Effect of Gender on the Use of Food Markers in Selected Iranian Novels based on Markedness Theory by Azadeh Sharifi Moghaddam, Mahdyeh Dehghani

“…The common marked features identified in the texts belonging to both groups were ‘happiness’, ‘belief’ and ‘empathy’, but there was no case for ‘wealth’ in the men's novels. The findings of this research indicate a significant relationship between gender and food function in the corpus of the study. …”
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Concentrations of Selected Adipokines, Interleukin-6, and Vitamin D in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Respect to Thyroid Cancer Stages by Jakub Warakomski, Ewa Romuk, Barbara Jarząb, Jolanta Krajewska, Lucyna Siemińska

“…Using logistic regression waist circumference ≥ 88 cm in women and ≥102 cm in men, upper tertiles of IL-6 and leptin were associated with a higher clinical stage. …”
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Sacred Bonds or Sinful Ties? Interreligious Marriage in Islamic Law by Rafli Zidan Eka Ramadhan, Rohadhatul Aisy, Shofriya Qonitatin Abidah, Fateema Muslihatun Najihah, Bagus Hendradi Kusuma

“…Islamic jurisprudence, derived from the Quran, Hadith, and scholarly consensus, generally prohibits Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men while allowing Muslim men to marry Christian or Jewish women under specific conditions. …”
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Reduced interhemispheric connectivity in traumatic brachial plexopathies after bionic reconstruction by Galia V Anguelova, Agnes Sturma, Oskar Aszmann, Mehmet S Yildirim, Anna Boesendorfer, Victor Schmidbauer, Karl-Heinz Nenning, Gregor Kasprian

“…Additionally, functional connectivity, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and cortical thickness were analyzed.Six healthy controls (4 men, median age 27, range 22–54), three TBPL patients without prosthetic reconstruction (3 men, median age 50, range 19–58), and two TBPL patients with a prosthetic reconstruction (2 men, median age 41, range 40–41) were included. …”
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The impact of a hazardous external environment on the quality of life, physical activity, and health of students in Ukraine, Poland, and Romania by Vladimir Potop, Igor Vypasniak, Iryna Ivanyshyn, Vasyl Lutskyi, Iryna Kryventsova, Lyudmila Shesterova, Krzysztof Prusik

“…In Poland, women reported better mental health (58.67±15.94) compared to men (55.09±12.82). Men demonstrated better physical health indicators (50.50±6.96) compared to women (47.58±6.57). …”
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Immunogenicity of the 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine: Post hoc analysis from five phase 3 studies by Anna R. Giuliano, Joel M. Palefsky, Stephen E. Goldstone, Jacob Bornstein, Ilse De Coster, Ana María Guevara, Ole Mogensen, Andrea Schilling, Pierre Van Damme, Corinne Vandermeulen, Misoo C. Ellison, Susan Kaplan, Jianxin Lin, Rachael Bonawitz, Alain Luxembourg

“…Adjusted integrated analysis showed lower immunogenicity in men who have sex with men (MSM) versus heterosexual men (HM) for nine HPV types, and higher immunogenicity in HM versus females for seven HPV types. …”
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Factors influencing waist circumference among urban bank employees in Northeast Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study by Woynshet Yimer, Lakew Asmare, Fikre Bayu Gebeyehu, Tihtna Alemu, Anisa Mehamed, Fanos Yeshanew Ayele

“…The overall mean ± standard deviation (SD) of the waist circumference of the employees was 81.7 ± 6.8 cm, with 82.4 ± 6.5 cm for men and 80.7 ± 7.2 cm for women. The overall prevalence of central obesity was 57.7%, with 48.2% for the men and 70.3% for the women. …”
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Development of an artificial intelligence-based application for the diagnosis of sarcopenia: a retrospective cohort study using the health examination dataset by Chang-Won Jeong, Dong-Wook Lim, Si-Hyeong Noh, Sung Hyun Lee, Chul Park

“…SMA/BMI best reflected the loss of muscle mass in healthy populations by age, showing a more remarkable decrease in muscle mass in men than in women. The values for men gradually decreased after their 20s, and that for women gradually decreased after their 40s, which progressed to a more dramatic decline in the 70s for both sexes. …”
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Electrical and Viscoelastic Parameters of Erythrocytes as a Part of Diagnostic Models for Differentiating Fatty Liver Disease of Mixed Genesis from Non-Alcoholic and Alcohol-Relate... by M. V. Kruchinina, M. F. Osipenko, M. V. Parulikova, A. A. Gromov

“…Aim: creation of diagnostic models including electrical, viscoelastic parameters of erythrocytes to distinguish fatty liver disease of mixed etiology (metabolic + alcoholic) from non-alcoholic and alcoholic fatty liver disease.Materials and methods. We examined 46 men with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), 43 men with alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD), as well as 54 men with fatty liver disease (FLD) of mixed genesis (metabolic + alcohol-related); average age of the patients included in the study made 48.4 ± 9.6 years. …”
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Cancer mortality and sectors of employment: a cohort study in Italy by Stefania Massari, Lisa Bauleo, Claudio Gariazzo, Paola Michelozzi, Luca Dei Bardi, Nicolas Zengarini, Sara Maio, Massimo Stafoggia, Marina Davoli, Giovanni Viegi, Giulia Cesaroni, Alessandro Marinaccio, on behalf of the BIGEPI Collaborative Group

“…Results The study population comprised 910,559 (52% of the total population of the cohort after linkage with INPS) 30 + yr employees (53% men and 47% women) followed for a total period of approximately 7 million years. …”
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Association between sex steroid hormones and α-klotho: Results from the NHANES 2013-2016 and Mendelian randomization study by Andong Guo, Pengcheng Chen, Jishuang Cao, Chenrui Wu, Sentai Ding

“…Furthermore, results from MR analyses reaffirmed positive associations of TT and Bio-T with α-Klotho in men (TT: β = 3.54, 95 % CI: 1.63–5.44, P = 0.0003; Bio-T: β = 1.74, 95 % CI: 0.73–2.74, P = 0.0007). …”
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Investigation of 23 Bile Acids in Liver Bile in Benign and Malignant Biliary Stenosis: A Pilot Study by Stanislav Rejchrt, Milos Hroch, Rudolf Repak, Tomas Fejfar, Tomas Douda, Darina Kohoutova, Eva Peterova, Jan Bures

“…A total of 73 patients entered the study: 7 subjects with benign biliary stenosis (6 men, 1 woman; 68±13 years old), 21 with malignant biliary stenosis (15 men, 6 women; 72±14 years old), and 45 patients without biliary stenosis (22 men, 23 women; 70±13 years old); out of those, 25 subjects have and 20 do not have choledocholithiasis. …”
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Cancer mortality trends after implementation of the national programme for dispensarization of certain groups of the adult population: a population-based study from arkhangelsk, no... by L. E. Valkova, M. L. Levit, V. M. Merabishvili, A. Yu. Pankrateva, M. V. Krupina, D. M. Dubovichenko, A. V. Agaeva, A. Yu. Ryzhov, E. F. Potekhina, M. Yu. Valkov

“…In lung cancer, there was a decrease in age-standardized mortality rates for men from 64.7 to 60.3 per 100,000 population and an increase from 5.1 to 6.5 per 100,000 for women. …”
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Association Between Triglyceride–Glucose Index and Carotid Plaque Stability in Different Glycemic Status: A Single‐Center Retrospective Study by Guijun Huo, Jin Zheng, Junjie Cao, Lili Zhang, Zhichao Yao, Yuqi Zeng, Yao Tang, Zhanao Liu, Ziyi Tan, Dayong Zhou

“…The association between the TyG index and an unstable carotid plaque was similar between men and women, despite the fact that the odds ratio (OR) tended to be higher in men (OR, 2.80 [95% CI, 2.04–3.83]) than women (OR, 2.07 [95% CI, 1.51–2.82]), and higher in older patients (aged >60 years; (OR, 3.59 [95% CI, 2.74–4.70]) than middle‐aged patients (aged ≤60 years) (OR, 2.00 [95% CI, 1.36–2.95]). …”
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Does the habitual dietary intake of adults in Bavaria, Germany, match dietary intake recommendations? Results of the 3rd Bavarian Food Consumption Survey by Florian Rohm, Nina Wawro, Nina Wawro, Sebastian Gimpfl, Nadine Ohlhaut, Melanie Senger, Christine Röger, Martin Kussmann, Kurt Gedrich, Jakob Linseisen, Jakob Linseisen

“…Intake distributions in men and women were described as percentiles. These data were used to estimate the proportion of persons meeting dietary intake recommendations. …”
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Effects of Bride Price on Women's Rights Among the Bakiga in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kitumba Sub-County. by Asiimwe, Bettus

“…The researcher also found out that a significant number of respondents tie domestic violence to bride price; men butter their women because they paid for them. …”
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Double Day Work: How Women Cope with Time Demands by Suzanna Smith, Diana Converse

“…FAR5047, a 2-page transcript of the Family Album Radio Program broadcast by Suzanna Smith and Diana Converse, describes the imbalance between women in the work force and men in the amount of time spent on household duties, and the strategies women develop for combining the demands of work and family. …”
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Learning to Be a Father: How is it done? Isn't there a manual somewhere? by Kate Fogarty, Garret D. Evans

“…FCS2138, a 5-page fact sheet by Kate Fogarty and Garret D. Evans, discusses ways men can learn how to be good fathers. Includes recommended resources in English and Spanish, and references. …”
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Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower : vers une redéfinition cosmique de l’appartenance by Laurence Estanove

“…In Two on a Tower (1882), Hardy considers the individual’s possibility of belonging to a much larger group than the social community of men, by confronting his astronomer-protagonist with the frightening boundlessness of the cosmos. …”
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Greek Gods and Ancient Mortals ‘Resurrected’ in Terracotta Figurines Discovered in Turkey by Yasemin Saplakoglu

“…Archaeologists have discovered dozens of terracotta figurines that are over 2,000 years old, including ones that depict gods, goddesses, men, women, cavalry and animals. Some of the figurines still had paint on them and some had inscriptions — and all opened a window into life in the ancient town of Myra, in what is now modern-day Demre in Turkey.…”
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