Does access to ICTs equally matter for men and women in terms of academic exam performance? The case of middle education in Colombia by Jorge Leonardo Rodríguez Arenas, Luis Fernando Gamboa

“…No differential effects are found between males and females. …”
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Coccidiosis among goats in Baghdad Province - Iraq by Azhar Ali Faraj

“…The rate of infection in females (33.3%) was higher than in males (14.2%). …”
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Forked Fungus Beetle (suggested common name) Bolitotherus cornutus (Panzer) 1794 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Ummat Somjee, Andrea Lucky

“…Males use these horns in competitions with rivals for access to reproductive opportunities with females. These beetles spend most of their lives on or within shelf fungi that grow on decaying logs. …”
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Forked Fungus Beetle (suggested common name) Bolitotherus cornutus (Panzer) 1794 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Ummat Somjee, Andrea Lucky

“…Males use these horns in competitions with rivals for access to reproductive opportunities with females. These beetles spend most of their lives on or within shelf fungi that grow on decaying logs. …”
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Fertility differences between two wild-type <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> lines correlate with differences in the expression of the <i>Jheh</i> gene, which codes for an enzyme deg... by O. V. Andreenkova, N. V. Adonyeva, V. M. Efimov, N.  E. Gruntenko

“…The decreased level of juvenile hormone results in reproductive disorders in D. melanogaster females including a delay in the oviposition onset and a fertility decrease. …”
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Quality of Life in Yoga Experienced and Yoga Naïve Asian Indian Adults with Obesity by Shirley Telles, Sachin Kumar Sharma, Alok Singh, Niranjan Kala, Vikas Upadhyay, Jaideep Arya, Acharya Balkrishna

“…There were 596 Asian Indian obese adults (age range 20 to 59 years; group mean age ± SD; 43.9 ± 9.9 years): of whom (i) 298 were yoga experienced (154 females; group mean age ± SD; 44.0 ± 9.8 years) with a minimum of 1 month of experience in yoga practice and (ii) 298 were yoga naïve (154 females; group mean age ± SD; 43.8 ± 10.0 years). …”
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Long-term effects of maternal exposure to surgical stress at the earliest stage of pregnancy on blood pressure and behavior in offspring of OXYS rats by I. N. Rozhkova, T. N. Igonina, D. S. Ragaeva, O. M.  Petrova, E. Yu. Brusentsev, V. A. Naprimerov, S. Ya. Amstislavsky

“…Body weight (BW), systolic (SAP) and diastolic (DAP) arterial pressure as well as behavior in open field (OF) and elevated plus maze (EPM) tests were studied in the offspring of females exposed to surgical treatment during pregnancy (OXYS­PS) at the age of 3 mo. …”
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Epidemiology and clinicopathological features of soft tissue tumors in adolescents: a cross-sectional study by Ogochukwu Chioma Ofiaeli, Felix Emeka Menkiti, Victor Ifeanyichukwu Modekwe, Shirley Nneka Chukwurah, Ogochukwu Robinson Ofiaeli, Amalachukwu Okwukweka Odita

“…These findings suggest that adolescent STTs affect females more than males , involve the head and neck more and are more benign, with vascular tumours being the most common type of STT in this age group.…”
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The potential of the serum uric acid to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio as a predictive biomarker of diabetes risk: a study based on NHANES 2005–2018 by Jianming Yin, Chuanjie Zheng, Xiaoqian Lin, Chaoqiang Huang, Zhanhui Hu, Shuyuan Lin, Yiqian Qu

“…Subgroup analyses demonstrated that the predictive effect of UHR was more pronounced in females. Key variables selected via LASSO regression improved the model’s performance. …”
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Concentric and Eccentric Force Changes with Elastic Band and Isotonic Heavy Resistance Training: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Eric Folkins, Sidharth Sahni, John Ryan, Stacey Wooden, Gina Bushby, Christian Radzinski

“… # Hypothesis/Purpose The purpose was to examine the effects of a four-week isotonic low repetitions/heavy resistance strengthening program compared to a low repetitions/heavy resistance elastic band strengthening program on shoulder external rotation, hip abduction, and elbow flexion concentric and eccentric isokinetic force production in college aged untrained females. # Study Design Randomized Trial # Methods Twenty healthy females performed pre-and-post isokinetic (60 degrees/second) concentric/eccentric testing of the elbow flexors, shoulder external rotators, and hip abductors. …”
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Laboratory diagnosis of H. pylori among dyspeptic patients using Culture and Rapid urease test by Hogir Mohammed Shukri Saadi, Ali Yahya Saeed

“…In this research appear males were less positive for H. pylori than females by urease test and no such statistical association was noticed count on the sex and Helicobacter pylori pathogenicity via culture. …”
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Prevalence of Cholelithiasis and Associated Factors of Gallstone Formation after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital-Baghdad by Abdulrahman M. Mohammed, Abdulnaser M. Mohammed, Tuka Y. Hassan

“…Results: The mean age of patients was 36.5±5.21 (17–54) for females and 41.6 ±3.04 (24–58) for males. Gallstone formation happened in 49 cases (38.3%). …”
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Evaluation of Pentraxin-3 and Interleukin-6 Levels in Serum and Gingival Crevicular Fluid in Patients with Generalized Periodontitis and Periodontal Health Controls before and afte... by Siamak Yaghobee, Sadegh Hasannia, Fatemeh Hamidzadeh, Saman Valadan Tahbaz, Rojin Shahmohammadi, Farzaneh Poursafar

“…Materials and Methods: In this study, 22 patients with periodontitis (12 males and 10 females) and 22 periodontal health controls (11 males and 11 females) were selected. …”
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The impact of the Hsp67Bc gene product on Drosophila melanogaster longevity, fecundity, and acute heat stress tolerance by D. Malkeyeva, S. A. Fedorova, E. Kiseleva

“…We explain this phenomenon by a reduced number of ovarioles in Hsp67Bc-null females and enhanced macroautophagy in their germaria, which promotes the death of forming egg chambers. …”
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Dentists’ readiness to accept an electronic oral health surveillance system in Egypt using a modified framework of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT): a... by Hams H. Abdelrahman, Maha Hamza, Wafaa Essam, May Adham

“…EE had a greater positive impact on BI in females and in older dentists.…”
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Prevalence of overweight misperception and weight control behaviors among normal weight adolescents in the United States by Kathleen S. Talamayan, Andrew E. Springer, Steven H. Kelder, Emmanuel C. Gorospe, Karen A. Joye

“…There were 16.2% of normal weight students who perceived themselves as overweight. Females (25.3%) were more likely to perceive themselves as overweight than males (6.7%) (p < 0.05). …”
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Normative Values for Londrina ADL Protocol in Healthy Individuals in Age Group of 40–60 Years among Indian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study by Uttanoor Sreedevi, Gopala Krishna Alaparthi, Shyam krishnan, Kalyana Chakravarthy Bairapareddy, R. Anand, Vishak Acharya

“…The mean time taken among 40–49 years by females is 3.50 ± 0.50 min and by males is 3.73 ± 0.43 min. …”
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Clinical Outcome of Arthroscopic Management of Mucoid Degeneration of Anterior Cruciate Ligament by Madan Mohan Ballal, K. J. C. Chidanand, Vijendra Yadav, Akshay Dhanda, Chetan Nagaraja, Sachin K. Gowda

“…Results: Thirteen patients were males (54.17%), and eleven (45.83%) patients were females, with a mean age of 36.7 years for males (range 19–63 years) and 41.7 years for females (range 28–73 years). …”
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Temperature effects on the hormetic response of Myzus persicae after sublethal exposure to insecticides by Ana Paula Nascimento Silva, Camila Faria Chagas, Emanuel Lucas de Andrade Alves, Vinícius de Castro Carvalho, Khalid Haddi

“…Additionally, the total number of nymphs produced during the females' lifespan was increased after sublethal exposure to chlorpyrifos at 15 °C (LC1, LC5, and LC20) and at 20 °C (LC10) and to deltamethrin at 20 °C (LC1), 25 °C (LC5 and LC10) and 28 °C (LC1, LC5, and LC20). …”
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Impact of Comorbidities on the Severity of Disease & Outcome in Children with COVID 19 at a Tertiary Care Pediatric Hospital, Rawalpindi. by Rai Muhammad Asghar, Muddassar Sharif, Khalid Saheel, Isfandyar Khan, Abid Hussain, Rai Rijjal Ashraf

“…It has infected humans in all age groups, of all ethnicities, both males and females. It is considered that COVID-19, in those with underlying health conditions or co-morbidities, has an increasingly rapid and severe progression, often leading to death. …”
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