Epidermoid cyst in the spinal cord is a rare condition. It constitutes of only 0.6-1.1% of all spinal tumors. When they occur, the typical location is in the subdural, extramedullary space of the lumbo-sacral region.We report a forty-two -year-old female who presented with left extremity radicular pain and myelopathy. MRI of the thoracic spine,illustrated a focal fusiform enlargement of the tho...

background: female sexual dysfunction (fsd) defines as any disorder in the process of sexual contact including 6 main domains, desire, arousal, lubrication,  orgasm,  orgasm  satisfaction  and  pain. this study was conducted to evaluate prevalence of sexual dysfunction disorder in women with migraine headache and also find the associated factors related to migraine characteristics. methods: a t...

Spermophilus spilosoma and Spermophilus mexicanus are closely related species with a low degree of sociality. They are sympatric in the Bolson de Mapimi (Chihuahua Desert, Mexico), where they occupy similar ecological niches. In Sciurid rodents, advanced social structures may have evolved through the formation of sedentary female groups. The purpose of this study is to compare the ability of S....

THE AIMS OF OUR STUDY WERE (1) to determine if the acoustical parameters used by normal subjects to discriminate between different speakers vary when comparisons are made between pairs of two of the same or different vowels, and if they are different for male and female voices; (2) to ask whether individual voices can reasonably be represented as points in a low-dimensional perceptual space suc...

In recent years, the great increase in female labour migration, particularly those moving to take up jobs as domestic workers, sex workers and nurses, has excited much interest amongst those researching migration (UNIFEM, 2000; Ehrenreich and Hochschild, 2003; Castles and Miller, 2003). This has complemented the long-standing interest amongst feminist researchers on the experiences of female fa...

Models of Fisher's runaway process show that if there is a cost to female preference, no preference or male trait exaggeration will evolve. Surprisingly, this is true no matter how small the cost, which reveals that these models of Fisher's process are structurally unstable (Bulmer 1989). Here a model of Fisher's runaway process is presented to demonstrate that costly female preference evolves ...