Fertility
* affects a plant's growth rate and ability to defend against disease
  - population size and age-sex structure through births
* also plays a part in agriculture and burial ceremonies.
* appears to improve among men who receive therapy for cryptorchidism before puberty.
* decreases with age.
* drops sharply and hormone levels keep falling.
* genetic fact that can be transmitted.
* has to do with reproduction and everything that influences it.
* is as important to bulbs as it is to any other plant
  - ascertained by the development of blood vessels within the egg
  - based on soil physical properties, biological, and chemical properties
  - decreased in both male and female animals
  - extremely difficult to predict, especially in teens and premenopausal women
  - hereditary
  - highest if males and females are kept together at all times
  - important in Mongolian society, so childless women usually experience social stigma
  - measured in terms of total number of children ever born
  - nature's way of making more from few and is necessary for the species
  - normal in women with rheumatoid arthritis
  - one very basic expression of sexuality
  - quality
  - reduced naturally as men and women age
  - regarded as a unified principle, equally held by male and female forces
  - represented in the soil by fibre and goodness
* is the assurance of earthly continuance and comfort
  - average number of offspring produced by an individual of age x per unit time
  - greatest determinant for age structure
  - youth, womanhood, the essence of being female
* is, um, a pre-existing condition for a huge number of working women.
* often declines rapidly
  - improves for women after they stop smoking
* phenomenon that occurs between a couple.
* plays a huge role in the human population growth.
* trait generally considered to be of low heritability.
* usually returns to normal after immunity develops
  - when the drug is stopped

Fetal monitoring
* detects signs of some problems as early as possible in pregnancy.
* is started to allow early recognition of fetal distress.
* routine task provided by the clinic.

Functional programming
* are computer programming.
* describes all computer operations as mathematical functions on inputs.
* is about writing and composing functions.
* looks at programming like a function in mathematics.
* programming paradigm in which functions are treated as regular values.
+ Programming language, Types of programming languages, Functional vs. Procedural
  * Functional programming looks at programming like a function in mathematics. The program receives 'input', some information, and uses this information to create 'output'. It will not have a state in between, and it will also not change things that are not related to the computation.

Felicity
* is quality
* real show that deals with real everyday situations.

Foreign currency
* Foreign currencies become a matter of changing a symbol.
* comes mainly from tourism and carpet exports.
* is accepted at current exchange rates
  - earned from stamp sales
  - valued at current exchange rates for U.S. dollars
* means any currency other than Indian currency.

Financial speculation
* includes options and futures, arbitrage, and takeover trading.
* threat to sovereignty.

Financing
* Is the process of acquiring a loan against the value of a property.
* is borrowing
  - extremely important in every industry, even more so in the bio-sciences field
  - finance
  - the life-blood of any business
  - where the real money is