Miller's research on turtle fertility involved turning the living turtle over and examining the ovaries by means of an endoscope. |
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Homage is paid to them in annual rites of fertility, harvest, and the like. |
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If it's not that, I think it must be a biological improvement in female fertility. |
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She would have been down there taking a ceremonial ablution and praying to the river god Hapi, who was also the god of fertility. |
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Jupiter ruling the eclipse indicates peace, prosperity, fertility, happiness and abundance. |
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The idea of lush fertility is further emphasized by the density of the well-watered clover crop that fully occupies a quarter of the foreground. |
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When sunflower was crossed with Jerusalem artichoke, F 1 hybrid plants carried 51 chromosomes and showed reduced pollen fertility. |
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But when data from seven previously published trials were reanalysed, varicocele treatment seemed to have little effect on fertility. |
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Research proved that U to E grade females give poor fertility and are poor milkers, two very important traits required for breeding. |
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Success in obtaining the required output of food from agriculture depends on soil fertility. |
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Backcross males having recombinant X chromosomes were genotyped and scored for fertility. |
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It was only men with fertility problems who had lower counts and counts vary widely anyhow. |
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In addition to building fertility, the sheep provide wool for Kimberton Hills' textile workshop. |
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Postdoctoral fellow Deborah Burks, lead author of the Nature paper, decided to examine fertility in the knockout mice. |
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The hazelnut tree is associated with fertility while the ash tree carries with it the notion of barrenness. |
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Already with portable electric fencing we will be kraaling the cattle overnight on the croplands to improve fertility of the lands. |
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Allheal symbolizes peace, prosperity, healing, wellness, fertility, rest, and protection. |
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Since villagers associate lagoons and rivers with wealth and fertility, performances are celebratory. |
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It starts with the most basic agricultural supplies such as amendments for soil fertility. |
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I have been composting leaves to spread on my fields as a fertility amendment. |
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They thought it brought good luck, fertility, and protection from witchcraft, and was an antidote to poison. |
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Thus, it seems logical for a correlation to exist between male and female fertility traits. |
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A head with a ringed neck probably refers to the well-known fertility goddess. |
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Also, there is no significant delay in return to fertility after stopping the pill or having a coil removed. |
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This process will lead to the evolution of a life history in which fertility and survival chances decrease with increasing age. |
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Low rainfall and light soils of moderate fertility help control vine vigour and canopy here. |
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A second springtime fertility rite, in which unmarried women perform dances and songs, coincides with St. Lazar's Day, eight days before Easter. |
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Millions of tenant farmers in the developing world have little incentive to invest in land improvements, rotate crops or improve soil fertility. |
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She doesn't think it is right the fertility laws should attach so much importance to the presence of a father. |
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This is why in the second month of every lunar year, thousands of people pray and offer sacrifices to her in search of love and fertility. |
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The date fell during the Roman Lupercalian celebrations, which were associated with fertility and sexuality. |
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In ancient times, fasts were traditional at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes and were believed to increase fertility. |
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The fertility rate measures the average number of children women aged 15 to 49 will have in their lifetime. |
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The kingela tree found in the savanna is fast-growing and is therefore a symbol of fertility for the Nkanu. |
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In Australia, fertility nose-dived at the end of the post-war baby boom in the 1960s and the wide acceptance of the Pill. |
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If a woman is sitting in the front, her fertility would be affected by makutu, says Walker. |
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Other women will survive back alley abortions damaged forever, their fertility destroyed. |
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The medical method of choosing a baby's gender is to undergo fertility treatment, in which the egg and sperm are mixed in a test tube. |
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In the second part of the study, we mated females to males of differing eye span and examined the effects on fecundity and fertility. |
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By contrast the prehistoric stones have been seen as male symbols of fertility with the power to impregnate barren women. |
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Get ye to a maypole dance for more traditional sorts of fertility blessings. |
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Our consumption of seedless fruits and veggies is on the rise, trading flavor and fertility for convenience. |
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Other cultural symbols relate to the fertility of the land and the beauty of the islands. |
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But fertility, of course, has always been tied up with deep emotional and moral issues. |
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In the beginning was the ancient fertility that accompanied the birth of Man and every of Man's fellow creatures, each speaking its own language. |
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Egyptian dance is a centuries old art form, which evolved from ancient fertility dances and from which modern day belly dancing has developed. |
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This makes the crucial link between the festival of May Day, the Beltane festival of fertility. |
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Big-breasted Paleolithic figurines had, at one time, represented fertility or nursing goddesses. |
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Lehmann will discuss the combined benefit of biochar for carbon sequestration and improved soil fertility. |
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After only six months, crop production, biodiversity, soil fertility and soil quality all improved. |
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In universities and research institutions around the world, male fertility is marking a new frontier in human biology. |
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Since mistletoes have fruit during the winter, cultures have long associated them with fertility. |
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A few months earlier, a mistake with sperm samples at a fertility clinic in Leeds led to the birth of mixed-race twins to a white couple. |
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Originally used by girls as fertility dolls, Turkana dolls have been made for sale to tourists over the past few decades. |
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Increasing use of fertility drugs is almost certainly the main cause of the recent increase in dizygotic twinning in most developed countries. |
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The combative, moustachioed Italian is widely recognised as one of the world's leading experts on human fertility. |
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The increase in multiple births due to fertility treatments has caused concern among doctors. |
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Archaeologists have also identified a fertility site at Hutubi where life-size rock carvings show sky-clad women and men dancing. |
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A number of British fertility clinics are already testing embryos for inherited conditions like muscular dystrophy. |
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The smoke bush's few requirements are full sun and a well-drained soil that's low in fertility. |
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It has been argued that nineteenth-century demographic change had more to do with fertility than mortality. |
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The decrease in workers' fertility in these countries corresponded to the geographical extension of neo-Malthusianism. |
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The overall fertility rate also took an upward turn, taking us back nearly to replacement level. |
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If treatment is needed to improve fertility, a varicocele can be treated with an operation, where the veins are tied off. |
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Britain's most senior woman judge granted an order sought by a fertility clinic permitting it to destroy the man's frozen sperm. |
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If you have to have chemotherapy this may reduce your sperm count and cause fertility problems. |
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Most studies conclude that marijuana use does lower sperm count and fertility. |
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Last month the fertility expert Lord Winston urged caution, warning that many obstacles in their use remained. |
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It is a space that has been reclaimed, sacred ground that has not been violated by occupation, a space of love, magic and fertility. |
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Throughout history, and across every culture and civilisation, male virility and fertility have always been venerated. |
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Large dietary doses of cacodylic acid for extended periods of time decrease fertility. |
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Even under the existing system of land taxation, the fertility of the soil has been carelessly exploited. |
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Fertilizers and soil fertility management have been used to effectively control hawkweeds in some areas. |
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The purpose of this article is to suggest that paid maternity leave is not a fertility policy. |
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Heavy clay subsoil or sandy soil with low fertility must be improved if roses are to be grown successfully in them. |
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It is known that those who are overexposed to acrylamides in the workplace may suffer nerve damage and impaired fertility. |
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The shorter fallow period means less fertility in the soil and more weeds in the fields. |
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In many cases, fertility can be restored using crop rotation and fallow practices. |
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Women athletes who have amenorrhea and wish to become pregnant may require fertility drugs to induce ovulation. |
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For example, the fruit of pomegranate, having its husk filled with numerous fleshy seeds, became a symbol of fertility. |
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Under experimental conditions, roots have been shown to respond to patches of fertility through increased branching of higher order laterals. |
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The use of atypical drugs such as clozapine and olanzapine, which do not have this effect, may increase fertility rates. |
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Ovarian or pelvic irradiation with or without treatment with alkylating agents may adversely affect female fertility and pregnancy outcome. |
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Illegal drugs such as marijuana or cocaine may affect fertility, so don't use them. |
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Special trees were planted to create woody perennials to improve the microclimate and increase soil fertility. |
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Here we tackle important issues that are relevant to women of all ages, things like endometriosis, osteoporosis, fertility and perimenopause. |
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Are the arts condemned, in short, whatever fertility one attributes to their techniques, to the eternal monotony of imitating the first models? |
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Damage to the Fallopian tubes can result in reduced fertility and an increased risk of ectopic pregnancy. |
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In vivo the pessary demonstrated high contraceptive efficacy in rabbits of proven fertility. |
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Couples desperate to start families come from across the North of England for fertility treatment in Leeds. |
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Third, reduced pollen and seed fertility may both indirectly result from this deleterious effect. |
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Shiva is also the god of fertility and is mostly worshipped in the phallic symbol called Linga. |
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With it appears the figure of Astarte, Phoenician goddess of fertility and passion whose symbol is the twin horns of the bull. |
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Young soils of moderate to high fertility occupy about 15 per cent of the total land area. |
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For example, if the couple is infertile on either part, the determination would involve some sort of mandatory test of fertility. |
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Currently, stem cells used for research largely come from embryos leftover from fertility clinics. |
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Our results further show that the extent of hybrid male fertility varies somewhat with the particular parental strains used. |
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He criticised modern methods of cultivation and pointed out that the use of chemical fertilisers had affected soil fertility. |
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One solution might be to plant triploid trees if they prove to have low fertility. |
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Natural soil texture and fertility also play a role in when and how much additional fertilizer plants need. |
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As we drove through the countryside I could see the evidence of the incredible fertility. |
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These sites had greater light, moisture, and soil fertility than mature forests or summer clearcuts. |
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This shouldn't be a surprise, but it helps us to see the continuing relevance and fertility of his thought. |
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Lower fertility of land meant an increase in the cost of food, resulting in higher wages and therefore lower profits. |
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Such soil as occurs is usually shallow, leached and mildly acid, and of generally low fertility. |
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The strategy of producing triploids of low fertility has been exploited in the production of seedless fruit. |
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Four of the eight QTL for reduced homozygous seed set are colocated with QTL associated with reduced male fertility. |
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In Bulgarian tradition, the coffin of Christ stays for a week in the church and people crawl underneath for health and fertility. |
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And when it comes to fertility, said Whelan and Selvaratnam, they are often misinformed and dole out bad advice. |
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Concern was growing in Britain yesterday over a sex-sorting technique which fertility experts say can virtually guarantee that a test-tube baby will be female. |
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The new owner also noticed the superior fertility of the marled field, and he shared the good news about marl with his neighbors, who then began spreading it on their fields. |
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First, studies show too much sugar can lead to insulin resistance, which disrupts fertility. |
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Kissing under the mistletoe is a remnant of the old fertility rites. |
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She also suggested that the government should help Japanese women who have fertility issues to conceive children. |
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I ceased to menstruate for about a year, which my doctor has said could have a lasting impact on my fertility. |
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The upside is that there is this great flourishing of ideas and experimentation and efforts to try things, and fertility research has advanced an enormous amount. |
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Metformin, a biguanide and insulin-sensitizing agent, has been used to restore menstrual cyclicity and induce ovulation in PCOS without the use of additional fertility drugs. |
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At different intervals, rabbits were mated with males of proven fertility. |
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In the Paleolithic period, steatopygous figures may have suggested fertility, because of the necessity of certain levels of body fat required for procreation. |
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As the experiment was designed to assess the effect of mating on female egg fertility, it was important to remove sterile females from the data set. |
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Falling fertility has also become a major source of demographic concern. |
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Nearby, childless couples seek prayers and potions for fertility. |
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She believes that Sheela-na-gigs are representative of the more earthy strand of Celtic spirituality and were used as a pagan representation of birth, abundance and fertility. |
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Galileo's work in mechanics testifies to the fertility of these concepts. |
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Perhaps this one addition of low-cost fertility is one step to spur a larger health effort. |
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To the ancient Celts, spring signified fertility and growth, as marked by Beltane, or May Day, one of the four pagan fire festivals to mark the seasons. |
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It will stop rain leaching nutrients from the soil over the winter, and as it rots down it will improve the soil's texture and fertility quite naturally. |
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Studies of old vineyard soils in Bordeaux have shown that fertility can be restored by heavy applications of organic matter, lime, phosphorus, and potassium. |
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Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems. |
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It would require evaluation by a urologist or male fertility specialist. |
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Nematodes and other microfauna help boost soil fertility by accelerating decomposition and decay, recycling the nutrients and making them available to plants. |
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For example, they celebrate summer in a fertility rite known as Beltane. |
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An occasional farmer brought damaged land back to fertility. |
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Pea, one of the most important legume crops in Europe, is an ideal candidate for restoring and maintaining soil fertility in polluted agroecosystems. |
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They are also more likely to rotate or combine crops and livestock, with the resulting manure performing the important function of replenishing soil fertility. |
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In England, fertility was checked by the late seventeenth-century increase in the age at which women married and in the proportion of both sexes who never married. |
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In conclusion, it is tempting to draw parallels to classic demographic transition theory to explain men's attitudes toward fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and fathering. |
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In Wicca, the female goddess is represented by the Moon, a symbol of Mother Earth and fertility. |
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Women who were active most days were more than three times more likely to have fertility problems than inactive women. |
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A Norwegian population-based survey of nearly 4,000 women under 45 found a clear link between exercise intensity and fertility. |
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A researcher attending a fertility conference in Michigan this week discussed her research linking obesity to lower fertility. |
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The informants reported decreased yields owing to more pests, declining soil fertility, and the increased frequency of frosts, dry spells, and windstorms. |
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If you have a low sperm count, caffeine may increase your fertility. |
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It's a combination of Walpurgisnacht imported from Germany, International Workers Day imported from France, and various fertility festivals imported from around Scandinavia. |
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Its climate and the fertility of the soil make it uniquely blessed. |
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Organic farming has many benefits to the environment since it prevents soil and water contamination by chemicals which reduce soil fertility and increase acidity. |
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Furthermore, they may cause premature depletion of the follicle pool by induction of follicular atresia or oocyte apoptosis and, thereby, lead to reduced fertility. |
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The aim of this work was to assess the fertility and breeding potential of the triploid and aneuploid hybrids with a view to developing an improved vine cactus crop. |
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The Christmas tree, for example, harks back to a northern Germanic fertility festival and feast of the dead when greenery was hung up in the home to warn off evil spirits. |
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Good soil possesses oxygen, warmth, humidity, and fertility. |
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The banana is an auspicious plant in India, a sign of prosperity and fertility, and occupies a prominent part in the traditional decorations in any function. |
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The interior is fitted out in a Polynesian theme, with timber and rattan everywhere, along with carved wooden masks, fertility dolls and seashells. |
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Tube-sparing surgical techniques such as laparoscopic salpingostomy allow for preservation of fertility with little increase in risk for recurrent ectopic. |
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The inexhaustible fertility of our soil, salubrity of the climate, and the various and amazing resources of the country, evince its capacity to support a dense population. |
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White is for purity and red signifies abundance and fertility. |
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She says that she recognised the spiritual and sexual significance of the coco de mer nut, which is seen as a potent and particularly feminine symbol of fertility. |
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Both multiple births were unaided by any sort of fertility treatment. |
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For instance, fertility inheritance in a stationary population will, in some aspects, affect the coalescent tree in a similar way as population growth. |
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Though it was bemoaned at the time, some commentators have viewed this factor more positively as a herald of twentieth-century patterns of fertility. |
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Pollen quality may be correlated with male fertility and apomixis. |
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The image of a mother carrying a child on her hip, for example, might have been prescribed by a ritual healer to be placed in the home of a person with fertility problems. |
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These festivities will include the blessing of seeds and driving cattle between two balefires to purify them and promote fertility and growth of the herd. |
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Ovulation is necessary for fertility, but may or may not accompany the earliest menses. |
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The new technique uses the natural hormone kisspeptin to stimulate egg development instead of the usual fertility drugs. |
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In East Africa, the mean ideal family size is high, and total fertility rates are among the highest in the world. |
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Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase-S, a sperm-specific glycolytic enzyme, is required for sperm motility and male fertility. |
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The couple had tried several courses of fertility treatment before Tara got pregnant by a procedure known as intrauterine insemination. |
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Effect of the trichothecene mycotoxin diacetoxyscirpenol on fertility and hatchability of broiler breeders. |
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Ultrastructural, fertility, and spermicidal studies with isomers and derivatives of gossypol in male hamsters. |
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It asserted that fertility rate of teenage and young mums has not increased with the baby bonus introduction. |
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But scientists are divided on whether the findings mean IVF is to blame or if the raised risk is linked to existing fertility problems. |
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Six months of sterility results, after which normal fertility returns. |
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In Quebec itself, the francization of allophones is too sparse to make up for the deficit incurred by inadequate francophone fertility. |
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After all spring is the season of new life, fertility and general friskiness. |
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It can lead to poor body condition, poorer fertility, increased mastitis, smaller and weaker lambs and increased mortality. |
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After all, she reckoned, spring is the season of new life, fertility and general friskiness. |
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He argues that positive eugenics would lower fertility among the genetically disadvantaged. |
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Used primarily as a female fertility treatment, human chorionic gonadotropin also is popular among users of performance-enhancing drugs. |
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Serapis wears the modius that represents his role as guarantor of the fertility of Egypt. |
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We moved on to fertility drugs and then frozen sperm purchased through a sperm bank. |
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Instead of applying fertiliser, peasant farmers rely on the natural fertility of Tambov chernozems. |
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Sources are reporting that it was human chorionic gonadotropin, HCG, a fertility drug for women that can be used to mask steroid use. |
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Further, he also said that pulses impact the environment positively due to their nitrogen-fixing properties, which increase soil fertility. |
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To improve soil texture and fertility, plant nitrogen-fixing cover crops like crimson clover, fava beans, and hairy vetch. |
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As a nitrogen-fixing species, koa plays an important role in forest fertility. |
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But now Danish researchers say they have found no evidence that using any type of fertility drug increases the risk. |
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In the context of FERG, risk assessment was used to estimate the burden of dioxin-related hypothyroidy and impaired fertility. |
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In the Victorian era, fertility rates increased in every decade until 1901, when the rates started evening out. |
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This is indeed a crude measure, as key groups and their fertility rates are not clear. |
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In a broad survey of zoo animals, no relationship was found between the fertility of the animal and its life span. |
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Horses were prominent symbols of fertility, and there were many horse fertility cults. |
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The Mother Goddess has been associated with life, fertility, and the springtime, and has been described as an ideal role model for women. |
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Common Wiccan spells include those used for healing, for protection, fertility, or to banish negative influences. |
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He was seen as of divine descent, was the leader of the religious cult and was responsible for the fertility of the land and military victory. |
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It is usually said to have originated as a pagan festival celebrating the arrival of summer, fertility, or both. |
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Aronson thought that the play explores unauthorised desire and linked it to the concept of fertility. |
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The total fertility rate of the Faroe Islands is currently one of the highest in Europe. |
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In other words, the TPFR is a misleading measure of life cycle fertility when childbearing age is changing, due to this statistical artifact. |
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Replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women give birth to enough babies to sustain population levels. |
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Khan and Jahan became desolate and approached doctors and underwent fertility treatment but nothing happened. |
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Developed countries usually have a much lower fertility rate, often correlated with greater wealth, education, urbanization, or other factors. |
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Factors generally associated with increased fertility include religiosity, intention to have children, and maternal support. |
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Within this context, significant disparities exist between regions in relation to fertility rates. |
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Since the landholdings are so small, farmers cannot allow the land to lie fallow, which reduces soil fertility. |
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The nematode Skrjabingylus nasicola is particularly serious to stoats, as it erodes the bones of the nasal sinuses and decreases fertility. |
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Scholars conjecture that the red stains on its flanks are not blood but rather the juice from pomegranates, which were a symbol of fertility. |
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It has been suggested that this explains the lower marriage age and higher fertility of women in the coalfield. |
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Thus, from the perspective of evolutionary psychology, the modern environment is exerting evolutionary pressure for higher fertility. |
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However, further declines in both mortality and fertility will eventually result in an aging population, and a rise in the aged dependency ratio. |
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Between 1750 and 1975 England experienced the transition from high levels of both mortality and fertility, to low levels. |
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Mortality rose above the European Community average, and in 1991 Irish fertility fell to replacement level. |
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Income growth and public investment in health caused mortality to fall, which suppressed fertility and promoted education. |
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The interwar agricultural depression aggravated traditional income inequality, raising fertility and impeding the spread of mass schooling. |
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A simplification of the DTM theory proposes an initial decline in mortality followed by a later drop in fertility. |
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Narcissus species hybridise readily, although the fertility of the offspring will depend on the parental relationship. |
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Many paintings of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and fertility, included a scallop shell in the painting to identify her. |
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James holds that the route was seen as a sort of fertility pilgrimage, undertaken when a young couple desired to bear offspring. |
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The scallop shell is believed to have originally been carried, therefore, by pagans as a symbol of fertility. |
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Females can often breed until age 40, after which comes a rapid decrease in fertility. |
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High fertility and birth rates persisted until the 1970s, after which they start to dramatically decline, leading to rapid population ageing. |
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Erosion causes loss of the fertile top soil and reduces its fertility and quality of the agricultural produce. |
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Coastal line side, usually occurs on sand dunes, sometimes often in inland site with low fertility. |
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Management of soil fertility has been the preoccupation of farmers for thousands of years. |
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Factors such as heat and varicosities may cause fertility problems amongst men. |
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Additionally, AI has been shown to reduce spread of venereal diseases within herd that would ultimately lead to fertility problems. |
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It creates Foehn winds which, along with natural irrigation, contributes to the fertility of the soil. |
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In general, the low fertility and cool climate results in relatively slow plant growth, but decay is even slower owing to the saturated soil. |
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Findings from focus group interviews suggest explanations of the early fertility pattern. |
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Greek society has changed rapidly over the last several decades, coinciding with the wider European trend of declining fertility and rapid aging. |
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Since the early 1970s Colombia has experienced steady declines in its fertility, mortality, and population growth rates. |
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Southern Carolina prospered from the fertility of the Low Country and the harbors, such as that at Charleston. |
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This contrasts with its fertility rates before 1960, which were among the highest of any industrialized society. |
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The subject matter typically carries themes of fertility or the supernatural. |
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Birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, is a method or device used to prevent pregnancy. |
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Once removed, even after long term use, fertility returns to normal immediately. |
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Techniques for determining fertility include monitoring basal body temperature, cervical secretions, or the day of the cycle. |
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In those who are not breastfeeding, fertility may return four weeks after delivery. |
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An injection with sodium bicarbonate washes out the substance and restores fertility. |
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After a few cycles, the land's fertility declines and a new area is chosen. |
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This means that the population growth will continue under the decrease according to the fertility rates. |
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With fertility rates lower than in any other period in history, were in big trouble. |
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Also fertility rates in Africa continue to be among the highest in the world, as many countries there are growing fast, too. |
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Jools took a fertility drug after having problems conceiving and suffered side effects including dizziness and mood swings. |
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Centimorgan-range one-step mapping of fertility traits using interspecific recombinant congenic mice. |
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Reduced testosterone exposure in the womb can be linked to fertility problems, testicular cancer and undescended testicles. |
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India has become an international leader for surrogacy and one of the main destinations for cross-border fertility care for Europeans. |
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Meanwhile, men are attracted to the nubility of women because it's a signal of fertility in the primordial swamp. |
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Allwood gained worldwide attention in 1996 when she conceived octuplets through fertility treatment but later lost them all. |
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Effect of progestagen and PMSG on oestrous synchronization and fertility in dorper ewes during the transition period. |
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It is a fertility drug designed to increase the number of eggs a woman produces each month. |
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So McCaughey opted to take a fertility drug called Metrodin, which worked only too well. |
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But she didn't at all mind getting double what she asked for, with some help from the fertility drug Perganol. |
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Spermcheck fertility, an immunodiagnostic home test that detects normozoospermia and severe oligozoospermia. |
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However, the total fertility rate is still far below the replacement level fertility. |
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In the United States, our fertility rate has fallen below the replacement rate as well. |
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The importance of both an early orchidopexy and germ cell maturation for fertility. |
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Uterine leiomyomas can cause symptoms such as heavy bleeding, pain, pressure effects and reduced fertility. |
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In hunting or agrarian societies dependent upon nature, femaleness was honored as an immanent principle of fertility. |
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In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate. |
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In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population. |
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The Angles were part of the grouping of the Ingvaeones, claiming descent from the legendary ancestor and fertility god Yngvi. |
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This helps maximise the sustainability and long term fertility of the soils. |
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Bio-fertilizers increase soil fertility through varied processes, such as phosphorus solubilizing, nitrogen fixation, and synthesis of growth-enhancing substances. |
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Previous studies have suggested that radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation emitted by the devices can have a detrimental effect on male fertility. |
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Land in the Willamette Valley owes its fertility to the Missoula Floods, which deposited lake sediment from Glacial Lake Missoula in western Montana onto the valley floor. |
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When Fisher and researchers at a fertility clinic examined unused human embryos donated for research, they found that human trophoblasts make L-selectin. |
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Research suggests that lobsters may not slow down, weaken or lose fertility with age, and that older lobsters may be more fertile than younger lobsters. |
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Junior Sky Movies Family, today, 6pm Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes pregnant in this comedy about medical researchers working on a new fertility drug. |
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It is known to have been associated with agriculture in the Old World since early times and has had an old symbolism and association with agricultural fertility. |
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Anthropologists distinguish three types of transitional ritual in southern Africa, namely puberty rituals, and maturation rites, nubility and fertility cults. |
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The death rates of the pups is surpassing the fertility rate by far. |
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The pair both became pregnant after taking the fertility drug Chlomid. |
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Margaret Dunne, who specialises in psychosexual, fertility and relationship therapy, understands erectile dysfunction cannot be fixed simply by popping a pill. |
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The traditional Yakut summer solstice festivities include a celebration of the revival and renewal of the nature, fertility and beginning of a new year. |
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Mandy Allwood, who lost octuplets conceived after fertility treatment, was today committed to a Crown Court to face trial for alleged mortgage fraud. |
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This is partly due to the fertility of the soil and the mild climate. |
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The sperm count has to drop quite a way before fertility is eroded. |
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However, volcanic ash is a major contributor to the high agricultural fertility that has historically sustained the high population densities of Java and Bali. |
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And when Congo had been emptied of masks with cutout eyes and old wooden bowls and long-phallused fertility figures, he turned his thoughts to local stone sculpture. |
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Heat stress can decrease fertility and milk production in cattle. |
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According to the United Nations, Nigeria has been undergoing explosive population growth and has one of the highest growth and fertility rates in the world. |
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In crosses between corn-strain females to rice-strain males, no spermatophores were transferred to the females, while the reciprocal cross produced normal levels of fertility. |
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Livestock manure helps maintain the fertility of grazing lands. |
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In addition, in the very long term, the demographic transition should be reversed via evolutionary pressure for higher fertility and higher mortality. |
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Table 1 shows that marital status tends to explain the greatest proportion of change in both the general fertility rate and the crude birth rate during the period under study. |
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Annick Swenson, a brilliant but prickly ethnobotanist whose research in the remote Amazon rain forest could revolutionize fertility and childbirth. |
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By 2009, the existence of a negative correlation between fertility and industrial development had become one of the most widely accepted findings in social science. |
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Population aging and population decline may eventually occur, assuming that the fertility rate does not change and sustained mass immigration does not occur. |
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We integrate skeletal markers with micro-nutritional and macro-scaled cultural effects on fertility rates during the Early-Middle Holocene in the Central Balkans. |
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Liz Buttle, Britain's oldest birther, lied about not taking fertility drugs and didn't conceive her 2-month-old boy in the usual way as she insisted. |
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In the current century, most developed countries have increased fertility. |
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However, the new study did not assess the men's fertility, so it's impossible to know whether their fertility was lower during the period they took saunas. |
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This implies that there is an increase in the fertile population proportion which, with constant fertility rates, may lead to an increase in the number of children born. |
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Archaeologists speculate, however, that they may be emblems of security and success, fertility icons, or direct representations of a mother goddess. |
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The acrocentric chromosome restored fertility even in monosomic condition, in contrast to chromosome 6H ch S which only fully restored fertility when present in homozygosis. |
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In Germanic paganism, Nerthus is a goddess associated with fertility. |
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With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigour and fertility to the offspring. |
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Two major contributary factors were fertility rates and mortality rates. |
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Brucellosis, or Bang's disease as it's often called, reduces cattle fertility, causes abortions, and reduces milk production in beef and dairy cattle. |
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Andropogon gayanus is an important tropical grass due to its high biomass production and its ability to tolerate long dry seasons and low fertility, acidic soils. |
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