RATIONALE Myocardial delivery of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) is an emerging therapy for treating the failing heart. However, the relative effects of hMSC-mediated heterocellular coupling (HC) and paracrine signaling (PS) on human cardiac contractility and arrhythmogenicity remain unresolved. OBJECTIVE The objective is to better understand hMSC PS and HC effects on human cardiac contr...

The elimination of fibroblast-like cells from primary cultures of fetal human livers was studied. A fibroblast-like cell line (HuF), which was obtained by subculturing fetal human liver cells 4 or more times, was briefly treated with hydrocortisone (HC) or putrescine (PUT). The growth of HuF cells was inhibited by HC at a concentration of 10(-2) M and by PUT at a concentration higher than 10(-3...

This article is devoted to economical aspects of Human Computation (HC) and to perspectives of HC in economics. As of economical aspects of HC, it is first observed that much of what makes HC systems effective is economical in nature suggesting that complexity being reconsidered as a “HC complexity” and the conception of efficient HC systems as a “HC economics”. This article also points to the ...

abstract this study aims to explore the impact of human resources investment on competitive advantage that incorporates human capital as a mediator variable. for this purpose a questionnaire was designed to collect data of the research variables. validity and reliability of measurement instruments was obtained using confirmatory factor analysis. questionnaire was then distributed among a sample...

the objective of this research is to explore the effect of international outsourcing on economic growth in asia-pacific countries. accordingly, a panel regression model based on soderbom and teal (2003) is estimated using data of the considered countries over the period 1995-2006. in addition to international outsourcing, the model includes human capital, labor force and physical capital as the...

The analysis of what human capital (HC) is has a long history and culminates in the acknowledgment that HC its growth are very important for both cognitive education (cognitive skills (CSs)) personal life (noncognitive (NCSs)) CSs NCSs have strong reciprocal relationship, as studies by Heckman demonstrated. present contribution (following Heckman’s approach) analyzed relationship between sample...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the growing use of financial metrics (such as return on investment [ROI]) measure performance and evaluate human capital (HC) investments. Design/methodology/approach The research employed an embedded case approach, examining how one ROI approach was applied evaluating HC investments, across three sectors (corporate, public health international development...

The purpose of the study is to evaluate impact human capital (HC) on sustainable development a country or region through prism religious values. following indicators were used for analysis: Human Development Index, GDP per Capita, and Adult Mortality Rates in Orthodox Russia, Muslim, Kazakhstan, developed countries dominated by Protestant religion, such as United States, Kingdom, Germany. resul...

Haptocorrin (HC) is a circulating corrinoid binding protein with unclear function. In contrast to transcobalamin, the other transport protein in blood, HC is heavily glycosylated and binds a variety of cobalamin (Cbl) analogues. HC is present not only in blood but also in various secretions like milk, tears and saliva. No recombinant form of HC has been described so far. We report the expressio...