Browsing by Subject "fertility"
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(2011-08-08)John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically ...
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(2013-02-04)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that act as post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression in eukaryotic genomes and are thought to be critically involved in many biological processes. While the functions ...
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(2012-02-14)Much of the recent scholarly attention has been devoted to the low fertility situation experienced by a growing number of developed countries. In this context, the theoretical framework explicitly incorporating the issues ...
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(2012-07-16)Infertility in dairy cattle remains a major economic loss to dairy producers. Identifying dairy cattle with superior genetic potential for improved fertility would increase dairy farm profitability. Dairy heifers were ...
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Situating Male Fertility: A Demographic Analysis of Male and Female Fertility in the United States (2012-02-14)In this dissertation I investigate whether or not a series of social, demographic, and cultural factors affect fertility differently, in either direction or magnitude, for men and women. This work situates the study of ...
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(2009-05-15)The goal of this dissertation is to contribute in three ways to the literature on son preference and fertility through a comparative perspective. First, I examine the impact of son preference on fertility in China and South ...
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(2022-05-26)The current studies determined from a clinical and molecular standpoint some potential causes associated with the occurrence of impaired acrosomal exocytosis (IAE) in stallions that carry the IAE-susceptibility genotype, ...