Background: The process of implantation involves the interaction of the human embryo and the uterine epithelium. Failure of implantation is a major reason for infertility in women and the inability to achieve endometrial receptivity is responsible for much of the failure of reproductive technologies. Management of repeated implantation failure despite transfer of good-quality embryos still rema...

The relationship between parents’ styles of talking about past events with their children and children’s recall of stressful events was explored. In this investigation, 2to 5-year-old children’s recall of injuries requiring hospital emergency room treatment was assessed within a few days of the injury and again 2 years later, along with the way their parents reminisced with them about the event...

In this article global estimates of 100-yr return values of wind speed and significant wave height are presented. These estimates are based on the ECMWF 40-yr Re-Analysis (ERA-40) data and are linearly corrected using estimates based on buoy data. This correction is supported by global Topographic Ocean Experiment (TOPEX) altimeter data estimates. The calculation of return values is based on th...

The salience effect is similar, but distinct. Objects which are close to ones which stand ia a particular relation to the respondent (i.e. physically close, emotionally dear, or belonging to the subject) are not placed in a room but receive horizontal answers instead. For example, all the Israelis answered that Lebanon was "north of Israel", and not that it was "in the MidEast". Similarly, all ...

A new tropopause definition involving a flow-dependent blending of the traditional thermal tropopause with one based on potential vorticity has been developed and applied to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalyses (ERA), ERA-40 and ERA-Interim. Global and regional trends in tropopause characteristics for annual and solsticial seasonal means are presented here, ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2015.01.008 1474-0346/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. q Handled by W.O. O’Brien ⇑ Corresponding author at: The University of Nottingham, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Room B27 Coates Building, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Tel.: +44 (0) 115 84 68933. E-mail address: [email protected] (C. Koch). URL: htt...

The Decision Agreement Principle, originally promulgated by Cave and Bacharach (independently), asserts that if like-minded decision makers commonly know each other’s decisions, then the decisions are the same. Subsequently, Moses and Nachum discovered a flaw in the reasoning underlying the principle. Here we provide a careful, coherent, and correct formulation of the principle, which avoids th...

The Span 40 (sorbitan monooleate)/Tween (polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate) system gives faceted vesicles with angular surfaces, rather than spherical vesicles. Herein, a continuous and facile preparation method, based on the subcritical water-assisted emulsification solvent diffusion, was presented to yield two major minor axes (Type A) closer polyhedron B). Type A, B, were likely be formed...