Constructing masculinity through ulwaluko: a scoping literature review by Mlamli Diko

“…The first one is the construction of male behaviors, attitudes, and identities, and the second one is the obstruction of acceptable cultural norms and values. …”
Get full text

Survival and Mortality in Hospitalized Children with COVID-19: A Referral Center Experience in Yazd, Iran by Farimah Shamsi, Mehran Karimi, Zahra Nafei, Elahe Akbarian

“…The median age of patients was 5.41, and 54.2% were male. The survival rate after one-month follow-up was 0.88, and the most significant predictors associated with survival time were the male sex, positive history of hospitalization, lymphopenia, hypoxia, and length of stay more than two weeks using Bayesian Cox regression analysis. …”
Get full text

The Development of Talent in Sports: A Dynamic Network Approach by Ruud J. R. Den Hartigh, Yannick Hill, Paul L. C. Van Geert

“…We show that the model provides good predictions for the distributions of grand slam victories in tennis (male players, n=1528; female players, n=1274), major wins in golf (male players, n=1011; female players, n=1183), and goals scored in the NHL (ice hockey, n=6677) and in FC Barcelona (soccer, n=585). …”
Get full text

Use of biologic response modifiers for the management of ocular inflammatory conditions by Erick Rivera-Grana, Jay Siak, James T Rosenbaum

“…We review and discuss, (1) a 60-year-old male with granulomatosis with polyangiitis and bilateral anterior scleritis who required rituximab; (2) a 25-year-old male with refractory, idiopathic, bilateral chronic panuveitis and retinal vasculitis, which was controlled with adalimumab after treatment failure with oral and topical corticosteroids, cyclosporine, and methotrexate; and (3) a 44-year-old female with unilateral blindness and juvenile psoriatic arthritis-related intermediate uveitis, who required adalimumab to control her complication of persistent macular edema. …”
Get full text

Pulmonary Embolism as a Rare Complication of Clomiphene Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Vinod Solipuram, Kishor Pokharel, Temple Ihedinmah

“…Clomiphene citrate is a selective estrogen receptor modulator, approved for treating infertility in females, but is being used as an off-label therapy in treating male hypogonadism. Very rarely, clomiphene can cause pulmonary embolism. …”
Get full text

Female Sprague Dawley Rats Show Impaired Spatial Memory in the 8-Arm Radial Maze under Dim Blue and Red Light by Michael Pirchl, Georg Kemmler, Christian Humpel

“…The aim of the present study was to explore if dim white (7.6–17.7 lux) , blue (1.3–2.3 lux), and red light (0.8–1.4 lux) affect spatial memory of male and female Sprague Dawley rats in the 8-arm radial maze. …”
Get full text

Representação descritiva em assembleias legislativas: gênero e raça como categorias de análise política by Orlando Lyra de Carvalho, Vitor de Angelo

“…The proposed model, based on the analysis of roles and electoral socialization mechanisms, compares the descriptive and substantive representation of women (N = 15) with a random sample of male deputies (N = 65), which made it possible to measure possible effects caused by factors such as gender and skin color in the legislative production and in the parliamentary performance of the sampled deputies. …”
Get full text

Primary Pleomorphic Liposarcoma of Liver: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by P. R. Thippeswamy Naik, Prem Kumar, P. Vinod Kumar

“…We present the thirteenth case, which occurred in an adult male patient. A 42-year-old male patient came to our outpatient department with complaints of pain abdomen, mass per abdomen, and weight loss. …”
Get full text

Boerhaave Syndrome, Pneumothorax, and Chylothorax in a Critically Ill Patient with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex by Mohsin Ijaz, Arsalan Rafiq, Sindhaghatta Venkatram, Gilda Diaz-Fuentes

“…Pneumothorax, multifocal micronodular pneumocyte hyperplasia, and chylothorax are rare complications of TSC. We report a young male with pneumothorax, lung nodules, and chylous effusion who developed empyema thoracis after esophageal rupture. …”
Get full text

Are future teachers academically motivated? by Myriam Alvariñas-Villaverde, Sara Domínguez-Lloria, María Eulalia Agrelo-Costas, Margarita Pino-Juste

“…The sample consisted of 266 female and 58 male university students of Primary Education and Early Childhood Education, with an average age of 21.77 years. …”
Get full text

Age-Dependent Constraints of Sex Allocation in a Parasitoid Wasp by Takatoshi Ueno

“…However, as the age of the females increased, the realized offspring sex ratio at wasp emergence was more male-biased than the sex ratio predicted at the time of oviposition. …”
Get full text

APPLICATION OF OCCLUSAL SPLINTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA: A SERIES OF THREE CASE REPORTS by Lenka Vavrickova, Jan Schmidt, Hana Hubalkova, Doriana Agop Forna, Martin Kapitan

“…The first case involves a 65-year-old male bruxist treated with a 3D-printed Muscle Relaxation Appliance to alleviate muscular facial pain and restore vertical dimension occlusion. …”
Get full text

A new species of woodlouse (Isopoda, Oniscidea) from the Canarian laurel forest by Raúl Orihuela-Rivero, Carmen Balibrea, Víctor Noguerales, Heriberto López, Pedro Oromí

“…This new species belongs to the Atlantic group (“scaber”) as defined by Vandel due to the structure of the male pleopod 1 and its “primitive” glandular system. …”
Get full text

Null Controllability of a Nonlinear Age Structured Model for a Two-Sex Population by Amidou Traoré, Okana S. Sougué, Yacouba Simporé, Oumar Traoré

“…The first problem is related to the extinction of male and female subpopulation density. The second case concerns the null controllability of male or female subpopulation individuals. …”
Get full text

European Wool Carder Bee, Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) by Samantha Gallagher, Andrea Lucky

“…Wool carder bees are so named because the female bee scrapes and collects the soft downy hairs (trichomes) of fuzzy plants to use in building a nest for her young. Some consider male wool carder bees very charismatic and enjoy watching them chase after other bees that invade their territory, while others would call them bullies based on male bees’ aggressive tendencies toward other bees when defending floral resources. …”
Get full text

Advanced Skeletal Muscle Mass Reduction (Sarcopenia) Secondary to Neuromuscular Disease by G. R. Pesola, V. Terla, M. Pradhan

“…We describe a young male patient chronically on a ventilator secondary to decreased mobility from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). …”
Get full text

Cytogenetics of Oryctes nasicornis L. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) with Emphasis on Its Neochromosomes and Asynapsis Inducing Premature Bivalent and Chromosome Splits at... by B. Dutrillaux, A. M. Dutrillaux

“…The meiotic particularity may thus be limited to male specimens from subspecies nasicornis.…”
Get full text

Non-pharmacological Methods Used in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by a Selected Group of People with T2DM in Colombo District, Sri Lanka: A Mixed-Method Study by Lakshani Herath, Manisha Kamalsiri, Perananthan Inthuja, Gayani P Gamage, Dinithi Vidanage

“…Adherence to family meal culture, resistance to follow dietary guidelines, aging, low income, and lack of time were reported by the participants as barriers to adherence. Although males spent more time on exercise compared to females (male vs. female; 36.1 vs. 15.3min, P = 0.025), both groups demonstrated poor glycemic levels (male vs. female; 141.3 ± 52 vs. 136.5 ± 42.2 mg/dl) and higher body mass index (male vs. female; 24.7 ± 4.7 vs. 25.8 ± 4.5 kg/m2). …”
Get full text

Assessing Pedagogical Innovations: Empowering Excellence with OSVE in Undergraduate MBBS Students at Rai Medical College,Sargodha by Mudaser hussain Abbasi, Kamran Arzoo, Muhammad Hammad Jatalla, Sundas Ahmad, Tanveer ZIa Qureshi, Zahid Masood

“…Chi square test was used to check the differences in proportions of perception of male and female concerning various aspects of OSVE. …”
Get full text

Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection in Mother and Son with a Central 22q11.2 Microdeletion by Signe Faurschou, Dorte L. Lildballe, Lisa L. Maroun, Morten Helvind, Maria Rasmussen

“…In this clinical report, we describe a male infant and his mother, who had similar congenital heart defects. …”
Get full text