N-Losses and Energy Use in a Scenario for Conversion to Organic Farming by Tommy Dalgaard, Chris Kjeldsen, Nicholas J. Hutchings, Jorgen F. Hansen

“…However, these reductions following the predicted changes in crop rotations, livestock densities, and fertilisation practices were not large enough to ensure a statistically significant reduction at the 95% level. …”
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Natural repeated backcrosses lead to triploidy and tetraploidy in parthenogenetic butterfly lizards (Leiolepis: Agamidae) by Eduard Galoyan, Roman Nazarov, Marie Altmanová, Sergey Matveevsky, Ivan Kropachev, Dmitrij Dedukh, Eugene Iryshkov, Mark Pankin, Natalia Sopilko, Oleg Nikolaev, Nikolai Orlov, Marine Arakelyan, Jiří Klíma, Evgeniya Solovyeva, Tao Nguyen, Lukáš Kratochvíl

“…It probably originated from fertilisation of an unreduced triploid L. guentherpetersi egg by a L. guttata sperm. …”
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ENERGY AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION DEPENDING ON THE QUALITY OF CORN GRAIN by Vitalii Palamarchuk, Roman Lohosha, Vadim Krychkovskyi

“…In turn, the opening of maize processing plants for bioethanol, with the production of biomethane and organic fertilisers, is a very profitable business.…”
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Pre-IVF treatment with a GnRH antagonist in women with endometriosis (PREGNANT): study protocol for a prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial by Hugh Taylor, Hao Huang, Lubna Pal, Heping Zhang, Howard J Li, Sandra Carson, Valerie Flores, Jared Robbins, Nanette F Santoro, James H Segars, David Seifer, Steven Young

“…Introduction Infertility is a common complication of endometriosis. While in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer (IVF) successfully treats endometriosis-associated infertility, there is some evidence that pregnancy rates may be diminished in women seeing fertility treatment for endometriosis-associated infertility compared with other etiologies of infertility. …”
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A meta-analysis of the ecological impacts of viticultural practices on soil biodiversity by Laure Gontier, Battle Karimi, Jean-Yves Cahurel, Lionel Ranjard

“…Tillage, bare soil and mineral fertilisation are significantly deleterious to the whole soil biodiversity, whereas cover crops, organic fertilisers and pruning wood inputs are beneficial. …”
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Corps embryoïdes : biologie moléculaire et cellules vivantes by Noémie Merleau-Ponty

“…Furthermore, contextualising the fundamental research based on these interfaces with in vitro fertilisation shows how an embryo created and protected by a parental intent can change laboratories and become a mass of cells or laboratory material. …”
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A successful pregnancy with severe male and female factor infertility treated with laser-assisted thinning by Subhendu Pandit, Prashant Sharma, Hrishikesh Magdum, Rachna Gulati, Manish Singh Ahuja

“…Assisted hatching using lasers is said to have provided additional support for hatching and implantation in fresh and frozen in vitro fertilisation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfers cycles. …”
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Le paysagisme : source et ressource pour l’urbanisme ? by Benoît Romeyer

“…Based on a review of the literature of the different forms and modes of “cross-fertilisation” between urban design and landscape architecture observed in the past, this article offers a classification of their major associated fields of expression. …”
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Endometriosis Nodule Causing Spontaneous Haemoperitoneum in Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Junaid Rafi, Geetha Mahindrakar, Debjani Mukhopadhyay

“…This was a dichorionic-diamniotic twin pregnancy, following in vitro fertilisation for subfertility secondary to severe endometriosis. …”
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Pain Management during Ultrasound Guided Transvaginal Oocyte Retrieval – A Narrative Review by Puvithra Thanikachalam, Dilip Kumar Govindan

“…As the procedure involves retrieving oocytes for in vitro fertilisation, the effect of the anaesthetic drugs on the oocyte quality should also be considered. …”
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On the Role of Climate Forcing by Volcanic Sulphate and Volcanic Ash by Baerbel Langmann

“…For geological timescales, it has been suggested that, in addition to the stratospheric climate forcing by volcanic sulphate aerosols, volcanic ash affects climate by modifying the global carbon cycle through iron fertilising the surface ocean and stimulating phytoplankton growth. …”
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Infertility and Psychological Well-Being: The Interplay of Post-Traumatic Growth and Affective Personality Types in Infertile Lebanese Muslim Women by Fatin Khalifeh, Anastasia Salame, Ghina Ghazeeri

“…The study is aimed at exploring the influence of affect and personality types among Lebanese women undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) on achieving positive psychological growth. …”
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Functional and developmental convergence in the reproductive “nurse cells” of flowering plants by Doll, Nicolas Max, Truskina, Jekaterina, Ingram, Gwyneth

“…The successful sexual reproduction of flowering plants depends upon double fertilisation, during which pollen grains, produced within the male floral organ (the anther) deliver two sperm cells to the ovule, buried deep within the ovary, triggering the development of the embryo and the surrounding tissues of the seed. …”
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Medizinischer Fachwortschatz in deutschsprachigen Kinderwunschforen by Hanna Stypa

“…It has been possible to identify 94 examples of medical terms, which were classified into six groups: 1) terms relating to pregnancy in general, 2) terms relating to fertilisation, 3) terms relating to female physiology and anatomy, 4) terms relating to medical examinations, 5) terms relating to diseases, 6) terms relating to fertility treatments. …”
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Regional Variation in Rates of IVF Treatment across Australia: A Population-based Study by Louise Rawlings, Pauline Ding, Stephen J. Robson

“…**Background:** There is variation in uptake of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) between countries, and Australia has high incidence rates of IVF due to universal public funding. …”
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Le texte victorien à l’âge postmoderne : jouvence ou sénescence ? Fingersmith de Sarah Waters et le mélodrame victorien by Georges Letissier

“…As a result, the « old » versus « new » opposition is partly neutralised, to give way to a cross-fertilisation between past and present.…”
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Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields by Nicholas J. Balfour, Ciaran Harris, Jonathan Storkey, Francis L. W. Ratnieks

“…Our two-year study at the world’s longest-running ecological experiment, Park Grass, Rothamsted, examines the relationship between soil fertilisation, grassland yield and biodiversity. Our data show a large and significant negative effect of the major plant nutrients (NPK) on the abundance, species richness and functional diversity of both pollinators and flowering plants. …”
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Olive Fertility as Affected by Cross-Pollination and Boron by A. Spinardi, D. Bassi

“…Our results highlight the importance of olive cross pollination for obtaining satisfactory fruit set and the beneficial effect of B treatments immediately prior to anthesis, possibly by affecting positively the fertilisation process and subsequent plant source-sink relations linked to fruitlet retention.…”
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The Roles of PPARs in the Fetal Origins of Metabolic Health and Disease by William D. Rees, Christopher J. McNeil, Christopher A. Maloney

“…In the maturing follicle, PPAR-γ has an important role in the granulosa cells that surround the maturing oocyte. After fertilisation, PPAR-γ and PPAR-β/δ are essential regulators of placentation and the subsequent development of key metabolic tissues such as skeletal muscle and adipose cells. …”
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Impacts of wastewater irrigation on Mediterranean soil and food: A three-year case study in Italy by N. Surdyk, A. Battilani, L. Cary, L. Sandei, M. Pettenati, W. Kloppmann

“…Variations of metal concentrations in soil and food were mainly due to common farm practices such as fertilisation and pesticide applications. This study demonstrates that irrigation with wastewater is achievable with a low-cost treatment device that can be used elsewhere to decrease pressure on water resources.…”
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