S. O. Oduneye, A. Shmatukha, V. Verpakhovski, C. L. Dumoulin, E. Schmidt, E. Crystal, and G. A. Wright Medical Biophysics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, GE Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, United States, Brigham and Women's Hospi...

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A basic question in the study of nominal classifier systems concerns the relative roles of lexical semantics and grammatical rules. In this paper we address this issue by studying whether the Mandarin general classifier ge can be selected by a lexicon-independent default rule. Evidence comes first from a corpus analysis, which found no semantically coherent set of privileged lexical exemplars f...

the objective of this study was to evaluate effect of different concentrations of catalase in two extenders on motility, viability and lipid peroxidation bull spermatozoa during semen freezing process. thirty ejaculates collected from ten holstein bulls were pooled and evaluated at 37 °c. pool ejaculated was split into two main experimental groups, 1 and 2. in experiment 1, specimen was diluted...

For its fourth organization, the Genia event extraction (GE) shared task is refactored toward a general platform for shared information extraction (IE) tasks, and for an IEdriven knowledge base (KB) system. On the newly implemented shared task platform, the GE task is run as an experimental task. The task and the platform has been tested by two teams who cooperated with the organizers. The pape...

Background: The application of laparoscopic method for intrauterine insemination is limited in sheep industry by the high cost of equipment and low pregnancy rate of frozen-thawed spermatozoa. Both disadvantages could be decreased if chilled ram semen is transported to the farms and inseminated through cervix. Semen extender provides the requirements for sperm and affects its motility, viabilit...

Background: Frozen-thawed rooster semen is not reliable for use in artificial insemination in commercial stocks. Low density lipoprotein (LDL) has been assessed for effectiveness as a cryoprotectant in the extender to improve the quality of frozen-thawed rooster semen. Although LDL has been evaluated in a few studies in other species for semen cryopreservation, to date, no study has been conduc...

Abbreviations 2D, 3D 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional CZT cadmium zinc telluride EKG electric signal from the heart FBP filtered backprojection FOV field-of-view GE General Electric Ge(Li) germanium detector doped with lithium MLEM maximum likelihood expectation maximization NaI(Tl) sodium iodine doped with thallium NM nuclear medicine OSEM ordered subset expectation maximization PET positron emiss...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of semen collection method (artificial vagina compared to electroejaculation), season in which the semen was collected (breeding season compared to non-breeding season), freezing extender (Biladyl(®), Andromed(®) and skim milk based extender) and pre-treatment procedure (washing compared to non-washing) on post-thaw semen quality in buck. Ejacula...