Abundance indices play a crucial role in monitoring and assessing fish population dynamics. Fishery-independent surveys are commonly favored for deriving abundance because they follow standardized or randomized designs, ensuring spatiotemporal consistency representative unbiased sampling. However, modifications to the survey protocol may be necessary accommodate changes goals logistic difficult...

The induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippocampal CA1 region requires both presynaptic activity and large postsynaptic depolarization. A standard protocol for inducing LTP using whole-cell recording is to pair low-frequency synaptic stimulation (100-200 pulses, 1-2 Hz) with a depolarizing voltage-clamp pulse (1-3 min duration). In this standard protocol, a Cs(+)-based internal so...

Treatment of C57BL/6 mice with one transfusion of BALB/c spleen cells and anti-CD154 (anti–CD40-ligand) antibody permits BALB/c islet grafts to survive indefinitely and BALB/c skin grafts to survive for z 50 d without further intervention. The protocol induces long-term allograft survival, but the mechanism is unknown. We now report: ( a ) addition of thymectomy to the protocol permitted skin a...

Nearly all implementations of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) employ a two-level protocol for point-to-point messages. Short messages are sent eagerly to optimize for latency, and long messages are typically implemented using a rendezvous mechanism. In a rendezvous implementation, the sender must first send a request and receive an acknowledgment before the data can be transferred. While th...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the use of Corifollitropin alfa in patients with previous poor response to recombinant follicle stimulating hormone in long-term protocols using gonadotropin-releasing hormone. METHODS Twenty-seven poor responders to previous treatment with the long term protocol using the recombinant follicle stimulating hormone (Group 1) were selected and then submitted to a s...