Essays about: "stratified reproduction"

Found 2 essays containing the words stratified reproduction.

1. 1. Merit Making, Money and Motherhood : Women's Experiences of Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

   Author : Elina Nilsson; [2015]
   Keywords : transnational commercial surrogacy; Thailand; motherhood; intimate labor; stratified reproduction; surrogatmödraskap; Thailand; moderskap; intimt arbete; stratifierad reproduktion;

   Abstract : This thesis explores transnational commercial surrogacy in the context of Thailand, with the specific purpose to examine Thai women’s motives and experiences of being a surrogate mother. The study is based on two months of fieldwork in Bangkok between June and August 2014 during which interviews were conducted with eleven former, current or future surrogate mothers. READ MORE

3. 2. Effects of food quantity, dietary fatty acids and temperature on fitness of Daphnia magna : a factorial experiment with Scenedesmus acutus and EPA amendments

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment

   Author : Bernadette Pree; [2011]
   Keywords : Daphnia magna; temperature; Scenedesmus acutus; food quality; dietary fatty acid amendment; food concentration; pelagic food web;

   Abstract : The performance of zooplankton has a major impact on the efficiency in trophic transfer in pelagic food webs and is therefore examined in this study. I investigated the effect of different food quantity and food quality, as measured by omega-3 fatty acid (ω3-FA) content on survival, somatic growth and reproduction of Daphnia magna at high and low temperatures in laboratory growth experiments. READ MORE