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Artemia salina Toxicity Assay: Standardization in a 24‐Well Microplate

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bioassays with Artemia sp. are widely used in aquatic, environmental, and human toxicology as an initial tool to investigate the toxicity of plant extracts, isolated compounds, drugs, and products of natural or synthetic origin. These assays allow for the estimation of the median lethal concentration (LC50) and guide subsequent studies in ...
Matheus Pires Miranda, Natalie Petrovna Semanovschi, Roseane Santos de Souza, Angélica Maria Lucchese, Luzimar Gonzaga Fernandez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Veuves joyeuses ou honteuses ? Sexualité ou a-sexualité après 60 ans suite à la perte du conjoint

Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2011
This article analyses widows’ sexuality and questions the social and sexual norms  imposed on elderly widows, a group dominated by gender and age. In the context of their education, especially their sexual education, the death of a spouse would mean the ...
Cécile Plaud, Béatrice Sommier
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Examining the representation of asexuality in select examples of visual culture [PDF]

, 2023
Dissertation (MA (Visual Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2023.This study explores the sexual orientation known as asexuality. Asexuality is defined as an identity that encompasses the little or lack of sexual attraction that some individuals ...

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Resource Availability Modulates Effects of Fluorine Free Firefighting Foams

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fluorine‐free foam (F3) alternatives that lack per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are rapidly being adopted for firefighting operations and will be entering ecosystems. Despite this, little is known about their impact on freshwater communities.
Jack D. Morehouse, Lucas A. Cacula, Jason T. Hoverman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data from: Hybrid asexuality as a primary postzygotic barrier between nascent species: on the interconnection between asexuality, hybridization and speciation

, 2017
Although sexual reproduction is ubiquitous throughout nature, the molecular machinery behind it has been repeatedly disrupted during evolution, leading to the emergence of asexual lineages in all eukaryotic phyla.
Iakovenko, Nataliia, Wilkinson-Herbots, Hilde, Šlechtová, Věra, Costa, Rui J., Roslein, Jan, Rídl, Jakub, Reifová, Radka, Pačes, Jan, Choleva, Lukáš, Hroudová, Miluše, Drozd, Pavel, Janko, Karel, Kočí, Jan   +12 more
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Multi‐level nitrogen and phosphorus addition synergistically reduces alpine grassland stability via species compositional changes

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Nutrient addition generally weakens the stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity. However, whether this destabilizing effect is associated with species compositional changes and varies with nutrient input levels remains unclear.
Fei Ren, Mengjiao Chen, Fengyuan He, Xinyan Liu, Lanping Li, Defei Liang, Zhenhua Zhang, Biao Zhu, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas, Chao Wang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asexuality and the feminist politics of ‘not doing it’

, 2011
This thesis makes a contribution to the burgeoning study of the sexual identity category and sexual orientation of asexuality by arguing for its political valence and feminist potentiality.
Przybylo, Elzbieta
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Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

The enigma of asexuality

, 2015
Reviews the books, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, edited by K. J. Cerankowski and M. Milks (2014) and Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology, edited by M. Cardigan, K. Gupta, and T. G. Morrison (see record 2014-11508-000).
Stevenson, Michael R, PhD
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