objective(s)ischemia-reperfusion injury (iri) is a leading cause of kidney transplantation failure, and ischemic-preconditioning (ipc) is a protective method against the iri. in the present study, the defensive effect of ipc on rats’ kidney was investigated and more importantly the differences between two genders were appraised.materials and methodsthirty two wistar rats were randomly allocated...

Following a survey of sex-specific duration differences (restricted mainly to vowels) found in a number of languages, data from 48 speakers of American English and 9 speakers of Central Standard Swedish are investigated for sex-specific differences in segment duration. A set of complex patterns arise from the data. Greater female durations are mainly confined to places of prominence, greater ma...

A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a "natural group": "a socia! group of a special kind, a group perceived as natural, a group of men considered as materially specific in their bodies." A lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a "natural group." A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from...