High risk of asthma among early teens is associated with quantitative differences in mite and cat allergen specific IgE and IgG4: a modified Th2 related antibody response revisited... by Thomas A. Platts-Mills, Behnam Keshavarz, Jeffrey M. Wilson, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Samuel M. Ailsworth, Joanne E. Sordillo, Lisa Workman, Martin Chapman, Jonas Lidholm, Emily Oken, Diane R. Gold

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Most prevalent jobs of young master’s degree graduates by detailed field of study by Marc Frenette, Tomasz Handler

“…In some disciplines, only a very small share of graduates landed the most prevalent job. Among men and women, the discipline with the lowest concentration of graduates in the most prevalent job was history, general (7.2% and 7.1% worked as secondary school teachers, respectively). …”
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Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? by Joanne E Embree, Michelle Alfa, Joy Lertzman, Gloria Gray, Carlos Fajardo, Annalee Yassi

“…Throat colonization by U urealyticum was demonstrated in 7.3% (95% ci 0 to 15.6%) of 41 nurses working in the intensive care nurseries but in none of the 48 nurses working in other locations or the 66 other individuals tested (P=0.02). …”
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Gender differences in business travel: Implications for hotel and destination management by Ángel MILLÁN, M. Luisa FANJUL, Marta RETAMOSA

“…Previous studies have attained very little knowledge in terms of understanding how gender works as regards differentiating business travellers’ behaviour. …”
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Quantile and interquantile regression models for returns to education by economic sector and vulnerable population in Colombia by Jacobo Campo-Robledo, Cristian Castillo-Robayo, Julimar da silva Bichara

“…Traditional Mincerian socioeconomic variables such as gender, experience, hours worked, marital status, relationship with the head of the household, and social security affiliation, were controlled for. …”
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Psychosocial Effect of COVID-19 Phobia in Health Workers in the Pandemic Service and Intensive Care by Merve Bülbül, Ayşe Nur İnci Kenar, Gonca Ayşe Ünal

“…Results: The mean age of the participants was 32.5±7.4 years and 74% of them were women. Of them 29% were doctors, 52% were nurses, 19% were allied health personnel and 66% worked in the service, 29% in the intensive care unit and 5% in both. …”
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PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF QUANTITY SURVEYING PROFESSION IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY by Joel Ochieng WAO

“…Thus, it was recommended that further research be conducted focusing on gender equality and propose ways to encourage women to join the quantity surveying profession. …”
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Community Partners in Evaluation and Change by Jeffry Will, Tracy Milligan, Timothy Cheney

“…As new opportunities for funding became available, Magnolia moved from its “traditional” focus of women who come to, or are referred to, the clinic site to a broad-based Community-wide focus in order to address the underlying symptoms affecting the community’s health and the disparities this community faces. …”
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Exploring barriers and facilitators of primary care physicians towards optimising statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidaemia in the very high-risk group: a qualitative study i... by Chun Yen Beh, Rose Wai-Yee Fok, Lay Hoon Goh

“…Objectives To explore the perspectives of primary care physicians with regard to the barriers and facilitators towards optimising statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidaemia in the very high-risk group.Design Qualitative descriptive study.Setting Four polyclinics in a public primary care institution in Singapore.Participants Seven men and five women working as primary care physicians were recruited for in-depth interviews.Results The major barriers to statin optimisation identified were patients’ lack of knowledge and awareness, patients’ fear of side effects, negative external influences on patients, poor doctor–patient relationship, time constraint during consultations, physicians’ unfamiliarity with guidelines, low health literacy among the local population and lack of strong national policy. …”
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Simulating the Emergence and Survival of Mutations Using a Self Regulating Multitype Branching Processes by Charles J. Mode, Towfique Raj, Candace K. Sleeman

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A Practical Cache Partitioning Method for Multi-Core Processor on a Commercial Safety-Critical Partitioned RTOS by Taeho Kim

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Investigating Online Quran Interpretation: Methods and Sources on Muslimah.or.id and its Contribution to Online Islamic Discourse by Dewi Rahmawati, Mohamed Sharei Abouzeid, Andri Nirwana AN, Syamsul Hidayat, Ainur Rhain

“…Interpretations focus on individual letters, specific themes, and contemporary Muslim women's issues. Authors cite reference sources, and interpretations are diverse, reflecting at least four distinct methods. …”
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Tarsal metric trends over the Medieval-Post-Medieval transition in London by Malorie E. Albee

“…With urbanization and industrialization came resultant changes in living and working conditions and subsequent effects on the skeleton. …”
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GENDER STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP by N. V. Кhamitov, D. D. Dandekar

“…Theoretical basis. The works of Ukrainian and foreign scholars helped to find out the specifics of male and female leadership. …”
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Morphometric analysis of orbit in Turkish population: a MDCT study by Ahmet Kağan Karabulut, Nadire Ünver Doğan, Mustafa Koplay, Büşra Pirinç, Zeliha Fazlıoğulları

“…The height and width of the orbit were found to be statistically significantly larger on both sides in men than in women (p˂0.05). Conclusion: Comprehensive information about the orbit and associated apertures is quite important for clinicians working in this area, damage to these structures can cause serious complications. …”
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Improving the experience of health services for trans and gender-diverse young people and their families: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Stepney, Samantha Martin, Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Jay Stewart, Richard Ma, Adam Barnett

“…Doctors and people who work in health care also spoke about not feeling supported. …”
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SEXUAL REPRESENTATION IN THE POSTMODERN PHILSOPHICAL DISCOURSE by Iryna A. Koliieva

“…Unfortunately, the category of sexuality is still the way of women’s oppression. Nevertheless, this category is now an important tool when representing the versatile nature of feminine subjectivity. …”
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Inability to perform the five-chair stand test predicts increased risk of sarcopenia in nursing home residents by Martin Šporin, Dorjana Zerbo Šporin

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the ability to perform the five-repetition chair stand test on the prevalence of sarcopenia in residents of western Slovenian nursing homes. 83 candidates (age 83.8±7.6 years, 69% of whom were women) we included in the study. The prevalence of sarcopenia was determined according to European Working Group for Sarcopenia guidelines and the five-repetition chair stand test was used to assess physical performance. …”
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Extremely serious maternal morbidity by María Laura Gutiérrez Alba, Mireya Cepero Montalván

“…Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out at the “Mariana Grajales” Provincial Gynecological-Obstetric University Hospital and the “Arnaldo Milián Castro” Provincial Clinical Surgical University Hospital. We worked with the entire population, defined by patients with a diagnosis of extremely severe maternal morbidity in the aforementioned context. …”
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Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…It also explores the political dimensions of Howe’s use of intertextuality, denouncing China’s history of repression and censorship, as well as the violence against women and the anxiety of miscegenation in traditional culture. …”
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