Patterns and predictors of mortality in a semi-urban population-based cohort in Sri Lanka: findings from the Ragama Health Study by Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, Madunil Anuk Niriella, Hithanadura Janaka de Silva, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Shamila Thivanshi De Silva, Uthuru Beddage Thulani, Anuradha Supun Dassanayake, Arjuna Priyadarsin De Silva, Sureka Chackrewarthy, Udaya Ranawaka, Norihiro Kato, Ananda Rajitha Wickremasinghe

“…Independent predictors of: ACM were older age, lower income, smoking and diabetes mellitus while gender, education, occupation, harmful alcohol use, waist circumference and hypertension were not; CVM were older age, lower income, smoking, diabetes and hypertension while gender and harmful alcohol use were not; CRM was older age while gender, smoking and diabetes were not. …”
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Femmes et pornographes ? by Stéphanie Kunert

“…For this first issue of the revue, we interviewed four film-makers whose cinematographic art deconstructs the means and significations of pornography, representations of gender and sexuality.Emilie Jouvet, Maria Beatty, Catherine Corringer and Shue Lee Cheang express, in this interview, their vision of pornography, art and feminism.Wether their art is reclaimed as erotic, explicit or pornographic, they have in common a creative and somewhat “queer” approach of sexual representations.…”
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Les genres récrits n° 1 by Daniel Elmiger

“…Today, the awareness that a text shouldn’t be written without gender-bias is steadily growing – yet it is not always clear what this means and which strategies are best suited to achieve that goal. …”
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Russian students: work and health by L. . Ivanova

“…It is shown that the rate of exhaustion and emotional stress of work depends on gender, self-appraisal of health and aim at its care.…”
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Risk factors of development of hepatocellular carcinoma by V. T. Ivashkin, M. A. Morozova, M. V. Mayevskaya, I. A. Sokolina, Ye. N. German, M. V. Bundina

“…Independent risk factors for HCC development include hepatitis B and C viruses, the level of hepatitis B viral load, the stage of liver cirrhosis, male gender, age over 40 years, alcohol intake and smoking. …”
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Children’s Characteristics as the Predictors of Stunting among Children Under 2 Years in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia by Tumaji, Agung D. Laksono, Hastin D. Kusumawardani

“…Conclusion: The study concluded that five children’s characteristics were related to the stunting incidence in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia: birth weight, birth length, early breastfeeding initiation, gender, and age.…”
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Masculinité et relations de genre dans la société secrète abakuá by Géraldine Morel

“…Indeed, its organization and its system of recruitment based on individual merit are at odds with that of people practising Santería or Palo Monte because these other Afro-Cuban cults are an exchange between gods and humans (trance, sacrifice or divination) and have an influence on everyday life problems.In fact, being abakuá implies a hyper-masculine, machismo gender construction. This article offers an analysis of the abakuá commitment from the perspective of gender and its representation in a public sphere. …”
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Mandibular Canine Dimorphism in Establishing Sex Identity in the Lebanese Population by Fouad Ayoub, Loubna Shamseddine, Mohamad Rifai, Antoine Cassia, Randa Diab, Ibrahim Zaarour, Maria Saadeh, Georges Rouhana

“…In forensic investigations, mandibular canines provide excellent materials to identify gender since they are more likely to survive disasters. …”
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Prognostic and clinicopathological significance of mucin family members expression in gastric cancer: a meta-analysis by Shunda Wang, Yongrun Mu, Jianwei Zhang, Chengfeng Wang

“…MUC5AC was highly positive in gender, depth of tumor invasion, WHO grade, TNM, lymph metastasis, and lymphatic invasion. …”
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Perspectives on delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services to young people: focus group discussions with civil society organizations in the Democ... by Landry Egbende, Viviane Mayala, Branly Mbunga, Nina Viberg, Mala Ali Mapatano, Tobias Alfvén, Eva Åkerman

“…Background Universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is fundamental to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals due to its impact on gender equality as well as women’s health and survival. …”
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Saudi dental postgraduate education (2013–2023): demographic shifts and potential employment challenges by Hussam M. Alqahtani, Layan Z. Alqahtani, Nouf H. Almutairi

“…Data were gathered on program types, gender, nationality, and geographic distribution. …”
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The impact of cultural origin on the psychiatric expertise in Switzerland: a focus on sexual violence illustrated by two criminal cases by Marco De Pieri, Neva Suardi

“…The consequences of sexual assault also differ, with shame prevailing in socio-centric societies and guilt in ego-centric societies. Rape and gender-based violence is influenced by masculinity and femininity concepts, the former identified with power. …”
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The Evaluation of CD10 and HER2 Immunohistochemical Markers in Urothelial Carcinoma of Urinary Bladder by Khalid W. Abdulfattah Khattab, Nadwa Subhi Alazzo, Banan Burhan Mohammed

“…A significant association was detected between stromal CD10 expression with the gender of patients, tumor grade, and muscle invasion (P = 0.0244, P = 0.004115, and P = 0.0378, respectively). …”
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Collaborative effect of workplace ostracism and self-efficacy versus job stress by Ambreen Sarwar, Muhammad Ibrahim Abdullah, Muddassar Sarfraz, Muhammad Kashif Imran

“…The study also investigates the moderating role of employees’ self-efficacy, gender, and work culture. Data was collected through a survey and structured questionnaires from employees working in both public and private sector banks in Pakistan. …”
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Socioeconomic disparities in multimorbidity of chronic diseases in the RaNCD cohort study by Roya Safari Faramani, Keyvan Samian, Farid Najafi, Yahya Salimi, Mitra Darbandi

“…The study findings identified age, gender, BMI, physical activity, and SES as key factors driving multimorbidity disparities. …”
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Measurement tools in the assessment of body image in the dancing context: a systematic review by Natalia Fraga-Pena, Marta Bobo-Arce

“…Quantitative methods are also useful, although silhouette scales offer a binary view of bodies and genders and should be reevaluated. …”
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Sleep problems were unrelated to social media use in the late COVID-19 pandemic phase: A cross-national study. by Tore Bonsaksen, Daicia Price, Gary Lamph, Isaac Kabelenga, Amy Østertun Geirdal

“…With adjustments for age, gender, employment, and psychological distress, more hours of daily social media use was not significantly associated with sleep problems. …”
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Estimation of nutrition status of school going children in the local area District Kohat, Pakistan by Shakir Ullah, Usman Saeed, Muhannad Iqbal Khan Rahman, Said Ullah, Umair Islam, Muhammad Kashif Gul, Yaseen Khan, Maryam Bibi, Basit Ali

“…While in the age of 11 to 15 years 24 students were stunting and 21 students were underweight.  Gender wise prevalence of stunted and underweight showed more boys than girls. …”
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Testing the Dual-State-Process assumption in the preventive care services use by Dimitris Zavras

“…The survey used stratified random sampling, and the sample selection strata were defined by age, gender, urbanity status of permanent residence and prefecture. …”
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Health-Related Quality of Life among Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: A Post-Treatment Follow-Up Study in Iran by Shahram Tofighi, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Jamil Sadeghifar, Mehdi Raadabadi, Jahanara Mamikhani

“…To examine the changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) in terms of age, gender, and treatment strategy in Iran. Methods and Materials. …”
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