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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
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Gender and Music Composition: A Study of Music, and the Gendering of Meanings [PDF]
In this study claims that music communicates gendered meanings are considered, and relevant literature is reviewed. We first discuss the nature of meaning in music, and how it is constructed and construed. Examples of statements of gendering in the literature are cited, and the problems identified by writers who have questioned their validity are ...
Sergeant, DC, Himonides, E
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Gender detransition: a case study [PDF]
AbstractWithin the last decade, there has been a sharp global rise in the number of young people identifying as transgender. More recently, there appears to be an increase in the numbers of young people detransitioning or returning to identifying with their natal sex after pursuing medical transition.
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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
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Gender Trouble in Language Models: An Empirical Audit Guided by Gender Performativity Theory [PDF]
Language models encode and subsequently perpetuate harmful gendered stereotypes. Research has succeeded in mitigating some of these harms, e.g. by dissociating non-gendered terms such as occupations from gendered terms such as 'woman' and 'man'. This approach, however, remains superficial given that associations are only one form of prejudice through ...
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Volume 11, Issue 36: October 17, 2011 [PDF]
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Women\u27s Studies & Gender Studies Program,
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In this article, we tested optimal SNP filtering strategies for accurate parentage assignment and pedigree reconstruction for a wild population of red‐spotted masu salmon, Oncorhynchus masou ishikawae. We found that mid‐point filtering in terms of call rate and minor allele frequency performs well for pedigree reconstruction.
Shohei Noda+6 more
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Volume 10, Issue 13: December 2, 2010 [PDF]
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Women\u27s Studies & Gender Studies Program,
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In this study, we compared three methods for kinship identification using different algorithms in samples of wild Pacific bluefin tuna and generated genotyping data. The three methods resulted in different numbers of inferred kinship pairs for both generated and actual data. Particularly for the half‐sibling pairs, considerable number of false‐positive
Yohei Tsukahara+5 more
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Volume 11, Issue 37: October 24, 2011 [PDF]
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