Objective Scientific authorship is a vital marker of achievement in academic careers and
gender equity is a key performance metric in research. However, there is little understanding …

Introduction Males are usually born in excess of females. The ratio is often expressed as M/F
(male divided by total births). A wide variety of factors have been shown to influence M/F …

Objectives: Obesity is a chronic disease that often commences in childhood. More than a
quarter of Maltese children are overweight or obese. The present study was carried out to …

Background Males are born in excess of females, expressed as M/T (male/total births),
which is expected to approximate 0.515. Racial M/T disparities have been long known. This …

Higher education's ability to retain students through to graduation appears to be an
international challenge. This is also the case in South Africa where only 27% of student …

Introduction In humans in the absence of significant stress the sex ratio at birth
[males/(males+ females)] is in favor of more male than female live births. Methods This study …

AIMS: Fallout from atomic bomb testing may travel great distances before precipitating.
Males are born in excess of females in a ratio that approximates 0.515 (M/T: male live births …

Introduction The male to female ratio of live births is expressed as the ratio of male live births
divided by total live births (M/T). Factors which reduce M/T include toxins, stress and …

Background Secular trends have been found in the male–female ratio at birth (M/F: male
births divided by total births) in various countries, and this ratio is anticipated to approximate …

In this study, the feasibility of using Excel software in teaching whole Basic Statistics Course
and its influence on the attitudes of pre-service science teachers towards statistics were …