In the last decades significant advances have been made in successful cryopreservation of mammalian oocytes. Human oocyte cryopreservation has practical application in preserving fertility for individuals at risk of compromised egg quality due to cancer treatments or advanced maternal age. While oocyte cryopreservation success has increased over time, there is still room for improvement. Oocyte...

Intensional Logic Programming (ILP) is a new form of logic programming based on intensional logic. The denotations of formulas of an intensional first-order language are given according to intensional interpretations and to a set of possible worlds. ILP provides users with several intensional operators which are used to express relationships between different worlds. After introducing the forma...

Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful multimedia visualization technique offering a range of mechanisms by which many new experiences can be made available. This paper deals with the basic nature of VR, the technologies needed to create it, and its potential, especially for helping disabled people. It also offers an overview of some examples of existing VR systems.

In this paper we discuss a new theoretical basis for perturbation methods. In developing this new theoretical basis, we define the ideal measures of data utility and disclosure risk. Maximum data utility is achieved when the statistical characteristics of the perturbed data are the same as that of the original data. Disclosure risk is minimized if providing users with microdata access does not ...

There are a great number of mutually contradictory theories attempting to explain the biostimulating effect of laser light; however, none of them provide a scientifically acceptable explanation. This is the main reason why laser light has not come into general use to the extent which its efficiency would seem to deserve. Other reasons might be that a continuously operating laser providing the r...

The core of statistical inference is based on both hypothesis testing and estimation. The use of inferential statistics for QTL identification thus includes estimation of genetic effects and statistical tests. Typically, QTL are reported only when the test statistics reach a predetermined critical value. Therefore, the estimated effects of detected QTL are actually sampled from a truncated dist...

The ASTER scanner on NASA's Terra (EOS-AM1) satellite will collect five channels of TIR data with an NE∆T of ≤0.3K to estimate surface kinetic temperatures and emissivity spectra, especially over land, where emissivities are not known in advance. Temperature/emissivity separation (TES) is difficult because there are five measurements but six unknowns. Various approaches have been used to constr...