This study was conducted to examine follicle growth and intra-ovarian oocyte release in rabbit ovaries influenced by a local application of prostaglandin formation inhibitors. While five rabbits remained as unstimulated controls, twenty-seven mature rabbits were hyperstimulated by pure follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) followed by human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) at time 0. At the same time,...

Blockchain technology has been recognised as a promising for supporting Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading—an emerging paradigm in which trading is performed directly between end customers. The state-of-the-art blockchain designs P2P can only support less compute-intensive tasks and/or rely on the set up of long challenge time to ensure correctness transactions, restricts systems' scalability an...

A growing body of evidence demonstrates a rhythmic characteristic spatial attention, with the corresponding behavioral performance fluctuating periodically. Here, we investigate whether and how attention is affected by reward—an important factor in attentional selection. We adopted classic cueing paradigm time-resolved stimulus-onset-asynchrony (SOA) between cue target such that responses to di...

INTRODUCTION Recombinant human erythropoietin is used primarily to treat anemia. There is evidence of its neuroprotective capacity from preclinical studies in Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Recombinant human erythropoietin produced in Cuba (ior-EPOCIM) is registered and approved for use in humans in Cuba and in a number of other countries. OBJECTIVE Assess safety an...

UNLABELLED Adolescent females in Zimbabwe are at high risk for HIV acquisition. Shaping the Health of Adolescents in Zimbabwe (SHAZ!) was a randomized controlled trial of a combined intervention package including life-skills and health education, vocational training, micro-grants and social supports compared to life-skills and health education alone. SHAZ! was originally envisioned as a larger ...

In an exogenous orienting task, attention is increased to the target stimulus if the cue validly predicts the target’s location and the cue and target occur in quick succession. With a longer interval between the cue and target, the opposite effect occurs: attention is inhibited for validly cued targets. These attentional phenomena are known as facilitation, and inhibition of return (IOR), resp...

Purpose Recent research has recognised the importance of supply chains and ecosystems as key drivers successful servitization strategies, especially in context inter-organisational relations (IOR). The body knowledge has, however, become increasingly fragmented diverse due to different disciplinary roots both IOR research. purpose this paper is take stock current generate a set future direction...

INTRODUCTION The availability of monoclonal antibodies in Cuba has facilitated development and application of innovative techniques (immunoscintigraphy and radioimmunotherapy) for cancer diagnosis and treatment. OBJECTIVE Review immunoscintigraphy and radioimmunotherapy techniques and analyze their use in Cuba, based on the published literature. In this context, we describe the experience of Ha...