Non-heterosexual sexual orientations are no longer considered pathological by the American Psychiatric Association since 1973 and the World Health Organization since 1990. However, to many authors, these changes in Latin America have not been translated into an inclusive healthcare provision or the recognition of non-heterosexual citizens with full rights. The purpose of this document is to pro...

The evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction may involve important tradeoffs because asexual reproduction can double an individual's contribution to the gene pool but reduces diversity. Moreover, in social insects the maintenance of genetic diversity among workers may be important for colony growth and survival. We identified a previously unknown termite breeding system in which both pa...

S exuality. It's a hot topic, sure to spark controversy in any school community. Most teachers and administrators avoid the issue at all costs. 1-fany parents also tend to avoid the issue. This absence of adult support leaves many young people without guidance and accurate in­ formation about relationships, physical development, sexual health, and important aspects of their identities. It also ...

Unforgettable Jerusalem, Israel was the venue for the 2012 conference of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) held Feb 19–22. For over five years, the Journal of Sexual Medicine ( JSM ) has been the official journal of ISSWSH. Accordingly, the 2012 ISSWSH meeting reflected the ideals and excellence of our JSM. The JSM audience encompasses a wide variety of h...

Background Many studies have assessed perspectives of medical students toward institutional diversity, but few of them have attempted to map changes in diversity climate over time. Objective This study aims to investigate changes in diversity climate at a Jesuit medical institution over a 12-year period. Methods In 1999, 334 medical students completed an anonymous self-administered online surve...

A plant's performance and interactions with other trophic levels are recorgnized to be contingent upon plant diversity and underlying associational dynamics, but far less is known about the plant traits driving such phenomena. We manipulated diversity in plant traits using pairs of plant and a substitutive design to elucidate the mechanisms underlying diversity effects operating at a fine spati...

Sexual selection mechanism can be used in evolutionary algorithms in order to introduce and maintain useful population diversity. In this paper the sexual selection mechanism for agent-based evolutionary algorithms is presented. Proposed co-evolutionary multi-agent system with sexual selection is applied to multi-modal optimization problems and compared to “classical” evolutionary algorithms.