introduction: pharmacists and pharmaceutical services are among the most important resources and programs in providing health for a society. pharmacists as the key players in presenting health services, greatly impact on the health of a society and if they suffer low job satisfaction, their dissatisfaction may relatively threaten health in a society. this study was conducted to determine irania...

objective: every cell type is characterized by a specific transcriptional profile together with a unique epigenetic landscape. reprogramming factors such as oct4, klf4, sox2 and c-myc enable somatic cells to change their transcriptional profile and convert them to pluripotent cells. small molecules such as bix-01294, bay k8644, rg-108 and valproic acid (vpa) are reported as effective molecules ...

A factor copula model is proposed in which factors are either simulable or estimable from exogenous information. Point estimation and inference based on a simulated methods of moments (SMM) approach with non-overlapping simulation draws. Consistency limiting normality the estimator established validity bootstrap standard errors shown. Doing so, previous results literature verified under low-lev...

Objective(s):Althoughroutinely applied in assisted reproductive technology, human sperm cryopreservation is not a completely successful procedure. Adverse effects of cryopreservation on the fertilization capacity, motility, morphology, and viability of spermatozoa have been proven; cryopreservation has also shown a role in sperm DNA fragmentation and infertility. The post-thaw survival of sperm...

Our previous results have suggested that increasing aggressiveness of breast tumour cells is associated with the down-regulation of the expression of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). As increasing aggressiveness is associated with a propensity for metastasis, this study aimed to investigate whether our theory applied to the processes of motility and invasion. Although the well-established dual role...

We prove the non-emptiness of the core of an NTU game satisfying a condition of payoff-dependent balancedness, based on transfer rate mappings. We also define a new equilibrium condition on transfer rates and we prove the existence of core payoff vectors satisfying this condition. The additional requirement of transfer rate equilibrium refines the core concept and allows the selection of specif...

This paper summarises a research program on the new immigrant second generation initiated in the early 1990s and completed in 2006. The four field waves of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) are described and the main theoretical models emerging from it are presented and graphically summarised. After considering critical views of this theory, we present the most recent results...