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Hadley, Mary. "New directions in crime : innovative British female detective writers." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394125.
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Marinkovic, Sladana. "Female detectives in modern detective novels : an analysis of Miss Marple and V. I. Warshawski." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1481.
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Dzirkalis, Anna M. "Investigating the female detective : gender paradoxes in popular British mystery fiction, 1864-1930 /." View abstract, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3287860.
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Laredo, Jeanette A. "Reading the Ruptured Word: Detecting Trauma in Gothic Fiction from 1764-1853." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862792/.
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Using trauma theory, I analyze the disjointed narrative structure of gothic works from 1764-1853 as symptomatic of the traumatic experience. Gothic novels contain multiple structural anomalies, including gaps in experience that indicate psychological wounding, use of the supernatural to violate rational thought, and the inability of witnesses to testify to the traumatic event. These structural abnormalities are the result of trauma that characters within these texts then seek to prevent or repair via detection.
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Lindqvist, Caroline. "Suspect Behaviour : A Gender Perspective on Male and Female Characters in Two Detective Novels by Agatha Christie." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-27225.
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This essay is a gender analysis of some of the characters created by Agatha Christie. The aim is to investigate the occurrence of gender stereotypes and if traditional gender norms are challenged by men and/or women characters in Evil Under the Sun and The Body in the Library. Initially, there is an introduction to gender theories which includes the theorists Thomas Laqueur and Simone de Beauvoir among others. Laqueur presents the evolution of gender theories, specifically the two-sex model in which it was believed that sex is pervasive and thus the body rules the mind. Theories presented by him are vastly different from those of de Beauvoir who argues that the mind and body are separate. Other theorists which specifically deal with crime fiction and gender include Susan Rowland, who writes about the reformation of the detective and how the crime genre is gendered, and Gill Plain, who has been able to categorised Christie’s characters into three distinctive groups in which gender roles are clearly distinguishable. The conclusion reached is that male and female characters are portrayed both as adhering to gender roles, contemporary to the time at which the books were written, and as breaking them. However the outcomes and reactions differ depending on the character in question. Marple and Poirot appear to be well aware of the stereotypical way they are viewed and use it to appear less intimidating in order to hide their true nature as two sharp intellects.
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Riwoe, Mirandi J. "A nemesis in crinoline: The Eurasian courtesan as sleuth." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101160/6/Mirandi_Riwoe_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis contextualises and extends representations of the nineteenth-century fictional female detective, by way of creative practice and critical analysis. The practice led research incorporates textual analysis and reflective practice in order to triangulate neo-Victorian studies, crime fiction and the figure of Eurasian courtesan. The research findings not only disrupt depictions of the 'sinister Oriental', but also reveal that it was possible for certain working class women, sex-workers included, to have the necessary agency to detect in the Victorian period. In re-imagining the nineteenth-century Eurasian courtesan in Playing Devil's Delight the project adopts a creative writing approach to neo-Victorian studies.
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Maljukanovic, Bojana. "Dialogues in classical detective novels : an analysis of male and female dialogues in Agatha Christies "Death in the clouds"." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1480.
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Krohn, Sara. "Equality in Crime Fiction : A Modern, Female Literary Detective in Christopher Brookmyre's A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-16267.
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Brandt, Jenn. "The Not So Sacred Feminine: Female Representation and Generic Constraints in The Da Vinci Code." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1173979753.
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Taylor, Tammy. "Photo Policière: L'image que l'on donne les policières dans les polars policiers écrit par Chrystine Brouillet, Vicki Delany et Louise Penny." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2013. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/65.
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"L'image que l'on donne/ N'est pas toujours la bonne" Les Cowboys Fringants, “Les Hirondelles” Malgré les changements dans le traitement des femmes au fil des décennies, les vraies policières continuent de souffrir des injustices de la part de leurs supérieurs masculins, ainsi que de la communauté qu'ils ont juré de protéger. Tant que la fiction reflète la réalité, on peut s'attendre que le genre de la polar du type policier démontrera non seulement les injustices entre les sexes, mais aussi les façons différentes que les victimes féminin y répondre. Comme des vrais policières, les détectives féminins fictifs sont trop souvent des victimes, même quand elles sont les protagonistes, même si leurs auteurs sont des femmes. Preuve de la discrimination contre les femmes policières réelles et fictives seront explorées dans cette thèse en regardant l'histoire des romans policiers, à travers des études de cas réels impliquant des policiers féminins réelles, ainsi que l'analyse de certains personnages clés dans les textes de discussion par Chrystine Brouillet, Vicki Delany et Louise Penny. En conséquence, il sera démontré que les images projetées par les agents de polices féminins réels et fictifs, quelles ne sont pas toujours bonnes, sont de plus en plus varié à la suite du mouvement féministe et en raison de la résistance littéral et imaginaire aux stéréotypes sexistes. Même si elles sont maintenant les protagonistes, les femmes détectives fictionaux faire face aux un réduction du l'agence et sont soumisent aux attentes différentes de genre que leurs homologues masculins. Aspects de l'inégalité des sexes présents dans les sociétés occidentales d'aujourd'hui se glissent dans la fiction et agir dans une manière pas toujours possible dans la monde réalité. Parfois, les situations sexistes sont résolu dans fiction, malgré le fait qu'ils existent toujours dans les vies quotidien de certaines femmes policiers. Les stéréotypes autour qu'est-ce que ça veut dire d'être policier causent des injustices du genre et existent souvent simultanément avec des images de femmes qui nient ces mêmes stéréotypes. La représentation de la femme policière est donc multiples, les stéréotypes reproduit, mélangé, ou effacé complètement.
Masculinity is still regarded as the embodiment of strength and heroism
and the female body, weakness and victimization.
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Despite changes in the treatment of women over the decades, policewomen continue to suffer gender injustices at the hands of their male superiors, as well as from the community they are sworn to protect. The injustices they face are publicized by such media as the CBC, though often in an exaggerated fashion. As fiction often reflects reality, one can expect that the genre of the police procedural will demonstrate not only such gender injustices but also various ways victims respond to them. Like real policewomen, fictional female detectives are too often victims even when they are the protagonists, and even when their author is a woman. Evidence of the victimization of real and fictional policewomen will be explored in this thesis by looking at the history of detective fiction, and through real case studies involving real female police officers, as well as the analysis of certain key characters in focus texts by Chrystine Brouillet, Vicki Delany, and Louise Penny. As a result, it will be shown that the images projected by actual and fictional female police officers, while not always positive ones, are becoming more varied as a result of the feminist movement and as a result of literal
and imaginary resistance to sexist stereotypes. Despite having moved into a protagonist position, fictional female detectives all too often have reduced agency and different gendered expectations than their male counterparts. Aspects of gender inequity present in Western societies today creep into fiction and are played out in ways not always possible in reality. Sometimes, sexist problems present in the fictional texts are resolved despite the fact that they still exist in certain policewomen's everyday lives. Stereotypes of what a police officer should be function in ways that reflect and reproduce gender
injustices and often exist simultaneously with images of women that resist and oppose these same stereotypes. The representation of policewoman is thus multiple, reproducing stereotypes, blurring them, or erasing them altogether.
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Winterkvist, Frida. "”There is Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact” : A Feminist Study of the Detective Work by Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32473.
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This comparative study focuses on the detective genre and is conducted through literary analysis with a feminist critical perspective of two of its most iconic protagonists, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 and Agatha Christie in 1930 respectively. The purpose is to attempt to establish the effect of the gender differences on these two protagonists. Both Holmes and Miss Marple are deemed as iconic in the detective genre, but the protagonists do not have similar experiences and are created by authors of different genders. Thus, the focus is to explore how gender differences are represented in the literary texts A Study in Scarlet (1887), “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891), and The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) when it comes to their work as detectives. By using a feminist critical perspective and with the help of previous research, the differences in three central issues, that is, work methods, attitudes and method of disguise, are established. The most prominent result from the analysis is that Miss Marple has to work independently from the police force and trust another character, Leonard Clement, with what she knows hoping that Clement will use her observations to make the case move forward. By contrast, Holmes is approached by clients and even assists the police force in investigations, while Miss Marple is dismissed because of gender discrimination and ageism when she reaches out to the police force. Miss Marple is clearly a victim of gender discrimination and ageism, while Holmes is seen as eccentric but fully competent as a detective. Holmes is even described as having “extraordinary powers” while Miss Marple is described as an “old pussy” in a derogatory manner. Therefore, the results are that there is a significant difference in attitude where Holmes as a man encounters more positive attitudes and Miss Marple as a woman encounters more negative attitudes, all because of gender discrimination and ageism. These results are of great importance as it reveals what gender differences Holmes and Miss Marple encounter in their literary texts. It opens up the opportunity for more research in gender differences and gender discrimination in comparisons between protagonists. That Miss Marple is successful in the end, however, functions as a feminist statement.
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Hill, Lorna. "Bloody women : a critical-creative examination of how female protagonists have transformed contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27352.
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This study will explore the role of female authors and their female protagonists in contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Lin Anderson and Liza Marklund are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender in the crime fiction genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society, they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, all journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series; Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series; Anna Smith’s books about Rosie Gilmour; and Liza Marklund’s books about Annika Bengzton, I explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives and also draw parallels between their societies. I document the influence of these writers on my own practice-based research, a novel, The Invisible Chains, set in post-Referendum Scotland. The thesis will examine and define the role of the female protagonist, offer a feminist reading of contemporary crime fiction, and investigate how the rise of human trafficking, the problem of domestic abuse in Scotland and society’s changing attitudes and values are reflected in contemporary crime novels, before discussing the narrative structures and techniques employed in the writing of The Invisible Chains. This novel allows us to consider the role of women in a contemporary and progressive society where women hold many senior positions in public life and examine whether they manage successfully to challenge traditional patriarchal hierarchies. The narrative is split between journalist Megan Ross, The Girl, a victim of human trafficking, and Trudy, who is being domestically abused, thus pulling together the themes of the critical genesis in the creative work. By focusing on the protagonist, the victims and raising awareness of human trafficking and domestic abuse, The Invisible Chains, an original creative work, reflects a contemporary society’s changing attitudes, problems and values.
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St-Aubin, Marc A. "Talent detection in female gymnasts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ31467.pdf.
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Wargen, Joanna. "Subjugated scientific knowledges : detecting the Victorian female scientist." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2013. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8z200/subjugated-scientific-knowledges-detecting-the-victorian-female-scientist.
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This thesis endeavours to examine the presence and absence of female scientists in Victorian fiction by exploring the female experience of science in fiction and in reality. The impact of culture, society and traditional notions of female ‘knowing’ are explored. Real-life women scientists’ work is considered in addition to fictional creations. Firstly, the research explores women such as Jane Marcet’s contribution to popular science writing and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to a predominantly female readership. Secondly, the steps towards women scientists becoming experts in their chosen fields of science are scrutinised. From the limited fictional portrayals of female scientists themes such as the challenges of being an expert scientist, and the implications scientific learning has for love, self-knowledge and on women’s place in society are found. Novels examined include Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time, Harriet Stark’s The Bacillus of Beauty and H.G. Wells’s Ann Veronica. Shared experiences and themes also emerge in female detective fiction, where texts such as C.L. Pirkis’s The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective, highlight how the female detective draws upon traditional female knowledge alongside scientific method and utilises them in the field of crime. Both the female scientist and the female detective illuminate how subjugation to the periphery creates new arenas in which women encounter science.
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Savkovic, Sasha. "Detection Of Testosterone Microdosing In Women." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26875.
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The ready detectability of synthetic androgens by mass spectrometry (MS)-based antidoping tests has reoriented androgen doping to using testosterone (T) which must be distinguished from its endogenous counterpart making detection of exogenous T harder. This study investigated urine and serum steroid and hematological profiling individually and combined to determine the optimal detection model for T administration in women. Twelve healthy females provided six paired blood and urine samples over two weeks prior to treatment consisting of 12.5 mg T in a topical transdermal gel applied daily for seven days. Paired blood and urine samples were then obtained at the end of treatment and days 1, 2, 4, 7 and 14 days later. Compliance with treatment and sampling was high and no adverse effects were reported. T treatment significantly increased serum and urine T, serum DHT, urine epitestosterone (E) and urine T/E ratio with a brief window of detection (2-4 days) as well as total and immature (medium and high fluorescence) reticulocytes which remained elevated over the full 14 post-treatment days. The OFF and ABPS scores were not discriminatory. The optimal multivariate model to identify T exposure combined serum T, urine T/E ratio with three hematological variables (% high fluorescence reticulocytes, mean corpuscular hemoglobin and volume) with the five variables providing 93% correct classification (4% false positive, 10% false negatives). Hence combining select serum and urine steroid MS variables with reticulocyte measures can achieve a high but imperfect detection of T administration to healthy females.
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Gillum, Megan Elizabeth. "HARDBOILED OR OVER EASY?: FEMALE DETECTIVES AND GENDER CONSTRUCTS." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192472.
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Ho, Shek-yin, and 何碩然. "Detection of merkel cell polyomavirus in gynaecological diseases." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193567.
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Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) is an oncogenic virus exist in about 80% of Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC), an aggressive human skin cancer. Evidence of MCPyV existing in other kind of skin neoplasms such as cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) has been reported. Since the major type of cervical cancer is SCCs, MCPyV may be associated with cervical cancer tumorigenesis. A Japanese research group has documented the presence of MCPyV DNA in both cervical SCCs and cervical adenocarcinomas (ACs) from Japanese patients. Nevertheless, the association between MCPyV and cervical cancer remains inconclusive and the prevalence of MCPyV in cervical cancer may show demographic variation. This study is aimed to examine whether MCPyV is present in some of the most common gynaecological cancers, namely cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, and gestational choriocarcinoma, in Hong Kong patients.
Genomic DNA was obtained from 50 cases of cervical cancer, 20 cases of ovarian cancer, and 35 common gynaecological cancers cell lines. Genomic DNA extracted from four MCC samples were used as positive controls. The integrity of the samples was first checked by β-globin PCR. Detection of MCPyV was then performed by MCPyV Large T antigen (LT-ag) PCR. Our PCR analysis showed that only 1 out of 50 (2%) of the cervical cancer samples was positive for MCPyV DNA. The PCR product was purified and cloned for sequencing analysis. Comparing the LT-ag sequence obtained from the only MCPyV positive cervical cancer with reference sequence and with the MCPyV sequence from one of the control cases revealed the presence of different MCPyV variants in Hong Kong patients. None of the ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, or choriocarcinoma was positive for MCPyV. Our data did not support the notion that MCPyV is associated with gynaecological malignancies. MCPyV may hence be a fairly specific oncogenic agent for Merkel cell carcinoma.published_or_final_version
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Braithwaite, Andrea. "Triple threats: young female detectives and the crimes of postfeminism." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86825.
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Triple Threats: Young Female Detectives and the Crimes of Postfeminism examines the increasingly visible character of the amateur female sleuth in popular culture. I argue that, while a postfeminist media and political environment conditions this "chick dick's" existence, the chick dick also "talks back" to postfeminism, specifically to the postfeminist insistence that feminism has been successful and is no longer relevant or necessary. The chick dick thus "speaks feminism" in an environment that makes such a voice difficult to hear.I focus primarily on the aspects of these popular narratives that engage with the postfeminist notion that women and men are social equals. I demonstrate how the rhetoric of "choice" is used to depoliticize the conditions in which young women live, work, and study, individualizing their problems into matters of personal choice rather than political consequence. I examine how both social space and investigative technologies are gendered through concepts of risk and authority, and how such gendering works to uphold a patriarchal power dynamic that makes women vulnerable to a spectrum of sexualized violence. I deconstruct the concept of a "crisis in masculinity" to show how this trope legitimizes the exercise of an aggressive and violent masculinity on the bodies of female and feminized "others."
These popular narratives also illustrate the labour involved in embodying a postfeminist or "chick" femininity, affectively recounting how these female characters feel about the regimes of self-care and self-management they undertake daily, and how they respond to a "new traditionalist" model of womanhood that requires monogamy, marriage, and motherhood for female worth. I contextualize these stories within the cultural and industrial productive contexts to argue that the chick dick's feminist and proto-feminist undertones make her an unsuitable subject for mainstream, blockbuster filmmaking.
« La triple menace : jeunes inspectrices et les crimes de le postféminisme » examine la caractère plus en plus visible de l'inspectrice amateur dans la culture populaire. Considérant que le milieu du média et la politique dans le postféminisme conditionne l'existence de la « chick dick », elle réplique au postféminisme, plus particulièrement à l'insistance postféministe que le féminisme est un succès et qu'il n'est pas encore pertinent ou nécessaire. La « chick dick » parle ainsi le féminisme dans un milieu qui fait une telle voix difficile à entendre.
Je focalise sur les aspects de ces récits populaires que s'engagent avec la notion postféministe que les femmes et les hommes sont égales. Je démontre comment la rhétorique du « choix » est utilisée pour dépolitiser la condition de la vie, du travail et d'étude pour les femmes. Ces conditions individualisent leurs problèmes comme des affaires du choix personnel au lieu des conséquences politiques. J'examine comment l'espace sociale et aussi les technologies d'investigation sont basées sur le genre par les concepts du risque et l'autorité. Ça soutient une dynamique patriarcale du pouvoir qui fait les femmes vulnérables à plusieurs formes de la violence sexuelle. Je déconstruis l'idée d'une « crise de la masculinité » pour montrer comment ce trope justifier l'exercice d'une masculinité agressif et violent sur les corps des « autres »--femmes et féminisés.
Ces récits populaires illustrent aussi le travail d'incarner une féminité « chick » ou postféministe. Ils racontent affectivement comment ces femmes se sentent des régimes quotidiens de soin et d'administration de soi-même. En plus, les récits nous disent comment ces femmes répondent à un modèle de la vie de femme « nouveau traditionaliste » qui requise la monogamie, la mariage et la maternité pour valoriser les femmes. Je situe cette histoire dans le contexte de leur production culturelle et industrielle et je conclus que les currents féministes et proto-féministes de la « chick dick » la faisant un sujet inapte pour la cinétographie blockbuster.
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Arnzen, Moeddel Melissa. "Investigating the sensitivity of the MAYSI-2 for detecting PTSD among female and male delinquents." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1209394310.
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Rhodes, Robi R. "Discourse and Detection: Gendered Readings of Scientific and Legal Evidence in the Victorian Novel." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1218085583.
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CAPRA, DAVIDE. "DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF BREAST ARTERIAL CALCIFICATION AS A BIOMARKER OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN WOMEN." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/2434/951303.
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Cardiovascular risk is underestimated in women: traditional risk scores do not consider sex-specific risk factors. As a matter of fact, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in the female population, and women are often undertreated and present worse cardiovascular outcomes than men. In a recently published call to action, the American Heart Association urges a cross-disciplinary approach to reduce the gender gap in cardiovascular health. In this context, breast arterial calcifications (BAC), an expression of Monckeberg’s sclerosis involving the tunica media of medium-caliber breast arteries, present as a promising sex-specific cardiovascular risk biomarker. BAC are observed in around 13% of mammograms and are associated with hypertension and increasing age. Interestingly, BAC have not shown any association with other notable cardiovascular risk factors, such as smoking, underlying their distinct pathogenesis from atherosclerotic plaques. Nevertheless, women with BAC have an increased risk of cardiovascular adverse events, such as acute myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, CVD death and a moderate-severe BAC burden is associated with coronary artery disease, indicating how the role of BAC in this setting may complement to that of traditional risk factors. Still, at present the clinical application of BAC assessment is hampered by the lack of a standardised, robust, fast, and reliable quantification method, an issue that could potentially be solved by artificial intelligence-based methods. As such, more widespread assessment of BAC could help improve cardiovascular risk stratification in women supporting the decision-making toward appropriate lifestyle changes and other personalised preventive strategies, leveraging mammographic screening practice. This thesis will thus provide an overview of the current attitude of European breast radiologists towards BAC assessment in mammography, present a score for BAC quantification that is quick to use and reproducible, and implement a deep learning-based tool for BAC detection and quantification.
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Redmond, Robert Stanley. "Female authors and their male detectives: the ideological contest in female-authored crime fiction : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1057.
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In the nineteen-eighties a host of female detectives appeared in crime fiction authored by women. Ostensibly these detectives challenged hegemonic norms, but the consensus of opinion was that their appropriation of male values and adherence to conventional generic closures colluded with a gender system of male privilege. Academic interest in the work of female authors featuring male detectives was limited. Yet it can be argued that these texts could have the potential to disrupt the hegemonic order through the introduction, whether deliberately, or inadvertently, of a female counterpoint to the hegemony. The hypothesis I am advancing claims that the reconfiguration of male detectives in works authored by women avoids the visible contradictions of gender and genre that are characteristic of works featuring female detectives. However, through their use of disruptive performatives, these works allow scope for challenging normal gender practices—without damage to the genre. This hypothesis is tested by applying the performative theories of Judith Butler to a close reading of selected crime novels. Influenced by the theories of Austin, Lacan and Althusser, Butler’s concept of performativity claims that hegemonic notions of gender are a fiction. This discussion also uses Wayne Booth’s concept of the implied author as a means of distinguishing the performative agency of the text from that of the characters. Agatha Christie, P.D. James, and Donna Leon, each with their male detective heroes, come from different generations. A Butlerian reading illustrates their potential for disrupting gender norms. Of the three, however, only Donna Leon avoids the return to hegemonic control that is a feature of the genre. Christie’s women who have agency are inevitably eliminated, while conformist women are rewarded. James’s lead female character is never fully at ease in her professional role. When thrust into a leadership she proves herself to be competent, but not ready or desirous of the senior position. Instead her role is to mediate the transition of her junior, a male, to that position. Donna Leon is different. The moral and emotional content of her narratives suggests an implied author committed to ideological change. Her characters simultaneously renounce and collude with illusions of patriarchal authority, and could lay claim to be models for Butler’s notion of performative resistance.
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Wing, Kimberley Ellen. "The evaluation of semenogelin proteins I and II in semen and other body fluids of males and females for forensic detection." Thesis, Wing, Kimberley Ellen (2021) The evaluation of semenogelin proteins I and II in semen and other body fluids of males and females for forensic detection. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2021. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/63413/.
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In sexual assault cases, the microscopic detection of spermatozoa is widely accepted as confirmation of ejaculation, however the absence of sperm cells does not mean absence of seminal fluid. If sperm cells cannot be identified, proteins such as semenogelin (Sg) can be used. Semenogelin has two subtypes (Sg I and Sg II) and can be found in seminal fluid at high concentrations. For this study two immunological tests for semenogelin detection, RSID-Semen and ELISAs, were compared. The purpose was to determine whether semenogelin levels differ within males and between males, if semenogelin can be detected in other body fluids, including in females and to compare RSID-Semen and ELISA results to see if there are any discrepancies. Semen, vaginal, both male and female saliva, urine and blood samples were used. All samples were tested using RSID-Semen, a current forensic detection method and two ELISA kits (SEMG1 and SEMG2). RSID-Semen kits had the highest specificity, with only semen giving positive results. SEMG1 had the highest sensitivity and was positive for both semen and male urine. SEMG2 had lowest specificity, with positive results for most blood and saliva samples and 2 vaginal samples. Semenogelin concentrations in semen were similar within individuals, but significant differences were observed between donors. Concentrations found in body fluids were significantly lower compared to semen. When compared to ELISA methods, RSID-Semen is the preferred method for detecting semen samples for sexual assault cases where high specificity and fast results are essential. The high sensitivity of SEMG1 could be useful for very dilute semen samples that may not be detectable on RSID-Semen.
Keywords: Forensic serology; Sexual assault; Semen detection; Seminal fluid; Semenogelin; Immunological assays
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Smiljana, Rajčević. "Prevalencija faktora rizika za nastanak raka dojke kod žena koje su obuhvaćene nacionalnim skrining programom na teritoriji Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Medicinski fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2019. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=110833&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Rak dojke je trenutno po incidenciji vodeća maligna bolest kod žena kako u razvijenim tako i u zemljama u razvoju. Osnovni cilj istraživanja bio je da se definišu faktori rizika u populaciji žena uzrasta 50-69 godina koje su obuhvaćene Nacionalnim skrining programom ranog otkrivanja raka dojke mamografijom na teritoriji Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine (APV). U istraživanju je korišćena retrospektivno-prospektivna studija. Za potrebe istraživanja formirana je grupa obolelih žena i kontrolna grupa žena na teritoriji APV. Istraživanje je obuhvatilo 510 žena sa teritorije AP Vojvodine, uzrasta od 50 do 69 godina. Rezultati istraživanja pokazali su da su se kao značajni prediktori raka dojke u našem istraživanju izdvojili: 1. Hormonska terapija – one osobe koje su uzimale hormonsku terapiju značajno imaju veću verovatnoću da imaju rak dojke i obrnuto. 2. Prethodna maligna bolest – osobe koje su prethodno imale neku drugu malignu bolest imaju manju šansu da imaju rak dojke 3. One žene koje vrše samokontrolu dojke češće su u nekliničkom uzorku. 4. Žene koje su u grupi starijih su češće u kliničkom uzorku. 5. One osobe koje imaju u porodici nekog ko je oboleo od raka dojke češće i same oboljevaju. Ovo je prvo istraživanje o faktorima rizika za rak dojke na populaciji žena AP Vojvodine u okviru Nacionalnog programa ranog otkrivanja raka dojke. Rezultati istraživanja daju osnove za buduća istraživanja iz ove oblasti, takođe mogu da utiču na podizanje svesti žena o značaju redovnih pregleda i ranom otkrivanju raka dojke kao i pružanje podrške programu skrininga.Breast cancer is currently theleading malignant disease in women both in developed and developing countries. The main goal of the research was to define risk factors in the population of women aged 50-69 years, covered by the National Screening Program for Early Detection of Breast Cancer by Mammography on the territory of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The researchwasconducted asretrospective-prospective study. For the purpose of the research,were formed a group of diseased women and a control group of women in the territory of AP Vojvodina . The research involved 510 women with the territory of AP Vojvodina, aged 50 to 69 years. The results of the study showed that as significant predictors ofbreast cancer in our study. 1.Hormone Therapy -Those who have taken hormone therapy are significantly more likely to have breast cancer and vice versa. 2. Pre-existing malignant disease -people who previously had any other malignant disease have a lowerchance of having breast cancer 3. Women who perform self-control of their breasts are more often in a non-clinical sampl.e 4. Women in the elderly group are more often in the clinical sample. 5. Those who have a family member who has breast cancer are more likely to suffer from their own illness. This is the first study on the risk factors for breast cancer in the population of AP Vojvodina women within the National Breast Cancer Screening Program. The results of the research provide the basics for future research in this area, they can also help raise women's awareness of the importance of regular screening and early detection of breast cancer, as well as supporting the screening program
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Seys, Genevieve Lauren. "“Petticoated police,” “intimate watching” and private agency(ies): reading the female detective of Fin-de-siècle British literature." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/113262.
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In April 1894, the Times Column of New Books and New Editions introduced to its readers "a Female Sherlock Holmes" (12). This was Loveday Brooke, in C. L. Pirkis‘s collection The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective. Loveday is one of many professional female detectives who traversed the pages of short stories, both serialised and in collections, during the British fin de siècle. The advertisement suggests that Loveday was portrayed as a female version of a masculine character type, typified by Holmes. In this thesis, I question this assumption as part of my literary ‘investigation’ of the fin-de-siècle female detective. Currently, there is only a small body of work on the nineteenth-century female detective and she remains "mysterious" and "little-known" as William Stephens Hayward describes his protagonist in Revelations of a Lady Detective (1864). This thesis employs ‘investigation’ as a structural and methodological framework to perform its own literary analysis and to make an original contribution to extant critical literature. Investigation provides an effective mode for the examination and articulation of how this figure is portrayed. The narrative trajectory of this thesis shares the key stages of the fictional female detective‘s investigation: the identification of evidence, consideration of its significance and meaning, and deduction based thereon. I read three collections of short stories, each featuring a professional female detective, published in Britain between 1893 and 1901, and treat the literary techniques in these texts as ‘clues’ to representation. Thus, double meanings, metaphors, and analogy, are the proof of a complex chain of “legal, social, moral, institutional and gendered practice” that shaped the representation of female detectives (Kestner 1). In Chapter One, I use vision and related concepts in the analysis of C. L. Pirkis‘s Loveday Brooke. The second stage of my literary investigation focuses upon disguise and I read George R. Sims‘s Dorcas Dene, Detective: Her Life and Adventures (1897). Dorcas‘s facility with disguise transcends mere detective work as it is also portrayed as a means of negotiating fin-de-siécle social mores. The final chapter considers the ratiocinations performed by Florence Cusack in the fiction of L. T. Meade (1899-1901). I consider the interaction between the female detective and contemporary discourses about women‘s mental faculties. Each chapter explores a different element of the female detective‘s investigation, revealing the ways in which Pirkis, Sims and Meade use elements of the detective plot to engage with, and subtly counter, contemporary gender discourses. Each detective transcends the proposed status of a “Female Sherlock Holmes,” as each is an important character in her own right. The detective plot essays female professionalism and independence, expanding the roles allocated to women in nineteenth-century British fiction.Thesis (M.Phil.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2016.
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Chigidi, Willie L. "The emergence and development of the Shona detective story as a fictional genre in Zimbabwean literature." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16468.
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This study b·aces the development of the Shona clctective story as a genre different from rhe mainstream
Shona novel. The Shona detective story emerges from the non-detective traditional folktale and
develops into rhree types, namely, the rudimentary form. the pure 'whoduniC, and the detectivethriller.
An attempt is made to show that when the Shona detective story first appeared it was quite elementary
and showed signs of me influence of Shona traditional folklore. But later on authors developed the
detective narrative into pure 'whodunits' and detective-mrillers which showed influence of Western
ftlms and English detective stories.
The study ends with the argument that although at its highest level of development the Shona detective
story manifests characteristics that make it a unique genre different from other Shona novels its
treatment of female characters is not very different from their treatment in the mainstream Shona
novel.African Languages
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Bernal, Ximena Eugenia 1975. "The role of sex on behavioral responses to mating signals: studies of phonotaxis and evoked calling in male and female túngara frogs." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3186.
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Signal detection theory predicts that costs associated with recognition errors, specifically failing to respond to relevant stimuli (missed detection) and responding to erroneous ones (false alarms), shape receiver permissiveness in animal communication systems. Fitness costs of missed detection and false alarms in response to sexual signals differ between the sexes, and are usually higher for females than males. This asymmetry in costs predicts that males should be more permissive than females in their responses to signals. In my dissertation I investigate the behavioral responses of male and female túngara frogs, Physalaemus pustulosus, to mating signals and sounds associated with such calls. Specifically I explore the following topics: i) responses of the sexes to call complexity, ii) perception of congeneric mating calls by males and females, iii) responses of males to the conspecific call compared to those of extant heterospecifics, iv) effect of sounds associated with increased predation risk in reproductive decisions, and v) effect of the task performed by each sex on signal permissiveness. My findings indicate that recognition errors are higher for males than females as predicted by the different costs associated with recognition errors for each sex. Males respond to a broader range of calls than females. Despite the differences, evolutionary history has left a footprint on the brain of both sexes. In addition, I found that females behaved more cautiously than males suggesting that the sexes balance the risk of predation and the cost of cautious mating strategies differently. In the mating system of túngara frog, as in many others, sexual signals elicit different tasks in the different sexes, female phonotaxis and male calling. Therefore, the sexual differences in decision making I found could be either sex-specific independent of task, or task-specific independent of sex. Here I show that sexual differences in receiver permissiveness are motivated by differences due to the typical reproductive tasks displayed by the sexes.text
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天野, 静., and Shizuka Amano. "Effectiveness of Female Community Health Volunteers in the Detection and Management of Low-Birth-Weight Infants in Nepal." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19058.
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Su, Wen-Hsiang, and 蘇文祥. "A chip-based multiplexed immunoassay system using liposomal nanovesicles and its application on the detection of pathogens causing female cervicovaginitis." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38366489189947658970.
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系統生物與生物資訊研究所
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English Abstract Backgrounds: Cervicovaginitis is a common infection in women. Ignorance of this disease may place a heavy burden on female and neonatal health due to occurrence of severe sequelae such as female infertility, ectopic pregnancy, chronic pelvic pain, and neonatal infections. Prompt and appropriate antibiotic treatment can cure infection and avoid complications. However, adequate treatment is not easy, since many factors can interfere with an early and rapid identification of various pathogens from complicated mixed micro-flora of the vagina and cervix. Among these factors, a non-user-friendly rapid detection system seems the most important. A microarray immunoassay chip was fabricated for binding of pathogens causing cervicovaginitis and a signal amplifying system using liposomal nanovesicles was used for detection. Laboratory and clinical samples were tested with some promising results. We collected the source from Veteran General Hospital in Taipei and Hit Laboratory in the department of Systems Biology and Bio-informatics. With expert help from Statistic school of National Central University, our project was accepted and granted by the aiwan Joint Research Program (VGHUST99-G4-3) from Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st, 2010. Although the attempt to simulate a normal and symptomatic micro-flora in the vagina by mathematic model demanded more work from laboratory and clinic setting. We still finished the project with limited resources and published two SCI manuscripts and submitted our third one. Material and methods: After literature review and data mining on the internet, five pathogens were chosen based on our limited culture ability and financial support. Well established capture antibodies for specific pathogens causing cervicovaginitis, including Streptococcus B, Chlamydia trachomatis , Neisseria gonorrhoeae , Escherichia coli, and anti Candida albicans were purchased to be printed on a Chip. Signal amplifying system using liposomal nanovesicles was established and validated. Various pathogens and antigens were collected for validation of this detecting system on chips. Cervical and vaginal samples were obtained from an ordinary gynecologic clinic for pathogens detection. Spiking of candida in the samples were used to testify the usefulness of this detection system. We will use the proportional odds models to make inferences regarding which pathogen tends to induce more severe infection if more positive data available. The difference between positive and negative readings was evaluated by paired t test. Results: During our literature review and data mining for the application of our tool in the diagnosis of specific infections, we focused on the gonococcal infection first. After comparison with other tools, we argued the best method for the diagnosis of gonorrhea infection is still under construction especially regarding the qualities as a Point-of-Care tool. Furthermore, our system was proved to be sensitive in detecting Chlamydia antigen to a level of micro-gram. A positive proportion relationship between antigen concentrations and signal intensity was also demonstrated. Another review about the possibility of our system and comparison with other tools for diagnosis of Chlamydia infection was completed and published. As for other pathogens, the power of this system was validated (p<0.01). The detection sensitivity of candida of this system reach the level of 100,000 CFU/ml in a vaginal sample. In the study of clinical samples, the sensitivity and specificity of this tool in the candida spike test reach near 100% sensitivity and specificity. Moreover, the average processing time is around 200 minutes and the required apparatus is ordinary laboratory equipments with a fluorescent reading machine. Conclusions: Microarray chip is a relatively rapid, easy, inexpensive and sensitive tool to detect many pathogens, at least for Candida, in a one-time vaginal sampling process in our Laboratory. Eventually, advances in related laboratory techniques will satisfy our needs to detect pathogens in vaginal and cervical samples economically and instantly.
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Tu, Li-Hsueh, and 凃麗雪. "A Study of the Female Detectives' Working Pressure and Resignation Intention – Based on the Civil Service Special Examination for Coast Guard Personnel." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74969858943756258843.
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The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) is a specialized institution for enforcing the maritime law in Taiwan, and the business of Coast Guard is multiple and professional. The main job of the CGA is to curb the smuggling of guns and drugs, stop illegal entry and exit, prevent the smuggling of agricultural, fishery and livestock products, and clamped down on illegal fishing. In order to develop a new manpower, the Civil Service Special Examination for Coast Guard Personnel (CSSECGP) began since 2001. However, there is no restrictions apply for this examination of gender under the principle of gender equality and fair employment. Therefore, the first female inspector under the special examination system services into the Coast Guard Reconnaissance Brigade. Research shows that, because the female inspectors cannot adapt to the life of field work ,so they made the request for transfer to back office or to leave. The pressures come from the performance of investigates, executive leadership skills, family, gender roles playing and the opposition for female as an inspector in organization. This survey show that so far (March 31, 2010) the department has held a total of five CGA special exams and 170 members serve as inspectors (132 males, 38 females). 170 out of 45 members (30 male, female 15) were transferred to back office staff or other units. That is to say, the losses of male and female members were 22.7% and 39.4%, respectively. The turnover rate of female is much higher than male. In this study, we invited twelve current or former female inspectors and three executives as interviewers, trying to find out the pressures in female inspectors from Reconnaissance Brigade through the literature review, participant observation and case interviews. From personal, organization, external, gender roles and other factors, we identify the source of pressure on each respondent from their true feeling, and whether they generate the mind of turnover. The results based on the findings, the following recommendations: First, construct of gender communication platform to enhance the opportunity of female colleagues in decision-making. Second, enhance awareness of gender roles on female colleagues, and to strengthen the programs of education on the training of gender mainstreaming. Third, protect the training opportunities of further education on female, and promote to outstanding of female talent. Fourth, raise staff awareness of sexual harassment complaints, and increase the complaint channels. Fifth, construct of female workers backup support mechanisms. Sixth, continue to promote the plan of Coast Guard reorganization, and set incentives. Seventh, fight for the subsidies and reduce the treatment gap. Eighth, cultivate the affinity leadership style on the director. Ninth In the future ,should strengthen the qualifications limit which the test selects, integrates the special examination project the tendency and the personality test. Tenth, indicate the job functions in the admission brochure, so that the applicants can understand the future work of the project. 11th, propose to increase the back training mechanism during training.
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Lin, Wei-chueh, and 林偉爵. "Effect of female nutrition and detection of the male on the sexual cannibalism in praying mantids, Hierodula patellifera (Mantodea: Mantidae)." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83xm34.
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Mantid is well-known for its sexual cannibalistic behavior, where females kill or consumer the conspecific mates. Recently, several studies were focused on the mechanism of sexual cannibalism, especially what effects the sexual cannibalism ratio. The nutritional status of females, relative orientation before mounting of males, and the mating status of females were considered as the possible factor influencing the occurrence frequency of sexual cannibalism. Hierodula patellifera are used to examine the effect of nutritional status and males mounting on cannibalism ratio in present study. A number of studies argued that cannibalism ratio was varied with the nutritional status of females, and poorly-fed females were more likely to consume their mates. However, the nutritional status has little effect on the cannibalism ratio in H. patellifera. Extremely high cannibalism ratio was observed in different nutritional status. Besides, “Timing detected by females” was used to evaluate the cannibalism ratio instead of relative orientation before mounting. The males detected by females before mounting were more likely to be consumed by females. In summary, females represent highly rapacity toward the detected males no matter they were well-fed or poorly-fed. This phenomenon is inconsistent with previous studies and first recorded in Mantodea. To date, most of the studies suggested that sexual cannibalism could increase the fitness of females, and thus being preserved or emerging in the evolutionary history. However, it is doubtful whether sexual cannibalism could increase the fitness of females or not when the well-fed ones still represent highly rapacity toward their mates. The variation in mechanism also indicate the possibility that sexual cannibalism may evolved several times in Mantodea.
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Zheng, Ying. "IN SITU AND IN VITRO IMMUNOLOCALIZATION OF OVIDUCTIN BINDING SITES ON HAMSTER UTERINE EPITHELIAL CELLS AND DETECTION OF A HAMSTER OVIDUCTIN HOMOLOGUE IN THE FEMALE RAT REPRODUCTIVE TRACT." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1049.
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Oviductin is an oviduct-specific and high-molecular-weight glycoprotein that has been suggested to play important roles in the early events of reproduction. The present study was undertaken to localize the oviductin binding sites in the uterine epithelial cells of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) both in situ and in vitro, and to detect a hamster oviductin homologue in the female rat reproductive tract. Immunohistochemical localization of oviductin in the hamster uterus revealed certain uterine epithelial cells reactive to the monoclonal anti-hamster oviductin antibody. In order to study the interaction between hamster oviductin and the endometrium in vitro, a method for culturing primary hamster uterine epithelial cells has been established and optimized. Study with confocal microscopy of the cell culture system showed a labeling pattern similar to what was observed using immunohistochemistry. Pre-embedding immunolabeling of cultured uterine epithelial cells also showed gold particles associated with the plasma membrane and microvilli. These results demonstrated that hamster oviductin can bind to the plasma membrane of certain hamster uterine epithelial cells, suggesting the presence of a putative oviductin receptor on the uterine epithelial cell surface. In the second part of the present study, using the monoclonal anti-hamster oviductin antibody that cross-reacts with the rat tissue, we have been able to detect an oviduct-specific glycoprotein, with a molecular weight of 180~300kDa, in the female rat reproductive tract. Immunohistochemical labeling of the female rat reproductive tract revealed a strong immunolabeling in the non-ciliated oviductal epithelial cells and a faint immunoreaction on the cell surface of some uterine epithelial cells. Ultrastructurally, immunogold labeling was restricted to the secretory granules, Golgi apparatus, and microvilli of the non-ciliated secretory cells of the oviduct. In the uterus, immunogold labeling was observed on the cell surface of some uterine epithelial cells. Furthermore, electron micrographs of ovulated oocytes showed an intense immunolabeling for rat oviductin within the perivitelline space surrounding the ovulated oocytes. The findings of the present study demonstrated that oviductin is present in the rat oviduct and uterus, and it appears that, in the rat, oviductin is secreted by the non-ciliated secretory cells of the oviduct.Thesis (Master, Anatomy & Cell Biology) -- Queen's University, 2008-02-28 10:26:46.836
This work was sponsored by Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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Simpson, E. E. A., G. Rae, H. J. Parr, J. M. O'Connor, M. Bonham, A. Polito, N. Meunier, et al. "Predictors of taste acuity in healthy older Europeans." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6192.
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This study aimed to identify factors associated with taste acuity in healthy older European adults aged 55-87 years, employing a factorial independent design to recruit older adults from centres in France, Italy and United Kingdom. Adults aged 70-87 years (N=387) were recruited in Rome (Italy) (n=108) and Grenoble (France) (n=91) and aged 55-70 years in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) (n=93) and Clermont-Ferrand (C-F) (France) (n=95). A signal detection theory (SDT) approach was used for detection threshold assessment of the four basic tastes (salt; sweet; bitter; and, sour). Trial data were converted to R-indices. Diet was assessed by means of four day food diaries. Dietary data were converted using WISP and then reduced, using a principal components analysis, to four components: Component 1 'high fat and salt'; Component 2 'high vitamins and fibre'; Component 3 'high fat and carbohydrate'; and, Component 4 'high trace elements'. Socio-demographic information was collected by self report survey. Four separate regression analyses were carried out, one for each of the four basic taste qualities (sweet; sour; bitter; salt). Mean ROC scores for each taste quality were the response variables and age, sex, country, social class and dietary components were predictor variables. The main predictors of taste acuity were age, sex, social class and country, which had differential effects for each taste quality. These data suggest that socio-demographic and cultural factors should be taken into account when considering taste acuity in older people.