Appendix I: Common and Scientific Names Used in the Book

appENDIX I Book chaptEr GENEs aND INtEllIGENcE

aBstract Intelligence is a highly heritable complex trait. The proportion of variance in intelligence that is attributable to genetic factors ranges from 40% in young childhood to 80% in late adulthood. In the past decade, considerable progress has been made in molecular genetics technologies, which facilitates the detection of the actual genetic factors that underlie the high heritability of i...

Appendix N Original Survey Instrument Used in Beijing, with Variable Names

I-31: The Scientific Underpinning of ART in Unexplained Infertility

Although intra uterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) are widely accepted treatments among doctors and patients and practiced on large scale, it is good to realize that they have rarely been evaluated properly in randomized clinical trials or even in comparative cohort studies. Although the first pregnancy after IUI was established in 1884, it was not until 2008 that the fi...

I protest against the method used to evaluate scientific production used in Brazil

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The use and limits of scientific names in biological informatics

Scientific names serve to label biodiversity information: information related to species. Names, and their underlying taxonomic definitions, however, are unstable and ambiguous. This negatively impacts the utility of names as identifiers and as effective indexing tools in biological informatics where names are commonly utilized for searching, retrieving and integrating information about species...