to evaluate the effect of adding neoadjuvant chemotherapy to surgery and radiation therapy for locally advanced resectable oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma, 24 patients with t3 or t4a oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma were randomly assigned to surgery alone or docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fu (tpf) induction chemotherapy followed by surgery. all patients were planned to receive chemoradiothe...

Background: Epididymal sperm has been recovered with the aim of conserving potentially valuable genetics Materialss from post mortem males for subsequent usage in assisted reproduction technologies. Among the quality parameters of spermatozoa, motility and velocity patterns are sensitive for chemical and physical components of medium which they were diluted. Also close correlation between sperm...

While most of researches focus on resolving the syntactic consistency problem in real-time collaborative graphics designing system, the semantic preservation problem should not be neglected. Graphics are created with user’s meanings. These meanings should be notified to other users and should not be arbitrarily modified by others. In this paper, we resolve the semantic preservation problem by f...

This paper addresses the question: What would distributed digital preservation look like using the OAIS Reference Model? The challenge is the need for several organizations to cooperate to achieve distributed digital preservation; using replication, independence, and coordination to address the known threats to digital content through time. The main purpose of the paper is to present an Outer O...

If not for the Internet Archive’s efforts to store periodic snapshots of the web, many sites would not have any preservation prospects at all. The barrier to entry is too high for everyday web sites, which may have skilled webmasters managing them, but which lack skilled archivists to preserve them. Digital preservation is not easy. One problem is the complexity of preservation models, which ha...

As survival rates improve for pediatric cancers, increased attention has been paid to late effects of cancer therapy, in particular, infertility. Fertility preservation options are available for pre- and postpubertal cancer patients; however, many providers lack knowledge regarding options. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive synthesis of current evidence and recommendations r...

This research investigated preservation practices of personal digital information by public library users. This qualitative study used semistructured interviews and two visual representation techniques, information source horizons and matrices, for data collection. The constant comparison method and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. A model emerged which describes the effect...

Digital preservation is the active management of digital information over time to ensure ongoing access to the data. It is the management and maintenance of digital objects (the files, or groups of files, that contain information in digital form) so they can be accessed and used in future. It is error-free storage of digital information, with means for retrieval and interpretation, for the comp...

Semen preservation is a feasible procedure for male adolescents and young adults who may become infertile as a result of cancer therapy. Treatment for several pediatric malignancies puts adolescents and young adults at a significant risk for fertility dysfunction. Eligible male adolescents and young adults (N = 32) treated from January 2004 to June 2005 at Cook Children's Medical Center were of...

The advantages of blood storage are stressed. Its greatest advantage is the saving of time, which may be a very important factor in an urgent case. A satisfactory method of blood preservation is described. While the preservation time of the oldest blood so far administered was thirty-five days, present indications are that this time may be considerably extended. It requires emphasis,'as previou...