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Pastoralists' perceptions on the impact of Rift valley fever disease following an outbreak in North Eastern Kenya

open access: yesPastoralism, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and Music Composition: A Study of Music, and the Gendering of Meanings [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
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
openaire   +5 more sources

Gender detransition: a case study [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Psychology, 2021
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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Gender medicine teaching increases medical students’ gender awareness: results of a quantitative survey

open access: yesGMS Journal for Medical Education, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Gender Trouble in Language Models: An Empirical Audit Guided by Gender Performativity Theory [PDF]

open access: yesFAccT '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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 ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Volume 11, Issue 36: October 17, 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
https://ecommons.luc.edu/wsgs_digest/1037/thumbnail ...
Women\u27s Studies & Gender Studies Program,
core  

Optimal SNP filtering strategies for pedigree reconstruction: A case study with wild red‐spotted masu salmon population

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 125-139, April 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Volume 10, Issue 13: December 2, 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
https://ecommons.luc.edu/wsgs_digest/1012/thumbnail ...
Women\u27s Studies & Gender Studies Program,
core  

Comparison of kinship‐identification methods for robust stock assessment using close‐kin mark–recapture data for Pacific bluefin tuna

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 140-152, April 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Volume 11, Issue 37: October 24, 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
https://ecommons.luc.edu/wsgs_digest/1038/thumbnail ...
Women\u27s Studies & Gender Studies Program,
core  

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