Infertility in women is a health priority. Designing a robust culture protocol capable of attaining complete follicle growth is an exciting challenge, for its potential clinical applications, but also as a model to observe and closely study the sequence of molecular events that lie behind the intricate relationship existing between the oocyte and surrounding follicle cells. Here, we describe th...

This chapter examines the relationship between culture-specific diagnoses and mood disorders. How researchers and clinicians refer to cultural syndromes related to mood disorders is a contentious issue. We open our chapter with a brief discussion of the history and controversies (as the quote from Hughes [1985] that opens this chapter indicates) surrounding these labels. We then discuss the rel...

To discuss the effect of co-culture on the quality of mouse blastocysts and their epigenetic modification. We divided mouse zygotes into three co-culture experiment groups : with granular cells (group I ), oviduct epithelium cells (group II) and oviduct tissue (group III). Meanwhile, we set up control A (cultured in vitro, only KSOM (KCl+ simplex optimized medium)) and control B (cultured in vi...

Traditionally the information systems (IS) designer has followed simple concepts of organisational functioning based overwhelmingly on ideas of management control. Data from operational activity will be processed to become information for management to use in planning, decision making and supervision. While this viewpoint fits some organisations it is not appropriate to all. Organisational cult...

Algorithms, once obscure objects of technical art, have lately been subject to considerable popular and scholarly scrutiny. What does it mean to adopt the algorithm as an object of analytic attention? What is in view, and out of view, when we focus on the algorithm? Using Niklaus Wirth’s 1975 formulation that ‘‘algorithmsþ data structures1⁄4 programs’’ as a launching-off point, this paper exami...

In Slavic folk culture, Christianity is a foreign, borrowed cultural model, while the oral tradition native and familiar. The different areas of culture were influenced to varying degrees by Christian tradition. most dependent area on was calendar. many cases, it only superficially accepted content calendar elements reinterpreted in accordance with traditional mythological notions. same can be ...