Abstract Study question Investigating estradiol in relation with other sperm parameters might reveal new correlations which would help our understanding of male idiopathic infertility Summary answer Statistical significance was found a series E2 levels and sperm, hormonal health What is known already Male rising major concern, counts decreasing by 50-60% the recent decades. The causes for are v...

Marconi Soares Barbosa, Rinaldo Wander Montalvão, Tom Blundell and Luciano da Fontoura Costa Institute of Physics at São Carlos, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, PO Box 369, 13560-970, Phone +55 16 3373 9858, FAX +55 162 71 3616, Brazil, [email protected] and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, Phone +44 1223 333 628, FAX +44...

The adaptability of shortseason soybean genotypes to varying longitudinal regions Jegor Miladinovic a,∗, Hideki Kurosaki b, Joe W. Burton c, Milica Hrustic a, Dragana Miladinovic a a Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, M. Gorkog 30, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia b Hokkaido Prefectural Tokachi Agricultural Experiment Station, Memuro-cho, Kasai-gun, Hokkaido 082-0071, Japan c USDA Plant Science Bldg...

For more than three decades healthcare decentralization has been promoted in developing countries as a way of improving the financing and delivery of public healthcare. Decision autonomy under healthcare decentralization would determine the role and scope of responsibility of local authorities. Jalal Mohammed, Nicola North, and Toni Ashton analyze decision autonomy within decentralized services...

In order to be autonomous, teachers should enjoy teaching and be satisfied with their teaching. Teacher autonomy, therefore, may be related to teacher burnout and job satisfaction. The present study investigated the relationship between job satisfaction, teacher burnout, and teacher autonomy. Two hundred and seven language teachers at language institutes in Karaj and Tehran were given three que...

This study investigates the relation between EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ autonomy, their identity styles, and their writing ability and it aims to show which independent variables have higher predicting power on variances in writing. To this end, 60 Iranian university EFL students at the language center of the researchers’ institution were selected to participate in this study...

Learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. However, few studies have been done concerning the case of Kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. For this reason, the current study addresses this gap. It intends to investigate to what extent Kurdish learners are autonomous in learning English language. The study i...