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Showing 1 to 20 of 7065 for “"sex"”.
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Understanding the effects of sex chromosomes and sex hormones on sex differences
Biological factors that determine sex and drive sexual differentiation have long been established in humans and other mammalian species. Yet there is a limited understanding of the mechanisms by which these factors give rise to sex-biased outcomes in health and disease. Growing evidence for sex …
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Sex, Violence and the Female Sex Offender
A female sex offender is any female who engages in criminal sexual penetration, and/or criminal sexual contact with a minor and is charged with a criminal offense within a court of law (New Mexico Statutes and Court Rules, Unannotated, 2012) Early research purports that there is a high prevalence …
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Perceptions of Sex Trafficking Legislation By Sex Workers
… Donald Trump signed into law the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act/Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA) package. This set of bipartisan legislation was billed as a way of combatting sex trafficking by holding websites responsible for any sex work …
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Sex Curve
In Sex Curve, a quirky cast of characters goes to war with oxytosin, the hormone which makes a woman fall in love with the person she sleeps with. Brilliant biochemist, Marissa, puts love to the ultimate test in this biting satire.
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Sex Offenders' Perceptions Of North Dakota's Sex Offender Policies
<p>Registered sex offenders in North Dakota were interviewed regarding their experiences with being on the registry. Results from the coded transcripts indicate that offenders felt the registry made finding housing and employment more difficult. Additionally, participants reported feeling the …
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Sex and Gasoline: Selling Sex in Twentieth Century America
… technological changes of the time. This includes sexual health in the United States. The sex trade, print or film or actual sex worker, has influenced many aspects of American life from technology, advertising, fashion and business models. The adult industry is made up of more than pay-per-view …
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Public Perceptions Regarding Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Management
… of the public's knowledge and perceptions on sex offenders, sex offenses, and sex offender management policies. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 282 students at East Tennessee State University. Along with the basic demographic variables, respondent's field of …
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Evolutionary demography of structured two-sex populations and sex ratios
… trajectories. Models considering only a single sex cannot capture these effects, motivating the use of demographic two-sex models for sexually reproducing populations. I developed a new two-sex modeling framework that incorporates population structure and multiple life cycle processes through …
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Sex talk: Factors that influence parent-child communication about sex
<p>Between 50 and 70% of young people are first sexually active between the ages of 15 and 17, and almost 90% by age 18. This early sexual debut puts adolescents at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy if they are uneducated about safe sex. For this reason, it is …
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The Sex Chronicles: Young Women’s Recollections of Learning About Sex
… is a pervasive social fear surrounding girls’ sexuality. In 2015, Ontario public schools mandated a new version of sex education. There was, and still is, public outcry by many parents over the new curriculum. The concern? We should be protecting children from, and not exposing them to, sexual …
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Genomic analysis of sex chromosomes and sex differentiation in Caricaceae
… excellent model species to study mechanisms for sex determination and sex chromosome evolution in plants, due to the presence of three sex types: female, male, and hermaphrodite. Previous research has revealed the location of the sex determination region (SDR) and the existence of three sex …
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Evolutionary demography of structured two-sex populations and sex ratios
… trajectories. Models considering only a single sex cannot capture these effects, motivating the use of demographic two-sex models for sexually reproducing populations. I developed a new two-sex modeling framework that incorporates population structure and multiple life cycle processes through …
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Safer without Sex?
… thereby increasing overall colony efficiency. Asexuality is often thought to constitute an evolutionary dead end as compared with sexual reproduction because genetic recombination is limited or nonexistent in parthenogenetic populations. Microsatellite markers were developed to investigate the …
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Sex-dependent and Sex-independent Gene Regulation after Peripheral Nerve Injury
… the mechanisms of gene regulation that are sex-dependent and sex-independent. In this study, I examined the sex differences and similarities in the transcriptome and DNA methylome of rodents after PNI.In my first Aim, I characterized the transcriptional similarities and differences between …
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Factors Facilitating and Hindering Safer Sex Negotiations Among Female Sex Workers in Pune, India: Conversations With Women in Sex Work
… the ecological factors influencing FSW safer sex negotiations in this geographical context. Understanding these issues is necessary to make HIV/AIDS prevention programs successful.
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Cross-Sex Friendships in a Changing Society: A Comparative Analysis of Cross-Sex Friendships, Same-Sex Friendships, and Romantic Relationships
… conditions predicting the frequency of cross-sex friendships, to investigate the functions those friendships serve, and to determine in what ways the communication of cross-sex friends might be differentiated from that of same-sex friends and romantic partners.
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Let's talk about sex : exploring sex and sexuality following Spinal Cord Injury
… a loss of motor and sensory function as well as sexual impairment. Sexuality is an integral component of every individual's identity, however sex and sexuality in males following spinal cord injury is unfortunately not given the attention it deserves. This inquiry aims to present the lived …
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Summary Sex: A Multivariate Approach to Sex Estimation from the Human Pelvis
… were placed into two groups: a known age and sex group (Christ Church Spitalfields, South African White, South African Black, and South African Coloured), and an unknown archaeological group (Poulton, St. Owens, Chumash, and Andaman). When comparing trait frequencies, slight differences …
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