This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a short insemination procedure on embryo development, assess the reliability of a fertilization check prior to the appearance of pronuclei and elucidate the role of rescue intracytoplasmic sperm injection (R-ICSI). Patients who had ≥9 eggs, were aged <38 years and had normal semen samples were included. The sibling eggs of each patient were divided int...

The first published report on journal impact factors was included in E. Garfield, I.H. Sher, "New factors in the evaluation of scientific literature through citation indexing," American Documentation, 14[3]:195-201, July 1963. The late Irving H. Sher, who then was director of R&D at the Philadelphiabased Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), and I created the impact factor to help evaluat...

Andrea Cavagna, Lorenzo Del Castello, Supravat Dey, Irene Giardina, Stefania Melillo, Leonardo Parisi, and Massimiliano Viale a Istituto Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, UOS Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy b Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy c Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 USA and...

This paper uses recent developments in measuring correlation to examine the relationship between inflation and relative price variability. The results suggest that the positive correlation holds not only in the short-run but also in the long-run. This finding has important implications for theoretical models that purport to explain this relationship: such models must incorporate features that g...

The paper studies the impact of intrinsic vowel duration on category perception in boundary conditions by examining the short vs. long category boundary perception in Estonian. Since the intrinsic duration of a close vowel /i/ is about 10-15 ms shorter than that of an open vowel /a/, we hypothesize that the short vs. long category boundary in /i/ occurs at a shorter duration than in the case of...

We compiled a large sample of Swift-era photometric data on long (Type II) and short (Type I) GRB afterglows. We compare the luminosity and energetics of the different samples to each other and to the afterglows of the pre-Swift era. Here, we present the first results of these studies.

background and aim: with regard to the shortage of proper materials in persian for the evaluation of speech perception in children, this study aimed to develop the persian version of the bkb sentence test, and determine its content validity in normal persian speaking children aged 6-12 years. methods: this study was an applied research. the study procedure comprised sentence construction, deter...

1 We investigated how closely speakers’ production preferences were interconnected with comprehenders’ processing difficulty, using dative sentences in Korean, based on the behavioral data that we obtained from a production study and an eye-tracking reading study, respectively. In both studies, we tested the long-before-short preference such that long words/phrases were highly likely to be plac...