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Age and sex influences on fall characteristics. [PDF]
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 1994 To investigate age and sex influences on fall characteristics.A total of 1243 subjects (517 males and 726 females) aged 50 years and over and drawn from population based sampling frames were invited to complete an interviewer administered questionnaire concerning descriptive characteristics of falls experienced in the previous four months.
Terence W O’Neill +6 more
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Demography and sex work characteristics of female sex workers in India [PDF]
BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2006 Abstract Background The majority of sex work in India is clandestine due to unfavorable legal environment and discrimination against female sex workers (FSWs). We report data on who these women are and when they get involved with sex work that could assist in increasing the reach of HIV prevention activities for them.
Rakhi Dandona +6 more
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Psychological Characteristics of Sex Offenders
European Psychiatry, 2022 IntroductionA significant problem for clinical judicial experts when issuing court opinions is the possibility that the assessed person may be simulating, as well as lack of examination tools that would increase the objectivity and reliability of the assessment. This presentation covers studies on psychological characteristics of perpetrators of crimes
W. Oronowicz-Jaśkowiak +1 more
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Effects of age and sex on eye movement characteristics [PDF]
Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2021 AbstractAbnormal eye movements are often associated with psychiatric disorders. Eye movements are sensorimotor functions of the brain, and aging and sex would affect their characteristics. A precise understanding of normal eye movements is required to distinguish disease‐related abnormalities from natural differences associated with aging or sex.
Junichi Takahashi +15 more
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Sex-Specific Characteristics of the Microcirculation [PDF]
, 2018 The requirements of metabolizing tissue are both continuous and variable; accordingly, the microvasculature serving that tissue must be similarly dynamic. Just as it is recognized that males and females of the same species have differing metabolic requirements, is it not likely that the microvasculature serving these tissues will differ by sex?
Virginia H. Huxley, Scott S. Kemp
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The Effect of Twin Sex on Menstrual Characteristics
Medicina, 2020 Background and objectives: The purpose of this project is to evaluate the association between twin sex discordance and menstrual characteristics. We hypothesize that sharing the uterus with a male twin can change ovulation programming, hence changing the menstrual cycle characteristics during adulthood.
Elizabeth Kowynia, Shayesteh Jahanfar
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Sex Differences in Countermovement Jump Phase Characteristics [PDF]
Sports, 2017 The countermovement jump (CMJ) is commonly used to explore sex differences in neuromuscular function, but previous studies have only reported gross CMJ measures or have partly examined CMJ phase characteristics. The purpose of this study was to explore differences in CMJ phase characteristics between male and female athletes by comparing the force ...
McMahon, JJ, Rej, S, Comfort, P
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Sex, myelin, and clinical characteristics of Parkinson’s disease
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 ObjectiveTo determine if there are sex differences in myelin in Parkinson’s disease, and whether these explain some of the previously-described sex differences in clinical presentation.MethodsThirty-three subjects (23 males, 10 females) with Parkinson’s disease underwent myelin water fraction (MWF) imaging, an MRI scanning technique of in vivo myelin ...
Jiayue Cai +8 more
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Sex Characteristics in Monkeys.
Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1928 Female monkeys during sexually mature life show the sex characteristics of reddening and swelling of the skin about the external genital organs, on the buttocks and medial surfaces of the thighs. These phenomena disappear after double ovariectomy and can again be induced in spayed animals by injections of ovarian and placental extracts.1 Three male ...
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Effect of sex on meat quality characteristics
SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2022 The goal of the current work was to determine the quality of male and female cattle and buffalo meat, as well as a trial for improving meat quality by feeding the experimental groups from cattle and buffalo for four months in rations containing 16.5% protein. During the year 2021, eighty samples of cattle and buffalo were obtained from butcher shops in
Ahmed S. AbdElfattah +2 more
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