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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Sex identification"”.
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A Hermeneutical Consideration of Islamic Jurisprudence on Same-Sex Acts
… succumb to normative definitions of gender and sexuality. Classical Islamic jurisprudence categorically condemns same-sex acts; however, the legal consensus does not address the practice of same-sex identification or the emergence of gay rights organizations. This thesis offers an analysis of …
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INDUCED SPAWNING OF CAPTIVE TRIPLETAIL LOBOTES SURINAMENSIS
… spawns from captive brooders and a method for sex identification of candidate brooders.</p> <p>Single pairs selected among a captive-held broodstock conditioned under a natural photothermal cycle were induced with one of five treatments (n = 5 or 6 replicates per treatment). Control (no …
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Conservation genetics of African elephants
… 5 I adapt a method previously developed for sex identification of human remains for use with non-human taxa, and I successfully identify the sex of modern and ancient elephants from low coverage genome data. Sex identification of ancient animal biological remains can benefit conservation by …
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ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY IN SEX DETERMINATION USING THE OS COXA: A COMPARISON OF METRIC VS. PHENICE METHOD
Determination of biological sex is one of the most important determinations to be made from undocumented human remains and is an essential first step in the development of the biological profile in forensics and bioarchaeology. The chances of attaining high levels of accuracy & reliability …
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A study to determine degree of inferred story-character identification and its resultant effect in reading comprehension in selected multiethnic reading texts
… to investigate the relationship between inferred identification and two types of reading comprehension, molar and specific, at the third grade level. Subjects for this study were selected from six schools located in four midwestern urban centers. The 121 Negro and Caucasian children who …
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Sex-Based Differences in Mortality and Metabolic Disease in Subadult Skeletal Assemblages of Tell Hisban
… of Hisban, Jordan, particularly the effects of sex on the risk of dying with active metabolic disease. This project uses dental proteomics to estimate the sex of 16 infants (up to 3 years of age) dying with (n=10) and without (n=6) skeletal lesions indicative of vitamin C deficiency, in addition …
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Genetic Counselors' Experiences With and Approaches to Discordant Genotypic and Phenotypic Sex Detected Via Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
… will see clients more frequently for discordant sex identification via non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT-DSI). Thus, it is imperative to investigate what GCs consider important when counseling about NIPT-DSI and assess how GCs perceive their role in such cases. Prenatal and pediatric GCs were …
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The use of a novel scent enrichment to improve captive primate welfare and its potential application to conservation breeding
… vertebrates, having roles in territoriality, sex identification and advertising fertility. Lemurs which rely on olfactory communication are a conservation priority and modern zoos have a role in contributing to their conservation with captive breeding programmes. But mismatches between zoo and …
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Potential of faeces for non-invasive assessment of Juan Fernandez fur seals and their environment
… of the pattern observed here. However, diet and sex (associated with prey selection and, therefore, diet) could be possible explanations. On the other hand, the phylogenetic investigation of communities by reconstruction of unobserved states (PICRUSt) inferred pathways associated with …