human resource management (hrm) is a noteworthy tool of all the organization. its significance has puffed-up day by day due to heterogeneous workers and organizations, to recognize and effectively manage workforce diversity by hrm practices. the main purpose of this paper is to investigate gender discrimination by means of sticky floors and glass ceiling effects in the public and private sector...

OBJECTIVE Research has found perceived descriptive norms to be one of the strongest predictors of college student drinking, and several intervention approaches have incorporated normative feedback to correct misperceptions of peer drinking behavior. Little research has focused on the role of the reference group in normative perceptions. The current study sought to examine whether normative perc...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the performance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9, a 9-item depression scale, as a screening and diagnostic instrument for assessing depression in stroke survivors. METHODS As part of a randomized treatment trial for poststroke depression (PSD), subjects with and without PSD completed the PHQ-9, a 9-item summed scale, w...

AIMS To analyze the predictors of therapeutic success after solifenacin treatment. METHODS Between January 2008 and December 2011, all patients with overactive bladder syndrome (OAB) who consecutively visited the urologic outpatient clinics of a medical center were prospectively enrolled. All enrolled patients received 5 mg solifenacin once a day for 12 weeks. RESULTS Overall, 648 patients,...

This scientific work is devoted to the study of male and female speech in vernacular English. Gender reason why men women use a language differently. The question arises – what types resources people or can practices express support certain gender ideologies norms. linguistic construction not limited usual lexeme "gender". acts as parameter variable intensity, which manifests itself different w...

BACKGROUND The Pfeffer Functional Activities Questionnaire (PFAQ) is a validated instrument used in Chile to diagnose dependency in older people. AIM To suggest a shorter and easier version of the PFAQ, with appropriate levels of sensitivity and specificity, which may be applied to the general older population. MATERIAL AND METHODS Three Chilean surveys applied to older people were used, na...

The fruitless gene is well-known to play a key role in determining the sexual identity of the fruitfly's nervous system, but new results show that doublesex is also required in thoracic neurons to generate normal male lovesongs.

Should agricultural development programmes target women in order to increase productivity? This article analyzes the challenges in distinguishing women's agricultural productivity from that of men. Most of the literature compares productivity on plots managed by women with those managed by men, ignoring the majority of agricultural households in which men and women are both involved in manageme...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in male and female participants in response to 32 male and 32 female faces. Participants were instructed to simply look carefully at each face; after ERP collection they were asked to rate each face on a 5-point attractiveness scale. A positive correlation between average rating and average P300 scores to opposite sex faces was observed in male (r =...