The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of modified camel milk (MCAM) and skim cow milk (SCOM) on semen quality of INRA180 and Boujaâd ram breeds, stored at 15°C for up to 24 hours. Semen samples were collected from eleven mature rams (6 from INRA180 and 5 from Boujaâd rams) and extended in SCOM vs MCAM, to reach a final concentration of 0.8×109 spermatozoa/mL, and stored at 1...

Zheng et al 1 report that volunteer blood donors with a high donation frequency have significantly greater flow-mediated dilation than low frequency donors. Iron status among the frequent donors approximated a state of iron depletion by assessment of conventional iron markers. The study provides important support for the “iron hypothesis,” which suggests a protective effect of iron depletion, i...

A stored query is a pair , where "respons&' is the-query meaning for the current database state. When a collection of stored queries is available responses to sane queries may be obtained easily. Stored queries give a possibility of improvement of database sys tern response time regardless of the complexity of user request and the data model assumed. The method is a generalizati...

The role that lexical storage and computation play in the processing ofmorphologically complex words is highly debated. Thus far, studies that contrastthese processes have yielded widely varying results. At present, three viewpointspredominate: (1) the full storage model, in which all known words are storedseparately in the mental lexicon, (2) the full parsing model, in which al...

Though cryogenic storage is presumed to provide nearly infinite longevity to cells, the actual shelf life achieved under ultra-cold temperatures has not been addressed theoretically or empirically. Here, we report measurable changes in germination of dried seeds stored under liquid nitrogen conditions for >10 years. There was considerable variability in the extent of deterioration among species...