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Gender and sexual orientation differences in cognition across adulthood : age is kinder to women than to men regardless of sexual orientation
Despite some evidence of greater age-related deterioration of the brain in males than in females, gender differences in rates of cognitive aging have proved inconsistent. The present study employed web-based methodology to collect data from people aged 20-65 years (109,612 men; 88,509 women). As expected, men outperformed women on tests of mental rotation and line angle judgment, whereas women outperformed men on tests of category fluency and object location memory. Performance on all tests declined with age but significantly more so for men than for women. Heterosexuals of each gender generally outperformed bisexuals and homosexuals on tests where that gender was superior; however, there were no clear interactions between age and sexual orientation for either gender. At least for these particular tests from young adulthood to retirement, age is kinder to women than to men, but treats heterosexuals, bisexuals, and homosexuals just the same
âNot a country at allâ: landscape and Wuthering Heights
This article explores the issue of womenâs representational genealogies through an analysis of Andrea Arnoldâs 2011 Wuthering Heights. Beginning with 1970s feminist arguments for a specifically female literary tradition, it argues that running through both these early attempts to construct an alternative female literary tradition and later work in feminist philosophy, cultural geography and film history is a concern with questions of âalternative landscapesâ: of how to represent, and how to encounter, space differently. Adopting Mary Jacobusâ notion of intertextual âcorrespondenceâ between womenâs texts, and taking Arnoldâs film as its case study, it seeks to trace some of the intertextual movements â the reframings, deframings and spatial reorderings â that link Andrea Arnoldâs film to Emily BrontĂ«âs original novel. Focusing on two elements of her treatment of landscape â her use of âunframedâ landscape and her focus on visceral textural detail â it points to correspondences in other womenâs writing, photography and film-making. It argues that these intensely tactile close-up sequences which puncture an apparently realist narrative constitute an insistent presence beneath, or within, the ordered framing which is our more usual mode of viewing landscape. As the novel Wuthering Heights is unmade in Arnoldâs adaptation and its framings ruptured, it is through this disturbance of hierarchies of time, space and landscape that we can trace the correspondences of an alternative genealogy
368 CFHealthHub: development and evaluation of videos incorporating peer description of successful self-management with inhaled therapies in adults with CF used to build self-efficacy to support self-care within the CFHealthHub complex intervention
Partnerships Among Canadian Agencies Serving Women with Substance Abuse Issues and Their Children
Dual Control of the gua Operon of Escherichia coli K12 by Adenine and Guanine Nucleotides
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