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Gender-sensitive parliaments: Feminising formal political institutions

As an emergent international norm, gender sensitive parliaments (GSP) are an important and successful case of feminist activism in the field of governance.
Palmieri, Sonia, Childs, Sarah
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Paternal Circadian Disruption Impairs Offspring Cognition via Sperm microRNAs

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Paternal circadian disruption remodels the sperm small RNA payload, elevating miR‐92a‐3p/miR‐25‐3p levels and perturbing early embryonic gene regulatory programs. Microinjection experiments and single‐embryo transcriptomics reveal sex‐specific developmental vulnerabilities, ultimately impairing offspring hippocampal synaptic plasticity and cognition ...
Kexin Zou, Sisi Luo, Binliang Tang, Zhiqiang Liu, Yuchuan Zhou, Yicong Meng, Zhengmu Wu, Zheng Sun, Weihui Shi, Jianzhong Sheng, Chuanjin Yu, Zhenhua Li, Siyi Wei, Mo Zhang, Yujie Luo, Jing Yan, Xueyun Qin, Jiahang Mo, Chengliang Zhou, Jinsong Li, Hefeng Huang, Yifu Ding, Guolian Ding   +22 more
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Feminist Agroecology: Towards Gender-Equal and Sustainable Food Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

Agricultural & Rural Studies
Agriculture is pivotal in the global economy but is challenged by unsustainable practices that harm the environment and aggravate social inequalities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Michaelin Sibanda
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Shattering the glass ceiling: Actionable strategies for women's advancement to senior academic positions at a semi-metropolitan South African University

Interdisciplinary Journal of Education Research
Although advancements have been made in gender equality, women still occupy fewer senior academic positions, especially in semi-metropolitan universities.
Abgirl Muleya
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Protection or Punishment? Assessing Gender-Sensitive Policing and Legal Frameworks for Women in the Criminal Justice System

Al-Qadha: Jurnal Hukum dan Syar'iah
This study examines whether criminal justice systems prioritize protection or punishment for women in conflict with the law by assessing gender-sensitive policing and legal frameworks. Despite global commitments to gender equality, women often face discriminatory laws, biased policing, and harsher sentencing due to entrenched gender stereotypes ...
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Urban metabolism for planning water sensitive city-regions: proof of concept for an urban water metabolism evaluation framework

, 2017
This report summarises and compiles research activities for the urban metabolism component of the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) project on ‘Catchment-scale landscape planning for water sensitive city-regions in an age of climate change ...
Sochacka, Beata, Kenway, Steven, Renouf, Marguerite, Morgan, Ed, Serrarao-Neumann, Silvia, Lam, Ka Leung, Low Choy, Darryl   +6 more
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ZDHHC9‐Mediated Palmitoylation of ACSL4 Drives Ferroptosis in Diabetes Mellitus–Induced Erectile Dysfunction

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diabetes mellitus‐induced erectile dysfunction (DMED) is a highly prevalent complication among diabetic patients; however, its underlying pathogenic mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Metabolic disorder is a hallmark of diabetes, yet its precise contribution to DMED progression is not well defined.
Wanyang Guo, Ming Xiao, Mengjun Huang, Dongzi Peng, Ruijiang Zeng, Ruilin Liu, Yuanqiao Zhao, Zhihan Ouyang, Yulong Hong, Zexian Ding, Zhuo Xing, Hao Su, Jinxiang Wang, Wenjun Mao, Xin Jin   +14 more
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Silenced voices: social media polarization and women’s marginalization in peacebuilding during the Northern Ethiopia War

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This study examines the complex relationship between social media, polarization, and conflict, with a focus on digital peacebuilding and women’s participation, using the Northern Ethiopia War as a case study.
Ali Adem Chanie, Yimam Seid Muhie, Ayele Abinew Ali, Biemann Chris, Semmann Martin   +4 more
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Gender-Inclusive Educational Frameworks for LIS Curricula

This report presents WP2 Result 5 of the GEDIS project (Gender Diversity in Information Science: Challenges in Higher Education): a set of gender-inclusive educational frameworks for Library and Information Science (LIS) curricula.
Khattab, Dzejla, Petr-Balog, Kornelija, Mandl, Thomas, Dreisiebner, Stefan, Dombrovska, Michaela, Boté-Vericad, Juan-José   +5 more
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Prior Expectations Bias Confidence Judgments Through Parietal Alpha‐Band Modulation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Humans possess the metacognitive ability to estimate the likely accuracy of their own decisions through confidence judgments. Yet, whether prior information shapes confidence and the neural mechanisms mediating such influence, remain to be determined.
Luca Tarasi, Anna Pasini, Domenico Romanazzi, Margherita Covelli, Vincenzo Romei   +4 more
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