In many languages, the production of noun phrases requires the selection of gender-marked elements like determiners or inflectional suffixes. There is a recent debate as to whether the selection of freestanding gender-marked elements, such as determiners, follows the same processing mechanisms as the selection of bound gender-marked morphemes, such as adjective suffixes. Most of the evidence on...

The article is devoted to the methodology of prenatal gender selection and ethical aspects its implementation. Based on analysis scientific publications, principal techniques determine sex in pre-implantation period, embryo fetus, are presented. Invasive non-invasive procedures diagnosis descreibed. include examination fetus by chorionic villus sampling karyotyping cells obtained amniocentesis....

In this study, we investigated grammatical feature selection during noun phrase production in German and Dutch. More specifically, we studied the conditions under which different grammatical genders select either the same or different determiners or suffixes. Pictures of one or two objects paired with a gender-congruent or a gender-incongruent distractor word were presented. Participants named ...

Reform of medical schooI selection has generated concerns that the process favours male applicants. The gender profile, HPAT-Ireland and Leaving Certificate scores of all applicants in 2009-2011 (n = 9582) and the gender profile of entrants from 2008-2011 is presented. Small gender differences favouring males are evident in total HPAT-Ireland scores and subsection scores less than 7 and 4 point...

In this article, we analyze gender differences in college major selection for respondents to the Education Longitudinal Study (2002-2006), focusing on educational pathways through college that lead to science, engineering, or doctoral-track medicine occupations and to non-doctoral track clinical and health sciences occupations. We show that gender differences in college major selection remain s...

In this article we report a new method for gender classification from frontal face images using feature selection based on mutual information and fusion of features extracted from intensity, shape, texture, and from three different spatial scales. We compare the results of three different mutual information measures: minimum redundancy and maximal relevance (mRMR), normalized mutual information...

The study presents an efficient gender classification technique. The gender of a facial image is the most prominent feature, and improvement in the existing gender classification methods will result in the high performance of the face retrieval and classification methods for large repositories. In this paper a new efficient gender classification method is proposed. First, the face part of the i...