Women Hospitalized for Acute on Chronic Decompensated Systolic Heart Failure Receive Less Furosemide Compared to Men by Tyler P. Rasmussen, Noah N. Williford, Christopher DeZorzi, Aziz Hammoud, Brenden J. Boyle, Yunshu Zhou, Patrick Ten Eyck, Milena A. Gebska

“…We studied 434 patients (31% female) with similar baseline characteristics. Females received significantly less furosemide compared to men for the initial dose, over the first 24 hours, and throughout their hospitalization. …”
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Gender and Ocular Manifestations of Connective Tissue Diseases and Systemic Vasculitides by Maria M. Choudhary, Rula A. Hajj-Ali, Careen Y. Lowder

“…Finally, Behcet’s disease is more common in males, and male gender is a risk factor for Behcet’s disease. There is a slight female preponderance in sarcoidosis with female gender carrying a worse prognosis in the outcome of ocular disease.…”
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Retinol and Retinyl Palmitate in Foetal Lung Mice: Sexual Dimorphism by Olga Carvalho, Carlos Gonçalves

“…In this work, we evaluate the lung retinoids content to study the possible difference between male and female mice during prenatal development and to comprehend if the vitamin A metabolism is similar in both genders. …”
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Multifractal-Multiscale Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals: A DFA-Based Characterization of Blood Pressure and Heart-Rate Complexity by Gender by Paolo Castiglioni, Davide Lazzeroni, Paolo Coruzzi, Andrea Faini

“…Results may be interpreted considering the distinct physiological mechanisms regulating heart-rate and blood-pressure dynamics and the different autonomic profile of males and females.…”
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Shards of the Glass Ceiling by Svetlana Seibel

“…I ask: what happens to representation when the corporate giant has a female face? It is my contention that female corporate leader characters tend to be embedded into a discourse of nurture which generates an additional moral tension in relation to the corporate machine, a tension which is uncommon for male characters of the same order but almost omnipresent in women characters. …”
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Pathology Survey on a Captive-Bred Colony of the Mexican Goodeid, Nearly Extinct in the Wild, Zoogoneticus tequila (Webb & Miller 1998) by Alessio Arbuatti, Leonardo Della Salda, Mariarita Romanucci

“…Encountered diseases included the following: 7 cases of scoliosis (2 males and 5 females); 2 fish with a similar congenital deviation of ocular axis; 1 adult male with left corneal opacity, presumably of traumatic origin; 1 female fish with a large subocular fluid-filled sac, histologically referable to a lymphatic cyst, similarly to the eye sacs of a Goldfish variety (Carassius auratus) called bubble eye; and 1 female fish with recurrent abdominal distension consequent to distal bowel dilation and thinning, associated with complete mucosal atrophy, and comparable to intestinal pseudo-obstruction syndromes described in humans and various animal species. …”
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« Épouser une femme indienne, c’est comme épouser une communauté entière… ». Nouvelles perspectives féminines dans une ville du Haut Rio Negro by Cristiane Lasmar

“…Among the patrilineal and virilocal indigenous communities of the Uaupés river, the « displaced » position of women is an essential constituent of female social experience, while male experience is centred on the notion of « belonging ». …”
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MOSES’ MOTHER IN EXODUS 2:1-10 AND MOTHERS IN PERSONAL NAMES AMONG THE IGBO PEOPLE, SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA by M.J. Obiorah, N.C. Okafor

“…The Hebrew Bible conveys these in narratives, while the Igbo people do so in female personal names. This article presents the role Moses’ mother played in saving him (Ex. 2:1-10) and similar actions of mothers in Igboland, as encoded in female personal names. …”
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HBO’s Black Women Artist Biopics: The Josephine Baker Story and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge by Hélène Charlery

“…Both films deviate from the victimizing approach that often prevails in female biopics and testify to innovative narrative methods.…”
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Asymptomatic Periprosthetic Joint Infection of the Hip with High-Virulence Pathogens: Report of Two Cases by Ruben A. Mazzucchelli, Christoph Meier, Yvonne Achermann, Peter Wahl

“…We report two cases of chronic PJI of the hip, one with Staphylococcus aureus in a 27-year-old female with severe anorexia, the other one with Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a 74-year-old female suffering from morbid obesity. …”
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Primary epithelioid trophoblastic tumor of the lung: A case report by Qiongying Zhang, Wenwen Sun, Zhen Zhang, Jianmin Li

“…Our case revealed that the ETT can occur in the lung and should be considered when a female had a tumor of lung with increasing β-HCG.…”
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Evaluation of Haematological and Immunological Status in Type 2 Diabetics by A. Sohna Chandra Packiavathy, M. Ramalingam

“…The study groups consisted of 220 patients (110 males, 110 females) and 220 age and sex matched control subjects (110 males, 110 females). …”
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« La bru Gemotsang s’est fait teindre en blond » by Françoise Robin

“…This article explores how an attentive reading of contemporary Tibetan literature makes it possible to describe the evolutions of female hairstyles and, by extension, the socioeconomic upheavals affecting today’s Tibetan young women. …”
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Ženská nucená práce v českých zemích 1939–1945 by Dana Musilová, Pavla Plachá

“…This system, on the one hand, used the female workforce in the same way as the male, but on the other hand, it had some gender-specific characteristics (women were forced to prostitution in camp brothels, pregnancy, maternity). …”
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Behavioral risk factors and socioeconomic inequalities in ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States: A causal mediation analysis using record linkage data. by Yachen Zhu, Laura Llamosas-Falcón, William C Kerr, Jürgen Rehm, Charlotte Probst

“…We found statistically significant natural direct effects of SES (HR = 1.16, 95% CI: 1.06, 1.27 in males; HR = 1.28, 95% CI: 1.10, 1.49 in females) on IHD mortality and natural indirect effects through the causal pathways of smoking (HR = 1.18, 95% CI: 1.15, 1.20 in males; HR = 1.11, 95% CI: 1.08, 1.13 in females), physical inactivity (HR = 1.16, 95% CI: 1.14, 1.19 in males; HR = 1.18, 95% CI: 1.15, 1.20 in females), alcohol use (HR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.06, 1.09 in males; HR = 1.09, 95% CI: 1.08, 1.11 in females), and BMI (HR = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.04 in males; HR = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.04 in females). …”
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The effect of different energy sources on growth performance, abdominal fat deposition and fatty liver syndrome in broilers, i. the effect on growth performance and abdominal fat d... by Şakir Doğan TUNCER, Reşat AŞTI, Behiç COŞKUN, Mehmet Ali TEKEŞ, Hüdaverdi ERER

“…Four hundred male and 400 female day- old Arbro -7 chicks were randomly distributed by sex into sixteen pens, each pen containing 50 chicks.…”
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Assessment of the effect of heterosis by productive parameters of young-of-the-year carps obtained from crossing Ukrainian and Polish breeds by H. Kurinenko, A. Derenko

“…It was found that in the first year of cultivation, the offspring obtained from crossing carp of Ukrainian and Polish selection allow, on average, increasing the productivity of fish farming water bodies compared to pure lines by 48.1% using Galician females, and by 54.6% using Nyvky females. The maximum manifestation of heterosis phenomenon in terms of individual body weight was observed in interbred YOYs obtained from Nyvky females, the superiority of which over pure lines was: for framed – 246.8%, for scaly – 230.5%. …”
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Level of physical activity of students from the police force academy in Bratislava by Gabriel Bujdos, Štefan Adamčák, Michal Marko, Anna Kozaňáková

“…When compared, male students in general were more active than female students - median of 30 minutes a week. Male students engaged in vigorous intensity physical activity on average more than 15 minutes a week compared to female students. …”
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Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study by M L Nhleko, I Edoka, E Musenge

“…This case-control study comprised a final selection of 23 581 cases (12 171 males and 11 410 females) and 23 581 controls (12 171 males and 11 410 females). …”
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The Assessment of Different Dietary Selenium Resources on Reproductive Performance, Spawning Indicators, and Larval Production of Red Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus × O. niloticu... by Mohammed A. E. Naiel, El-Sayed H. Eissa, Yasmin M. Abd El-Aziz, Saadea Saadony, Heba E. Abd Elnabi, Salah El-Sayed Sakr

“…Each pond received six prespawning females (mean initial weight, 60.9 ± 0.4 g) and two males (mean weight 80.3 ± 0.8 g) of red tilapia. …”
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