Coursebook Dependency in Secondary and Tertiary-Level EFL Teachers by Ozlem Ozen Tosun, Emrah Cinkara

“…It further aims to study how dependent English language teachers are on coursebooks and whether there are any relationships between teachers’ coursebook dependency levels and their genders, experiences, and academic backgrounds. Data collected from 324 language teachers working in secondary and tertiary-level EFL programs revealed that the scale is a valid and reliable instrument with five sub-scales to measure the dependency construct; the majority of the participants were medium dependent while high and low dependent teachers comprised less than half of the participants in total.…”
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A estética contemporânea: nova poética, novo olhar by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This text intends to make a reflection on some renowned poems of the contemporary brazilian literature, and on how this condition seems to determine a new look to this literature,subverting the knowledge, the forms, the genders, the concepts that at a certain point were sufficient to explain the literary text.…”
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De la violence au cadavre : étude d’une mort genrée by Anaelle Lahaeye

“…This persistence derives in part from the gendered representation of corpses, which renders the motif suitable for expressing stereotypes and their implications regarding different relationships to violence. …”
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Writing under the 'Auto/biographical Demand' in Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox (2012) and Exodus (2015) by Szidonia Haragos

“…It argues that Feldman writes under the 'auto/biographical demand' as the grandchild of Hungarian Holocaust survivors and redeploys the inherited story of gendered suffering during the Holocaust in order to reconfigure her own Jewish American identity. …”
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Collagen Fibril Diameter in Relation to Bone Site and to Calcium/Phosphorus Ratio by Panagiotis Berillis, Dimitris Emfietzoglou, Margaret Tzaphlidou

“…The order of magnitude for the above structural parameter was the same for both genders in both experimental species. In rats, the greatest mean diameter value was that for the femoral, while in rabbits, the one for the rear tibia demonstrating a dependence on bone use and life style. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF PREFERANCE OF HOMEOPATHICF TO ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT by Aymen Naeem

“…A total of 72 patients (both genders) were included in the study by using convenient sampling technique. …”
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Corps et vision du monde chez les Berbères de Kabylie by Tassadit Yacine

“…These forms of designation are very useful for anthropology, because they provide information on the different states of the subject (the organs are hierarchised, structured, gendered, etc.), on the relationship between the body and the social world (bodies are dead/living, old/young, strong/weak), and between the body and the emotions that permeate it in reality and symbolically. …”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…Far from being merely pastoral and nostalgic, the novel breaks new ground by engaging with gendered and technological strategies that distort the biotope of Wessex.…”
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L’autoreprésentation de femmes en conflit : les récits d’emprisonnement des suffragettes by Christian Auer

“…The two texts also indicate that the suffragettes were ready to take up any form of action that would enable them to challenge the patriarchal ideology of the time.Prisons and Prisoners and Memories of a Militant also shed some light on a time when the relations between genders were characterised by the passage from authority to power or from consensus to coercion.…”
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Just Who Was Wearing the Trousers in Victorian Britain? Violent Wives and Violent Women by Anne-Marie Kilday

“…Evidence from nineteenth century Scottish and English church and court records suggest that abusive behaviour by wives against their husbands was not uncommon, and indeed, more often than not, the violence meted out by these women was in a physical sense, more ‘damaging’ than that inflicted by their male counterparts.The intention of this paper therefore, is to examine—through a balanced gendered perspective—the ways in which domestic violence was carried out, the apparent reasons for this behaviour and the consequences of this type of aggressive activity for both offender and victim, regardless of sex.In doing this, it is hoped that the paper will shed new light on a traditionally one-sided argument.…”
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Entre conflits et pouvoir : le rôle des Africaines-Américaines dans la création des associations féminines noires (1890-1960) by Christine Dualé

“…By reacting against gendered violence slave women and former slaves created a dynamic that allowed them to take their oppression as Black beings and as females into account. …”
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The Driving Factors for the Rise of African Student Migration to Russia by Y. A. Mohammed, M. B. Denisenko

“…We compared the quality of education between both genders along with the quality of life. The findings also revealed that females are more interested in the quality of life than males, while males are more interested in the quality of education than females. …”
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(EFL) Learners’ Perspectives on Vocabulary Learning through Reading and Listening by Sara Jamal Mohammed Faraj

“…It was also found that there is no significant difference between both genders and age groups in vocabulary learning.…”
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Sisterhood in Academia - Storying our Experiences in Higher Education by Nereshee Govender, Nonhlanhla Khumalo, Grace Temiloluwa Agbede

“…Women's lived experiences in academia has notably focused on issues of inequality and systemic gendered barriers that lead to women opting out of academia. …”
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Endocrine Actions of Osteocalcin by Aurora Patti, Luigi Gennari, Daniela Merlotti, Francesco Dotta, Ranuccio Nuti

“…Recent provocative data from experimental observations in mice showed that the circulating undercarboxylated fraction of osteocalcin increases insulin secretion and sensitivity, lowers blood glucose, and decreases visceral fat in both genders, while it enhances testosterone production by the testes in males. …”
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The Investigation of Sex Differences in the Effect of Body Mass Index by Xiang Xiao, Weihua Wang, Rina Sa, Lin Qiu, Feng Liu

“…A total number of 6330 subjects in Shaanxi were examined using multivariable logistic regression to study the relationship between genders in different levels of BMI and prevalence of hypertension. …”
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Special Care Dentistry in a Patient with Prader–Willi Syndrome through the Use of Atraumatic Restorative Treatment under General Anesthesia by Caio Vinícius Gonçalves Roman-Torres, Sérgio Takashi Kussaba, Yasmin Comoti Vita Bantim, Roberta de Barros Antunes Almeida de Oliveira

“…Prader–Willi syndrome described in 1956 has a genetic origin, affecting both genders, varying in presence and intensity from individual to individual. …”
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Perceptions of branding in the clothing industry by Andrissa van Eck, Anské Grobler, Frederick Herbst

“…The results of this exploratory study indicated that (i) both male and female Black adolescents share positive perceptions towards branded clothes; (ii) although unbranded items were perceived as less favourable, their worth was not denied; and (iii) when it comes to possible differences in the two genders’ perceptions of designer labels versus non-designer labels, they speak with one voice: designer labels are much preferred. …”
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Retirement adjustment solutions: A comparative analysis using Shannon's Entropy and TOPSIS techniques by Mahdi Nakhaeinejad, Seyed Ebrahimi

“…Furthermore, this research examines the different views of personnel with varying job levels, work experience, and genders through statistical analysis, which is another contribution of this research. …”
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Frequency of Temporomandibular Disorders in Asymptomatic Removable Partial and Complete Denture Wearers by N. Dulčić, V. Jerolimov, J. Pandurić

“…No statistically significant difference in the occurrence of TMD was found between removable partial and complete denture wearers and between genders (P > 0.05). The most frequent tissue-specific diagnoses were osteoarthrosis (11%), total anterior disc displacement (9.1%) and partial anterolateral disc displacement (8.5%). …”
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