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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Male bias"”.
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The Gender Bias and Representation in Movie Posters: A Study of 60 Years of Film
… industry trends. This study quantifies "gender bias" in movie posters, defined through the disproportionate representation and prominence of male versus female characters, considering their visibility, spatial positioning, and size. Employing novel analytical techniques, we examined a dataset of …
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The Impact of Impaired Cyclooxygenase-2 Activity on Mouse Brain Development: A Focus on Sex Differences
There is a clear male bias in the prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Certain environmental factors have been shown to contribute to the etiology of these NDDs, including exposure to …
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"""They'll Not Love You if You're Witty"": The Literary Humor of American Women Before 1900"
… American literary humor to encompass the many female writers who both contributed to and were shaped by the genre. Examining the most widely published, influential, and financially successful humorists of the nineteenth century, it identifies a female countertradition which emerged to challenge …
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Sexual segregation and abundance trend of whale sharks in southern Mozambique
… mainly of juveniles, and most have a strong male bias. Generalised additive models were constructed on a 15-year dataset (2005–2019), from Praia do Tofo, Mozambique, to investigate sexual segregation in relation to environmental conditions. Temporal (year, day of year), and biophysical (sea …
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Seasonal and Ontogenetic Changes in the Sex Ratio of a Population of Stinkpots (Kinosternidae: Sternotherus odoratus)
… hypotheses suggest turtle populations with biased sex ratios are the result of sampling errors such as improper sex determination, trapping bias, and behavioral differences between the sexes. This study was undertaken to determine if the observed sex ratio of a population of stinkpots …
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Comparative transcriptomics of long intergenic noncoding RNAs in Drosophila
… with a large number increasing in expression as male development proceeds. This male bias can largely be explained by overrepresentation of lincRNAs in the testes. Unequal distributions of sex-biased lincRNAs on the X chromosome and autosomes are consistent with selection-based models of gene …
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Hemmed in: The geography of organic fairtrade cotton in Burkina Faso
… on expensive agro-chemical inputs, and male bias across the sector. By contrast, the Helvetas organic cotton program in many cases improves rural livelihoods through higher incomes, provides more equal opportunity (especially for women), and follows sustainable farming practices. …
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Sex Differences in Cardiac Electrophysiology
… an increased focus on this field, research has a male bias and there is more work to be done. Cardiac conduction is a highly synchronized process. Electrical signals are passed cell to cell through two mechanisms, ephaptic coupling and gap junctional coupling. These methods of electrical …
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Is there a gender bias in knowledge creation within the field of project management? : a bibliometric analysis from a feminist perspective
… indication of a particular problem with gender bias in knowledge creation within the field. It can even be suggested that the field of project management needs to open up its tradition and adapt more inclusive and less deterministic approaches in its research. In an attempt explore this …
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The behavioural ecology of modern families: a longitudinal study of parental investment and child development
… for parental resources and adaptive patterns of biased parental care. In contrast, modern human families are rarely considered by behavioural ecologists, with increases in wealth generally considered to decrease the importance of resource dilution within families and modern cultural rules …
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Knemidokoptic mite infections on the Cape Peninsula population of Black Sparrowhawks
… a survival analysis, due to lack of data. A male bias in infections was detected, but there was no difference in the probability of infection and the morph of the bird in this polymorphic species. These results therefore suggest that this infection has the potential to affect the stability of …
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A mosquito-specific bZIP transcription factor and the influence of a Y-specific gene on sex determination in Anopheles stephensi
… to the Y 1 (GUY1). It was shown that GUY1 was male specific and linked to the Y chromosome. RT-PCR and single embryo analysis suggested that GUY1 was expressed during the maternal to zygotic transition and was only expressed in male embryos. It was shown in multiple transient and transgenic …
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Examining skewed sex ratio in the mountain plover (Charadrius montanus) population
… species system. A skewed tertiary sex ratio (2.3 males per female) has been detected in the breeding population of a grassland shorebird experiencing population declines, the mountain plover (Charadrius montanus). To evaluate the ontogeny of the observed male skew this study examined the early …
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Examining skewed sex ratio in the mountain plover (Charadrius montanus) population
… species system. A skewed tertiary sex ratio (2.3 males per female) has been detected in the breeding population of a grassland shorebird experiencing population declines, the mountain plover (Charadrius montanus). To evaluate the ontogeny of the observed male skew this study examined the early …
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Assortative Mating in <em>Ixodes Scapularis</em> (Acari: Ixodidae) Ticks? And <em>Ixodes Scapularis</em> Infest Male Deer More Often Than Female Deer at Savannah River Site, (Aiken, SC)
… evident that this tick preferentially feeds on male deer. I. scapularis prevalence rates on male and female deer were compared and revealed that the sex bias was significant (p < 0.0001) and did not depend on deer weight (r2 = 0.143). Data also indicated that tick loads on deer were not directly …
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Ideology, Gender Roles, and Pronominal Choice: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English third person generic pronouns by native speakers of Arabic
… to examine what gender roles (i.e., typically female, typically male, or gender neutral) the participants assign to a list of personal nouns (e.g., nurse, mechanic, and person). The goal of the second task was to examine what generic pronouns the participants use to index these personal nouns, …
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Women's Views on Conservation-Based Income Generation and Women's Empowerment in Kwandu Conservancy in Caprivi, Namibia
… Results show that women residents talk of a female ideal in their culture as having the following characteristics, and translated from their language as a "real woman": 1) able to meet material needs by earning cash income from locally-respected livelihood activities, 2) educated, 3) …
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Women's Views on Conservation-Based Income Generation and Women's Empowerment in Kwandu Conservancy in Caprivi, Namibia
… Results show that women residents talk of a female ideal in their culture as having the following characteristics, and translated from their language as a "real woman": 1) able to meet material needs by earning cash income from locally-respected livelihood activities, 2) educated, 3) …
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Population biology of two key fish species and the dynamics and management of the trap fishery in Beung Borapet, Thailand
… to be important species in Beung Borapet. Female N. notopterus reached maturity at 178 mm TL, while female P. fasciatus reached maturity at about 70 mm TL. Both species spawned throughout most of the year, with peak spawning between June and August when rainfall peaked and water levels were …
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Parentage analysis in a free-ranging, closed population of southern white rhinoceros : genetics, pedigrees and management
… in the 2006 cohort of eight calves, founder females bred only with the founder male, while offspring females (F1 generation) bred only with introduced males. This suggests some form of mate selection leading to inbreeding avoidance within the population. Finally, there is some evidence that …