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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"female-to-male"”.
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Deaf female-to-male (FTM) identity explored
… lives and identities of 17 self-identified Deaf female-to-male (FTM) transgender individuals. Using a snowball sampling methodology, each of the 17 individuals was intervi ewed at length about his understanding of the intersectionality of those two identities. The interviews were then transcribed …
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"All the world's a stage": 'gendered performativities of 'transitional' masculinities within a South Africa female-to-male (FTM) transsexual context
… as 'men' served as a route through which to explore questions of gender surveillance in a post-democratice South Africa...The research contributes significantly to knowledge on often silenced and marginalized communities within African societies, where the majority of alternative …
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A Novel Mathematical Model of the Trojan Y-Chromosome Strategy with Optimal Control
… is one control method. This method alters the female to male sex ratio by introducing sex reversed males called supermales. These sex reversed males can only produce male progeny. Mathematical models of this strategy have shown that a population can be driven to extinction with a continuous …
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Out of the Blue: A Mother's Memoir of Our Family's Transgender Experience
… is a memoir about what it has been like to discover that the baby girl I gave birth to almost forty years ago, now identifies as a female to male transgender person. He began his transformation both physically and legally over five years ago. Though it is a story about our entire family's …
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"Women of Vision" : how females lead photojournalism departments in a male-dominated field
This study examines the ways in which female and male leadership characteristics differ according to perceptions of photo editors. The goal is to understand how women feel about working in photo editing positions and to explore the challenges they face in a male-dominated industry. This study …
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The Transitioning Couple: Sexual Relationship and Sexual Orientation Experiences of Transgender Men and their Cisgender Female Partners
… determining whether an individual is male or female. Comparatively, gender is a socially designed construct, which varies between cultures and prescribes what it means to be a man or a woman. Western culture suggests all individuals fall neatly into one of these two groups. Females are …
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The relationship between access to debt finance and viability of small & medium enterprises in Zimbabwe
… the relationship between the level of access to debt finance and viability among 41 randomly selected SMEs operating in the agricultural sector in Zimbabwe for the period 2011 and 2014 using descriptive statistical analysis and panel data regression analysis. The study found that viability is …
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Biometric Assessment of Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) from Recreational and Commercial Fisheries in Mississippi, USA
<p>Quantitative stock assessments for Mississippi’s Spotted Seatrout use length-, age-, and sex-composition data from fishery-independent sources as proxies to estimate biostatistical characteristics of fisheries harvests due to lack of sector-specific data. In Chapter 2, I examined the age, …
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Farming and feasting in Iron Age Orkney: a comparison of livestock farming practices and dietary traditions at The Cairns, Mine Howe, Pool, and Howe, based on mortality profiles analyses of cattle, sheep/goat, and pig mandibles.
The principal aim of this thesis is to address livestock farming and husbandry practices of<br/>cattle, sheep, goats and pigs at four sites during the Orcadian Iron Age: The Cairns, Mine<br/>Howe, Pool and Howe. The core methodology utilised in this research applies the methods<br/>developed by …
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Being Transgender: Effects of Behaviour, Arousal and Wellbeing
… arousal, and wellbeing of transgender men (female to male) in order to better understand the behaviours and feelings of this under-researched group and to investigate the influences that one’s gender identity and birth sex may have on various processes. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the …
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Diabetic retinopathy among patients attending university teaching hospitals adult hospital medical clinic in Lusaka
… diabetics and controlling the modifiable risk factors delays its onset and progression. This study was carried out to assess DR; its prevalence and associated clinical/demographic characteristics among patients attending the UTHs-Adult Hospital medical clinic in Lusaka, Zambia. This was a …
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Diabetic retinopathy among patients attending university teaching hospitals adult hospital medical clinic in Lusaka
… diabetics and controlling the modifiable risk factors delays its onset and progression. This study was carried out to assess DR; its prevalence and associated clinical/demographic characteristics among patients attending the UTHs-Adult Hospital medical clinic in Lusaka, Zambia. This was a …
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Variation in Social Behavior Throughout the Estrous Cycle of a Captive Killer Whale <i>Orcinus orca</i>
… and physiology that is often difficult to obtain with free-ranging populations. The present study examined the influence of the estrous cycle of a captive female killer whale on the rate, duration, initiation and reception of social behavior she performed with her only pool mate, a male …
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Nurse Practitioners and Physicians: A comparison of perceived Health Care outcomes and perceived satisfaction with care
… was included. The sample gender ratio was 70/30 female to male. The mean age was 55 years with an ethnic makeup of 48% Caucasian, 36% Black, 9.5% Hispanic, 1% Asian and 4% Other. Thirty percent of the sample reported that they were married. Fifty-three patients had both hypertension and diabetes, …
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The Preschool Kitchen Task Assessment (PKTA): A Pilot Study Exploring Executive Functioning in Children Ages 3 to 6 Years
… (PKTA) is a newly developed assessment tool based on the principles of the Kitchen Task Assessment (KTA) and may be a valuable tool for assessing executive function (EF). There is a lack of age-appropriate assessments for EF in occupational therapy. The purpose of this study was to …
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Attitudes of Male Administrators Toward Hiring and Promoting Female Administrators in the Seventh-day Adventist Educational System in the North American Division
<p>Problem. The ratio of female to male educational administrators is considerably lower than the ratio for teachers. This study investigated the attitudes of male administrators toward hiring and promoting female administrators in the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) educational system in North …
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HIV and male circumcision in Swaziland, Botswana and Lesotho : an econometric analysis
… negative correlation between the practice of male circumcision (MC) and the prevalence of HIV in the general population. These studies were supported by three Randomised Control Trials in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa that found that MC can reduce the probability of female to male infection …
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Control of Sexually Dimorphic Brain Pathway Development in Cultured Zebra Finch Brain Slices
In zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), males sing but not females. Previous studies showed singing requires the formation of a male-specific projection from nucleus HVC (higher vocal center, in the neostriatum) to nucleus RA (robust nucleus of the archistriatum). Fibers from HVC first enter the …
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