Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxins are known as neurotoxic compounds that may modulate sex steroid hormones. Steroid hormones play a mediating role in brain development and may influence behaviors that show sex differences, such as childhood play behavior. In this study we evaluated the effects of perinatal exposure to environmental levels of PCBs and dioxins on childhood play behavio...

The gender role hypothesis posits that performance on a cognitive ability test is influenced by whether the test instructions frame the test as measuring a skill that is consistent or inconsistent with the test taker’s gender role beliefs. The Bem sex role inventory was used to measure the gender role of female college students, and the group embedded figures test (GEFT) was used to measure the...

In this paper, I give an account, in terms of centering theory [GJW86], of some phenomena of pronominalization in Italian, in particular the use of the null or the overt pronoun in subject position. After a general introduction to the Italian pronominal system, I will review centering, and then show how the original rules given in [GJW86] have to be extended or modified. Finally, I will show th...

The central role of the virtue of compassion in the shaping of the professional character of healthcare providers is a well-emphasized fact. On the other hand, the utmost obligation of physicians is to alleviate or eliminate human suffering. Traditionally, according to the Aristotelian understanding of virtues and virtue ethics, human virtues have been associated with masculinity. In recent dec...

The article considers the Bible as most thorough and basic source for studying concept of femininity in religious tradition Christianity. According to many feminist researchers, it is that makes possible trace ontological status women Christian understand specifics views on masculine feminine. opinion proved thanks analysis biblical figures, identify necessary models human behavior (A. Milano),...

Romanian has been traditionally seen as bearing three lexical genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter, although it has always been known to have only two agreement patterns (for masculine and feminine). Previous machine learning classifiers which have attempted to discriminate Romanian nouns according to gender have taken as input only the singular form, either presupposing the traditional tri...