Due to the trends of internationalization and globalization, many societies have become culturally diverse. Immigration is one of the factors which make the populations of many countries become more diverse. For example, Census data from the 2010 American Community Survey revealed that foreignborn immigrants represented 13 percent of U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). Gallup World Poll...

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the early sexual initiation process among male adolescents attending school in context of gender diversity, light Madeleine Leininger's Theory. Method: a descriptive and exploratory research study with qualitative approach, conducted 18 city Recife-Pernambuco, Brazil. The individual interviews were from June December 2018 semi-structured interview script was us...

A philosophical analysis of J. Butler's performativity in relation to Comprehensive Sexual Education is carried out, which allows us understand the implicit heterosexist matrix intelligibility pedagogies gender and sexuality. In context implementation Argentina based on research its achievements challenges, it argued that this perspective contributes overcoming binary approaches stigmatize sexu...

BACKGROUND Prior research focusing on men who have sex with men (MSM) conducted in Buenos Aires, Argentina, used convenience samples that included mainly gay identified men. To increase MSM sample representativeness, we used Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) for the first time in Argentina. Using RDS, under certain specified conditions, the observed estimates for the percentage of the population...

Resilience is the ability of an ecosystem to recover from disturbance without loss of essential function. Seagrass ecosystems are key marine and estuarine habitats that are under threat from a variety of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. The ability of these ecosystems to recovery from disturbance will to a large extent depend on the internsity and scale of the disturbance, and the relati...

Placozoans, the simplest free-living animals, have never been observed to reproduce sexually. Here, we describe molecular evidence for sexual reproduction within one clade of the Placozoa. In a population sample of 10 individuals, within-individual and overall nucleotide diversity were similar to each other and consistent with levels observed in sexually reproducing species. Intergenic recombin...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that personality characteristics affect sexual functioning. The aim of this exploratory study was to assess and describe the relationship between global personality traits and the stereotypical femininity and masculinity levels with the broad aspects of sexual behaviours and attitudes in the group of 97 heterosexual young adult men aged 19-39 and living in...

BACKGROUND Understanding the evolutionary origin and the phylogeographic patterns of asexual taxa can shed light on the origin and maintenance of sexual reproduction. We assessed the geographic origin, genetic diversity, and phylogeographic history of obligate parthenogen diploid Artemia parthenogenetica populations, a widespread halophilic crustacean. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We analys...

Abstract The present article explores the disputes in Brazilian Chamber of Deputies about abortion and sexual diversity during first two years Bolsonaro government (2019-2020). Focusing on controversial moral themes diversity, examines legislative dynamics by analyzing statements made congresspeople s proposals they submitted. This is based qualitative research, observing discursive dynamic mut...