Yearning for children and the heartbreak of barrenness have been a part of life since the beginning of mankind, chronicled throughout history by religious accounts, myths, legends, art, and literature. Whether driven by biological drive, social necessity, or psychological longing, the pursuit of a child or children has compelled men and women to seek a variety of remedies, sometimes even extrem...

One of the most enchanting tourist trips in Europe is along the Rhine Valley with the winding river surrounded by hills topped by many medieval castles. On the Neckar River, a tributary to the Rhine, lies the beautiful historic city of Heidelberg, again with a magnificent castle looking down on the old city from a nearby hill. Heidelberg, the home of Germany’s oldest university established in 1...

vert to Christianity because of a cognitive defect. They simply were unable to appreciate the vast array of the combinations of God’s or Christ’s virtues. But Lull believed that infidels could be converted if they could be brought to see the combinations of God’s attributes. Further, he thought that a representation of those combinations could be effectively presented by means of appropriate ma...

ing from the material balance context, our interpretation of the previous material balance argument is the following. Suppose the production model takes explicitly into account all factors that influence production, including such aspects as skill and motivation. In the theoretical case where all apects that affect production are explicitly taken into account, the set of input factors will expl...

What does it mean to say that one is listening to a piece of music, to a performance, or an artist? Initially, it may seem that there is little or no difference between these three questions. Upon closer reflection, though, there may be significant differences and these may be contingent on a variety of variables pertaining to musical content. This paper examines the case of listening to Bob Dy...

Differentiation inducers selected for their low cytotoxic and genotoxic potential could be of major value in chemoprevention and maintenance therapy. We focus here on phenybacetate, a naturally occurring plasma component recently shown to affect the growth and differentiation of established neoplasms in experimental models. The ability of phenybacetate to prevent carcinogenesis by the chemother...

Telomerase and telomere length are increasingly investigated as potential diagnostic and prognostic markers in human tumors. Among other factors, telomerase and telomere length may be influenced by the degree of tumor cell content in tumor specimens. We studied telomerase activity and telomere length with concomitant integration of histopathological data to determine whether both were influence...

Three years ago the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) decided to embrace netuews as a site-wide, multi-platform communications tool for the laboratory’s diverse user community. The Usenet newsgroups as well as other world-wide newsgroup hierarchies were appealing for their unique ability to tap a broad pool of information, while the availability of the software on a number of platforms ...

Objective: To understand factors that may lead to adherence or noncompliance of drug therapy among drug users. Method: A quantitative and qualitative approach, characterized as a descriptive survey. It was conducted in a therapeutic community of Rio Grande do Sul, in 2010. The study included 14 subjects, data were collected through a unstructured questionnaire and Morisky Test. Results: It was ...

In middle-class Pakistan, marriage is the prescribed future for all women, but premarital contact between sexes discouraged. To find right partner, then, without visibly flouting social norms, requires a skillful balancing act private interests and aspirations, public representations collective concerns. Young women often navigate these conflicting demands by developing what they call an unders...