In this work, we tried to optimize y-treatment of sperm to obtain large numbers of haploid gynogenetic embryos after fertilization. The analysis of increasing doses showed a typical « Hertwig effect)) in all cases, but we found wide between-male variations in the most efficient dose. This variability was reduced by mixing several irradiated samples collected from different males or given differ...

The optimum dose of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation to produce gynogenetic Caspian salmon, Salmo trutta caspius, with emphasis on the "Hertwig effect" and photoreactivation (PR) were investigated. The sperm of Caspian salmon was irradiated with UV at 2010 ? 200 ?w.cm-2 in different times including 0, 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 35 and 45 min and was allowed to fertilize normal ova; the fertilizati...

Becquerell has observed that p-rays change yellow phosphorus into red form. Ramsey* and Cameron* have shown that the radium emanation has destruotive and partial synthetic actions upon water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and ammonia. The decomposing action of radium rays on the lecithin molecule has been observed by Schwara,4 Schaper,& and Werner.6 On the other hand, no s...

Mellers, Hertwig, and Kahneman (2001) conducted an adversarial collaboration to try resolve Hertwig’s contested view that frequency formats eliminate conjunction effects, effects are largely due semantic ambiguity. We a pre-registered well-powered very close replication ‎(N = 1032), ‎testing two personality profiles (Linda James) in four conditions between-subject design comparing unlikely like...

According to prospect theory, people overweight low probability events and underweight high probability events. Several recent papers (notably, Hertwig, Barron, Weber & Erev, 2004) have argued that although this pattern holds for “description-based” decisions, in which people are explicitly provided with probability distributions over potential outcomes, it is actually reversed in “experience-b...

This response reinforces the major themes of our target article. The impact of key methodological variables should not be taken for granted. Rather, experimental practices should be grounded in the empirical evidence. If no evidence is available, decisions on design and implementation should be subjected to systematic experimentation. In other words, we argue against empirically blind conventio...