Heat stress has adverse effects on the reproductive performances of dairy cattle and buffaloes. The dairy sector is a more vulnerable to global warming and climate change. The temperature humidity index (THI) is the widely used index to measure the magnitude of heat stress in animals. The objective of this paper was to assess the decline in performances of reproductive traits such as service pe...

In this article, the selection intensity indices are calculated based on demographic information pertaining to fertility and morta lity among the migrant Santals of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The indices are calculated by original formula of Crow and modified formula of Johnston and Kensinger. From the analysis it is evident that the total selection intensity among the migrant Santals operates more t...

Soil thickness is an important basic characteristic of soil, which can directly reflect the degree soil development, closely related to fertility, and index for identifying fertility in field. It not only a supplementary source nutrients, but also primitive storage minerals, main indicator judging erosion. properties are indicators quality material basis plant growth. affect vegetation growth s...

Article develops recommendations for the use of reducing (incentive) coefficients in land tax calculation on agricultural lands, taking into account quality and interrelation between an increase decrease soil fertility, which leads to tax. In calculating taxation, this is formed based normative value land. The inextricably linked with index (SQI), determines fertility soil. As decreasing increa...

BackgroundSeveral studies have examined the relationship between Human Development Index (HDI) and various health outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between HDI, and infant mortality rate, mortality rate of children under one year and under 5 years, maternal mortality rate, and total fertility rate.Materials and MethodsIn this ecologic study, data on HDI, total ...

Although fertility capability classification (FCC) has high performance in land evaluation and soil maps interpretation, so far it has been less attended in land evaluation studies. Therefore, qualitative (FCC method) and quantitative (Riquer index) land fertility capability evaluation for Wheat and Rice cultivation and comparison of Soil Taxonomy and WRB classification with FCC were chosen as ...

Previous research has shown that the sperm quality index (SQI) of rooster semen is indicative of overall semen quality. The objectives of the present experiments were to determine the correlation of the SQI with semen characteristics and fertility and to determine if selection of young males for the SQI would improve fertility. In Experiment 1 semen was collected from 35 Peterson males and was ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate fertility treatment, twin births, and unplanned pregnancies in pregnant women with eating disorders in a population-based sample. DESIGN A longitudinal population-based birth cohort (Generation R). SETTING Rotterdam, the Netherlands. SAMPLE Women from the Generation R study who reported a history of (recent or past) anorexia nervosa (n = 160), bulimia nervosa (n =...