A newly developed Semantic Misattribution Procedure (SMP), a semantic variant of the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP), was used in three studies as an indirect measure of sexual interest. Using a known-group approach, homosexual men (Studies 1 and 2), heterosexual men (Studies 1 to 3) and heterosexual women (Study 3) were asked to guess the meaning of briefly presented Chinese ideographs a...

Empirical research by scholars from several disciplines provides the basis for an outline of the process of sexual development. The process of achieving sexual maturity begins at conception and ends at death. It is influenced by biological maturation/aging, by progression through the socially-defined stages of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and later life, and by the person s relationships ...

The total nitrogen and L-hydroxyproline concentrations of two intra-abdominal and two subcutaneous sites of adipose tissue were measured in male and female Wistar rats. At 100 g body weight the nitrogen concentration of intra-abdominal adipose tissue was slightly lower than that of subcutaneous adipose tissue. As age advanced beyond sexual maturity, the nitrogen content of intra-abdominal adipo...

The testicular growth of guinea-fowls in relation to age was compared under 3 constant photoperiods (7L: 17D; 14L: 10D; 20L: 4D) from 3 weeks of age. Although long daylength (14L or 20L) caused precocious development of the gonads, it also limited total adult gonadal weight to around 1 800 +/- 200 mg. Short daylengths (7L) delayed the development of the gonads but their adult weight was enhance...

We propose an HIV/AIDS model with vertical transmission and the period of sexual maturity of infected newborns which is incorporated in the model as a time delay. We have divided the sexually mature population into three subclasses: the susceptibles, the infectives and the AIDS population. Susceptibles are assumed to become HIV infected via sexual contacts with infectives. Model is analyzed usi...

The development stages of male and female gonads in the freshwater crab Sylviocarcinus pictus (H. Milne Eduards, 1853) were described through macroscopic and microscopic (histology) examinations. The histological description was based on 40 specimens (20 each sex). Four gonadal development stages were found for females: immature, ripening, mature and spawned. The following female cells were fou...

The vomeronasal organ of frog and mouse was investigated for the presence and content of serotonin and catecholamines by means of high-performance liquid chromatography. Measurable amounts of serotonin, adrenaline and noradrenaline were found in the vomeronasal organ of adult individuals of both species. The amine content varied with sex of adult frogs and mice and sexual maturity of mice. In p...

the present research aimed to study the growth and reproductive parameters of common kilka clupeonella caspia in southern caspian sea in 2010. after measuring the length and weight of 3774 samples, they were dissected, sex determined and female gonads were weighed. sexual maturity classification was carried out based on six stages. age was determined using sagitta otoliths. length-weight relati...

Olfaction is an important sensory modality for mate recognition in many mammal species. Odorants provide information about the health status, genotype, dominance status and/or reproductive status. How and when odor profiles change during sexual maturation is, however often unclear, particularly in free-ranging mammals. Here, we investigated whether the wing sac odorant of male greater sac-winge...