treatment painful? In the course of IVF treatment, one expects to experience pain at several stages. But the fact is there is minimal or no pain in a well-planned and properly executed IVF cycle. • The first stage is when women receive small-bore injections for the development of eggs. Almost everyone is scared of the first injection as they are unaware of the amount of pain. But after the initial anxiety, they get more comfortable and experience minimal or no pain. • The second stage is when the egg starts to develop and ovaries begin to enlarge. In some rare cases, this might cause some abdominal pain and bloating feeling. If this is the case, it means that a large number of eggs have started to grow and that the ovaries are over stimulated. The doctors can tailor the treatment protocol to limit the number of eggs that develop and personalize the treatment. Many women don’t experience any pain during stimulation. They may experience mild discomfort but it does not affect their daily life. They can comfortably continue to go to work or manage their homes. • The third stage is the procedure of egg retrieval. Patients need to be made aware that the eggs are removed by piercing the ovaries through the vagina using a long thin needle. Many women assume that this procedure is painful, whereas the reality is there is no pain at all as the treatment is done under anaesthesia. Even after the anaesthesia effect wears off, the recovery is very quick and not painful at all. • The next stage comes after 3-5 days after egg retrieval if it is a fresh transfer cycle. In most cases now, a frozen transfer is preferred. In such a case, the FET comes after 1-2 months after the egg retrieval step. The developed embryo is transferred back into the uterus under the guidance of ultrasound. This procedure is almost painless with just a little bit of discomfort during the insertion of vaginal speculum, like what you may have felt during Pap smear. To summarize, there are various stages in IVF where people think it is painful. The reality is that the actual steps and procedures are of minimal or no pain.
How Blockchain is a Distrupter to Conventional Notions of Currency
How Blockchain is a Disrupter to conventional notions of currency
What is Blockchain?
Blockchain is an undoubtedly smart invention. It is used to send the information from a sender to receiver in a completely secure and automated fashion. When a transaction is initiated, a block is created. This block is checked by the systems present in the network. After checking, the block is added to the chain, and it is saved throughout the network. This process leads to the creation of a unique record.
Three Main Components of Blockchain
Decentralization
Prior to the invention of Bitcoin and Blockchain, we were using centralized services. In centralized services, a centralized object will store the information, and we have to interact with that object to get the required information.
Banking system uses centralized services for their operations. The money is stored in the bank, and any customer should do the transaction through the bank.
The disadvantages of Centralized system
1) In a centralized system, data is stored in one place, so attackers or hackers can easily leak the information.
2) If any software update is going on in a centralized system, then the work of the entire system is stopped.
3) If any stoppage occurs in the centralized system, then nobody can access the information it has.
In a decentralized system, members who are present in the network will have the information. If an entity wants to interact with another entity, they can do that without the help of a third party.
2) Transparency
The most important element of Blockchain is transparency. Blockchain provides both transparency and privacy. With the help of cryptography, the true identity of the person is concealed, and the public addresses of the person are displayed.
With the help of public addresses, the actual identity of the person is secured, but you can see all the transactions happen. If you know the public address of any big company, then we can know all the transactions done by that company.
3) Immutability
In the blockchain environment, immutability is a process in which the data once entered cannot be erased. In Blockchain, this concept is implemented with the help of Cryptography Hash function.
Hashing is a procedure in which it takes the input of any length and gives an output of fixed length. Bitcoin uses SHA256(Secure Hash algorithm-256) and takes fixed output.
If any small change occurs in the given input, then the output is also changed. Applying SHA-256 becomes difficult when we are dealing with a large amount of data, so, instead of remembering the input data, we should remember the hash, and we should trace it.
Due to these features, Blockchain provides a new method and strategy to carry out the transactions. This makes users avoid the conventional method of transactions.
Business Applications of Blockchain
The Applications of Blockchain are as follows:
1) Smart contracts
The distributed ledger technology provides smart contracts coding, which executes once particular conditions are satisfied.
2) Sharing Economy
With the success of Uber, Airbnb companies sharing economy is proved. Sharing rides in uber is the perfect example of sharing economy.
3) CrowdFunding
Crowdfunding efforts like Gofoundme, Kickstarter are doing progressive work for developing a peer-based economy.
4) Governance
Blockchain makes the transactions transparent and completely available to the public. Distributed Database technology can make elections more transparent to the public.
5)Supply chain auditing
Consumers who use the products, want to know whether the quality asserts made by the companies are genuine or not. Distributed ledger technology helps the consumer to validate these asserts made by the company.
6) File storing
File storing is decentralized, and Decentralization of data makes data secure from the attackers and hackers. Interplanetary File system(IPFS) eases the conceptualization of web operations.
7) Prediction Markets
Predictions from Crowdsourcing is based on the event possible and proved to have high accuracy. In future, other applications cannot find a defect in the Blockchain.
Securing Intellectual Property
Digital Information is extensively distributed, replicated due to the usage of the internet. Due to this, writers can lose their copyrights. To avoid this problem, writers use smart contracts to protect their rights.
Conclusion
In this way, we can avoid the traditional methods for implementing transactions with the help of Blockchain. Transparency and Decentralization make the Blockchain the best technology for carrying out transactions.
Benefits of purchasing seasonal goods in the off season
Whether you own a dollar store or an online store, you must be finding it hard to keep up your profits as prices of dollar store merchandise and wholesale items continue to rise. The rising freight shipping charges and import duties have further reduced the profit margins of the retailers and dollar store owners.
One of the best ways retailers and dollar store owners can keep up to their profits is by purchasing seasonal goods in the off season and holding them until they are in season again. By buying seasonal goods during the off season retailers can enjoy excellent savings on their store merchandise. There are wholesale liquidators, close out suppliers, and suppliers of customer returns that offer amazing discounts on seasonal goods in the off season. Though the discounts offered on seasonal goods in the off season vary from supplier to supplier, you can enjoy as much as 60-70% discounts on your merchandise purchase.
Regardless of what business you are in, you can always benefit from procuring seasonal goods in the off season. And when these goods are in season again, you can offer discounts, freebies, promotions, and offers on these items to boost your sales and business revenues.
In case you don’t have enough storage space, you can adopt some marketing methods to attract seasonal shopper during the off season. You may offer attractive discounts on products during the off season to convince people to buy from you. You can offer free shipping to your customers. Selling off seasonal complimentary goods with seasonal goods is yet another way to clear out your off seasonal stock. By making use of newsletters, and email marketing you can inform your buyers about your off season sales and can persuade them to check out your store and to buy from you.
Buying seasonal goods in off season can save you lots of money in product sourcing for your dollar store or online retail store. Just look for reliable and reputable suppliers to ensure there are no quality issues with the seasonal goods that you are buying during off season.