OBJECTIVE To determine if facial function is worse after hearing preservation acoustic neuroma surgery (retrosigmoid and middle fossa) than in translabyrinthine surgery. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING Private neuro-otology subspecialty practice of patients operated on in a tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS This study evaluated 315 consecutive acoustic neuroma surgical ...

Oesophageal tissue engineering is a therapeutic alternative when oesophageal replacement is required. Decellularised scaffolds are ideal as they are derived from tissue-specific extracellular matrix and are non-immunogenic. However, appropriate preservation may significantly affect scaffold behaviour. Here we aim to prove that an effective method for short- and long-term preservation can be app...

As part of its ongoing work in biomonitoring, Environment Canada’s Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) program has assembled an expert-verified reference collection of 3864 specimens of 604 species of Canadian freshwater macroinvertebrates. Such collections are a key resource for developing a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) barcode library to facilitate molecular identification of biomon...

We (i.e. I) present a simplified version of Shelah’s “preserving a little implies preserving much”: If I is the ideal generated by a Suslin ccc forcing (e.g. Lesbeque– null or meager), and P is a Suslin forcing, and P is I–preserving (i.e. it doesn’t make any positive Borel–set small), then P preserves generics over candidates and therefore is strongly I–preserving (i.e. doesn’t make any positi...

PURPOSE Avulsed tooth can be completely recovered, if sound periodontal ligament (PDL) of tooth is maintained. Although a lot of storage solutions have been explored for the better storage of avulsed tooth, there is a shortcoming that the preservation time is much short. On the other hand, there has been studies that (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the most abundant polyphenol in green t...

We (i.e. I) present a simplified version of Shelah’s “preserving a little implies preserving much”: If I is the ideal generated by a Suslin ccc forcing (e.g. Lebesque– null or meager), and P is a Suslin forcing, and P is I–preserving (i.e. it doesn’t make any positive Borel–set small), then P preserves generics over candidates and therefore is strongly I–preserving (i.e. doesn’t make any positi...

Real-time PCR-based molecular diagnostic techniques were used for the comparative identification of the most common KRAS and BRAF mutations from methanol liquid-based cytology samples and matched, formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue samples. Methanol-based fixation and preservation of brushing samples of colorectal carcinomas could contribute to sample collection, short-term storage and...

We propose a new, logical, approach to the decidability problem for the Straubing and Brzozowski hierarchies based on the preservation theorems from model theory, on a theorem of Higman, and on the Rabin tree theorem. In this way, we get purely logical, short proofs for some known facts on decidability, which might be of methodological interest. Our approach is also applicable to some other sim...