Browsing by Subject "Gender"
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Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety
(2017)To-date no models adequately address the higher vulnerability of women to anxiety pathology, in contrast to other disorders, such as depression where ruminative thinking has been identified as accounting for women's greater ...
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Deconstructing the manager: discourses of power and resistance in popular cinema
(2012)Purpose – This article aims to explore how mainstream popular cinema, usually a vehicle of effortless and accessible entertainment, produces or reproduces prevailing discursive constructs about managers, management and ...
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Does psychological distress vary between younger and older adults in health and disease?
(2012)Objective: The effect of age on psychological distress remains controversial and it is unclear how a chronic medical illness influences this association. We aimed to compare the level of psychological distress between ...
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Gender, language and the periphery: grammatical and social gender from the margins
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016)
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Hommes galants, femmes faciles: etude socio-semantique et diachronique
(L'Harmattan, 2004)Cet ouvrage retrace les étapes de la construction socio-culturelle de l'opposition masculin/féminin à partir d'un grand corpus de textes informatisés. On y découvre comment le péjoration qui affecte le paradigme féminin ...
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Imaging sex/gender and autism in the brain: Etiological implications
(2017)The male preponderance in autism prevalence has brought together the disparate topics of sex/gender and autism research. Two directions of neuroimaging studies on the relationships between sex/gender and autism may inform ...
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Intersexion: langues romanes, langues et genre
(Lincom Europa, 2012)Le domaine de recherche qui se situe à la croisée entre le langage et le genre est particulièrement fécond : non seulement parce qu'il permet d'explorer les différents « genres » qui s'avèrent pertinents dans l'étude des ...
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No evidence for association of CTLA-4 gene polymorphisms with the risk of developing multiple sclerosis: A meta-analysis
(2007)We conducted a meta-analysis concerning the association of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) gene polymorphisms with the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). We identified 18 eligible studies ...
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Personality variables are associated with colorectal cancer patients' quality of life independent of psychological distress and disease severity
(2010)Objective: The aim of the present study was to test whether psychological distress and personality variables are independently associated with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in colorectal cancer patients, after ...
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Primary extranodal non Hodgkin's lymphoma of the head and neck in adults: A clinicopathological comparison between tonsillar and non tonsillar lymphomas
(1998)Primary extranodal NHL of the head and neck (HN-NHL) accounts for 10-20% of all cases of NHL. Despite their frequency, the natural history and biological behaviour of these lymphomas is poorly understood. In this study we ...
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Sex/Gender Differences and Autism: Setting the Scene for Future Research
(2015)Objective The relationship between sex/gender differences and autism has attracted a variety of research ranging from clinical and neurobiological to etiological, stimulated by the male bias in autism prevalence. Findings ...