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A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality? [PDF]
, 2001 More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female mortality in parts of the developing world, most notably South Asia, China, West Asia, and parts of North Africa (Sen, 1989; Sen 1990 ...
Klasen, Stephan, Wink, Claudia
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Controlling Behavior, Sex Bias and Coaching Success in Japanese Track and Field
Sports, 2023 Coaching athletes is a complex and lengthy process. Recently, attention has been given to coaches over-controlling behavior toward the athletes’ personal lives and possible sex bias, but the impact of these behaviors on coaching success is unclear.
Yuka Tsukahara +4 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) produce type I interferon (IFN-I) during HIV-1 infection in response to TLR7 stimulation. However, IFN-I-signaling has been shown to play opposite effects in HIV-1 and SIV infection.
Jean-Charles Guéry
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2017 It is widely acknowledged that males and females exhibit contrasting degrees of susceptibility to infectious and non-infectious inflammatory diseases. This is particularly observed in respiratory diseases where human males are more likely to be affected ...
Mustapha Chamekh +8 more
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On the systematic bias in skeletal sexing [PDF]
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1972 AbstractComparison of a large series of sexed adult skeletal populations and a similar series of adult pre‐industrial peoples shows that there is a regular and systematic bias in the sexing of adult skeletons. This bias, which is about 12% in favor of males, is due to the nature of secondary sex characteristics in bone.
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Maternal Antibody and ASD: Clinical Data and Animal Models
Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 Over the past several decades there has been an increasing interest in the role of environmental factors in the etiology of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Adriana Gata-Garcia +2 more
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Minimal influence of estrous cycle on studies of female mouse behaviors
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionSex bias has been an issue in many biomedical fields, especially in neuroscience. In rodent research, many scientists only focused on male animals due to the belief that female estrous cycle gives rise to unacceptable, high levels of variance
Pei-Yun Zeng +6 more
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Male-Biased microRNA Discovery in the Pea Aphid
Insects, 2021 Epigenetic mechanisms modulate gene expression levels during development, shaping how a single genome produces a diversity of phenotypes. Here, we begin to explore the epigenetic regulation of sexual dimorphism in pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) by ...
Xiaomi Liu +2 more
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Sex and Credit: Is There a Gender Bias in Microfinance? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper examines the effects of group identity in the credit market. Exploiting the quasirandom assignment of first-time borrowers to loan officers of a large Albanian lender, we test for own-gender bias in the loan officer-borrower match. We find that borrowers pay on average 29 basis points higher interest rates when paired with a loan officer of ...
Beck, T.H.L., Behr, P., Madestam, A.
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An assessment of sex bias in neurodevelopmental disorders [PDF]
Genome Medicine, 2015 Neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and intellectual disability have a sex bias skewed towards boys; however, systematic assessment of this bias is complicated by the presence of significant genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity of these disorders.To assess the extent and characteristics of sex bias, we analyzed the frequency of comorbid ...
Andrew Polyak +2 more
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