the present study investigated the possibility of replacing salamon with modified shotor diluent (msd) and egg yolk (ey) with low density lipoprotein (ldl) for chilled storage of ram semen. good quality semen (>80% progressive forward motility (pfm) of sperm) from 3 fertile rams was collected using an artificial vagina and pooled for each experiment. low density lipoprotein was extracted from f...

In songbirds song production requires the intricate coordination of vocal and respiratory muscles under the executive influence of the telencephalon, as for speech in humans. In songbirds the site of this coordination is suspected to be the nucleus retroambigualis (RAm), because it contains premotor neurons projecting upon both vocal motoneurons and spinal motoneurons innervating expiratory mus...

We take an important step forward in making Oblivious RAM (O-RAM) practical. We pro-pose an O-RAM construction achieving an amortized overhead of 20 ∼ 35X (for an O-RAMroughly 1 terabyte in size), about 63 times faster than the best existing scheme. On the theoreticfront, we propose a fundamentally novel technique for constructing Oblivious RAMs: specifi-cally, we partition a bi...

For 6 years adult, non-synchronized Hampshire ewes (n=2,5,8,8,9 and 12) and rams (n=6,10,12,11,11 and 9) were maintained separately and released to contiguous pastures having in common a woven-wire fence about 80m long and 1.1m high. Natural estrous cycles were monitored daily by observations of ram-seeking behavior as defined as a ewe being persistent in staying at the common fence with attent...

We define the concept of and present provably secure constructions for Anonymous RAM (AnonRAM), a novel multi-user storage primitive that offers strong privacy and integrity guarantees. AnonRAM combines privacy features of anonymous communication and oblivious RAM (ORAM) schemes, allowing it to protect, simultaneously, the privacy of content, access patterns and user’s identity, from curious se...