Abstract Introduction Microscopic-assisted vasovasostomy is a well described procedure used to manage obstructive azoospermia. Intra-abdominal azoospermia poses challenge and various techniques have been described, including both open minimally invasive approaches. The wide-spread adoption of robotics within urology has led multiple reports robotic-assisted vasovasostomy, which offers feasible ...

This paper studies contract selection between efficiency wages and subjective performance pay to motivate workers in a market setting. The optimal wage contract (which may be a combination of efficiency wages and subjective performance pay) is determined by turnover costs in labor markets. Specifically, labor markets with higher turnover costs use more subjective performance pay and less effici...

Schaffert N, Mattes K, Effenberg AO. An investigation of online acoustic information for elite rowers in onwater training conditions. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 392-405, 2011. Presenting acoustic information has become increasingly interesting for technique training and control in various sports. In elite rowing, acoustic feedback is a new and promising application to optimize the ...

Fifty years before Aristotle wrote his Poetics, Aristophanes had devoted two comedies, Thesmophoriazusae (411) and Frogs (405), to the subject of tragedy. In both plays the plot shows the education of the main character in the nature of tragedy. Euripides learns in Thesmophoriazusae that he must present noble and not base women in his dramas. His depiction of perverse women in the theatre had m...