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Deutsch: Assimilation / Español: Asimilación / Português: Assimilação / Français: Assimilation / Italiano: Assimilazione /
Assimilation refers to the process by which new objects, events, experiences, or information are incorporated into existing schemas.Assimilation-contrast theory refers to the idea advanced by Sherif and Hovland in the 1960s that a person's current position serves as a point of reference in relation to an attempt to persuade, assimilating positions close to his or her own and contrasting (or rejecting) positions discrepant from his or her own.
The Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) uses fresh, as opposed to frozen, non-donor eggs or embryos. The egg is harvested from the woman who is trying to become pregnant, fertilized, and then, if the fertilization is successful, transferred to the uterus.