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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Masculinization"”.
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Evaluation of Masculinization Treatments to Produce Feminized Hemp Seed (Cannabis sativa L.)
… a female plant with a masculinized female plant. Masculinization is achieved through the inhibition of ethylene and/or addition of gibberellins before flower initiation in female plants. The hemp industry uses silver thiosulfate (STS) to masculinize hemp, but spraying silver poses environmental …
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Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir
<p>Without pretensions to exhaustiveness, this study briefly examines the mid- to late-twentieth-century flowering of western theory and criticism built around autobiographical writing and follows the feminist branch(es) of that theory and criticism through a reading of the following four memoirs: …
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Effect of pawpaw (Carica Papaya) seed meal on growth performance, feed utilization, survival and masculinization of sexualy undifferentiated three spotted Tilapia (Oreochromis Andersonii) fry
… the dietary inclusion level, with the highest masculinization percentage (82%) (P < 0.05) observed in fish fed with 15 g and 35 g of C. papaya extracts / kg diet. Dietary C. papaya did not significantly change the fish survival rate among the treatments (P > 0.05), signifying that it had no …
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Consequences of the environment: timing of litter parturition and offspring survival in the social rodent Octodon degus
… differences in food abundance and phenotypical masculinization between female groupmates predicted differences in their parturition day. Females that experienced more food during breeding gave birth earlier in the year and female groupmates with similar masculinization and food shared greater …
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Understanding female social dominance: comparative behavioral endocrinology in the Genus Eulemur
… morphological traits in females that implicates ‘masculinization’ via androgen exposure; however, relative to conspecific males, female lemurs curiously show little evidence of raised androgen concentrations. In order to illuminate the proximate mechanisms underlying female dominance in lemurs, I …
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Effects of Gestational and Lactational Exposure to 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-Dioxin or Coplanar PCBs on Reproductive Development and Sexually Dimorphic Behaviors in Rats
… TCDD and PCBs have antiestrogenic effects and masculinization of saccharin preference in females could be due to the antiestrogenic effects of these chemicals in the parabrachial nucleus of female rats.
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Evolution of gender associated mitochondrial DNA in bivalves
… mtDNA has invaded the M lineage, resulting in a masculinization event. After invasion the two mtDNA lineages begin divergence de novo. Secondly, the Mytilus M type mtDNA has been shown to evolve more rapidly than the F type and it is hypothesized that this is due to relaxed selection on the M …
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Mechanisms driving social structure in Octodon degus
… social cohesion, and female homophily based on masculinization (anogenital distance) in shaping social associations. Nighttime spatial proximity was negatively associated with association strength, indicating that individuals that were closer at night exhibited stronger associations. Female …
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Breaking the silence: an intersectional approach to sexual violence and harm narratives of women living in Lebanon
… of women living in Lebanon and advances masculinization within patriarchal power structures (Accad, 1990; Farr et al., 2009, Holt, 2014; Holt, 2013; Joseph, 2012). This dissertation utilizes a qualitative methodological approach to uncover in-depth narratives detailing the experiences of …
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Uso de prebiótico para tilápia-do-nilo durante o período de inversão sexual
… gain and final length, during the process of masculinization. The use of prebiotic MOS in the diet of Nile tilapia from hatching to 30 days of life led to a significant increase (α≤0,05) in intestinal villus height regardless of the level of inclusion. It can be concluded that the inclusion of …
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Unruly Acts: Queer Masculinities in Akram Zaatari’s Lens-Based Artworks
… engages in dynamic discussions on the process of masculinization and elaborates on its future cultural and artistic trends both in the Arab world and in Western countries.
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The Lived Experiences of Transmasculine Speakers: A Phenomenological Investigation of Vocal Quality and Function in Relation to Gender
… Identity. Pitch was of primary concern for voice masculinization, however other descriptions were offered such as smooth, powerful, resonant, and commanding. The function of the voice seemed as important to the participants as the qualities of the voice itself; a voice that is perceived as …
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Sexual Behavior in Normal and Prenatally Androgenized Female Hamsters
… dichotomy of the organizational effects: masculinization versus defeminization.
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Mechanisms of Estrogen-Dependent Dendrogenesis in Motoneurons of the Spinal Nucleus of the Bulbocavernosus
… hormones for typical development. While the masculinization of many features of the SNB neuromuscular system is androgen-dependent, dendrogenesis requires estrogens during a developmentally restricted critical period. This estrogen-dependent SNB dendrite growth is mediated by estrogen …
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The effect of prenatal androgen exposure on sexual differentiation and postnatal growth in beef cattle
Masculinization of the female fetus by administration of androgens has been studied in domestic and many laboratory species. Research concerned with cattle has been based solely on neonatal examination of the genital structures; no studies have reported on postnatal growth and development of …
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Psycho-endocrinological aspects in aging males and transsexual persons
… a great extent- irreversible feminisation and masculinization. We aimed to describe the Ghent hormonal treatment regimen for the first time, to explain the rationale behind it and to evaluate its long-term safety (Chapter 6).
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Identification and Characterization of Y Chromosome and M Locus Genes in Anopheles and Aedes Mosquitoes Using the Chromosome Quotient Method
… Ectopic expression of Nix resulted in masculinization of genetic females. Based on these results, we concluded that Nix is a male-determining factor in Aedes aegypti. We also characterized large portions of the Anopheles gambiae Y chromosome using PacBio sequencing and the CQ method. We …
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Gendered Practices and Conceptions in Korean Drumming: On the Negotiation of "Femininity" and "Masculinity" by Korean Female Drummers
… enter this male-dominated realm confront the "masculinization" of the practice, which is naturalized and normalized through the field's discourse and performance. At the same time, they seek a "femininity" that may help them to survive in the field. To examine these gendered conceptions and …
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Sex And Heterochromatin: An Investigation Of Sexual Dimorphism In Drosophila Melanogaster
… Top2 and deletion of X heterochromatin enhances masculinization of XX heterochromatin, but has no effect on somatic sexual differentiation. I postulate that the X-exclusive 359 bp heterochromatic satellite repeats and Top2 act together as a mechanism of direct karyotype sensing. This in turn …
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Effects of endocrine disruptors in zebrafish (Danio rerio) as revealed with the fish sexual development test
… caused a shift in sex ratio (prochloraz: masculinization; 4-tert-pentylphenol: feminization), underdevelopment of the gonads, inhibition of growth and altered vitellogenin production. For the two substances examined, the sex ratio and the evaluation of maturity stages were both the most …
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