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Urgent action is needed to increase the ease of owning and operating electric vehicles (EVs), both light and heavy duty, if Aotearoa New Zealand’s vehicle fleet is to change in time to meet the required targets for greenhouse gas emissions set by the Climate Change Commission.
The Government’s recently announced discounts of up to $8,625 are a positive move but technology changes are also imminent that should smooth the way to going electric.
To help alleviate any purchasing concerns of operating an EV, extending their travel range is critical. After all, most consumers and fleet owners don’t want to constantly worry about running out of power, so for them the easiest way to avoid that drawback is to stick with petrol and diesel vehicles in the short term.
Sperm deliver signals to female reproductive tissues to increase the chances of conception
Sperm are generally viewed as having just one action in reproduction - to fertilize the female s egg - but studies at the University of Adelaide are overturning that view.
Published in Nature Research journal
Communications Biology, new research shows that sperm also deliver signals directly to the female reproductive tissues to increase the chances of conception.
This research is the first to show that the female immune response is persuaded by signals in sperm to allow the male partner to fertilise her eggs and conceive a pregnancy. This overturns our current understanding of what sperm are capable of - they are not just carriers of genetic material, but also agents for convincing the female to invest reproductive resources with that male.
About this Event
OUR SPEAKERS
This event is open to the public and our expert speakers will discuss and take your questions on Empowering personal change for pregnancy and child health.
Professor Megan Warin, Research Leader, Robinson Research Institute / Director Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender, University of Adelaide.
Megan Warin is a social anthropologist and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and has over 2 decades of research experience in investigating how people attend to food and eating in everyday lives. Her research takes her into communities and homes where people often experience hardship and are trying to juggle many competing priorities in the context of family life. Poverty, under-employment, mental health and poor housing all impact on people’s capacity to eat, and to eat well. With colleagues, Megan has explored the ways in which women and mothers are positioned in many of the key debates around parenting and obesity, highlig