Background: The aim of this study was evaluation of developmental rate and Bax, Bcl-2 and ErbB4 genes expression following re-vitrification in compact and early blastocysts stages. Materials and Methods: 5-8 cell embryos were collected from female mature mice, 60-62 hours post hCG injection. The embryos were divided to five groups including: fresh, vitrified at 5-8 cells, vitrified at blastocys...

Not all firms are successful in internationalizing their operations; many withdraw, and some make a second attempt (after an appropriate ‘time-out’). We compare the re-internationalization of emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) with developed (DMNEs) to investigate key differences. Although DMNEs may have greater experience internationalization, supposedly superior market-specific knowledge,...

In this paper, He's highly prolic variational iteration method is applied ef-fectively for showing the existence, uniqueness and solving a class of singularsecond order two point boundary value problems. The process of nding solu-tion involves generation of a sequence of appropriate and approximate iterativesolution function equally likely to converge to the exact solution of the givenproblem w...

Abstract Across her body of work in film, television, and digital media, Desiree Akhavan has captured the awkward politics cultural production for female filmmakers media-makers. Yet she also refused to straightforwardly align with feminist critiques dominant practices, however much is interpellated by them. Akhavan, a queer woman color racist, sexist, homophobic industry, negotiates both conte...

We sketch a novel and improved version of Boorse’s biostatistical theory of functions. Roughly, our theory maintains that (i) functions are non-negligible contributions to survival or inclusive fitness (when a trait contributes to survival or inclusive fitness); (ii) situations appropriate for the performance of a function are typical situations in which a trait contributes to survival or inclu...

Economists know how to calculate optimal prices for electricity transmission. These are rarely applied in practice. This paper develops a thirteen node model, based on the transmission system in England and Wales, incorporating losses and transmission constraints. It is solved with optimal prices, and with uniform prices for demand and for generation, but re-dispatching to take account of trans...

A number of attitudinal expressions are identified and analyzed using dependency based syntactic analysis. A claim is made that attitudinal loading of lexical items is dynamic rather than lexical and that attitudinal loading of individual lexical items is acquired through their use in attitudinally loaded structures.

In th is paper I introduce a contrast between homomorphic and non-homomorphic ascript ions of informational content to representations. In the former case there is a mapping from the parts of the representation onto the constituents of the content. In the l a t t e r case, there is not; some of the constituents of the content are set t led bj background factors. I contrast th is d i s t i nc t ...

Auditory icons – or environmental sounds – have the potential to convey information by non-verbal means quickly and accurately. In addition, human listeners are quick to determine many qualities of an auditory object, such as location, distance, size, and motion, from acoustics of the signal. An experiment tests these two coupled assumptions in a controlled laboratory context. Stimuli consisted...