In the early 1990s live kidney donation regained popularity to meet the demand of kidney transplantation. Significant developments in the field of live kidney donation have established live donation as the potential prime source of kidney transplants in the future. Nowadays management focuses on logistic and immunological innovations, and improvements in care of the live donor. However, a flawl...

Probiotics are widely used in the treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal problems. However, in some immune-compromised populations, the administration of live microorganisms may not be appropriate. A potential alternative to live microorganisms is to inactivate them as long as the beneficial function is retained. We hypothesized that UV-inactivated Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) could d...

Live programming environments assist programmers by allowing code edits to running programs, providing continuous feedback and potentially even traveling back in time to past execution states. Event-based languages like JavaScript facilitate these features, but the entanglement of code, state and output still hinders live programming. This paper shows how hot swapping, time travel and continuou...

Live-cell imaging offers the power of capturing the dynamics of biological action in live cells and in real time, something not previously available with biochemical approaches. Microscopy has progressed and static morphological observation can now be complemented by the ability to monitor dynamic cellular activities in living tissues with sub-micrometer resolution in real time. This offers val...

NLN-live is a dynamic score system for nonlinear and interactive instrumental music performances, based on music technologies used in video games. The goal of NLN-live is to facilitate dynamically controlled collaborative performances that make live interactive video games music possible. The principle of NLN-live is simple: every musician of an ensemble repeatedly plays two fragments of music ...

Drawing from conceptual discussions and a reflection on extended techniques in musical performance, we offer the notion of an ‘ad hoc instrument’ as an instrument constructed during the course of interacting with it. To concretise the idea, we explore the utility of ‘Pin&Play’ technology where interface elements like dials, sliders and buttons are pinned to a conductive substrate. We describe a...

Live coding emphasizes improvisation. It is an art practice merging the act of musical composition and performance into a public act of projected writing. This paper introduces the improvisational features of the Threnoscope system, which implements a live coding microlanguage for drone-based microtonal composition. The paper discusses the aims and objectives of the system, elucidates design de...

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