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The women thus removed from the denominator expressing those ' at risk ' leave only the woman-years lived by still-fecund women to figure in the calculation.
Thus, even if women resume menses sooner, they may not become fecund at the same time.
Perhaps the fecundity of users also varies to some extent, and high-fecund women conceive earlier leaving the less-fecund women in the cohort.
Not only must they be less fecund, but they must also embrace more liberal economic policies.
The close relationship between words and their meanings was an essential part of what made the "compendious language" of mathematics so uniquely fecund.
The natural world is characterised as unruly, profligate, and indecently fecund.
Consequently, a high local concentration of fly larvae in the bedding may lead to reduced immature survival, smaller and less fecund individuals and increased emigration of adults.
The adults were not sufficiently fecund to provide seeds to reach every suitable gap, and, in any case, there were losses of seeds to predators and dispersibility was limited.
Had he not put such energy into absorbing the widest possible range of influences it is hard to imagine that he could have been so creatively fecund throughout the 1960s.
Many of the older women may be sub-fecund, while some have opted for terminal methods (tubectomy) and others may be using other modern methods of family planning.
There is no other solution than to push them into the mind of believers or their fecund imagination, or even further down into their rather perverse and crooked unconscious.
Secondly, some married women are infecund or sub-fecund; but the number of women bearing fewer than two children because of such conditions will presumably decline with medical advances.
Choosing 'current use' as the indicator also avoids the problem of recall distortion over long periods of time for women who have almost completed their fecund years.
On average, women with larger families would be expected to be more fecund than those with smaller families, and in this sense the suggestion is at least basically plausible.
There is no quick solution for making it more fecund than it has been.
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