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Methods of Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation: Is Vitrification Superior to Slow Freezing?—Ovarian Tissue Freezing Methods
After cancer treatment, female survivors often develop ovarian insufficiency or failure. Oocyte and embryo freezing are well-established fertility preservation options, but cannot be applied in pre-pubescent g...
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Engineered Cooling Process for High Strength Ductile Iron Castings
Professor Stefanescu contributed fundamentally to the science of solidification and microstructural evolutions in ductile irons. In this article, the possibility of development of high strength ductile iron by...
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Designing with the User in Mind a Cognitive Category Based Design Methodology
To design products and experiences that are highly intuitive and resonate with their target users the designer must have an accurate understanding of those users ‘mental models’. New research in cognitive scie...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Industry Operations Architecture for Business Process Model Collections
The absence of a holistic industry-centric architecture for processes is an important BPM shortfall that impacts model collections. This paper introduces a Componentized Industry Business Architecture as a vehicl...
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The spindle-associated transmembrane protein Axs identifies a membranous structure ensheathing the meiotic spindle
Mutations in the aberrant X segragation (Axs) gene disrupt the segregation of achiasmate chromosomes during female meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster. We show that Axs encodes the founding member of an eukaryotic...
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Centrosomes and the Scrambled protein coordinate microtubule-independent actin reorganization
In Drosophila syncytial blastoderm embryos, centrosomes specify the position of actin-based interphase caps and mitotic furrows. Mutations in the scrambled locus prevent assembly of mitotic furrows, but do not bl...