What influences oocyte donation when there is no financial compensation?

Fighting Thatcher with Comedy: What to Do When There Is No Alternative

This article offers a history of British alternative comedy as a case study of political challenge and opposition in the 1980s and considers the role of humor in political campaigning more broadly. It explores left-wing thinking on culture as a potential political weapon, and questions how this informed the development and impact of alternative comedy as a genre. The article observes that pione...

Critical Points When There Is No Saddle Point Geometry

We show how mountain pass methods can be used even when there is no mountain pass or saddle point geometry. The functional can grow on linking subsets. Applications are given.

Using Some “prior” When There Is No Prior

Abstract If a prior probability does not exist or is controversial, can we formulate probabilistic inference based only on the properties of the measurement? In the case of plain ‘location’ measurements the answer to this is known. Here we extend that answer to address the general problem of estimating a scalar parameter from a small data sample. That measurement is treated as if resulting from...

Financial compensation of oocyte donors: an Ethics Committee opinion.

Financial compensation of women donating oocytes for infertility therapy or for research is justified on ethical grounds and should acknowledge the time, inconvenience, and discomfort associated with screening, ovarian stimulation, and oocyte retrieval, and not vary according to the planned use of the oocytes, the number or quality of oocytes retrieved, the number or outcome of prior donation c...

What do otters eat where there is no fish?