“I Discovered I Love to Pray Alone Too”: Pluralist Muslim Women’s Approaches to Practicing Islam during and after Ramadan 2020

Muslim children with autism learn to pray.

I-51: Pioneering New Approaches to Reproductive Imaging

Background: Gynecologic conditions including uterine fibroids, adenomyosis and endometriosis lead to significant impairment in women’s’ lives and significant expen- Abstracts of the 12th Royan International Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine International Journal of Fertility & Sterility (IJFS), Vol 5, Suppl 1, Summer 2011 24 ditures of health care dollars. However, many women have symptoms l...

I-13: Complete Fertilization Failure after ICSIWhat to Do?

Fertilization in vivo is a complex process consisting of six steps, namely, penetration of the cumulus complex, binding of the sperm to the zona pellucida, fusion of oocyte and sperm, oocyte activation, sperm remodelling, and formation of the pronuclei. Since ICSI bypasses the first three steps any problem related to fertilization failure after ICSI arises from oocyte activation onwards. Accord...

How I learned to love the Brits

As a child I grew up in awe of an English accent. That was not unusual for an American because so many movie stars spoke with an English accent. All during my high school and college days I instinctively believed that anyone who spoke with an Oxford or BBC accent was an authority. And even professors and intellectuals who adopted the Harvard version of an English accent held me in awe. Several ...

From "I Love You Babe" to "Leave Me Alone" - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter

We use public data from Twitter to study the breakups of the romantic relationships of 661 couples. Couples are identified through profile references such as @user1 writing “@user2 is the best boyfriend ever!!”. Using this data set we find evidence for a number of existing hypotheses describing psychological processes including (i) pre-relationship closeness being indicative of post-relationshi...