BACKGROUND Motivation is the impetus for patients to seek orthodontic treatment, affecting adherence, treatment outcomes, and satisfaction. The aim of this study was to assess the motivation of adult female patients seeking orthodontic treatment, and classify the patients according to their motivations. METHODS This study used Q-methodology as the main tool. Q-samples were collected and categ...

Female entrepreneurship is an import factor not only in economic development but also the realization of gender equality and social inclusion. This paper discusses women/female entrepreneurship, one most important socio-economic phenomena agenda.

This paper analyzes the effect of international trade on the gender wage gap and the resulting impact on households’ trade-off between female labor force participation (FLFP) and fertility. We argue that whenever trade expands sectors intensive in female labor, the gender wage gap widens and FLFP falls. In a model where male labor and female labor are two distinct factors of production we disti...

Jill B. Becker,1 Lisa M. Monteggia,2 Tara S. Perrot-Sinal,3 Russell D. Romeo,4 Jane R. Taylor,5 Rachel Yehuda,6 and Tracy L. Bale7 1Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, 2Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, 3Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2, ...

Despite a growing list of potential new risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), one of the oldest remains controversial. Is female gender a risk factor for AD? It is likely that the greatest influence on the gender differential in crude prevalence rates is the increasing incidence of dementia with age (Paykel et al., 1994) combined with the greater longevity of women (Moritz & Ostfeld, 1990)...

X-chromosome inactivation is normally a random event that is regulated by the X chromosome itself. Rarely, females are affected by X-linked disorders from extremely skewed X-chromosome inactivation. Here, we report a family with hemophilia B with female expression through inherited X skewing that appears to be independent of either X chromosome. This finding suggests the possibility of a domina...

Congenital long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is a genetic cardiac channelopathy in which patients exhibit delayed ventricular repolarization that appears as a prolongation of the corrected QT (QTc) interval on the electrocardiogram. More than 200 mutations have been found in 13 different genes encoding ion channels, accessory beta subunits, and regulatory proteins.Most cases of congenital LQTS are the co...

Despite a growing list of potential new risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), one of the oldest remains controversial. Is female gender a risk factor for AD? It is likely that the greatest influence on the gender differential in crude prevalence rates is the increasing incidence of dementia with age (Paykel et al., 1994) combined with the greater longevity of women (Moritz & Ostfeld, 1990)...