Enhanced Reproduction and Its Economic Implications

Oxidative Stress and its Role in Female Infertility and Assisted Reproduction: Clinical Implications

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are involved in physiological functions and act as mediators in various signaling processes. Elevated or sustained generation of free radicals and non radical species derived from free radicals can lead to an imbalance in the intracellular redox homeostasis. Normally, any excess levels of reactive radical and nonradical species generated are intercepted by antioxid...

Food Manufacturing Productivity and Its Economic Implications

The gross-output multifactor productivity index for U.S. food manufacturing grew 0.19 percent per year between 1975 and 1997. This productivity growth is low when compared with an estimate of 1.25 percent per year for the whole manufacturing sector. Low investment in research and development (R&D) could be one reason. Although productivity has been relatively low, food manufacturing output has ...

State-Dependent Pricing and Its Economic Implications

In a packet-switched integrated-services network, the service provider can charge users a state-dependent price, which depends on the extent to which the network is congested. Alternatively, one can also charge users a long-term average price, which is set based on expected demand and capacity availability derived from prior experience at that time-of-day, but independent of instantaneous netwo...

Digital convergence and its economic implications

Abstract: Humankind has come a long way since the development of telephones and computers and in the recent past, we have witnessed a proliferation of technologies as a result of converging information and communications technologies (ICT). The benefits of these converging communication networks are reduced transaction costs, increased productivity and a positive contribution to economic growth...

The Hiv/aids Epidemic and Its Social and Economic Implications