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Edward Helderop, Tony H. Grubesic, Dominique Roe-Sepowitz and Jorge A. Sefair
There is ongoing debate regarding the merits of decriminalization or outright legalization of commercial sex work in the United States. A few municipalities have officially legalized both the selling and purchasing of sex, while others unofficially crimi...
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Hugh Klein
The present study entailed conducting a content analysis of 1,434 ads/profiles posted on one of the most popular ?Men who have Sex with Men? (MSM) websites that specifically fosters unprotected sex. Ads/profiles were selected randomly based on the Americ...
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Nikola Pfauserová, Ondrej Slavík, Pavel Horký, Jitka Kolárová and Tomá? Randák
The introduction of non-native species and human-altered habitats are currently the main threats to freshwater ecosystems. Due to predation and competition, biological invaders can cause extinctions and imperil the status of native species, and this phen...
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David Mattie, Zihang Fang, Emi Takahashi, Lourdes Peña Castillo and Jacob Levman
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tractography is a powerful tool for non-invasively studying brain architecture and structural integrity by inferring fiber tracts based on water diffusion profiles. This study provided a thorough set of baseline...
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Roberto Besteiro, Tamara Arango, Manuel R. Rodríguez and María D. Fernández
This study characterizes the growth of weaned Large White × Landrace hybrid piglets from 6 to 20 kg live body weight (BW) under real farm conditions. Batches of 50 castrated male pigs and 50 gilts were weighed repeatedly over two 6-week breeding cycles. ...
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Meixiang Chen, Liping Chen, Tongchuan Yi, Ruirui Zhang, Lang Xia, Cheng Qu, Gang Xu, Weijia Wang, Chenchen Ding, Qing Tang and Mingqi Wu
Traditional traps for Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) monitoring require manual counting, which is time-consuming and laborious. Automatic monitoring devices based on machine vision for pests captured by sex pheromone lures have the problems of large...
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Kunqian Cao, Rongmeng Lan, Xiuju Yang, Bing Gong, Jingjing Zhang, Xia Zhou and Linhong Jin
Scopula subpunctaria (Herrich-Schaeffer) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) is a leaf-eating pest in tea plantations that often causes serious economic losses. Arma chinensis (Fallou) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) as a polyphagous insect has become one of the main b...
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Daniel Íncera-Fernández, Francisco J. Román, Santiago Moreno-Guillén and Manuel Gámez-Guadix
Sexualized drug use (SDU) has been identified as a health risk factor among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). This study aimed to analyze the associations between SDU frequency and a broad set of substances, motives, consequence...
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Harold Dadomo, Davide Ponzi, Silvia Paterlini, Stefano Parmigiani and Paola Palanza
Age-dependent cognitive decline is associated with a downregulation of the cyclic nucleotide cascade. Through their regulation of the cGMP pathway, phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors have been proven to enhance episodic memory in rodents and mice and have be...
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Sabrina Demarie, Jean Renaud Pycke, Alessia Pizzuti and Veronique Billat
Pacing strategy refers to the distribution of effort and speed throughout the race to achieve optimal performance. This study aims to understand whether the choice of pacing strategy in swimming depends on the length of competitions and how sex, age, and...
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Daniela Mokra, Romana Barosova and Juraj Mokry
Sex-based differences in bronchial asthma can already be observed in childhood, at which time allergic atopic asthma is more frequently found in boys than in girls. In adulthood, higher prevalence of asthma is reported in women, especially for the more s...
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Jeffery T. Podraza and Scott C. White
The utilization of the limb support moment allows for a concise assessment of the support needed within the lower extremity (hip, knee, ankle) to avoid collapse during impact decelerations. Insufficient support contributions may be identified at a partic...
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Florian Göttfert, Johanna Herzog, Christian Maurer-Grubinger, Gerhard Oremek, Fabian Holzgreve, David A. Groneberg and Daniela Ohlendorf
Introduction: An altered dental occlusion can also affect balance stability or mobility. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether wearing a mandibular splint, which retains the occlusion close to the centric occlusion, can increase or decrease ...
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Jeonghoon Han, Han-Jun Kim, Sung-Yong Oh and Young-Ung Choi
In this study, we investigated the reproductive pattern of the commercially and ecologically important species, Ostrea denelamellosa, to inform stock management strategies in South Korea. Prior to the reproduction experiment, the complete mitochondrial (...
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Jacqueline D. Bailey and Karen L. Blackmore
Despite the variety of applications that use avatars (virtual humans), how end-users perceive avatars are not fully understood, and accurately measuring these perceptions remains a challenge. To measure end-user responses more accurately to avatars, this...
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Maria Pallayova, Marek Brenisin, Alina Putrya, Martin Vrsko, Sylvia Drazilova, Martin Janicko, Maria Marekova, Daniel Pella, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Peter Urdzik, Peter Jarcuska and HepaMeta Team
Background: Health characteristics associated with uric acid (UA) in the Roma minority remain less well known. The study sought to determine the ethnicity- and sex-specific associations of serum UA with health factors in Eastern Slovakian Roma and non-Ro...
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Marina Oktapodas Feiler, Mary T. Caserta, Edwin van Wijngaarden, Kelly Thevenet-Morrison, Dwight J. Hardy, Yan Victoria Zhang, Ann M. Dozier, B. Paige Lawrence and Todd A. Jusko
Experimental and epidemiological evidence suggests that environmental toxicants may influence susceptibility to influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The objective of the present study was to estimate the association between blood lead concent...
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Il-Kweun Oh and Seung-Woo Lee
Deiratonotus japonicus (D. japonicus) is known as a near-threatened species, because of the changing conditions of its habitat. This species resides in isolated locations and in upstream, brackish waters from Kanagawa Prefecture to Okinawa Prefecture in ...
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So-Sun Kim, David Nahm-Joon Kim, Chang-Ju Lee, Hae-Kyun Yoo, Soon-Gyu Byun, Hyun-Jeong Lim, Jin Choi and Jang-Su Park
Our aim was to study the relationship between the sex-determining genes, sox9a and cyp19a, and water temperature in Gadus chalcogrammus. We assessed the sex ratio based on the expression levels of sox9a and cyp19a at different water temperatures (5, 8, 1...
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Weihua Dong, Zhicheng Zhan, Hua Liao, Liqiu Meng and Jiping Liu
Spatial orientation is an important task in human wayfinding. Existing research indicates sex-related similarities and differences in performance and strategies when executing spatial orientation behaviors, but few studies have investigated the similarit...
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