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Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty
Theoretical models of mortality selection have great utility in explaining otherwise puzzling phenomena. The most famous example may be the...
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Participant Selection Modes for Policy-Develo** Collectives
This chapter compares four modes of selecting participants of decision-making collectives (open access, random choice, targeted recruitment, voting)...
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Aggravating Students’ Structural Vulnerabilities: Cruel Miseries of Selection for ‘Success’ in Schools with Power-Marginalised Intake
This paper explores how schools with students from power-marginalised positions—refugee, immigrant and working class—channel policy pressures in ways...
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The Role of Sexual Selection in the Evolution of Facial Displays in Male Non-human Primates and Men
ObjectiveSexual selection theory provides a framework through which some facial displays of male non-human primates can be investigated and...
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The Weak Negative Selection Pressures Hypothesis
In the current chapter, I will argue that there are good reasons to believe that alleles which predispose for same-sex attraction, constitute mutated...
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Exploring Preparations for Sex Selection: Opportunities and Hurdles
Our busy schedule of teaching and training at PGIMER kept us on toes. Nevertheless, I was quite persistent in asking people around us about those...
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Potential landfill sites selection using GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis in Dodoma capital city, central Tanzania
Solid waste management is a global challenge, especially in develo** countries due to the rapid increase in population and urbanization where the...
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History and Theory of Public Policies Against Sex Selection
This chapter explores the historical and theoretical foundations of public policies against sex selection. It starts out by highlighting the diverse...
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Gender-Biased Sex Selection in South Korea, India and Vietnam Assessing the Influence of Public Policy
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of public policy on sex selection. Three Asian countries were chosen for the comparative...
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Indigenous Preparations for Sex Selection: How Did Research Begin?
It was the afternoon of October 22, 2002. A training program for medical officers was organized at State Institute of Health and Family Welfare...
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Tackling selection bias in sentencing data analysis: a new approach based on a scale of severity
For reasons of methodological convenience statistical models analysing judicial decisions tend to focus on the duration of custodial sentences. These...
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The Relation Between Residential Self-Selection and Urban Mobility in Middle Eastern Cities: the Case of Alexandria, Egypt
The present paper attempts to fill a part of the gap in the studies on residential location choices and their relations to urban mobility,...
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Religious Attendance and Social Support: Integration or Selection?
Although numerous studies have shown that religious attendance is associated with greater social support, concerns remain about selection into...
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Multivariate Intra-Sexual Selection on Men’s Perceptions of Male Facial Morphology
ObjectivesIntra-sexual selection has shaped the evolution of sexually dimorphic traits in males of many primates, including humans. In men, sexual...
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Research on Sex Selection Drugs: Haryana Paves the Way
Advances in embryology, molecular biology, steroid biochemistry, cytogenetics, cell biology, and immunology have contributed to the advancement of...
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Gender-Biased Sex Selection in Asia: Motives, Methods, Magnitudes
This chapter sets the scene by exploring the motives, methods and magnitudes of gender-biased sex selection (GBSS) drawing from socio-demographic and...
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Demand-Driven suitable sites for public toilets: a case study for GIS-Based site selection in Debre Markos Town, Ethiopia
In Ethiopian cities, the lack of public toilets, which satisfy all the sections of the society and which can be utilized at any time, is obvious....
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Does Kin-Selection Theory Help to Explain Support Networks among Farmers in South-Central Ethiopia?
Social support networks play a key role in human livelihood security, especially in vulnerable communities. Here we explore how evolutionary ideas of...
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Rethinking reproductive selection: traveling transnationally for sperm
Denmark has become a destination for fertility travelers in need of sperm. Through a careful ethnographic reading of how fertility travelers account...