BackgroundIn many countries, young women of reproductive age have been especially affected by the HIV epidemic, which have fostered research to better understand how HIV infection influences and shapes women´s fertility and reproductive and sexual ...
Regina Maria Barbosa +3 more
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Anti-Discrimination Exceptionalism: Racist Violence before the ECtHR and the Holocaust Prism [PDF]
Over the past years, the European Court of Human Rights has significantly developed and strengthened its Article 14 non-discrimination jurisprudence, including in a number of ground-breaking international law cases establishing increased state ...
Möschel, Mathias, Rubio-Marín, Ruth
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Fertility and reproductive history of sterilized and non-sterilized women in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil [PDF]
This article compares sterilized and non-sterilized women in relation to socio-demographic characteristics, reproductive history, and cohabitation status. Women from 30 to 49 years of age and residing in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, were interviewed with a pre-tested and structured questionnaire: 236 women sterilized at least five years before ...
Osis, Maria José Duarte +4 more
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The Influence of Contraception, Abortion, and Natural Family Planning on Divorce Rates as Found in the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth [PDF]
The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of contraception, abortion, and natural family planning (NFP) on divorce rates of US women of reproductive age.
Fehring, Richard Jerome
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Genetic engineering of reproductive sterility in forest trees [PDF]
Containment of transgenes inserted into genetically engineered forest trees will probably be necessary before most commercial uses are possible. This is a consequence of (1) high rates of gene dispersal by pollen and seed, (2) proximity of engineered trees in plantations to natural or feral stands of interfertile species, and (3) potentially ...
Steven H. Strauss +3 more
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Strategies for Engineering Reproductive Sterility in Plantation Forests
A considerable body of research exists concerning the development of technologies to engineer sterility in forest trees. The primary driver for this work has been to mitigate concerns arising from gene flow from commercial plantings of genetically engineered (GE) trees to non-GE plantations, or to wild or feral relatives.
Fritsche, Steffi +4 more
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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar os impactos e as possíveis mudanças que a implementação da nova legislação sobre planejamento familiar teve nas práticas reprodutivas, especialmente na esterilização voluntária, e observar se os diretos reprodutivos ...
Elza Berquó, Suzana Cavenaghi
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Dominance of sterilization and alternative choices of contraception in India: an appraisal of the socioeconomic impact. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The recent decline in fertility in India has been unprecedented especially in southern India, where fertility is almost exclusively controlled by means of permanent contraceptive methods, mainly female sterilization, which constitutes about ...
Isabel Tiago de Oliveira +2 more
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Vasectomy and vasectomy reversal: An update
Vasectomy is an elective surgical sterilization procedure for men that is intended to obstruct or remove a portion of both vas deferens, thereby preventing sperm from moving from the testes to the ejaculatory ducts.
Ranjith Ramasamy, Peter N Schlegel
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Effect of X-ray irradiation on development, flight, and reproduction of Spodoptera litura
Spodoptera litura is an omnivorous pest that has spread globally. Because irradiation sterilization technology has a great potential for control of S. litura, the effect of 25–150 Gy doses of X-rays on pupal survival, flight and reproductive variables of
Shan Jiang +6 more
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