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The Culture of Sterilization: Understanding the Desire for Female Surgical Sterilization Among Women in Brazil
My thesis is that women value sterilization because it resolves a series of everyday conflicts surrounding productive/reproductive labor, sex/gender relations, and their bodies. This study contributes to understanding high rates of female surgical sterilization in Brazil by showing how women are …
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The Structural Violence of Sterilization: Politics of Sterilization In the Plantation Tamil Communities of Sri Lanka
… 19% of married women in Sri Lanka have chosen sterilization. Government data, however, indicates the highest rate of female sterilization exists in the estate sector, which is predominantly inhabited by the ethnic minority Up-country Tamils. My research focuses on why women in the estate sector …
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Thermal sterilization of flexibly packaged foods
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Food Technology, 1967.
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Optimal control for sterilization of canned foods
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1983.
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Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Controversies
There have been many breakthroughs in birth control technologies, many of which have been beneficial for women. However, many feminists who advocate reproductive freedom also warn that freedom for some might lead to further oppression for others. The case in point is the practice of tubal ligation …
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Sterilization resource forecasting in the medical devices industry
Sterilization is an example of a procedure that has been outsourced by medical device companies. Sterilization is required for all medical devices and the process used is based on product type. As demand for medical devices increases, production is ramping up, and the need for additional …
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A study of factors affecting electric soil sterilization
… a study of factors affecting electric soil sterilization under actual greenhouse conditions where steam is available. The soil used for testing was taken from various greenhouse benches being infested with a number of common pathogens, including bacteria, nematodes, black root rot, and weed …
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Stability, packaging, storage, and sterilization of a medicated dry foam
… dry foams.; (5) Determination of a suitable sterilization method(s).</p>
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Microwave sterilization of breast milk infected with the AIDS virus
The AIDS virus has been identified in breast milk which is donated by expectant and recently delivered mothers in maternity hospitals). In maternity hospitals, where the facilities exist for the treatment of pre-term infants, breast milk is collected from mothers premature even those who have not …
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Eugenic Sterilization in 20Th Century Georgia: From Progressive Utilitarianism to Individual Rights
… doctors, and young middle-class reformers. Sterilization for the purposes of removing defective genes from society was a critical part of the eugenics movement. Progressive reformers used eugenic doctrines combined with utilitarian political philosophy to divest individuals of the natural …
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Application of intense pulsed light for surface sterilization and food quality improvement
Flashblast™ (a registered trademark) is an intense broad spectrum pulsed light source developed by Maxwell Laboratories, San Diego, California which utilizes a Xenon flashlamp for emitting a mixed spectrum of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light. The project's objective was to determine the …
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Design, development and validation of a novel mechanical occlusion device for transcervical sterilization
… An analogous procedure for permanent female sterilization is the transcervical approach that does not require either general anaesthesia or surgical incision and uses a normal body passage. However, current methods of transcervical sterilization are unable to provide an instant occlusion of …
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Permanent Solution: Contraceptive sterilization policies and practices in the U.S. from 1960-1979
… during the 1960s and 1970s that led to the sterilization of young, African-American women from low-income families. It begins by analyzing the roles of the population control and burgeoning feminist movements that with the support of physicians, successfully lobbied for liberalized …
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The Antecedents, Process, and Consequences of Female Sterilization for Low-Income Women in Mumbai
<p>Surgical sterilization is the primary method of family planning among low-income women in India; the result of limited knowledge and poor access to family planning alternatives. To understand the dynamics of sterilization, 37 in-depth interviews were conducted with sterilized women from the …
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Effects of sterilization, conditioning, and thermal aging on the retention of zirconia hybrid abutments
… particles at 2 bar pressure, subjected to sterilization, but not exposed to thermal cycling (group B2N) exhibited the highest median retention strength of 1390 N, whereas group that was air-abraded with 110 µm alumina particles at 1 bar pressure, not sterilized, but subjected to thermal …
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From Prevention to Protection: Policy, Practice and Pitfalls of Surgical Sterilization in California, 1910–Present
In the history of involuntary sterilization in the United States, California stands out. Under the Asexualization Act (1909), a law which permitted the surgical sterilization of certain “defectives,” over 20,000 developmentally disabled and mentally ill people were forcibly sterilized. Although …
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The Role of Cell Sterilization In Population Based Studies of Radiogenic Second Cancers Following Radiation Therapy
… Thus, we found that use of corrections for cell sterilization, in the form of<em> D</em><sub>CE</sub>, may be an important and underappreciated consideration in the design of clinical trials and radio-epidemiological studies. In addition, the accurate application of cell sterilization to thyroid …
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Forced sterilization in the 21st century: A qualitative analysis of women's experiences in Canada
… reproductive rights issues, non-consensual sterilization (NCS) is commonly overlooked or mistaken as a historical issue, despite being prevalent today. While sexual sterilization can have benefits, it is traumatic when performed without consent. Research suggests that women belonging to …
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