Genetic, gonadal, phenotypic and psychological genderis the basis for gender assignment to an individual. Derangement in genetic makeup, under or over exposure to sex hormones and problems related to sex hormone receptors will lead to abnormal development of the external and internal genitalia. Failure to respond for the endogenous androgen, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome is one of the common ...

To investigate the interaction in speech perception of auditory information and lexical knowledge (in particular, knowledge of which phonetic sequences are words), acoustic continua varying in voice onset time were constructed so that for each acoustic continuum, one of the two possible phonetic categorizations made a word and the other did not. For example, one continuum ranged between the wor...

Inferences of purposeful Middle Palaeolithic (MP) burial are almost universally accepted, despite published arguments that the pre-1960s discoveries are equally well explained by natural processes. In the modern human origins debate (perhaps the most hotly disputed question in palaeoanthropology) inferences of MP burial are crucial in arguments for an early Upper Pleistocene emergence of modern...

BACKGROUND Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) is an important public health problem worldwide. Consumption of animal-derived food products and direct and/or indirect contact with animals are the major routes of acquiring infection with NTS. Published information, particularly on the serotype distribution of NTS among human patients with gastroenteritis and associated risk factors, is scarce in Ethi...

EcoGothic studies has, so far, primarily focused on uncanny environments imagined by Western writers. In response, this article compares polluted, haunting in two contemporary Anglophone novels from the Global South: Tash Aw’s We, Survivors(2019) and HelonHabila’s Oil Water(2011). Through vivid representations of forbidding jungles Malaysian palm oil plantations toxic waters oil-rich Niger Delt...

This article is part of the current ecocritical research that being conducted on Tash Aw’s works. It attempts to analyse first novel The Harmony Silk Factory and investigate how he customizes concept harmony dissonance in relation human beings from perspective recent growing theory ecocriticism. Through examining novel, manipulation nature hope illustrating plot a studied thoroughly. In this ar...