showed in a mouse model that the interaction between weight gain and sex alters the progression of allergic asthma: females develop airway remodeling at an earlier stage in respect to males [56]. In female most studies report lung eosinophil infiltrates, higher serum IgE pr...
First, we explain briefly what gender and sex are from a queer media-studies viewpoint (Section 2.1). Next, we explain what automated gender recognition is and how gender classifiers work from a computer science perspective (Section 2.2). Finally, we explain how organizations and companies use ...
It consists of case studies of Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda, as well as, a review of studies undertaken over the past ten years on education in Africa with particular attention to girls' and secondary education. Gender equity at the primary level has been the focus of considerable attention ...
Studies from the US and Canada have found that gender gaps have generally disappeared with increasing internet penetration (DiMaggio et al., 2004, Haight et al., 2014), and there is “some support at the macro level that the gender divide moves in the same direction with overall internet ...
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, School of Health Systems Studies, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India M. Sivakami World Health Organization Regional Office for SouthEast Asia, New Delhi, India Anjana Bhushan BRAC University, Brac James P Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh, Bangladesh ...
Some studies have demonstrated persistency and even an increase in social inequalities in mortality among the population aged 60 years or older. This suggests that unequal living conditions continue to influence health in later life, and that the patterns and levels of mortality ...
Studies found gender differences in patterning of body fat, the fat levels at which health risks become apparent, levels of resting energy expenditure and energy requirements, ability to engage in certain physical activities, and the consequences of obesity for the female reproductive system. Cultural...
Haslanger, S. (2016) “What is a (Social) Structural Explanation?” Philosophical Studies. 173(1):113—130. Haslanger, S. (2012) “Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?” In Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, ed. S. Haslanger, 221...
In human studies, both sex (biological) and gender (environment and experience) are used [7]. Understanding the impossibility of segregating sex and gender aspects of many human traits, the term sex/gender was introduced as “persons/identities and/or aspects of women, men, and people that ...
Several studies have highlighted the role of immune activation in NDs, including motor neuron disorders [37,101], but at present, the role of the immune system and inflammation in the pathogenesis of SMA and its importance as a therapeutic target are still unknown. In 33 pediatric and adult ...