CHAPTER 41 The Male Model Makeover: Dramatic Changes with Injectables

Abstract To contain the spread of COVID-19, experts emphasize the importance of wearing masks. Unfortunately, this practice may put black people at elevated risk for being seen as potential threats by some Americans. In this study, we evaluate whether and how different types of masks affect perceptions of black and white male models. We find that non-black respondents perceive a black male model as more threatening and less trustworthy when he is wearing a bandana or a cloth mask than when he is not wearing his face covering—especially those respondents who score above average in racial resentment, a common measure of racial bias. When he is wearing a surgical mask, however, they do not perceive him as more threatening or less trustworthy. Further, it is not that non-black respondents find bandana and cloth masks problematic in general. In fact, the white model in our study is perceived more positively when he is wearing all types of face coverings. Although mandated mask wearing is an ostensibly race-neutral policy, our findings demonstrate the potential implications are not.

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Doing Gender on and off the Pitch: The World of Female Football Players

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.1367 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 140-151 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

John Harris

Keyword(s):

Sexual Orientation ◽

Soccer Players ◽

Football Players ◽

Doing Gender ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Central Importance ◽

Ethnographic Approach ◽

English Society ◽

Male Model ◽

Masculine Hegemony

The following paper looks at the experiences of female football (soccer) players at a College of Higher Education in the South of England. Association Football occupies a special place in English society where it has traditionally been linked to notions of toughness, manliness and hegemonic masculinity. The last decade has witnessed expedient growth in the number of women playing football and this has led to much debate related to the positioning of the game in contemporary society. Data was collected through an ethnographic approach utilizing observation and semi-structured interviews. Through their very participation in the game the women can be seen to be challenging notions of male hegemony. However their acceptance of the male game as being more important, and their adopting of discourse and ideologies emanating from the male model of the sport, means that they are also colluding in the (re)production of masculine hegemony. For the women in this study, of central importance to the development of a female footballing identity are issues surrounding sexual orientation within the football world. Women's football in England suffers from an ‘image problem’ which can and does lead to tension both on and off the pitch. This paper explores how these women make sense of their own involvement in the game and how they negotiate the contested ideological terrains surrounding femininity, masculinity and sexual orientation.

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Marsupial morphology of reproduction: South America opossum male model

Microscopy Research and Technique ◽

10.1002/jemt.22178 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 76 (4) ◽

pp. 388-397 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Michelle Andrade De Barros ◽

João Flávio Panattoni Martins ◽

Vivian Yochiko Samoto ◽

Vanessa Cristina Oliveira ◽

Natalia Gonçalves ◽

...

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Male Model

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Demonstrating Appropriate Positioning? Use a Male Model!

Journal of Human Lactation ◽

10.1177/089033448600200308 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 112-113

Author(s):

Kathleen Auerbach

Keyword(s):

Male Model

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NIMG-37. PREDICTING SEIZURE IN GLIOMA PATIENTS USING A RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER TRAINED ON SEX-SPECIFIC AND MIXED COHORTS

Neuro-Oncology ◽

10.1093/neuonc/noz175.707 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (Supplement_6) ◽

pp. vi169-vi169

Author(s):

Aditya Khurana ◽

Sandra Johnston ◽

Paula Whitmire ◽

Sara Ranjbar ◽

Akanksha Sharma ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Random Forest ◽

Mixed Model ◽

Cross Validation ◽

Class Imbalance ◽

Random Forest Classifier ◽

Co Morbidity ◽

Pre Treatment ◽

Male Model ◽

Sensitivity Specificity ◽

Testing Set

Abstract PURPOSE Brain tumor related epilepsy (BTE) is a major co-morbidity in patients with glioma. It is difficult to determine whether the use of anti-epileptic drugs is necessary. We attempted to build a machine-learning model to predict the probability of seizure presentation (SP) with glioma. METHODS We trained a random forest classifier using the following variables: volumetric data of pre-treatment MR images (T1Gd and T2-FLAIR sequences), patient demographics (age; sex), and measurements of tumor proliferation (log(ρ)), invasiveness (log(D)) and their relative ratio (log(ρ/D)). Our cohort consisted of 221 patients total. Using an 80-20 ratio, we used 176 patients (76 SP, 100 nSP) for training and the remaining 45 patients (19 SP, 26 nSP) were used for testing. We also trained on male-only and female-only cohorts to evaluate any sex differences in prediction. For training, 108 males (53 SP, 55 nSP) were used and 28 for testing (14 SP, 14 nSP). We used 72 females (21 SP, 49 nSP) for training and 15 (7 SP, 8 nSP) for testing. We corrected for class imbalance in the female cohort before training. Using 10-fold cross-validation and a separate testing set, we measured performance by ROC curve (AUC), accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of predictions (average of folds in cross validation). RESULTS The female model achieved the highest AUC (0.853) followed by the mixed model (0.726) and the male model (0.651). In the validation set, the accuracy/sensitivity/specificity of the three cohorts were as follows: mixed (0.726/0.696/0.750), female (0.853/0.830/0.875), and male (0.651/0.577/0.722). The performance of the testing set, in terms of accuracy/sensitivity/specificity were: mixed (0.733/0.74/0.73), female (0.8/0.57/1), and male (0.714/0.64/0.79). CONCLUSION We found a negative correlation between seizure probability and size and invasiveness of tumors. Our model shows promising performance on testing set data. Further cohort studies and training is warranted.

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Parental Suport for Female IT Career Interest and Choice

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-815-4.ch152 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 963-969 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Peggy S. Meszaros ◽

Anne Laughlin ◽

Elizabeth G. Creamer ◽

Carol J. Burger ◽

Soyoung Lee

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Career Development ◽

Career Choice ◽

Parental Support ◽

Female Children ◽

Research Findings ◽

Male Model ◽

Development Literature ◽

Career Advising

Although adolescents become progressively independent from their parents in the high-school years, they continue to depend heavily on parents in the area of career development (Peterson, Stivers, & Peters, 1986; Sebald, 1989). The role of parental support in children’s career choice has been demonstrated empirically in the career-development literature (Altman, 1997; Fisher & Griggs, 1994; Ketterson & Blustein, 1997; Kracke, 1997; Way & Rossman, 1996). Researchers have found that parents impact career choice more than counselors, teachers, friends, other relatives, or people working in the field of interest (Kotrlik & Harrison, 1989), but are not adequately informed about how to help (Young, Friesen, & Borycki, 1994). Although parents hold a powerful role in the career advising of both their male and female children, most of the reported studies use a male model and focus. Researchers are beginning to develop a knowledge base for the career development of girls and the unique issues they face in deciding on a career. Greater understanding of these issues is urgent, especially as females are recruited into nontraditional fields like information technology. This article will review research on parental support for female career choice, including the research findings from the Women and Information Technology (WIT, 2002-2005) project funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Paired-organ and other selected absorbed fraction for the Korean Reference Adult Male model

Radiation Protection Dosimetry ◽

10.1093/rpd/nci359 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 118 (4) ◽

pp. 395-401 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

J. H. Kim ◽

J. H. Whang ◽

C. S. Kim

Keyword(s):

Adult Male ◽

Male Model

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Historic Color Bias in Print: Career Aid to Three ‘Black’ Officials

Journalism Quarterly ◽

10.1177/107769907104800310 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 480-485

Author(s):

James E. Alsbrook

Keyword(s):

White Male ◽

Color Bias ◽

Male Model

Senator Brooke, Justice Marshall and Secretary Weaver were not forced to overcome the awesome black-is-wrong and white-is-right atmosphere which they largely avoided because they were light-skinned and resembled the highly acceptable white male model.

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Reproductive female round gobies (Neogobius melanostomus) are attracted to visual male models at a nest rather than to olfactory stimuli in urine of reproductive males

Behaviour ◽

10.1163/000579509x12512765640529 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 147 (1) ◽

pp. 121-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Stan Yavno ◽

Lynda Corkum

Keyword(s):

Round Goby ◽

Neogobius Melanostomus ◽

Visual Signals ◽

Invasive Fish ◽

Reproductive Female ◽

Olfactory Stimuli ◽

Reproductive Male ◽

Round Gobies ◽

Male Model ◽

Reproductive Females

AbstractFish are known to communicate in many ways and commonly use olfactory and visual signals. When round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) males become reproductive, they change from mottled grey to black and release sex steroids in their urine. In this study, we conducted a laboratory experiment to determine if reproductive female round gobies were attracted to a combination of olfactory (urine) and visual (silicone models) stimuli, representing reproductive and non-reproductive male round gobies. Females spent significantly more time at a nest with a black reproductive male model compared with a mottled non-reproductive male model. Neither urine type nor the interaction between model type and urine affected the time spent by reproductive females at a nest. Knowledge of the reproductive habits of the round goby may enable researchers to develop a method of species control for this invasive fish by manipulating its breeding habits.

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