Sentence examples for sex pattern from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the researchers say that the age and sex pattern of the bones indicate active management, or herding, of the sheep: Only about 11% of the females died before the age of 6 to 7 months, whereas 58% of the males did, a typical pattern that reflects farmers' desire to preserve females for breeding.

This is obviously very important to enable proper fitting of the age and sex pattern of infection.

The simulation model reproduced the dynamics of the HIV epidemic in Zambia, and fitted the age and sex pattern of HIV seroprevalence in 2001.

Among adolescent-onset heavy binge drinkers, the patterns and levels followed a similar sex pattern to that in adolescent-onset binge drinkers (figure 3B).

The age and sex pattern of mortality within the two areas is similar (affecting more males than females, more infants and adults than adolescents).

The age and sex pattern seen in our series reflects the high rates of chronic diseases in the Indigenous population, with mortality from all causes being higher in all age cohorts, but especially so in females[ 14, 15].

The second artifact is seen when individual sex patterns are compared.

Our study is primarily heuristic, and aims at explaining a common feature of African epidemics: the age and sex patterns of seroprevalence in the adult population.

In particular, may such micro-simulation models help explain the differences in prevalence levels and in age and sex patterns seen over the continent?

The work by Anderson and colleagues [9], [10] provided detailed age and sex patterns, but tended to ignore marriage, and made very strong simplifications on sexual debut.

After exploring a wide range of parameters, we found a combination giving a good fit to the age and sex patterns of prevalence in 2001.