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Observer effects occur when estimating alert but not flight-initiation distances
submitted by jano 24 minutes ago - Topic: Biology
Wildlife flee humans as they would predators. Many studies used multiple observers to estimate alert (vigilance) and flight-initiation (escape) distances of wildlife to understand escape behaviour and management of wildlife disturbance. The present study shows that observers estimate flight-initi...



A new pension adjustment formula for Germany: distributional sensitivity results
submitted by shohraaz 25 minutes ago - Topic: Health
In Germany, amidst the backdrop of a fundamentally changed sociopolitical strategy within the German pension system and to strengthen the private pension schemes, the principles of pension adjustments have attracted a great deal of public attention. This paper presents a relatively simple adjustm...

The fallacy of one-dimensional theory of planned behaviour structure in predicting health behaviour
submitted by shohraaz 25 minutes ago - Topic: Health
Most research on exercise is dominated in the West. Drawing on a socio-cognitive theory, this research aims at addressing methodological issues in an Eastern culture where recent developments of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) applications have been limited. To answer the call for reinterpr...

Studies of Nuclex effect under cardiovascular disorders, influenza and acute upper respiratory tract infection
submitted by shohraaz 25 minutes ago - Topic: Health
The obtained results have confirmed the efficacy of Nuclex in terms of normalisation of parameters of coronary reserve, and in terms of elimination of the main signs and symptoms of influenza and acute upper respiratory tract infection (URTI), in particular, normalisation of body temperature, dis...

HRD climate in National Rural Health Mission in India - an empirical study
submitted by shohraaz 25 minutes ago - Topic: Health
In today's competitive environment, skilled human resource can play an important role in the success of any organisation. The developmental climate in an organisation helps the employees to utilise their skills and competencies for success and achieving organisational objectives. For this purpose...



Sustainable hybrid rice cultivation in Italy. A review
submitted by hetz2333 26 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the premier food crop in the world, being a major staple food for more than half of the world’s population. The potential for a further increase in grain yield will be limited in the future, and more food will need to be produced from the same available arable land. It...

Nucleoid localization of Hsp40 Mdj1 is important for its function in maintenance of mitochondrial DNA
submitted by sonkorrom 27 minutes ago - Topic: Biology
Faithful replication and propagation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is critical for cellular respiration. Molecular chaperones, ubiquitous proteins involved in protein folding and remodeling of protein complexes, have been implicated in mtDNA transactions. In particular, cells lacking Mdj1, an Hsp4...

Ephrin-A1/EphA4-mediated adhesion of monocytes to endothelial cells
submitted by sonkorrom 27 minutes ago - Topic: Biology
The Eph receptors represent the largest family of receptor tyrosine kinases. Both Eph receptors and their ephrin ligands are cell-surface proteins, and they typically mediate cell-to-cell communication by interacting at sites of intercellular contact. The major aim of the present study was to inv...

Comparison of embryo transfer strategies and assisted reproduction outcome in Slovenian and cross-border patients
submitted by 2001harsi 28 minutes ago - Topic: Health
A reduction in the number of embryos transferred is the most important step in decreasing multiple gestation rates after medically assisted reproduction. Slovenia has implemented insurance company regulations that regulate single-embryo transfer in selected good-prognosis couples. The aim of the ...

The wobbly evidence base of reproductive medicine
submitted by 2001harsi 28 minutes ago - Topic: Health
In assisted reproduction, there is strong evidence for some things done, but no or only very weak evidence for others. There are several reasons for this. Most assisted reproduction procedures have small signal-to-noise ratios. This means that their treatment effect is sometimes only little bette...

Epigenetic effects on the embryo as a result of periconceptional environment and assisted reproduction technology
submitted by 2001harsi 28 minutes ago - Topic: Health
The early embryonic environment has been shown to be remarkably influential on the developing organism, despite the relative brevity of this developmental stage. The cells of the zygote and cleavage-stage embryo hold the potential to form all cell lineages of the embryonic and extra-embryonic tis...

Follicle recruitment determines IVF productivity rate via the number of embryos frozen and subsequent transfers
submitted by 2001harsi 28 minutes ago - Topic: Health
IVF productivity rate is an index defined as the sum of all live births from either fresh or frozen embryo transfers arising from a single oocyte collection. This retrospective analysis over 9 continuous years used this index to understand the potential impact on pregnancy rates of milder stimula...

Assessing receptivity in the endometrium: the need for a rapid, non-invasive test
submitted by 2001harsi 28 minutes ago - Topic: Health
Successful implantation of an embryo into the uterus requires synchrony between the blastocyst and the endometrium. Endometrial preparedness, or receptivity, occurs only for a very short time during the mid-secretory phase of the menstrual cycle in fertile women. Failure to achieve receptivity re...

(Male) infertility: what does it mean to men? New evidence from quantitative and qualitative studies
submitted by 2001harsi 28 minutes ago - Topic: Health
Scientific knowledge of the emotional repercussions of infertility on men remains limited and has only recently become the focus of social science research. Firstly, the current developments in research on the psychosocial impact of infertility on men through a search of the literature over the l...

Aneuploidy rates for chromosomes X/Y and 18 among preselected spermatozoa in men with severe teratospermia
submitted by 2001harsi 28 minutes ago - Topic: Health
Eight infertile men with various degrees of oligoasthenoteratozoospermia and repeated implantation failure were selected for this study due to exceptionally high rates of sperm aneupoidy in their ejaculates. All subjects had normal physical examination, karyotype and serum FSH concentration. Prio...