Superovulation in mares: Limitations and perspectives

Orthopedic registry research — limitations and future perspectives

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. In 2015, there is nothing spectacular about registers. To collect information on the outcome of treatments is as old as medicine itself. Registries merely took the con...

Interpretation of Endometrial Lesions and Infertility in Mares

Fighting Sharka in Peach: Current Limitations and Future Perspectives

Sharka, caused by Plum Pox Virus (PPV), is by far the most important infectious disease of peach [P. persica (L.) Batsch] and other Prunus species. The progressive spread of the virus in many important growing areas throughout Europe poses serious issues to the economic sustainability of stone fruit crops, peach in particular. The adoption of internationally agreed-upon rules for diagnostic tes...

Navigation in endoscopic soft tissue surgery: perspectives and limitations.

Despite rapid developments in the research areas of medical imaging, medical image processing, and robotics, the use of computer assistance in surgical routine is still limited to diagnostics, surgical planning, and interventions on mostly rigid structures. In order to establish a computer-aided workflow from diagnosis to surgical treatment and follow-up, several proposals for computer-assisted...

Perspectives and limitations of QKD integration in metropolitan area networks.

Quantum key distribution (QKD) systems have already reached a reasonable level of maturity. However, a smooth integration and a wide adoption of commercial QKD systems in metropolitan area networks has still remained challenging because of technical and economical obstacles. Mainly the need for dedicated fibers and the strong dependence of the secret key rate on both loss budget and background ...