Reduced fertility prolongs the interval from calving to conception in dairy cows, resulting in significant economic losses to dairy farms. Up to 25% of cows are culled due to reproductive failure, and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Gaoyuan Liu’s suggestion to compare answers was rejected outright after a difficult math exam.

You have just brought a tiny human into the world, your phone is filled with adorable newborn photos, your schedule is a blur ...

Many different factors interact to impact the postpartum anestrous period in beef cows. This post-calving period of temporary infertility can't be avoided, but through an understanding of the systems ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a senior adjunct researcher at the Rand Corporation’s China Research Center and senior associate ...

As I pointed out in the article referred to by Prof. Thomson Flynn in NATURE of June 30, p. 1020 (Biol. Rev., 2, 129; 1927), parturition is certainly due to several factors, of which the decline of ...

If you are feeling dispirited at work or burned out by the general pressure of life, there is a perfect word for you: "involution." The Mandarin Chinese word for "involution" — neijuan — is now a ...

Timing. An IUD can be safely inserted at any time during the menstrual cycle. Traditionally, clinicians have been taught to insert an IUD during menses because the patient was very unlikely to be ...

When the Chinese term first emerged in popular culture in China a few years ago, the initial application was to Chinese students and young people trapped in highly competitive schools and jobs that ...

“Involution” (内卷化) has taken the Chinese internet by storm in the last two years, becoming one of the most commonly used terms online in 2020. It implies a growing sense of futility that many young ...

The word “involution”, or neijuan – referring to excessive competition in social and economic life – has become a common slang term in China. Students, workers and even business leaders have been ...