Increased birth rank of homosexual males: disentangling the older brother effect and sexual antagonism hypothesis by Raymond, Michel, Turek, Daniel, Durand, Valérie, Nila, Sarah, Suryobroto, Bambang, Vadez, Julien, Barthes, Julien, Apostolou, Menelaos, Crochet, Pierre-André

“…To clarify this situation, we developed theoretical and statistical tools to study FBOE and AE independently or in combination, taking into account all known sampling biases. …”
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Factors Affecting the Teaching and Learning of English Language in Primary Schools in Kitumba Sub-County Kabale District. by Owomugisha, Justine

“…Data was analyzed using various statistical techniques. Regression analysis and Pearson’s coefficient of correlation were carried out using the statistical package for social scientists (SPSS). …”
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Orphans in Mediterranean antiquity and early Christianity by J. T. Fitzgerald

“…Part 1 gives the ancient definition of “orphan” as a “fatherless child” and statistical estimates for the percentage of children who had lost their father. …”
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Gender and Entrepreneurship: a comparative study between the Causation and Effectuation approaches by Felipe Luiz Neves Bezerra de Melo, Rafael Rodrigues da Silva, Tatiane Nunes Viana de Almeida

“…The results show a positive and statistically significant association between the female gender and the Causation perspective.…”
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Alcohol and Drug Use During Adolescence: Problems and Solutions that Youth Professionals Need to Know by Kate Fogarty, Mark A. Brennan

“…By fostering such environments, Extension agents can actively involve youth in programs, while also directly contributing to their personal development. Statistics on the problem at a national and local level, solutions at the community and family levels, and implications for extension programming will be discussed. …”
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Hankel determinants and Jacobi continued fractions for $q$-Euler numbers by Chern, Shane, Jiu, Lin

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The Personal Values of Small-Business Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Brazil by Daniel Lima, Edson Kubo, Eduardo Oliva

“…The finding that only one of the ten independent variables has been considered statistically influential on professionalism constitutes its main theoretical contribution. …”
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Mapping of Themes Pertaining to Operations Management: a Refined Analysis Based on the Perceptions of Researchers, Lecturers and Practitioners by Jurandir Peinado, Alexandre Reis

“…A factor analysis was performed with the data collected by means of the survey and several statistical tests were also carried out in order to assess the strength of the constructs and to confirm the dimensions proposed in the referred mapping of Operations Manage ment themes, allowing for its refinement. …”
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A concepção dos espíritas sobre assistência social by José Pedro Simões Neto

“…In order to do the data analysis, the “AntConc (3.4.4)” software was used for observing the most frequent words in the authors’ discourses and the statistical correlation among them as well. Some categories to analyze were pre-selected, such as: charity, assistant and assisted, among others. …”
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Strategies for Conducting Community Forums by Lisa A. Guion

“…A community forum can supplement secondary data/statistics (analyzed needs) by enabling educators to learn the expressed needs/issues/problems of their clientele groups and stakeholders. …”
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Non-Expansive Multi-Valued Mappings and Convexity in Fuzzy Metric Space by Mohammad Rashid

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Modelling the effects of climate policy on firewood collection and women’s welfare in developing countries by Raavi Aggarwal

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Evolution of machine learning in financial risk management: A survey by Lu Kuan-I

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Dysfunctional Consumer Behavior: Proposition of a Measurement Scale by Marília Lara Marcondes Machado de Oliveira, Andres Rodriguez Veloso

“…The data was collected over the Internet (Amazon Turk) and the statistical meth ods used for the scale development were cluster and discriminant analysis. …”
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Study on Professors’ Perception With Respect to Higher Education Institutions’ Socially Responsible Initiatives by Adriano Stadler, Edson Andrade dos Reis, Elaine Cristina Arantes, Jansen Maia Del Corso

“…Descriptive analysis and multivariate statistics (cluster and factorial analysis) provided empirical evidence to the research. …”
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El sujeto de derecho de las minorías. Nuevas categorías y una crítica a la concepción de los derechos diferenciados en función de grupo de Will Kymlicka by Dante Palma

“…Will Kymlicka ha sido considerado como compatibilizador de liberales y comuni- taristas en cuanto a los derechos de las minorías. …”
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Grounding and improving assessment in higher education: a way of promoting quality education by Isabel Fialho, Marília Cid, Marcelo Coppi

“…Data were analyzed using statistical procedures that consisted of frequency analysis and non-parametric analysis, using the Mann–Whitney and Wilcoxon tests. …”
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Strategies for Conducting Community Forums by Lisa A. Guion

“…A community forum can supplement secondary data/statistics (analyzed needs) by enabling educators to learn the expressed needs/issues/problems of their clientele groups and stakeholders. …”
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The Impact of the International Accounting Convergence on Income Smoothing in Brazillian Companies by Roberto Carlos Klann, Ilse Maria Beuren

“…In the data analysis, were applied statistical techniques of multivariate linear regression, Ftest and Pearson correlation. …”
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Digital fiber length determination for injection molded glass fiber reinforced composite materials by Andreas Grießer, Nelly Nunheim, Oliver Rimmel, Erik Glatt, Anne Blumer, Hans Hagen, Andreas Wiegmann

“…The properties of these materials depend on microstructural geometric statistics, making the analysis of individual fibers a powerful tool in material engineering. …”
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