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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Multiple births"”.
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Eugenic Utopia or Postmodern Peril? A Discussion of the Ethics of Reproductive Technology
… has resulted in an unusually large number of multiple births. In their desperation, parents choose to ignore the myriad of health effects children of multiple births will likely suffer, as well as the unfair economic pressure placed upon the surrounding communities to sustain what would …
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Índices reprodutivos do rebanho de ovinos Morada Nova, da estação experimental bacia escola de São João do Cariri - PB
… presented by females and lambs coming from multiple births. And in a generalized way, the flock showed good ease, compared with the parameters of conception rate, weaning rate and fertility rate, it is clear that the conservation herds, should have an obligation to zootechnical bookkeeping …
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Negative biomarkers of sperm quality and male fertility
… occurrence of spontaneous abortions (SAB) and multiple births was conducted in 233 couples. A correlation was found between SCSA parameters and SAB, and lower levels of chromatin defects were found in men from couples with triplet pregnancies. In a second trial, semen samples from 162 sires in …
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Microfluidic tools for metabolomics
… awareness to manage unprecedented numbers of multiple births, such as twins and triplets, resulting from artificial reproductive techniques. Conditions that correlate with developmental potential of candidate embryos are disputed in the field, however, as the requisite data is difficult to …
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Documenting and explaining birthweight trends in the United States, 1989-2007
… behind the trends. Results are reported for all births and by race/ethnicity/nativity. Descriptive analysis suggests that the lowering birthweight trend is the result of the rapid increase of lower-birthweight multiple births and decreasing birthweight among singleton births. The lowering …
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Management of Katahdin Hair Sheep
… to be greater and lambing rates and frequency of multiple births were greater from continuous compared with 4-cell rotation. In experiment 2, 93 lambs (26 ± 0.5 kg initial BW; 96 d of age) were stratified by litter, BW, sex, and age of dam and were allocated randomly to 1 of 4 treatments 1) …
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Psychological development of infants conceived through in vitro fertilization
… maternal age, child's age, race, gender, births/pregnancy, and socioeconomic status. The controls were obtained from a 100 mile radius of Norfolk, Virginia. Ninety-three children served as controls. All were between 12 and 30 months of age.;The results indicate that these families are …
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Nurse Education in Cameroon - A Grounded Analysis on Seizing the Opportunity of the Moment
… points in time though their influence persist: multiple births and formation; reactive growth and development; liberalisation and nurse education expansion; turf wars and intra-professional conflicts. These were found to interact with fluid categories that represent dynamic current movements …
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Coping Processes Used by Mothers of Triplets
… a national meeting of families of higher order multiples were made. Variables, in addition to sociodemographic characteristics, included coping processes, levels of depression, perceived availability of social support, and current stress levels. Coping processes were measured using the Ways of …