Men

A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the father. The male fetus produces larger amounts of androgens and smaller amounts of estrogens than a female fetus. This difference in the relative amounts of these sex steroids is responsible for the physiological differences that distinguish men from women. During puberty, hormones which stimulate androgen production result in the development of secondary sexual characteristics, …

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CHB: Coach House Books · 7 May 2024 English

Taking its title from lossless data compression algorithms, Lossless transmits through time and space those ‘stabs of self’ that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people. …

see my spirit numbness. No sperm, a drip of se- men. Invisible flame, Catholic boy licked by Stephen’s


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 6 May 2024 English

An IGF report outlining technical aspects of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), examining existing governance frameworks and providing recommendations for policy-makers to improve awareness, education, safety, and regulation of …

attributes considered appropriate for women and men in different cultural contexts. Gender influences women are paid with leftover tailings for helping men wash mineral powder, a transaction that is often tailings are reserved by the mine owners for other men. Conversely, in many ASGM areas, male miners abandon Tanzania, women typically rework the tailings while men perform some of the primary processing activities


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 3 May 2024 English

Beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. These conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, …

pedestal and every time I go by there are Indigenous men sitting there visiting. The base of it is sloped


Fraser Institute · 2 May 2024 English

Summary One measure of the privately borne cost of wait times is the value of time that is lost while waiting for treatment. Valuing only hours lost during the average …

and their lost productivity due to difficulty or men- tal anguish, are not valued in this estimate.7 Non-


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English

Rose Drury and her partner, Lucy, have just learned that their son, Roger, is considered to be below average — at the third percentile rank in most areas, according to …

one security guard and two night- time maintenance men sharing many megawatts of light, talking on walkie-talkies


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English

Set in Paris, an offbeat and sweet novel about family, loss and recovery, and the magic of memory. When Mira takes a trip to Paris with her nephew, Bernard, she …

Croatian as well as English. They pass a group of men in front of a fruit shop, stand- ing in a triangle off toward the now distant awning where the three men still stand talking. Mira watches the pigeon, from parting, at the farm where he tended bees with other men raw with what some people were calling PTSD, she barbecues from her childhood, the neighbouring men roasting sausages in her parents’ yard. “I heard of warm browns and yellows and whites. Only the men wearing blue seem to be in charge of the payment


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English

A powerful debut about the lives of women and girls caught in the orbit of the military. Female recruits weathering toxic masculine environments. Military wives stretched thin across countless military …

otherwise noted, masculine pronouns applied to both men and women. The girls enjoyed free lattes and planned beach there was a wedding between two handsome men. The mother places her finger inside the pincer-shaped Trekking barefoot across the beach rocks, the handsome men waded into the waves holding hands. On a high table


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 30 April 2024 English

Limited Verse is now universally recognized as a valuable case study in the short-lived literary arts of New English. The translated poems in this collection offer a fascinating portal to …

night, Women in the golden light of mothering, Old men watching quietly through the sundown Into the far Time and time again! You do not know the poison men Here taking up the earth, Be still, be still, waste? [James Joyce]49 Song for Ill-Starred Young Men What parting-bells for these, here dead like cows Languages There are no hooks upon a language Whereby men take grip of it And mark it with signs for its memory


Fraser Institute · 30 April 2024 English

The key purpose of this study is to estimate the resources expended by individuals in complying with the Canadian personal income tax/payroll tax system in 2023. Roughly half of tax …

preparers than men (56%) and consequently use a paid tax preparer more often (41%) than men (33%). This lower knowledge of tax matters amongst women than men as reported by Pham et al. (2020: 9, 34). Age has characteristics we find that: • Total cost is higher for men than women because they have a higher value of time


CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 30 April 2024 English

The income gap in Canada between men and women means that if a state like China targets Canada’s economy to demand economic concessions, women are less likely to have an economic cushion to ‘buffer’ the Studies 57 (1):139-162. [...] “Paid and unpaid work time by labor force status of prime age women and men in Canada: The great recession and gender inequality in work time.” Gender and time use in a global

the next twenty years, highlighting how Canadian men and women may be impacted by these threats in different Canadian sanctions may have different impacts on men and women in target countries. Finally, it concludes To illustrate how economic coercion may impact men and women in different ways, consider two scenarios: more women lost their jobs than men (Chan 2011, 17; Alini 2020). Whether men or women lose their jobs more Contrastingly, during the 2008 financial crisis, young men were most likely to lose their jobs, as male-dominated


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