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Land, informal employment, and fertility preferences in rural southwestern Uganda: A qualitative study

open access: yesGlobal Public Health
Land and informal work remain central to rural livelihoods in Uganda, yet their role in shaping fertility preferences is not well understood. This qualitative study examined how land ownership and informal livelihoods influence men’s and women’s ...
Catherine Atahigwa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women with infertility complying with and resisting polygyny: an explorative qualitative study in urban Gambia

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2019
Background In many low-and middle-income countries women with infertility are often in polygynous marriages. From a human and women’s rights perspective, the practice of polygyny is commonly understood as harmful.
Susan Dierickx   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Board gender diversity and acquisition choices

open access: yes, 2023
We investigate the influence of gender diversity on the acquisition choices of bidding firms and find that firms with greater gender diversity are more likely to acquire nonlisted targets, use cash as the method of payment, and purchase firms in similar ...
Gunasekarage, Abeyratna   +7 more
core   +1 more source

A Queer Resilience: Reviving Indigenous-Pacific Perspectives and Practices

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
In the face of ongoing discrimination, stigma, ostracism, and violence, Pacific Islanders of Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, Intersex Expressions, and Sex Characteristics (PIDSOGIESC+) display a marked resilience.
Jioji Ravulo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lecture series on gender medicine at Innsbruck and Vienna medical universities: a teaching format in comparison

open access: yesGMS Journal for Medical Education, 2020
Introduction: Diversity-specific differences in health, illness and access to a health system have meanwhile been studied well. Educating medical students offers good leverage for broadening this knowledge within the medical professions.
Steinböck, Sandra   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence‐Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Febrile Neutropenia: Resource‐Sensitive Recommendations for the Asian Continent

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a frequent and serious complication in children receiving cancer therapy. Standardizing FN management across Asia is challenging due to variable healthcare infrastructure, diagnostic capacity, and infection patterns; however, it could improve resource use and patient outcomes.
Joliza Patricia Cañeba   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

DNA ligase LigE increases bacterial transformation with damaged extracellular DNA

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The DNA ligase LigE from the naturally competent Gram‐negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoaea increases transformation with cut extracellular DNA. This process is ATP‐dependent and relies on the catalytic activity of LigE; it also requires that LigE contains an intact periplasmic localisation sequence, indicating that ligE functions in the periplasm ...
Jolyn Pan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transgender people in Ukraine – the communities within the community (the results of the expert survey)

open access: yesУкраїнський соціум, 2022
Transgender people, being stigmatized, discriminated against, abused, and having less access to social, health, and public health services appear to be a hard-to-reach group for researchers.
Kasianczuk M. H.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender equality in marine sciences in Kiel, Germany: how project-funded measures can urge institutions to act [PDF]

open access: yesAdvances in Geosciences, 2020
In Kiel, in the north of Germany, marine research is rooted in a lively research community hosted mainly at Kiel University and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre. While the ratio of women and men is more or less balanced on all qualification levels with mainly
R. Kamm, C. K. Schelten, G. Braker
doaj   +1 more source

Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

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