69. Seven leading clinicians from Israel, USA, England and Germany were sent 10 questions about non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and their responses were summarised. As might be expecte...

(2012) A cautionary note on switching mtDNA reference sequences in forensic genetics. Assessing a novel room temperature DNA storage medium for forensic biological samples. of novel 'mini-amplicon' STR multiplexes to high volume casework on degraded skeletal remains. rates of nuclear STR typing from different skeletal elements. A highly effective DNA extraction method for nuclear STR testing of...