Background: Cigarette smoke contains many oxidants and may alter the human reproduction by inducing oxidative stress (OS) in both active and passive smokers. This study was designed to evaluation the effect of environment tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure on oxidative stress in follicular follicle and assisted reproduction outcomes. Materials and Methods: A prospective study was carried out on 236 i...

Abstract Growing concerns over high energy consumption and CO2 emissions from residential buildings have boosted the adoption of passive design strategies (PDS) globally, for their promising solution to address these issues, also positively influencing occupant productivity. As such, many governments organizations developed relevant codes procedures encourage enforce PDS. Despite increased focu...

Background: Recruitment of racial/ethnic minorities for clinical research continues to be problematic, yet critical to ensuring that research data will be applicable to diverse populations. There is a paucity of information about culturally appropriate methods for recruiting and retaining racial/ethnic minorities in research. Objective: To cross-culturally assess perceptions of research partici...

BACKGROUND Although grand rounds plays a major educational role at academic medical centers, there has been little investigation into the factors influencing the learners' decision to attend. Greater awareness of attendees' expectations may allow grand rounds planners to better accommodate the learners' perspective, potentially making continuing education activities more attractive and inviting...

How much do different monetary and non-monetary motivators induce costly effort? Does the effectiveness line up with the expectations of researchers? We present the results of a large-scale real-effort experiment with 18 treatment arms. We compare the effect of three motivators: (i) standard incentives; (ii) behavioral factors like present bias, reference dependence, and social preferences; and...

Research background: In contemporary environment and conditions of globalization, IT professionals become significant part labour force for every organization, which needs to be competitive in the market. This paper, on one hand, demonstrates how employees can involved production process, and, other it helps observe interconnection between theory practical application management. Purpose articl...

There is an identified shortage of mathematics and science teachers across Australia many these leave the profession within 3 to 5 years graduating. This paper provides important insights on what motivates people become in Australia. Data drawn from two surveys, one investigating why students might a teacher other examining joined profession, are explored provide unique insight into area need. ...

BACKGROUND An adequate blood supply depends on volunteer non-remunerated blood donors. African Americans have lower blood donation rates than whites. To improve African American blood donation rates, the motivators and barriers to African Americans must be explored. This study investigated the differences in motivators and barriers to blood donation between donor and non-donor African American ...