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Social Interactions and Fertility in Developing Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
There is strong evidence that, in addition to individual and household characteristics, social interactions are important in determining fertility rates.
Sebastian Linnemayr   +3 more
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Introgressed Variation in TaMYB7‐A1 Drives Graded Dormancy and Climate‐Adaptive Pre‐Harvest Sprouting Resistance in Wheat

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
TaMYB7‐A1 directly activates TaABI5 to enhance ABA signaling and regulate ABA‐GA homeostasis, enforcing seed dormancy. Its superior allele, derived from wild einkorn introgression, harbors a MITE insertion that elevates expression and two amino acid substitutions that enhance transcriptional activity, collectively generating graded PHS resistance for ...
Hao Wang   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fertility control in ancient Rome. [PDF]

open access: yesWomens Hist Rev, 2021
Flemming R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Social Class and the Fertility Transition: A Critical Comment on the Statistical Results Reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 [PDF]

open access: yes
Simon Szreter’s book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility as reported in the 1911 census of England and Wales.
Geoffrey Barnes, Timothy Guinnane
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Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
While  women’s  employment  opportunities,  relative  wages,  and  the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as factors underlying  historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education  has received little attention.
Cinnirella, Francesco   +4 more
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Achieving High‐Density and Stress‐Resilient Maize Breeding Via Germplasm Innovation

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Global population growth and climate change have exacerbated the global food crisis. This perspective presents a conceptual framework focusing on enhancing population advantages. Several novel breeding objectives are proposed to improve density tolerance and stress resistance for yield improvement.
Xinlong Li   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of fertility control on soil conservation as a basic resource of sustainable agriculture

open access: yesNotulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
For agricultural production is used almost 40% of the global land from where it dominates conventional agriculture which uses large amounts of inputs in the form of fertilizers and pesticides leading to the contamination of soil, water resources, air ...
Vladanka STUPAR   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Close kin influences on fertility behavior [PDF]

open access: yes
Family members are uniquely situated to influence the decision-making of their kin in nearly every facet of life. We examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their fellow kin’s
Laura Bernardi, Robert G. White
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