Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Sexual pleasure during condom-protected vaginal sex among heterosexual men.

INTRODUCTION Public health condom promotion efforts increasingly focus on the importance of sexual pleasure; however, little is known about sexual event-specific factors that may increase or decrease perceptions of sexual pleasure when condoms are used. AIMS To examine event-level factors associated with ratings of sexual pleasure during condom-protected vaginal intercourse. METHODS Data were collected in 2008 from 1,875 men during a prospective daily diary study of sexual behavior and condom use. Sexual pleasure was assessed during condom-protected vaginal intercourse considering situational, relational, intrapersonal, and behavioral predictors. Analyses were generalized estimating equation ordinal regression. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Event-specific perceptions of sexual pleasure (three categories: not at all enjoyable to extremely enjoyable). RESULTS Vaginal intercourse was reported on 29.8% (N = 8,876/29,714) of diary days; complete condom use was reported for 59.1% (5,249/8,876) of all vaginal intercourse events. This was confusing by using the word "all sexual events. " Higher sexual pleasure ratings during complete condom use were associated with older age, manual stimulation of one's genitals, receiving oral sex, and performing oral sex. Sexual pleasure ratings also increased in association with intercourse duration, intercourse intensity, ejaculation, erection perception, and condom comfort. Sexual pleasure ratings were lower with erection difficulty and partner discomfort during sex. CONCLUSIONS These data advance understanding of sexual pleasure during condom use, suggesting that sexual pleasure increases in conjunction with specific relational, physiological, and condom perceptions. These findings offer points upon which clinicians and health educators can engage men in an ongoing dialogue about augmenting sexual pleasure in the context of condom use.
Mycoplasma genitalium: a possible case of macrolide resistance from Lebanon

We report here a case of a 32-year-old man who presented with urethral discharge for two months. Discharge had occurred ten days following an episode of unprotected insertive oral sex with a female sex worker. A detailed history failed to detect any other sexual contact up to six months previous to this incident. His last HIV, hepatitis B and C and syphilis tests were all negative (six months before his presentation). He had initially presented to his general physician who administered 1 g of ceftriaxone with 500mg daily of oral ciprofloxacin for ten days and fluconazole 300mg/week for three weeks without improvement. Two weeks later, he was given four tablets of azithromycin 250 mg without improvement. Four weeks later, he presented to our clinic with persistent urethral discharge. A first-passed urine was sampled for Gram stain examination and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay (Real-TM, Sacace Biotechnologies, Como, Italy). Gram stain contained 16 polymorphonuclear leucocytes and the sample tested positive for MG and negative for Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Ureaplasma urealyticum (UU). He was prescribed moxifloxacin 400mg/day for ten days. Four weeks later, the patient was reassessed; his symptoms had disappeared in one week. A test of cure based on urine PCR analysis was negative for MG.
Adjunctive Antipsychotic Prescriptions for Outpatients with Depressive Disorders in Asia: The Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antidepressants (REAP-AD) Study.

TO THE EDITOR: Augmenting treatment with antidepressants with second-generation antipsychotics for partialand nonresponders to first treatment and for psychotic depression is recommended on the basis of excellent evidence by most pharmacological treatment guidelines for depressive disorders (1). The data from the Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antidepressants (REAP-AD) study include information onpharmacological treatment for outpatients with depressive disorders over the periodMarch to June 2013 in 10 Asian countries: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, India,Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia (2). A total of 827 outpatients, aged from 18 to 80 years and diagnosed with depressive episode (F32) or recurrent depressive disorder (F33) according to ICD-10, were enrolled. The average antipsychotic prescription rate in these depressed outpatients in Asia was 25.8% (N5213). As shown in Figure 1A, there was a tendency for the percentage prescription of second-generation antipsychotics to be greater than that of first-generation antipsychotics in all countries/ regions, and the percentageof depressedoutpatients receiving any antipsychotic ranged from 15.5% (Thailand) to 61.3% (Indonesia). The percentage of prescriptions for adjunctive antipsychotics in Indonesia was much greater than in any other country/region (x546.652, p,0.0001). Thepercentage of depressed outpatients receiving second-generation antipsychotics ranged from6.3% (Thailand) to 44.7% (Indonesia), comparedwith0.0%(Singapore) to21.3%(Indonesia) forfirstgeneration antipsychotics. As shown in Figure 1B, the average chlorpromazine-equivalent dose for depressed outpatients prescribed with antipsychotics ranged from 61.2 mg (Japan) to 189.8 mg (Indonesia). Especially, the chlorpromazineequivalent dose for depressed outpatients in Indonesia was greater than that in the other countries (F52.908, p50.003). More specifically, the average chlorpromazine-equivalent
Institutionalising Chineseness: Legacies of Chinese Commercial Hegemony in the Cambodian Silk Industry

Abstract The Cambodian silk weaving industry shows a remarkable pattern of ethnicised positions interlocked in processes of production and trade stretching beyond Cambodia into the Southeast Asian region and into Europe and the United States. Key commercial positions in the Cambodian silk trading networks are dominated by the Chinese, at least so it seems. In contrast to the bulk of literature on Chinese capitalism, the current study addresses a situation in which the commercial positions are identified as Chinese regardless of the ethnic background of the people who occupy them. While subscribing to the institutional perspective on Chinese capitalism, this article aims to take the debate one step further by arguing that – while a particular institutional embedding is conducive to Chinese proliferation in the business sector – Chinese business practices and representations are themselves subject to processes of institutionalisation. The paper explains how they may develop into an institution that is both a model of and for conducting business.
The Corruption of Politics and the Politics of Corruption: An Overview

Control of corruption in the US, A. Black politics as a business - reflections arising from research into political corruption, D. Della Porta and A. Pizzorno from Salmon to Nolan - corruption panics in English politics, A. Doig reactions to corruption in the Netherlands, P. van Duyne the public purse and the private campaign - political finance in Israel, M. Hornung the corruption issues in China and Hong Kong, C. Jones elite prosecutions - serious fraud, corruption and criminal justice in England and Wales, M. Levi Tangentopoli and the particular characteristics of Italian magistracy, D. Nelken BCCI and the control of transnational corruption, N. Passas corruption and its control in France, V. Ruggiero.
Of Skilled Migrations and Brain Drains

One of the clear present trends in current attempts to ‘manage’ migration are policies to attract increased numbers of skilled migrants, while attempting to limit the numbers of the unskilled. As early as 1967, Canada had introduced a points system as a basis for selecting those with the skills most needed nationally. This system was progressively modified to attract those with higher qualifications, as well as businesspeople and entrepreneurs. By the end of the century, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, among others in Europe, as well as Australia, New Zealand and the United States of the traditional countries of immigration had all made greater provision to attract the highly skilled and a global competition for talent had emerged. However, it is not just the developed countries of the West that need skilled labour; the rapidly developing economies of East Asia, as well as nuclei of dynamism throughout the developing world, are rarely self-sufficient in the skills they need. Critical questions revolve around not just the demand for skills but also where the skilled migrants come from and what impact their leaving might have on areas of origin. Despite the amount of research on the topic of skilled migration in recent years, a number of unproven assumptions persist. One of the implicit assumptions in the debate is that the skilled migration system is in some way separate from the unskilled system. The importation of skilled workers will generate a demand for unskilled workers to service them: restaurant workers, office cleaners, couriers, laundry workers and so on. Thus, important linkages exist between skilled and less skilled migration systems and attempts to promote one, while limiting the other, are likely to create policy contradictions that are difficult to resolve. However, the most common assumptions are that most skilled migrants originate from the countries of the ‘South’, and that their poaching by the ‘North’ is prejudicial to the development of southern countries. That is, the classic ‘brain drain’ argument. The question of a ‘brain drain’ being prejudicial to the country of origin emerged in the 1960s, often with respect to the loss of doctors, engineers and scientists from the United Kingdom to the United States. However, the drain of the ‘best and the brightest’ was also noted for the economies of Taiwan and South Korea, where it was estimated that 90 per cent of the students who left did not return. Between one fifth and one quarter of the up to 60,000 emigrants who left Hong Kong every year in the late 1980s and early 1990s were highly skilled migrants. Yet, today, these three economies remain among the most dynamic in the world. Certainly, over the last 10 years, they have suffered fluctuations in growth but these can be related to local structural adjustments and regional and global economic trends rather than any loss of skilled manpower. The evidence of any negative impact of the out-migration of the skilled, in the case of East Asia at least, is hard to sustain.
Women who prefer longer penises are more likely to have vaginal orgasms (but not clitoral orgasms): implications for an evolutionary theory of vaginal orgasm.

INTRODUCTION Research indicates that (i) women's orgasm during penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI) is influenced by fitness-related male partner characteristics, (ii) penis size is important for many women, and (iii) preference for a longer penis is associated with greater vaginal orgasm consistency (triggered by PVI without concurrent clitoral masturbation). AIMS To test the hypothesis that vaginal orgasm frequency is associated with women's reporting that a longer than average penis is more likely to provoke their PVI orgasm. METHOD Three hundred twenty-three women reported in an online survey their past month frequency of various sexual behaviors (including PVI, vaginal orgasm, and clitoral orgasm), the effects of a longer than average penis on likelihood of orgasm from PVI, and the importance they attributed to PVI and to noncoital sex. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Univariate analyses of covariance with dependent variables being frequencies of various sexual behaviors and types of orgasm and with independent variable being women reporting vs. not reporting that a longer than average penis is important for their orgasm from PVI. RESULTS Likelihood of orgasm with a longer penis was related to greater vaginal orgasm frequency but unrelated to frequencies of other sexual behaviors, including clitoral orgasm. In binary logistic regression, likelihood of orgasm with a longer penis was related to greater importance attributed to PVI and lesser importance attributed to noncoital sex. CONCLUSIONS Women who prefer deeper penile-vaginal stimulation are more likely to have vaginal orgasm, consistent with vaginal orgasm evolving as part of a female mate choice system favoring somewhat larger than average penises. Future research could extend the findings by overcoming limitations related to more precise measurement of penis length (to the pubis and pressed close to the pubic bone) and girth, and large representative samples. Future experimental research might assess to what extent different penis sizes influence women's satisfaction and likelihood of vaginal orgasm.
ASEAN-PRC Political and Security Cooperation: Problems, Proposals, and Prospects

Relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the 1990s are on a much better footing than in recent decades. With the resumption of formal ties with Indonesia in August 1991 and the establishment of diplomatic ties with Singapore the following October and Brunei in September 1991, China now has official relations with all the ASEAN states. Numerous ASEAN and Chinese leaders, including heads of state and many officials, bureaucrats, business people, and tourists have visited each other's countries. Even the Tiananmen incident of 1989 did not adversely affect Sino-ASEAN relations; the response from the ASEAN states was muted and "rational," especially when compared with that of the West, and this has been greatly appreciated by Beijing in view of its many domestic and international problems in the aftermath of that event.1 While China may face temporary setbacks in its Four Modernizations as a result of the Tiananmen incident, it is determined to continue with its reforms and opening to the outside world. In concert with its emphasis on a stable domestic and international environment for development, Beijing reiterates, among other things, the importance of having friendly neighboring states, including those in the ASEAN region. The adjustments China has made in the past few years have produced significant results, as
Introduction: Big Business in Asia

Before we discuss the themes of the contributions to this collection, ‘Big Business Globalization and Competitiveness in Asia’, a title we believe most appropriate for this tenth anniversary edition, this introduction will first examine the background of economic trends in the region over the period, in order to place the contributions in a wider context. Steeped in antiquity, the Asia Pacific region stretches across a vast territorial area and covers a wide range of countries as well as national economies. It was once referred to as the ‘Far East’ or the ‘Orient’, mysterious or otherwise. Famous in history for its manufacturing well before the industrial revolution in the west, it has now become the ‘Workshop of the World’ (see Financial Times, series of articles, week beginning 21 June 2004). The region extends from the legendary Silk Road to the eastern end of the Great Wall and beyond, from the western borders of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to Japan, covering a distance greater than that from the Pacific to the Atlantic in the North American continent. Its strategic location and physical geography stand out as major defining characteristics, with the PRC so obviously dominating the host of countries in terms of land mass and population, encompassing over a quarter of those alive today. The economies of the region are also heterogeneous, some very large and some very small by comparison, ranging from those with very big populations like China with nearly 1.3 billion people, to relatively tiny city-states like Singapore with a few million inhabitants – clearly not of the same order of magnitude. The population variable, as well as the spatial spread, will among other things help to shape the nature of both product and factor markets, as in some instances the potential of economic development. (see Warner, 2000). An earlier attempt to evaluate where Asia Pacific economies, including that of the PRC, are going was made by one of the present writers, based on the ‘late-development effect’ (see Ng and Warner, 1999). It broke down this vast region into two main sectors, namely the ‘advanced’ on the one hand and the ‘less developed’ on the other. Even so, there remained problems about compressing so much into a basic dichotomy. The economies of the region have on the other hand been economically and industrially dominated until recently by another nation, namely Japan. This latter nation may now be on the wane, as China becomes a rival economic ‘super power’. The potential of its development was noted by Napoleon long ago. The ‘little Dragon’ economies in turn may be seen as distinctive from many others in terms of the level of economic development they have achieved. Here we find Hong Kong, Singapore,
Effective exchange rates in Asia with entrepot and growing intra-regional trade

Introduction.2 1. Refinements in the calculation of effective exchange rates.3 1.1 Adjusting for Hong Kong’s re-export trade . 3 1.2 Updating the base year.7 2. Refining the RMB effective exchange rate.8 2.1 Comparison of basket weights with both refinements . 8 2.2 Comparison of effective exchange rates with both refinements.9 2.3 Comparison with each refinement considered separately.12 2.3.1 Effects of trade data adjustment.12 2.3.2 Effects of base year updating.12 3. Refining the effective exchange rates indices of other Asian currencies . 13 3.1 Weights on China and Hong Kong . 13 3.2 The case of Hong Kong . 14 3.3 The case of Singapore.17 3.4 Comparison of refined scenario with official weights and effective exchange rates . 17 4. Applications of the effective exchange rate in policy analysis . 19 4.1 Currency stability: bilateral versus effective . 19 4.2 Effective currency blocs in the renminbi basket . 21 4.3 Effective exchange rates as a mechanism for cross-border reactions.24 5. Concluding remarks . 26 References . 28 Appendix 1 General data requirements.30 Appendix 2 Response of selected currencies to the yen/$ and euro/$ rates . 31 Appendix 3 Trade-weight tables . 33
International study on antidepressant prescription pattern at 20 teaching hospitals and major psychiatric institutions in East Asia: Analysis of 1898 cases from China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan

Abstract The purpose of the present study was to review the prescription patterns of antidepressants in different countries in East Asia. The survey was conducted in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan from October 2003 to March 2004 using the unified research protocol and questionnaire. Twenty teaching hospitals and major psychiatric hospitals participated and a total of 1898 patients receiving antidepressants were analyzed. The survey provided a number of interesting characteristics on the prescription patterns of antidepressant in East Asia. Out of 56 antidepressants listed in the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification (ATC) index by the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Drug Statistics Methodology (Oslo), only 26 antidepressants were prescribed in participating countries in East Asia. On average 38.4% of prescriptions of antidepressants were for patients with diagnoses other than depressive disorders. The availability and commonly prescribed antidepressants varied greatly by country. The selective serotonin re‐uptake inhibitors (SSRI) and other newer antidepressants were prescribed in approximately 77.0% of all cases. At the time of the survey, only two SSRI medications were available in Japan. However, five types of SSRI were available and were often prescribed in Korea.
Australian bat lyssavirus: implications for public health

Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) infection in humans is rare but fatal, with no proven effective therapy. ABLV infection can be prevented by administration of a post‐exposure prophylaxis regimen of human rabies immunoglobulin and rabies vaccine. All Australian bats (flying foxes and microbats) should be considered to be carrying ABLV unless proven otherwise. Any bat‐related injury (bite, scratch or mucosal exposure to bat saliva or neural tissue) should be notified immediately to the relevant public health unit — no matter how small the injury or how long ago it occurred. Human‐to‐human transmission of ABLV has not been reported but is theoretically possible. Standard infection control precautions should be employed when managing patients with suspected or confirmed ABLV infection.
Duplicity Among the Dark Triad: Three Faces of Deceit

Although all 3 of the Dark Triad members are predisposed to engage in exploitative interpersonal behavior, their motivations and tactics vary. Here we explore their distinctive dynamics with 5 behavioral studies of dishonesty (total N = 1,750). All 3 traits predicted cheating on a coin-flipping task when there was little risk of being caught (Study 1). Only psychopathy predicted cheating when punishment was a serious risk (Study 2). Machiavellian individuals also cheated under high risk—but only if they were ego-depleted (Study 3). Both psychopathy and Machiavellianism predicted cheating when it required an intentional lie (Study 4). Finally, those high in narcissism showed the highest levels of self-deceptive bias (Study 5). In sum, duplicitous behavior is far from uniform across the Dark Triad members. The frequency and nature of their dishonesty is moderated by 3 contextual factors: level of risk, ego depletion, and target of deception. This evidence for distinctive forms of duplicity helps clarify differences among the Dark Triad members as well as illuminating different shades of dishonesty.
Bringing the Internet on Campus: Lessons Learned from China and Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)

International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, & Practice, Volume 5, Number 4, Winter 20042005. ISSN 1528-3534; Copyright 2005 by Caddo Gap Press; All rights of reproduction reserved. Abstract: As one of the popular and promising instructional technologies, Internet is playing a more and more important role in educational field all over the world. Bringing Internet into classrooms is encouraged in many countries; however, their policy initiatives to achieve this vary. The present paper is an empirical and exploratory study, trying to explore the policy initiatives taken by Mainland of China and Taiwan to enable school classrooms to have access to Internet. The educational system and policy initiatives for bringing Internet into classroom are firstly addressed. Then, educational philosophies for these policy initiatives are discussed and are compared with that of in the United States (the E-Rate program). Challenges and recommendations for improving the policy initiatives are finally presented.
Effectively Linking International, National and Regional Innovation Systems: Insights from India and Indonesia

The success of Asian economies (first Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and, more recently, China and India) has made it tempting to look for ‘an Asian model of development’. However, the strength of Asian development lies less in strategies that reproduce successful national systems of innovation and more in the capacity for institutional change to open up new development trajectories with greater emphasis on knowledge and learning. The select group of contributors demonstrate that although there are important differences among Asian countries in terms of institutional set-ups supporting innovation, government policies and industrial structures, they share common transitional processes to cope with the globalizing learning economy.