The Global Justice Index is a multiyear research project based at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences that assesses the contributions made by each country to achieving greater global justice. In 2019, we completed first-year measures, using rankings of nation-states level on data from 2010 2017. This was published under title Report Chinese Political Science Review (Vol. 5, No...

Stress elicits activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which leads to enhanced circulating glucocorticoids, as well as impaired gonadotropin secretion and ovarian cyclicity. Here, we tested the hypothesis that elevated, stress-levels of glucocorticoids disrupt ovarian cyclicity by interfering with the preovulatory sequence of endocrine events necessary for the LH surge. Ovarian c...

We examined whether infrequent milk sampling for progesterone analysis could be used as a management or diagnostic tool by the dairy farmer to predict delayed ovarian cyclicity in dairy cows. The data included 1040 lactations from 324 Swedish Red cows and 183 Swedish Holstein cows and were randomly divided into two datasets. A logistic regression model was fit to the first dataset and the model...

Abstract The Global Justice Index is a multiyear research project based at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences that assesses the contributions made by each country to achieving greater global justice. We have published results from 2010 2019 Report, Report 2020, 2021, and we are now presenting our fourth-year 2020 2022, which an updated version of previous years’ reports. This...

Kisspeptin plays a critical role in pubertal timing and reproductive function. In rodents, kisspeptin perikarya within the hypothalamic arcuate (ARC) and anteroventral periventricular (AVPV) nuclei are thought to be involved in LH pulse and surge generation, respectively. Using bilateral microinjections of recombinant adeno-associated virus encoding kisspeptin antisense into the ARC or AVPV of ...

A particular version of the 16th Hilbert’s problem is to estimate the number, M(n), of limit cycles bifurcating from a singularity of center-focus type. This paper is devoted to finding lower bounds for M(n) for some concrete n by studying the cyclicity of different weak-foci. Since a weak-focus with high order is the most current way to produce high cyclicity, we search for systems with the hi...

Christopher in 2006 proved that under some assumptions the linear parts of the Lyapunov constants with respect to the parameters give the cyclicity of an elementary center. This paper is devote to establish a new approach, namely parallelization, to compute the linear parts of the Lyapunov constants. More concretely, it is showed that parallelization computes these linear parts in a shorter qua...