This is a reference manual for daily use in the Reproductive Medicine or Andrology laboratory, which goes beyond the literature available in the scientific journals by compiling insights into a detailed and applied clinical approach. All established practitioners in Reproductive Medicine will find much of practical relevance about the latest insights into sperm selection and analysis.
In general, I distinguish between four models of the kind of text gener-ally (in publishing and reviews) classified as “family memoirs”. As with all forms of literature, there are no definitive barriers between the forms I clas-sify as distinct. Part of my interest in contemporary auto/biographical writ-ing lies in how writers continually open up possibilities for self-representation throug…
A challenge is that transforming these sectors must have a focus on equity because large parts of the world population depend on these two sectors and have their livelihoods connected to them. More than 500 million small farms form part of the world food systems, many of these farm families live in inadequate housing, and many are among the approximately 830 million undernourish…
More than half of the world’s population currently lives in cities and this share is to increase to 75?% by 2050. Today the most urbanized regions are Northern America (82?%), Latin America and the Caribbean (80?%), and Europe (73%) (FAO, 2015). The growing population of urban centers and the contributions of urbanization to global environmental change have increased the attention to the sust…