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The men who feed the world? Putting masculinities on the agenda for crop breeding research for development by Arff Tarjem, Ida, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…In this Perspective piece, we present a theoretically informed hypothesis of crop breeding organizations as representing spaces where masculinities associated with rurality, management, and science and technology come together in ways that may marginalize women and gender diverse individuals, including in intersection with sexuality, race, ethnicity, and disability. In developing this hypothesis, we draw upon theoretical and empirical insights from masculinity studies in rural sociology, management and organization studies, and feminist technoscience studies. …”
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AIDS and agriculture in Zambia by Byron, Elizabeth, Chapoto, Antony, Drinkwater, Michael, Gillespie, Stuart, Hamazakaza, Petan, Jayne, Thomas S., Kadiyala, Suneetha, McEwan, Margaret, Samuels, Fiona

“…This paper identifies the ways in which livelihood activities, within the prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and perceptions of risk in rural Zambia, can influence susceptibility to HIV, and how the nature and severity of the subsequent impacts of AIDS are modified by the specific characteristics and initial conditions of households, clusters, and communities. …”
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Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions by Feldman, Shelley, Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Bailey, Arwen

“…In practice, this means that thinking with an intersectional lens exposes how all identity categories including race, class, and gender, but also, sexuality, ability, nationality and ethnicity, and indigenous/migrant are not homogenous categories. …”
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Exploring relationship pathways to prevent intimate partner violence among young women in Malawi by Pereira, Audrey, Chunga, Joseph, Kafumba, Juba, Tsoka, Maxton, Barrington, Clare

“…However, few studies have addressed this topic in terms of youth romantic and/or sexual relationships. We conducted 39 in-depth interviews with young women aged 19-29 years in households participating in the Government of Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) to examine relationship formation, IPV triggers and experiences, and help-seeking behaviours. …”
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Manipulation of apomixis in Brachiaria breeding by Miles, John W., Valle, Cacilda Borges do

“…However, recent advances in understanding the genetics and cytogenetics of Brachiaria, and the creation of a tetraploid sexual B. ruziziensis have opened the way for controlled genetic manipulation. …”
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Manipulation of apomixis in Brachiaria breeding by Miles, John W., Valle, Cacilda Borges do

“…However, recent advances in understanding the genetics and cytogenetics of Brachiaria, and the creation of a tetraploid sexual B. ruziziensis have opened the way for controlled genetic manipulation. …”
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The architectural unit setting up and architectural characteristics of Néré, Parkia biglobosa, Jack, R. Br. (Fabaceae) by Adji, Beda Innocent, Akaffou, Doffou Sélastique, Letort, Véronique, Kang, Mengzhen, Wang, Xiujuan, Jaeger, Marc, Reffye, Philippe de, Kouassi, Kouadio Henri, Houphouet, Yao Patrice, Duminil, Jerôme, Caraglio, Yves, Sabatier, Sylvie

“…The tree then tran-sitions to an adult and old stage into a tree with a plagiotropic* axis in the proximal and distal parts, the trunk is built up by superimposing collapsed relay axes that gradually straighten, branching is sympodial*, growth is de-fined and sexuality is terminal and lateral. The ontogeny takes place in three phases: initiation of development and establishment of the crown (young), then flowering and establishment of the architectural unity (adult) and finally the death of secondary axes in the crown, duplication of the architecture by a series of partial and total reiterations (old). …”
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Micro plastics in the oceans and their effect on the marine fauna by Andersson, Elin

“…Additives such as bisphenol A and phthalates are otherwise known to be hormone disrupters and interfere with development and sexuality, but there is a lack of studies concerning exposure of additives via ingested micro plastics. …”
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Social hållbarhet i kollektivtrafikplanering : planeringsaktörers förhållningssätt och inkludering av sociala perspektiv. En studie av Metrobussystemet i storstadsområdet Göteborg by Haase, Sofia, Donalds, Emilia

“…Factors like gender, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, physical ability could all springhead restrictions of mobility which is a source of inequity. …”

Utomhusytor för fysisk aktivitet : med fokus på könsskillnader by Rusman, Mathilda

Komplikationer vid kastration av hanhund med eller utan föregående behandling med GnRH-agonister by Vinqvist, Evelina

Over twenty years of publications in Ecology: Over-contribution of women reveals a new dimension of gender bias by Fontanarrosa, Gabriela, Zarbá, Lucía, Aschero, Valeria, Dos Santos, Daniel Andrés, Núñez Montellano, María Gabriela, Plaza Behr, Maia C., Schroeder, Natalia, Lomáscolo, Silvia Beatriz, Fanjul, María Elisa, Monmany Garzia, A. Carolina, Alvarez, Marisa, Novillo, Agustina, Lorenzo Pisarello, María José, D’Almeida, Romina Elisa, Valoy, Mariana, Ramírez-Mejía, Andrés Felipe, Rodríguez, Daniela, Reynaga, Celina, Sandoval Salinas, María Leonor, Chillo, María Verónica, Piquer-Rodríguez, María

“…Biographical features like social and economic status, ethnicity, sexuality, care roles, and gender unfairly disadvantage individuals within academia. …”
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Current workflows in forage breeding scheme by Hernandez, Luis, Jauregui, Rosa

“…The process begins with interspecific crosses between Urochloa ruziziensis (sexual) and apomictic species like U. brizantha and U. decumbens. …”
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Vaccinering mot galtlukt – ett alternativ till obedövad kirurgisk kastrering av smågris by Ahlström, Therese

“…After the second injection the pigs express less aggressive and sexual behavior, and have a leaner carcass compared to surgical castrates. …”
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Caracterización bioquímica y molecular de germoplasma, evaluación de la tolerancia a la salinidad y obtención de híbridos en Buffel Grass by Griffa, Sabrina Mariana

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Responses of the Ethiopian fruit fly, Dacus ciliatus (Diptera, Tephritidae) to colored rectangles, spheres, and ovoids by Vayssières, Jean-François, Dal, F.

“…Orange colours were the most attractive to sexually mature females, whereas yellow colours were the most attractive to sexually mature males. …”
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Intimate partner relationships and gender norms in Mali: The scope of cash transfers targeted to men to reduce intimate partner violence by Lees, Shelley, Kyegombe, Nambusi, Diatta, Ampa Dogui, Zongrone, Amanda, Roy, Shalini, Hidrobo, Melissa

“…Physical violence was reported to be caused by tensions and disputes. Whereas sexual violence was contested, some women described sexual force as violence but men and women asserted that compliance in sexual matters by women was expected. …”
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Cash transfers conditional on schooling reduce IPV among young women in South Africa by Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

“…The program led to a 34 percent reduction in intimate partner physical violence by allowing girls to avoid potential violent partnerships, as transfers delayed sexual debut and lowered their number of sexual partners.…”
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Las feromonas y sus usos en el manejo integrado de plagas by Blanco Metzler, H.

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Marker assisted selection for reproductive mode in BR19 Interspecific Brachiaria Progeny Test with p779/p780 marker: Genotyping the BR19 progeny test for reproduction mode and find... by Perea, Claudia Samantha, Hernández, Luis Miguel, Jauregui, Rosa

“…We used the marker p779/p780 for selecting the apomictic hybrids, discarding the sexual plants. For the 3.3% potential sexual plants we detected by this method, we also assessed reproductive mode from the parental plant from which the seeds were collected, to test if it was a case of potential facultative apomixis. …”
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