offspring, including the germ cell compartment. To During embryogenesis, a single fertilized oocyte gives maintain cultured ES cells in their relatively undifferentirise to a multicellular organism whose cells and tissues ated, pluripotent state, they must both express the inhave adopted differentiated characteristics or fates to trinsic transcription factor Oct4, and constitutively reperform t...

If you build it, people will come. That may have been good advice for Kevin Costner in the 1989 film Field of Dreams, but building a new office, or even purchasing one, may not make sense for your particular practice at this particular time. (See “Leasing vs. buying” on page 19.) If leasing is the best choice for your practice, here’s what you need to consider before you sign on the dotted line.

ions in the management of physical infrastructures gives more flexibility to users in controlling the environment in which their applications run. Given the recent efforts to improve current virtualization mechanisms and better support HPC workloads, i.e., by virtualizing specialized network devices like Infiniband [72], using virtualization in HPC centers becomes feasible. In this section we s...

The Islamic financial system, which was shaped in accordance with principles the legal, economic and of Islam, has developed significantly recent years begun to be implemented western countries as well. Finance investment instruments line have also parallel these developments. One them, sukuk, is issued under name "lease certificates" Turkish Law; constituted an alternative tool for those who d...

Although leasing can be an interesting financing option from economic point of view, family businesses are found to less prone lease. In this study, we examine the view external accountant on as alternative form within businesses. After all, most trusted advisor, likely has a significant influence financial decisions that taken private By means exploratory qualitative what factors advice for pa...

This paper investigates the effects of preventive-maintenance cost functions on the optimal preventive-maintenance policy for a leased product with Weibull life-time distribution. During the lease period, any product failures are rectified by minimal repairs and may incur a penalty to the lessor, if the time duration for performing a minimal repair exceeds a pre-specified time limit. To reduce ...

The 2007-2009 financial crisis and recession highlighted the role of counterparty risk in financial contracts, many once thought immune to such problems. However, counterparty risk can be significant in a wide variety of contracting situations and can impact capital structure decisions. Using commercial real estate leases as an example, this paper presents a new model that endogenizes the capit...

We study the Online Steiner Tree Leasing (OSTL) problem, defined in a weighted undirected graph with a distinguished root node r. There is a known set L of available lease types, where each type ` ∈ L is characterized by its duration D` and cost factor C`. As an input, an online algorithm is given a sequence of terminals and has to connect them to the root r using leased edges. An edge of lengt...