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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"gender identification"”.
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Acoustic Approaches to Gender and Accent Identification
… Although this is a similar problem to language identification, di�erent accents of a language exhibit more fine-grained di�erences between classes than languages. This presents a tougher problem for traditional classification techniques. In this thesis, we propose and evaluate a number of …
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Exposing and correcting the gender bias in image captioning datasets and models
The task of image captioning implicitly involves gender identification. However, due to the gender bias in data, gender identification by an image captioning model suffers. Also, due to the word-by-word prediction, the gender-activity bias in the data tends to influence the other words in the …
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Benevolent vs. Hostile Sexism Impact on Work Performance for Women in Turkey
… or control condition. Performance and level of gender identification were measured. The results of this study indicated that while participants were impacted by sexism, the impact of benevolent vs. hostile sexism resulted in different outcomes than for women in higher egalitarian Western …
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Understanding resistance towards increasing gender diversity in masculine domains: the role of intergroup threat
… of men’s resistance towards increasing gender diversity in traditionally masculine domains. Using the theoretical framework of the Intergroup Threat Theory (Stephan, Ybarra & Morrison, 2009), a conceptual model was developed in order to systematically investigate the role of realistic …
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Performing gender : transgenderism as critique
… is a critique of the social construction of gender through examining its performative nature in terms of filmic representations which deviate from the expected gender norms. Focus groups were conducted on M. Butterfly (1993) and Orlando (1992) which were selected because they are recent …
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The efficiency of ultrasonorgraphy in monitoring ovarian structures and foetal development in goats, sheep and cattle as verified through laparoscopy and laparotomy
… organs, pregnancy diagnosis, and foetal gender identification and to verify its reliability by laparoscopy and laparotomy, where applicable. Reproductive organs, pregnancy diagnosis and gender of the foetus were examined by A-mode ultrasound using 3.0 - 8.0 MHz trans-rectal transducer. A …
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Marginalization, Empowerment and Multiple Performances: An Examination of Highly Identified, Displaced Female Sport Fans
… in particular its significance in challenging gender role and empowering women” (p. 260). This study looked to further our knowledge about highly identified, displaced female sport fans by conducting qualitative research about their experiences. This research project aimed to determine if …
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Examining the particular, illuminating the singular: Gender, sexuality and desire in the lives and works of Marianne Moore and Bryher
… changes to discourses of sexuality and gender identity as well as female agency and desire. The lives and works of modernist women exemplify the ways these evolving conceptions were received and practiced. Marianne Moore and Bryher (Winifred Ellerman) are of interest to this study …
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Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936
… influential in shaping popular understandings of gender and sexual normativity, and that the mass circulation press had embraced the sexological figure of the “female invert” as the symbol for lesbianism by the late nineteenth century. However, this dissertation is motivated by the conviction that …
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Reader as woman: gender and identification in novels
… as its title suggests, is a study of gender and identification. The main body of the thesis is s consideration of four novels (Clarissa, The Scarlet Letter, Portrait of a Lady, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles), all of which are centered around a heroine defined by her suffering. In the …
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Collage in the Posthuman Era: Gender and Becoming
… thesis researches collage as a tool to address gender in a posthuman framework and was designed to examine one question: How can collage contribute to a posthuman understanding of gender? This investigation strives to get beyond the pitfalls of binary gender identification prevalent within …
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Status kewarisan bagi pelaku transseksual yang mengoperasi ganti kelamin perspektif Ushul Fiqih
… dalam. Kebanyakan individu memiliki identitas gender yang sesuai dengan identifikasi jenis kelamin fisiologis tetapi ada beberapa pengecualian. Apabila terdapat ketidakcocokan antara identifikasi jenis kelamin fisiologis individu dengan identitas gendernya, maka individu tersebut didiagnosis …
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Evaluating an androgynous brand extension: the gender identity/ gendered brand relationship and influencing factors
Gender identification behaviour has altered drastically within the last decade. Consequently, there has been a noteworthy rise in the amount of androgynous individuals. Gender identity congruity theory posits that individuals display more favourable behavioural outcomes towards brands that possess …
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A Thematic Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Children's Top Mobile Applications of 2018
… process, including the formation of one's gender identity. App developers include gendered content to capture and maintain children's attention, but much of the existing research examines children in late childhood and early adolescence, leaving the ages of six to eight relatively …