Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Talking Sexualities New Zealand and Danish Students' Stories about Sexual Negotiations

Poststructuralist and other critical analyses of sexuality, gender and identity are used to examine how New Zealand and Danish young adults drew on and challenged available discourses as they responded to representations of sexual interactions in the film Chasing Amy. The conversations about sexual practices in mixed gender, women only and men only focus groups illustrate the complex ways in which people construct their identities using subject positions available to them in different contexts as they responded to the movie, the talk of others and the researcher. The strengths and limitations of this approach to facilitating talk are examined as well as the conversations that occurred. The ways in which researchers in New Zealand and Denmark are themselves discursively positioned as theorists and investigators of gender and sexuality is also examined. The thesis illustrates how multiple connections and differences emerge across national and local environments. Talk about sexual negotiations among young adults recruited through university student networks suggests that assumptions about agency, sexual autonomy, reciprocity and women’s and men’s equal right to enjoy sex are still gendered while also challenging traditional understandings about men, women and sexual pleasure. This was, for example, highlighted in talk about receiving and giving oral sex in long-term heterosexual relationships and the ‘need’ for women to explore their bodies and become ‘capable (s)experts’ through masturbation. The thesis finally explores how gendered collective and individual identities sometimes intersect with social identities associated with ethnicity, religion, nationality and sexual identification. These intersections disrupt attempts in cross-national projects – including this thesis research – to form conclusions about national differences and other social identities.
Linking global trade and human rights : new policy space in hard economic times

Part I. Trade Governance and Human Rights: 1. Humanizing global economic governance Sol Picciotto 2. The promise of linking human rights and trade Ernest-Ulrich Petersmann 3. Free trade agreements and global policy space after the great recession Jorge Heine and Joseph Turcotte Part II. Global Protest and Innovation from Below: 4. From Seattle to occupy: the shifting focus of social protest Tomer Broude 5. What's next for global labour? Power dynamics and industrial relations systems in a hyperglobalized world Daniel Drache 6. Global tobacco control and trade liberalization: new policy spaces? Lesley Jacobs Part III. Paradigm Shifts and Structural Change: 7. Business, policy spaces, and governance in India Kuldeep Mathur 8. India's pharmaceutical industry: policy space that fosters technological capability Amit Ray and Saradindu Bhaduri Part IV. Contested Policy Spaces in Social Welfare: 9. Reducing poverty in Brazil: finding policy space for meeting developmental needs Kathryn Hochstetler 10. The global health policy agenda and shrinking policy spaces in the post crisis landscape Ron Labonte 11. The World Trade Organization and food security after the global food crises Matias Margulis Part V. Innovations in International Human Rights: 12. Decent work for domestic workers as a new policy space Adelle Blackett 13. Is there policy space for human rights linkages in China's trade and investment strategy? Ljiljana Biukovic Part VI. China's Evolving State Policy and Practices: 14. Human rights and social justice in China Pitman Potter 15. New policy space for collective bargaining in China Sarah Biddulph 16. Industrial relations in post-transition China: the challenges of inequality and social conflict Chang-Hee Lee.
Are REITs a good shelter from financial crises? Evidence from the Asian markets

Purpose – The goal of this research is to investigate the time‐varying relationship between REITs and the stock markets in four Asian markets such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan.Design/methodology/approach – The Multivariate GARCH‐vech model is used to capture the time‐varying correlation. The extreme value theory (EVT) is then employed to describe the extreme connection between REIT and market returns before and after financial crises.Findings – Empirical results show that the conditional risks in both markets have increased abruptly since the start of the sub‐prime mortgage crisis and soared to a higher level as Lehman Brothers collapsed. Besides, the REIT markets have been positively correlated with stock markets since the sub‐prime crisis unfolded and the increases of correlation coefficients after the crisis are more than two times larger than those before the crisis in most of the countries. Lastly, the size and probability of having extreme positive coefficient are greater than those exp.
China’s Dormant and Active Social Volcanoes

China’s leaders often claim that the rising tide of mass protests in recent years is primarily driven by popular anger over the widening gap between rich and poor. However, in a series of national surveys that I helped direct, it becomes clear the average Chinese citizen is less angry about current income gaps than citizens in many other societies. There also is no clear increase in such anger over time (despite a sustained rise in income inequality). The primary drivers of popular anger lie elsewhere—primarily in power inequalities, manifested in abuses of power, official corruption, bureaucrats who fail to protect the public from harm, mistreatment by those in authority, and inability to obtain redress when mistreated. China’s leaders have done an impressive job in recent years of addressing poverty and material inequality, thus keeping the distributive injustice social volcano dormant. However, they have so far been unwilling or unable to make fundamental reforms to address procedural injustices. Unless they can provide Chinese citizens with more effective protections from the arbitrariness and abuses of entrenched power, a shared sense of injustice will persist, and this active volcano will continue to smolder, with the potential to erupt and threaten Party rule.
Origins and Founder Effects on the Japanese Masked Palm Civet Paguma larvata (Viverridae, Carnivora), Revealed from a Comparison with Its Molecular Phylogeography in Taiwan

The source areas of the Japanese populations of the masked palm civet Paguma larvata (Viverridae, Carnivora), an alien species in Japan, have not been identified. In the present study, to reveal their origins and genetic features, we determined the full mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b sequences (1,140 base-pairs) of a total of 206 individuals of P. larvata from the Honshu and Shikoku islands of Japan (186 animals) and Taiwan (20 animals), and investigated their molecular phylogeography and the genetic relationships between populations in these countries. We found that each animal from Japan exhibited one of four haplotypes (JA1, JA2, JA4, and JA5), and that JA1 and JA4 were more frequent in eastern Honshu and Shikoku—central Honshu, respectively. By contrast, six haplotypes consisting of four new types (TW1, TW2, TW3, and TW4) and the previously reported two types (JA1 and JA4) were identified from 20 animals from native populations in Taiwan. Within Taiwan, one haplotype set (JA1, TW1, and TW2) was distributed in the western region, while a second (JA4, TW3, and TW4) was found in the eastern region; these regions are separated by high mountain ranges. Our comparison of haplotype distributions strongly demonstrated that the eastern Japanese populations originated from animals of western Taiwan, and that the western Japanese populations originated from those of eastern Taiwan. In addition, the lower genetic variability and particular distribution patterns of haplotypes in Japan showed founder effects, which may have resulted from multiple introductions of P. larvata to Japan from Taiwan.
Mise à disposition de corpus oraux interactifs : le projet TCOF (Traitement de Corpus Oraux en Français)

Cet article presente le projet TCOF (Traitement de Corpus Oraux en Francais) du laboratoire ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Francaise), UMR 7118, CNRS et Nancy Universite. Ce projet a ete initie en 2005 afin de collecter un grand corpus de donnees orales et d'etudier les productions langagieres et les pratiques interactionnelles (des enfants et des adultes) en francais parle. La mise en place du projet TCOF comporte plusieurs aspects : importante collecte de donnees, transcription alignee texte-son, mise en conformite juridique, traitement informatique de ces donnees, diffusion internationale libre et gratuite sur le site du CNRTL (Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales), a l'adresse suivante : http://www.cnrtl. fr/corpus/tcof/. L'article presente les reflexions, les contraintes et les travaux en cours pour la realisation de ces differents aspects.
CROSS-BORDER MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: CASE STUDIES OF KOREA ; CHINA; AND HONG KONG, CHINA

This paper explores the impact of cross-border MA China; and Hong Kong, China. For an intensive analytical research on this topic, this paper presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the various impacts of cross-border M&As on the competitiveness of the host economies. We apply this framework to the data from five outstanding and considerable cases of each host economy. Differences in impact of cross-border M&As are shown along four dimensions (Porter 1990, Dunning 2003): Factor Conditions, Demand Conditions, Related & Supporting Sectors, and Strategy, Structure & Rivalry. The results of this study give a better understanding of cross-border M&A impacts, and provide strong support for positive impacts on host economies.
Illiquidity, Systemic Risk, and Macroprudential Regulation: The Case of Taiwan's Capital Market

The guidance formulated by G20 to assess the systemic importance of financial institutions, markets and instruments (IMF, BIS, and FSB, 2009 [19]) analyzes that the effective control of systemic risk is one of the most important things in the macroprudential regulation at current stage. Although the current banking regulation focuses on funding liquidity risk such as LCR and NSFR of Basel III, financial institutions would actually have highly procyclical effects between funding and market liquidity at the same time, leading to liquidity spirals and threatening to financial stability. We therefore propose a market liquidity, systemic risk and macroregulation analysis framework in Taiwan's capital market to fill this gap. Comparison with the Drehmann and Juselius' empirical study (2013b), we find that illiquidity options by using 6-month historical volatility and forecasting short-term stock declines are effective early warning indicators (EWIs) having most stable policy structures and minimal regulation costs. Applying AUC macroregulation criteria, we show this illiquidity measure is also maintained fairly robustness in different intervals, e.g. during three sub-samples and serious crisis periods. If financial institutions can diversify the concentration of portfolios varieties, industries, and counterparty before crises by using EWIs, the passive risk taking can be converted into the active risk management. It is necessary to prepare the market liquidity and macroregulation framework in advance.
Mecanismo de la formacion y cinetica de la oxidacion del corazon negro durante la coccion de piezas ceramicas

SE HAN ESTUDIADO LAS CAUSAS DE LA FORMACION DEL CORAZON NEGRO QUE APARECE, EN DETERMINADAS CIRCUNSTANCIAS, DURANTE LA COCCION DE PIEZAS CERAMICAS. LOS RESULTADOS OBTENIDOS PARECEN CONFIRMAR QUE LA FORMACION DEL CORAZON NEGRO SE DEBE A DOS CAUSAS DIFERENTES: A LA COQUIZACION DE LA MATERIA ORGANICA PRESENTE EN EL MATERIAL DE PARTIDA, QUE SE PRODUCE ENTRE 400 Y 500 GRADOS C, Y A LA REDUCCION DEL OXIDO FERRICO A MAGNETITA Y/O WUSTITA (OXIDO FERROSO) EN EL INTERVALO DE TEMPERATURAS DE 500 A 1000 GRADOS C. SE HA DISENADO Y CONSTRUIDO UNA INSTALACION, PARA ESTUDIAR LA CINETICA DE LA OXIDACION, CON MEZCLAS DE OXIGENO-NITROGENO, DEL CORAZON NEGRO PREVIAMENTE PROVOCADO EN LAS PIEZAS CERAMICAS. SE HAN REALIZADO VARIAS SERIES DE EXPERIMENTOS MODIFICANDO LA TEMPERATURA DE REACCION, EL ESPESOR DE LA PROBETA Y LA CONCENTRACION DE OXIGENO EN LA FASE GASEOSA, A FIN DE COMPROBAR SI LOS RESULTADOS EXPERIMENTALES SE AJUSTABAN AL MODELO CINETICO DE NUCLEO SIN REACCIONAR , PROPUESTO EN LA BIBLIOGRAFIA PARA REACCIONES HETEROGENEAS GAS-SOLIDO NO CATALITICAS. COMO CONSECUENCIA, SE HA PROPUESTO UNA ECUACION QUE RELACIONA EL ESPESOR DE LA ZONA DE PIEZA OXIDADA CON LAS VARIABLES DE OPERACION MENCIONADAS Y CON EL TIEMPO DE REACCION.
Learning Experience of Baccalaureate Nursing Students with Challenge-Based Learning in Hong Kong: A Descriptive Qualitative Study

Nursing education has recently adopted challenge-based learning (CBL) to enhance nursing students’ competency in the 21st-century healthcare environment. Previous studies have not yet fully explored nursing students’ perceptions of CBL. This descriptive qualitative study aimed to investigate the learning experience of first-year baccalaureate nursing students engaging with CBL. Videotaped focus group interviews were conducted in a tertiary education institution in Hong Kong, China. The participants recruited for the study included ten Year 1 nursing students enrolled in a public health course delivered using CBL over the study period. The participants included four female and six male students. Five themes were identified: facilitation by teachers, familiarity with CBL, team communication, facilitating metacognitive development, and the application of theories into actual practices. The findings shed light on the potential application of CBL in nursing training as it can foster students’ metacognition, an important attribute for the modern-day workforce. Facilitating theoretical application into practice implies that CBL helps to fill the theory–practice gap that has long been a persistent issue in nursing training. Nonetheless, students encountered frustrating obstacles throughout the learning process, including ineffective group communication, unfamiliarity with the CBL process, and insufficient facilitation by teachers. Better preparation on the part of both teachers and students is critical to ensure that nursing students are gaining optimal benefits from the CBL process.
Normative Data for Adult Mandarin-Speaking Populations: A Systematic Review of Performance-Based Neuropsychological Instruments

Abstract Objectives: Normative data are essential for neuropsychological evaluations, but they are scarce for Mandarin-speaking populations, despite Mandarin being the language with the most native speakers. Several normative data studies have been reported in recent years for Mandarin speakers, who reside in different countries/regions (e.g., mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore, etc.). This review aims to serve as a reference guide to appropriate norms when working with a Mandarin-speaking patient and to guide future endeavors in test validation and development in areas where studies to date fall short. Method: We conducted a systematic review utilizing the PsycInfo, PubMed, and China Knowledge Resource Integrated databases as well as additional literature search through citations. We performed evaluations of the existing norms based on their test selection, cognitive domains covered, sample size, language, regions of participant recruitment, stratification by age/gender/education levels, and reporting of other psychometric properties. We focused on articles that included performance-based tests for adults but excluded those with purely clinical norms or from commercial publishers. Results: We reviewed 1155 articles found through literature search and identified 43 articles reporting normative data for this population that met our inclusion criteria. Sixty-five distinctive tests and 127 versions were covered. The results are presented within two detailed tables organized by articles and tests, respectively. Conclusions: We discussed the strengths and limitations of these normative reports. Practitioners are recommended to utilize normative data that most closely approximate a test-taker’s cultural and demographic backgrounds. Limitations of the current review are also discussed.
Transcriptional and Hormonal Responses in Ethephon-Induced Promotion of Femaleness in Pumpkin

The number and proportion of female flowers per plant can directly influence the yield and economic benefits of cucurbit crops. Ethephon is often used to induce female flowers in cucurbits. However, the mechanism through which it affects floral sex differentiation in pumpkin is unknown. We found that the application of ethephon on shoot apical meristem of pumpkin at seedling stage significantly increased the number of female flowers and expedited the appearance of the first female flower. These effects were further investigated by transcriptome and hormone analyses of plants sprayed with ethephon. A total of 647 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified, among which 522 were upregulated and 125 were downregulated. Gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) analysis indicated that these genes were mainly enriched in plant hormone signal transduction and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate oxidase (ACO). The results suggests that ethylene is a trigger for multiple hormone signaling, with approximately 4.2% of the identified DEGs involved in ethylene synthesis and multiple hormone signaling. Moreover, ethephon significantly reduced the levels of jasmonic acid (JA), jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine (JA-ILE), and para-topolin riboside (pTR) but increased the levels of 3-indoleacetamide (IAM). Although the level of 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid was not changed, the expression of ACO genes, which code for the enzyme catalyzing the key rate-limiting step in ethylene production, was significantly upregulated after ethephon treatment. The results indicate that the ethephon affects the transcription of ethylene synthesis and signaling genes, and other hormone signaling genes, especially auxin responsive genes, and modulates the levels of auxin, jasmonic acid, and cytokinin (CK), which may together contribute to femaleness.
Hong Kong: Longitudinal and Synchronic Characterisations of Protest News between 1998 and 2020

This paper showcases the utility and timeliness of the Hong Kong Protest News Dataset, a highly curated collection of news articles from diverse news sources, to investigate longitudinal and synchronic news characterisations of protests in Hong Kong between 1998 and 2020. The properties of the dataset enable us to apply natural language processing to its 4522 articles and thereby study patterns of journalistic practice across newspapers. This paper sheds light on whether depth and/or manner of reporting changed over time, and if so, in what ways, or in response to what. In its focus and methodology, this paper helps bridge the gap between “validity-focused methodological debates” and the use of computational methods of analysis in the social sciences.
Fighters’ motivations for joining extremist groups: Investigating the attractiveness of the Right Sector's Volunteer Ukrainian Corps

Abstract In 2014, eight years prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian-backed separatists seized parts of the Ukrainian regions Luhansk and Donetsk. Shortly thereafter, thousands of Ukrainians voluntarily enrolled to various paramilitary battalions. Unlike the Right Sector's Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (RS VUC), almost all battalions were incorporated into Ukrainian official defence structures. Applying uncertainty-identity theory and based on interviews, observations, and documents, this study investigates the attractiveness of RS VUC prior to the 2022 war, motivating the fighters to join this organisation and to remain in it. The study found that fighters of RS VUC distrusted society, the wider population, and state authorities. RS VUC, with its high fighting morale, discipline, family-like relationships between fighters, as well as its clear ideology and boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’, were attractive to the fighters since its unambiguous group prototypes and high entitativity, reduced the fighters’ self-uncertainty regarding their social identity in an uncertain environment. The findings also revealed that the fighters’ choice to join RS VUC can be understood as a rational decision, since RS VUC's group entitativity provided the fighters with moral and emotional benefits, as well as maximised their chances of survival.
3G INTERNET AND CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT∗

How does mobile broadband internet affect approval of government? Using Gallup World Poll surveys of 840,537 individuals from 2,232 subnational regions in 116 countries from 2008 to 2017 and the global expansion of 3G mobile networks, we show that, on average, an increase in mobile broadband internet access reduces government approval. This effect is present only when the internet is not censored, and it is stronger when the traditional media are censored. 3G helps expose actual corruption in government: revelations of the Panama Papers and other corruption incidents translate into higher perceptions of corruption in regions covered by 3G networks. Voter disillusionment had electoral implications: In Europe, 3G expansion led to lower vote shares for incumbent parties and higher vote shares for the antiestablishment populist opposition. Vote shares for nonpopulist opposition parties were unaffected by 3G expansion. JEL codes: D72, D73, L86, P16. ∗We thank three anonymous referees and Philippe Aghion, Nicolas Ajzenman, Oriana Bandiera, Timothy Besley, Kirill Borusyak, Filipe Campante, Mathieu Couttenier, Ruben Durante, Jeffry Frieden, Thomas Fujiwara, Davide Furceri, Irena Grosfeld, Andy Guess, Brian Knight, Ilyana Kuziemko, John Londregan, Marco Manacorda, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Chris Papageorgiou, Maria Petrova, Pia Raffler, James Robinson, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, Andrei Shleifer, Andrey Simonov, Stefanie Stantcheva, David Strömberg, Maria Micaela Sviatschi, David Yang, Alwyn Young, Andrei Zeleneev, the participants of seminars in Bocconi University, Harvard University, London School of Economics, New Economic School, Paris School of Economics, Princeton University, Sciences Po, and the Annual Globalisation Seminar at the School of Business and Management (Queen Mary University, London), Annual Workshop of CEPR RPN on Populism, Comparative Economics Webinar, IIES/SNS International Policy Talks, Kyiv Conference on Corruption, and Social Media Economics Workshop in ENS Lyon for helpful comments. We are grateful to Hites Ahir, Laura Barros, Anna Biryukova, Davide Furceri, Chris Papageorgiou, Manuel Santos Silva, and Denis Volkov for sharing their data. We also thank Etienne Madinier and Antonela Miho for excellent research assistance. The authors wish to thank the World Wide Lightning Location Network (http://wwlln.net), a collaboration among over 50 universities and institutions, for providing the lightning location data used in this paper. All authors contributed equally to the paper.