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Fame Factory: Performing Gender and Sexuality in Talent Reality Television

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2011
This article discusses how gender and sexuality are performed in a highly feminised cultural symbolic context. The object of study is a reality show where the contestants compete in mainstream popular music.
Hillevi Ganetz
doaj   +1 more source

Gender Lost In Translation: How Bridging The Gap Between Languages Affects Gender Bias in Zero-Shot Multilingual Translation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Neural machine translation (NMT) models often suffer from gender biases that harm users and society at large. In this work, we explore how bridging the gap between languages for which parallel data is not available affects gender bias in multilingual NMT, specifically for zero-shot directions.
arxiv  

Socio-Cultural Influencers of Disclosure of HIV Status to Children on Antiretroviral Therapy in the Masaka Region, Uganda: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesJournal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2023
This study explored sociocultural influencers of disclosure of HIV status to children taking daily antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the Masaka region, Uganda using data collected from 26 key informant interviews with caregivers between October 2020 and ...
Robert Kairania MA   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnography of the slaughterhouse: A case of Nanyuki slaughterhouse in Laikipia County, Rift Valley, Kenya

open access: yesPastoralism, 2017
This paper focuses on establishing actors and their roles in the slaughterhouse processes in the Nanyuki slaughterhouse of Laikipia County. This is understood through the lens of the food system approach, based on the study findings of an anthropological
Edwin Ambani Ameso   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The lack of knowledge on HIV by pastors in the Thulamela Municipality: Pastoral power

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
The Church, as an institution, has pioneered ground-breaking interventions, although some of these interventions were also a vehicle for imperial colonisation.
Tshifhiwa S. Netshapapame   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Study of Gender Discussions in Mobile Apps [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Mobile software apps ("apps") are one of the prevailing digital technologies that our modern life heavily depends on. A key issue in the development of apps is how to design gender-inclusive apps. Apps that do not consider gender inclusion, diversity, and equality in their design can create barriers (e.g., excluding some of the users because of their ...
arxiv  

Beyond the Boolean: How Programmers Ask About, Use, and Discuss Gender [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Categorization via gender is omnipresent throughout society, and thus also computing; gender identity is often requested of users before they use software or web services. Despite this fact, no research has explored how software developers approach requesting gender disclosure from users.
arxiv   +1 more source

Pastoralists' perceptions on the impact of Rift valley fever disease following an outbreak in North Eastern Kenya

open access: yesPastoralism, 2022
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic disease which leads to livestock losses and human fatalities, thus impoverishing pastoralists who largely depend on livestock for their livelihood.
Caroline M. Mburu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Q fever outbreak in the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland

open access: yesNew Microbes and New Infections, EarlyView., 2014
Abstract Coxiella burnetii infection (Q fever) is a widespread zoonosis with low endemicity in Switzerland, therefore no mandatory public report was required. A cluster of initially ten human cases of acute Q fever infections characterized by prolonged fever, asthenia and mild hepatitis occurred in 2012 in the terraced vineyard of Lavaux ...
C. Bellini   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender medicine teaching increases medical students’ gender awareness: results of a quantitative survey

open access: yesGMS Journal for Medical Education, 2023
Background: Knowledge about gender implications of health is insufficiently integrated into university teaching in Germany. Gender awareness represents a key competence to integrate this knowledge into the medical practice. This study is the first survey
Wortmann, Laura   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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