The male of some snake species forms a copulatory plug which occludes the oviductal parts of the female's cloaca for a few days. The plug, apparently formed from secretions of the kidney immediately after insemination, probably prevents rival males from copulating with the same female.

This study, which promised remarkable contributions for designing of experimental samples and trial device to treat wood by pre-vacuumed immersion method, was conducted test the impregnability material according process reveal usability plug (cylindrical) in impregnation experiments addition cuboid (rectangular prism) samples. In this perspective, be subjected were initially dried an average mo...

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Punctal and canalicular plugs are widely used for both temporary and permanent occlusion of the lacrimal puncta in dry eyes. There are many designs and materials available on the market. While their efficacy in improving dry eye symptoms is widely proven, the gamut of complications associated with these devices have never been subject to a general review, although there are numerous case series...

We describe the successful closure of an aortic paravalvular bioprosthetic valve leak with the simultaneous percutaneous deployment of two vascular plugs.

Since the 1980s, most seed germination has been done in plug trays; by 1998, 81% of annual seedlings were grown from plugs.(1) A plug is a containerized transplant with a self-enclosed root system.(2) The advantages to growing seedlings from plugs are many: less time and labor to transplant, reduced root loss, more uniform growth, faster crop establishment, and increased production. There are d...

Since the 1980s, most seed germination has been done in plug trays; by 1998, 81% of annual seedlings were grown from plugs.(1) A plug is a containerized transplant with a self-enclosed root system.(2) The advantages to growing seedlings from plugs are many: less time and labor to transplant, reduced root loss, more uniform growth, faster crop establishment, and increased production. There are d...

The controlled synthesis of nonspherical microparticles using microfluidics processing is described. Polymer droplets, formed by shearing a photopolymer using a continuous water phase at a T-junction, were constrained to adopt nonspherical shapes by confining them using appropriate microchannel geometries. Plugs were obtained by shearing the polymer phase at low shear rates, while disks were ob...