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

Advances 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
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Measuring citizen frames and their integration in the international policy process: a hybrid BERTopic modelling approach

Frontiers in Political Science
Governments and international organizations are exploring new ways of engaging citizens in the policy design process, however scalable ways to test whether citizen frames appear in resulting policies documents remain limited. We present a hybrid BERTopic
Victoria Ustenko, Matthijs Fakkel, Susan Witt, Padma Rao Sahib, Srividya Sheshadri, Rao R. Bhavani   +5 more
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Quantification of Gender Bias and Sentiment Toward Political Leaders Over 20 Years of Kenyan News Using Natural Language Processing

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Background: Despite a 2010 Kenyan constitutional amendment limiting members of elected public bodies to < two-thirds of the same gender, only 22 percent of the 12th Parliament members inaugurated in 2017 were women.
Emma Pair, Nikitha Vicas, Ann M. Weber, Valerie Meausoone, James Zou, Amos Njuguna, Gary L. Darmstadt   +6 more
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The role of the Global Observatory in addressing Gender Based Violence in Sport+

Current Issues in Sport Science
Introduction: Gender-based violence, including violence against women and girls, in all their diversity, is a pervasive human rights abuse and a public health crisis of epidemic proportions that has garnered considerable attention in political dialogues
Hayley Truskewycz, Lombe Mwambwa
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Who claims the rights to livestock? Gendered patterns of asset holdings in smallholder households in Uganda

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2023
Although data on livestock ownership are often collected at the household level, not all household members have the same rights over the livestock. In this paper, we investigate the gendered patterns of livestock ownership in smallholder households in ...
Marya Hillesland, Cheryl Doss, Vanya Slavchevska, Martina Querejeta   +3 more
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"It will be a weapon in my hand”: The Protective Potential of Education for Adolescent Syrian Refugee Girls in Lebanon

Refuge, 2020
This study uses over 140 first-person narratives from adolescent Syrian girls and Syrian parents displaced to Lebanon and literature from the Education in Emergencies (EiE) field to examine the concept of the protective potential of education.
Stephanie Chow Garbern, Shaimaa Helal, Saja Michael, Nikkole J. Turgeon, Susan Bartels   +4 more
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Gender Barriers to Immunization: A Synthesis of UNICEF’s Analyses to Advance Equity and Coverage

Vaccines
Background/objectives: Despite global efforts to improve childhood immunization rates, gender-related barriers continue to hinder equitable access to vaccines worldwide.
Cristián Mansilla, Alinane Kamlongera, Ibrahim Dadari   +2 more
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Of Money and Men: A Scoping Review to Map Gender Barriers to Immunization Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Vaccines
Among the multiple factors impeding equitable childhood immunization coverage in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), gender barriers stand out as perhaps the most universal.
Anna Kalbarczyk, Natasha Brownlee, Elizabeth Katz   +2 more
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Conserved structural motifs in PAS, LOV, and CRY proteins regulate circadian rhythms and are therapeutic targets

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Cryptochrome and PAS/LOV proteins play intricate roles in circadian clocks where they act as both sensors and mediators of protein–protein interactions. Their ubiquitous presence in signaling networks has positioned them as targets for small‐molecule therapeutics. This review provides a structural introduction to these protein families.
Eric D. Brinckman, Anna E. Lester, Brian D. Zoltowski   +2 more
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Effect of imbalanced sampling and missing data on associations between gender norms and risk of adolescent HIV

EClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: Despite strides towards gender equality, inequalities persist or remain unstudied, due potentially to data gaps. Although mapped, the effects of key data gaps remain unknown.
Ribhav Gupta, Safa Abdalla, Valerie Meausoone, Nikitha Vicas, Iván Mejía-Guevara, Ann M. Weber, Beniamino Cislaghi, Gary L. Darmstadt   +7 more
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