Teacher competency and work engagement among secondary school physical education teachers: the multiple mediating roles of occupational stress, emotional exhaustion, and profession... by Weisong Chen, Zhen Huang, Bo Peng, Lin Li, Jingsong Chen

“…Male teachers reported higher competency, professional achievement, and engagement, while female teachers experienced slightly greater emotional exhaustion. …”
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Developing a codesigned text message-based digital oral health education resource (TOOTH) by Shalinie King, Lauren Adriel Church, Edel O’Hagan, Dion Candelaria, Aboli Pawar, Ashley Cooper, Rebecca Chen, Alice Gibson

“…Results Eight multidisciplinary clinicians (dentist, oral health therapist, dietician, cardiac nurse, and dental nurse), 75% female with a mean age of 48 ± 10 years, and seven consumers from a metropolitan and a regional area in New South Wales, 43% female with a mean age 62 ± 11.6 years participated in the focus groups. …”
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Multistate Markov model application for blood pressure transition among the Chinese elderly population: a quantitative longitudinal study by Bin Zhao, Juan Xiong, Yuxin Wang, Xujuan Zheng, Yiqin Zhang, Liping Xu, Lina Zhou

“…Research was conducted to explore the process of hypertension progression, providing information on the transition probability, HR and the mean sojourn time in three blood pressure states, namely normal state, elevated state and hypertensive state.Results Probabilities of moving from the normal state to the hypertensive state in the first year were 16.97% (female) and 21.73% (male); they increased dramatically to 47.31% (female) and 51.70% (male) within a 3-year follow-up period. …”
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Evaluation of Relationship between Schemas and Panic Disorder through a Case Treated with Schema Therapy by Esra Yancar Demir, Gonca Soygüt

“…In this paper we report the schema formulation of a female patient who had an axis I panic disorder with B class personality and chronic life problems. …”
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Characterising SRD5A2 Gene Variants in 37 Indonesian Patients with 5-Alpha-Reductase Type 2 Deficiency by Nanis S. Marzuki, Firman P. Idris, Hannie D. Kartapradja, Alida R. Harahap, Jose R. L. Batubara

“…Although we were unable to identify clear correlations between genotypic and phenotypic characteristics in this study, we clearly showed that individuals who were homozygous or compound heterozygous for any of the harmful mutations were more likely to exhibit classic 5ARD2 phenotypes, lower EMS, female assignment at birth, and virilisation during puberty. …”
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Gonad Maturation of Clown Loach (Botia macracanthus) in Pond by Irzal Effendi, T. Prasetya, Agus Oman Sudrajat, N. Suhenda, K. Sumawidjaja

“…Two groups contain 4 female broodstock; I) carried and II) non-carried egg broodstock were reared in two separated hapas which placed in pond. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of Nonadherence to Diet and Physical Activity Recommendations among Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Southwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Getandale Zeleke Negera, Dariowani Charles Epiphanio

“…Predictors of nonadherence to physical activity are female gender, age > 60 years, being illiterate, diabetes duration of >5 years, and lack of social support. …”
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Factors associated with adolescent pregnancy among girls aged between 15 and 19 years in Muhanga district, Rwanda by Isaie Nshimiyimana, Mochama Monica, Amos Habimana

“…Methods The study involved 392 female adolescents aged 15–19 years in Muhanga district, Rwanda. …”
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Estimasi Gender Berbasis Sidik Jari dengan Wavelet dan Support Vector Machine by Sri Suwarno, Aditya Wikan Mahastama

“…This study used datasets from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), as many as 1000 samples consisting of 500 male fingerprints and 500 female fingerprints. Based on the experiments' results, this method produces an accuracy of up to 70.3% with a TPR (True Positive Rate) of 80.6% for female fingerprints and 60.0% for male fingerprints. …”
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Improvement in the effective cataract surgical coverage in Malaysia: evidence of impact from a mobile cataract outreach program by Mohamad Aziz Salowi, Nyi Nyi Naing, Norasyikin Mustafa, Wan Radziah Wan Nawang, Siti Nurhuda Sharudin, Mohd Aziz Husni

“…Results A total of 10,184 subjects were enumerated, with 9,709 examined and 475 non-respondents. Females had a significantly lower Cataract Surgical Coverage (CSC) than males for cataract surgical threshold of < 3/60 for both regions in National Eye Survey (NES) II in 2014, [Eastern female 82.0%, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) (72.5, 91.5) vs. male 97.8%, 95% CI (92.8, 100.0), Sarawak female 76.9%, 95% CI (66.4, 87.3) vs. male 96.4%, 95% CI (91.6, 100.0)]. …”
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Do sheep (Ovis aries) discriminate human emotional odors? by Izïa Larrigaldie, Fabrice Damon, Solène Mousqué, Bruno Patris, Léa Lansade, Benoist Schaal, Alexandra Destrez

“…Axillary secretions from 34 students were collected following an oral examination (stress odor) or a regular class (non-stress odor). Fourteen female and 15 male lambs were then exposed to these odors through a habituation-dishabituation procedure. …”
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Burden of Myasthenia Gravis in the Czech Republic: Analysis of the Nationwide Patient Registry by Stanislav Voháňka, Aleš Tichopád, Magda Horáková, Jana Junkerová, Michala Jakubíková, Jiří Piťha, Michaela Týblová, Daniela Vlažná, Katarína Breciková, Jacek Cudny, Petr Hájek

“…Conclusion Our analysis shows that the incidence of MG is increasing in the Czech Republic and that patients with refractory disease, of whom up to 58% are female, have a higher burden of disease than non-refractory patients.…”
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Antibody Responses and the Vaccine Efficacy of Recombinant Glycosyltransferase and Nicastrin Against <i>Schistosoma japonicum</i> by Bowen Dong, Haoran Zhong, Danlin Zhu, Luobin Wu, Jinming Wang, Hao Li, Yamei Jin

“…These findings demonstrate that recombinant glycosyltransferase and nicastrin are immunogenic and reduce female worm fecundity, supporting their potential as vaccine candidates against schistosomiasis.…”
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Comparison of Self-Efficacy and Knowledge of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination among Various Types of Decision Makers in Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Dora Samaria, Eva Tallutondok, Chandrayani Simanjorang, Imanuel Imanuel

“…Specific criteria were women aged 18-26 for SDM, sexually inexperienced female adolescents aged 9-17 for ADM, and mothers of eligible female adolescents for HDM. …”
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Argonaute2 modulates megakaryocyte development and sex-specific control of platelet protein expression and reactivity by Sophia Lazar, Jeremy G.T. Wurtzel, Shayan Askari, Matthew Cooper, Xuefei Zhao, Peisong Ma, Lawrence E. Goldfinger

“…However, Ago1 - undetectable in wild type platelets - was upregulated in Ago2-deleted platelets in both males and females, confirmed by immunoblotting. Female Ago2-deleted platelets selectively showed downregulation of a protein cohort established in breast cancer cells to be transcriptionally regulated by estrogen receptor-beta coupled to Ago2, whereas male Ago2-deleted platelets did not. …”
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Proportion and Associated Factors of Low Vision among Adult Patients Attending at University of Gondar Tertiary Eye Care and Training Center, Gondar Town, Ethiopia by Melkamu Temeselew Tegegn, Gizachew Tilahun Belete, Ayanaw Tsega Ferede, Aragaw Kegne Assaye

“…The prevalence of low vision found in this study was high as compared with the national and global magnitude. Older age, being female, previous history of cataract surgery, and no formal education were independently and significantly associated with low vision. …”
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Epidemiological features and risk factors of human psittacosis in Hangzhou City, eastern China by Zhou Sun, Ke Xu, Liangliang Huo, Xingliang Zhang, Yi Wang, Yonghui Gong, Bingbing Chen

“…Among the cases, 48.91% were female, and the median age was 63 years. There were more female cases among those aged &lt;60 years, while there were more male cases among those aged ≥60 years. …”
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Demographic and Clinical Determinants of Tuberculosis and TB Recurrence: A Double-Edged Retrospective Study from Pakistan by Mariam Ahmed Mujtaba, Matthew Richardson, Hira Shahzad, Muhammad Ishaq Javed, Ghazala Kaukab Raja, Pakeeza Arzoo Shaiq, Pranabashis Haldar, Sadia Saeed

“…In the present study cohort, low BMI, female gender, being single, middle-income status, being unemployed, smoking, and being diabetic came out to be the sociodemographic and clinical risk factors for TB. …”
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Donor age contributes more to the rheological properties of stored red blood cells than donor sex and biological age distribution by Olga Mykhailova, Mackenzie Brandon-Coatham, Sanaz Hemmatibardehshahi, Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh, Carly Olafson, Qi-Long Yi, Tamir Kanias, Jason P. Acker

“…On days 5, 14, 28, and 42 of hypothermic storage, RCCs from healthy teenage male (n = 15), senior male (n = 15), teenage female (n = 15), and senior female (n = 15) donors were biologically age profiled. …”
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Physician characteristics associated with the referral from general practitioners to dental surgeons and proposal for a referral letter template endorsed by dental surgeons in Fran... by Matthias Lamauviniere, Jan Chrusciel, Cassandre Finot, Adrien Basset, Maximillien Graftieaux, Aline Ohl-Hurtaud, Stéphane Sanchez

“…Results A group of 245 dental surgeons (mean age: 38.2 ± 11.1 years, 64.5% female) and 235 GPs (mean age: 36.8 ± 9.8 years, 71.9% female) participated in this study. …”
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