background: while traditional semen parameters are of significant clinical value, total fertilization failure in ivf cycles is not uncommon. sperm function testing such as; hamster egg penetration test has severed limitations as a clinical test. the aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of semen parameters by using of intracellular calcium [ca2+]i increase in response to proges...

One of the visions almost excessively quoted in current discussions of what the information infrastructure of the WWW may ultimately turn out to be is Vannevar Bush’s article ”As we may think” written in 1945, and thus quite some time before the advent of computers as we know them today. In fact, Bush’s vision concerns the organization of information much more than the technical means and instr...

Why do we represent the world around us using causal generalizations, rather than, say, purely statistical generalizations? Do causal representations contain useful additional information, or are they merely more efficient for inferential purposes? This chapter considers the second kind of answer: it investigates some ways in which causal cognition might aid us not because of its expressive pow...

This case study describes the journey of an undergraduate module in its transition from in-person lectures-plus-seminar configuration to interactive, online format using Teams. I show how created a sense community and opportunity for group interaction by establishing small groups that carried out weekly tasks their own Team ‘channel’. Weekly roles were assigned members spread workload ensure eq...

Various traditions within developmental science and psychology have concentrated on either personal or collective correlates as manifestations of well-being. Our claim is that the well-being of any one person is highly dependent on the well-being of her relationships and on the community in which she resides ~Nelson & Prilleltensky, 2005; Prilleltensky, Nelson, & Peirson, 2001!. Well-being may ...

With great interest, I have been observing the developments in continuous lifelong capture, which has been gaining momentum over the last few years. By lifelong capture, I refer to someone digitally logging every moment and element of their lives, a usually permanent recording of an activity by a participant in the activity. This process often results in the unanticipated capture of valuable mo...