conclusions hepatocyte isolation can be performed as the main and initial step for cell transplantation from unused/rejected liver. it is the first experience in iran. results highly quality hepatocytes with high viability and low contamination were isolated. the mean viability was 71.8% ± 21.7. in the first 4 cases microbial contamination by staphylococci, diphtheroid and klebsiella was detect...

Why do governments so often fail to adopt reforms that economists consider efficiency enhancing? This is the question addressed in an influential paper by Raquel Fernandez and Dani Rodrik (1991). They argue that one of the reasons is that individual winners and losers of reform can often not be identified beforehand. This individual specific uncertainty leads to a bias against reform. Before tu...

In recent years, the value-added created in the transportation industry is about 8 percent of GDP of Iran. Due to the high-induced effect of transportation sector on the whole economy, analyzing transportation production function and its determinant is of great value for policymakers. The objective of the present research is to estimate the transportation production for the case of Iran and to ...

you will be noticed. Do not publish and you will not even exist. In other words, publish or perish. We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are just too silly for words. The effect of smoking and excessive alcohol consumption on patients with a previous history of heart disease were examined. In this example, the distance between the subject of the sentence 'effect' and the verb 'were' creates ...

In viviparous species, the conceptus must be protected from a potentially hostile maternal immune system. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a genetic region that encodes MHC class I and class II proteins, which present peptide antigens to T lymphocytes and induce graft rejection. The MHC, class II proteins are only expressed on professional, antigen-presenting cells. However, classi...

The present study was conducted to determine the fate of manuscripts rejected by Indian Pediatrics (IP), and to identify the factors facilitating publication of a rejected manuscript elsewhere. Database (PubMed, IndMed) and Google searches were performed to trace the manuscripts published elsewhere any time after rejection by Indian Pediatrics in the year 2002. Eighteen per cent of the rejected...

Growth theory and real-business-cycle theory virtually always assume that the long-run labor supply is vertical. This paper derives the restriction on preferences required for this assumption to hold and formulates an econometric method for testing this restriction. The restriction is then rejected using time-series data for the United States and many OECD countries. Some evidence against the r...

There has been little research examining customer reactions to brokered ultimatum game (BUG) contexts (i.e. exchanges in which 1 party offers an ultimatum price for a resource through an intermediary, and the ultimatum offer is accepted or rejected by the other party). In this study, the authors incorporated rational decision-making theory and justice theory to examine how customers' bids, reco...