Background: The aim of this study was evaluation of developmental rate and Bax, Bcl-2 and ErbB4 genes expression following re-vitrification in compact and early blastocysts stages. Materials and Methods: 5-8 cell embryos were collected from female mature mice, 60-62 hours post hCG injection. The embryos were divided to five groups including: fresh, vitrified at 5-8 cells, vitrified at blastocys...

the purpose of this article is to determine elements of strategic thinking in the context of iranian organizations and to find out the interactions and relationships among determined elements. a literature review and also in-depth interviews with experts are conducted to identify strategic thinking elements. interpretive structural modeling methodology is used for analyzing and determining the ...

This paper aims to analyze and evaluate the status potential of tourism industry in Delhi identify bottlenecks ahead. Tourism boosts earnings people hotel as well tax collection. The industry’s receipts are re-spent other linked industries augment further growth. If India utilizes its great untapped developing strategic places like Delhi, substantial amount revenue can be generated which will c...

Prior research on “strategic voting” has reached the conclusion that unanimity rule is uniquely bad: it results in destruction of information, and hence makes voters worse off. We show that this conclusion depends critically on the assumption that the issue being voted on is exogenous, i.e., independent of the voting rule used. We depart from the existing literature by endogenizing the proposal...

Models of strategic candidacy analyze the incentives of candidates to run in an election. Most work on this topic assumes that strategizing only takes place among candidates, whereas voters vote truthfully. In this paper, we extend the analysis to also include strategic behavior on the part of the voters. (We also study cases where only candidates or only voters are strategic.) We consider two ...

This article explores practices of community-based energy justice activists in Johannesburg. Against the background municipal corporatization electricity delivery wake postapartheid state’s neoliberal policy turn, residents urban periphery organize to ward off cost-recovery measures and illegally (re)connect grid. Informed by theories critical studies on South, this situates activists’ historic...