Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Social anxiety sexual behavior and contraceptive use.

260 college students (170 women and 90 men) at Denison University in Ohio completed a questionnaire that provided information regarding their sexual experience knowledge and attitudes; their self-evaluations on dimensions related to sexuality; and their level of heterosocial anxiety (anxiety experienced in social interactions with members of the opposite sex). Students ranged in age from 17 to 22 years with a mean of 19.1 years. Compared with subjects low in heterosocial anxiety highly anxious respondents were less sexually experienced engaged in sexual activity less frequently had fewer sexual partners were less likely to have engaged in oral sex expressed a higher degree of apprehension about sex and had a somewhat higher incidence of sexual dysfunctions. In addition low socially anxious women tended to use the pill whereas highly anxious women prefered the condom. High and low heterosocially anxious respondents also differed on self-ratings related to their sexuality but did not differ in their attitudes or knowledge regarding sex. Consistent with expectations the sexual behavior of individuals who scored high versus low in heterosocial anxiety differed on nearly every dimension examined and these differences were generally obtained for both female and male respondents. The only surprising finding involved differences in contraceptive use by high and low socially anxious women. It had been expected that sexually active women who are high in heterosocial anxiety would choose birth control pills as a contraceptive method. They clearly demonstrated a preference for the condom.
Traditional Hunting & Trapping Practices Among The Nyishi Tribe Of Arunachal Pradesh And Its Impact On Biodiversity

Indigenous trapping system is attached with the tribes of north east India, particularly to the people of Arunachal Pradesh as part of their life and culture. Apart from agriculture as the primary source, these people depend on animal trapping practices as secondary means of livelihood in day-to-day activities. The present work was carried out in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. People of this area are fond of hunting and fishing using indigenous traps. Almost all the tribes viz; Nyishi, Aka, Miji and Sulungs use the traps for catching preys. These practices are believed to be as old as the human races with close affinity. The simple structures with unique mechanisms these traps are used in certain periods of the year. The technique adopted is unique whose mechanism works on the scientific principle utilizing the restored stress force to trap the living organisms especially birds and mammals. The practice of trapping system is environment friendly, as because these can be used as and when required without damaging environment and climate. The trapping practice could be reasonably used for keeping ecological balance when the favourable season or environment arrives for rapid explosion of fauna and flora in the nature.
Sexual production of corals for reef restoration in the Anthropocene

Coral-reef ecosystems are experiencing frequent and severe disturbance events that are reducing global coral abundance and potentially overwhelming the natural capacity for reefs to recover. While mitigation strategies for climate warming and other anthropogenic disturbances are implemented, coral restoration programmes are being established worldwide as an additional conservation measure to minimise coral loss and enhance coral recovery. Current restoration efforts predominantly rely on asexually produced coral fragments- a process with inherent practical constraints on the genetic diversity conserved and the spatial scale achieved. Because the resilience of coral communities has hitherto relied on regular renewal with natural recruits, the scaling-up of restoration programmes would benefit from greater use of sexually produced corals, which is an approach that is gaining momentum. Here we review the present state of knowledge of scleractinian coral sexual reproduction in the context of reef restoration, with a focus on broadcast-spawning corals. We identify key knowledge gaps and bottlenecks that currently constrain the sexual production of corals and consider the feasibility of using sexually produced corals for scaling-up restoration to the reef- and reef-system scales.
Book Review REVIEW OF “POST-INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN EAST ASIA, TAIWAN AND SOUTH KOREA IN COMPARISON” BY MIN-HUA CHIANG, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2018

There has been no shortage of books discussing the impressive economic development experience of East Asian countries in the past few decades. Thirty years since the publication of Chalmers Johnson’s seminal work “MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy 1925-1975”, scholars have continued to examine and debate the circumstances that define and shape the economic success of East Asian countries. Today, much of the interest lies with China’s growth and dominance, however, South Korea’s and Taiwan’s development are also significant as they are the only other two non-city state countries that have achieved rapid economic growth since the end of the Second World War. For Malaysia, the recent change in government has brought about a re-emergence of the Look East Policy and renewed interest in learning from the countries in East Asia. Min-Hua Chiang’s book “Post-Industrial Development in East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea in Comparison” provides a detailed insight in the recent development progress of South Korea and Taiwan since the mid-1990s to the present. As South Korea and Taiwan are also major trading partners for Malaysia, the development experience of these countries can provide significant lessons that would benefit local policy makers and scholars alike.
Automatic P2P Energy Trading Model Based on Reinforcement Learning Using Long Short-Term Delayed Reward

Automatic peer-to-peer energy trading can be defined as a Markov decision process and designed using deep reinforcement learning. We consider prosumer as an entity that consumes and produces electric energy with an energy storage system, and define the prosumer’s objective as maximizing the profit through participation in peer-to-peer energy trading, similar to that of the agents in stock trading. In this paper, we propose an automatic peer-to-peer energy trading model by adopting a deep Q-network-based automatic trading algorithm originally designed for stock trading. Unlike in stock trading, the assets held by a prosumer may change owing to factors such as the consumption and generation of energy by the prosumer in addition to the changes from trading activities. Therefore, we propose a new trading evaluation criterion that considers these factors by defining profit as the sum of the gains from four components: electricity bill, trading, electric energy stored in the energy storage system, and virtual loss. For the proposed automatic peer-to-peer energy trading algorithm, we adopt a long-term delayed reward method that evaluates the delayed reward that occurs once per month by generating the termination point of an episode at each month and propose a long short-term delayed reward method that compensates for the issue with the long-term delayed reward method having only a single evaluation per month. This long short-term delayed reward method enables effective learning of the monthly long-term trading patterns and the short-term trading patterns at the same time, leading to a better trading strategy. The experimental results showed that the long short-term delayed reward method-based energy trading model achieves higher profits every month both in the progressive and fixed rate systems throughout the year and that prosumer participating in the trading not only earns profits every month but also reduces loss from over-generation of electric energy in the case of South Korea. Further experiments with various progressive rate systems of Japan, Taiwan, and the United States as well as in different prosumer environments indicate the general applicability of the proposed method.
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ORAL AND PHARYNGEAL CANCER

Oral cancer is a public health problem, representing the sixth most common malignant neoplasm. The annual estimated incidence is approximately 300,000 oral cancers; two thirds of these cases occur in developing countries. The incidence of oral cancers among men is highest in northern India, a few areas of central and eastern Europe and Latin America. Among women, the incidence is high in south and southeast Asia. In Asian countries the high incidence rates were reported from developing nations like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Taiwan and Sri Lanka. While an increasing trend has been observed in Pakistan, Taiwan and Thailand, a decreasing trend is seen in Philippines and Sri Lanka. Information on survival of patients with oral cancers was very restricted. Tongue cancers displayed the worst survival rates in Latin America, India and Yemen. Some countries shares specific risk factors namely heavy tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption and high intake of charcoal-grilled red meat and mate. In addition, other specific risk factors are viral infection (HPV), poor oral hygiene, chewing of betel-quid, gutka, Zarda, Kharra, snuff and Qat. Urgent public health measures are needed to reduce the incidence and mortality of oral cancer.
The Influence of US-China Trade War in Taiwan Stock Markets: A GARCH Analysis

The US-China trade war has happened more than one year since 2018. During the period, the United States and China have tried several times of negotiations but never ended the trade war between the United States and China. Lee, Huh and Harris (2003) found that a country's economic growth is influenced by the major exporting countries of its domestic economic cycle. The United States and China are two major exporting countries in Taiwan, and its economy is excessively dependent on exports. Under this circumstance, Taiwan's economy is quite likely to be influenced by the US-China trade war. This article would use GARCH model to explore the influence of the USChina trade war on Taiwan's stock market. The empirical result illustrates that both China and Taiwan's stock market would be influenced negatively by the US-China trade war which is the three phases on July 6, 2018, August 23, 2018 and June 15, 2019. This result is consistent with the arguments mentioned by the previous papers. On the other hand, although many industries in Taiwan cannot avoid from the USChina trade war, as long as a company with superior R&D capabilities and creativity, also, the establishment of the factory in Taiwan, it could avoid the risks of Chinese factors caused by the US-China trade war.
Amidst the chaos of late rheumatoid arthritis with no treatment

A 78-year-old man with 24 years history of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) came with neck pain. He always refused any treatment except for NSAIDs. From 2 years ago, he was bedridden. He was chronic cigarette smoker. On examination, he had rheumatoid nodules, severe both hands deformity, elbows flexion contracture and knee joints limitation of motion. His lab tests showed high titer of rheumatoid factor and anti cyclic citrullinated protein antibody, high ESR, CRP and vitamin D deficiency. Radiologic studies showed multiple vertebral osteoporotic fractures. Cervical spine CT scan (a and b) showed destruction of the odontoid process and fusion of facet joints of the C2, C3 and C4. MRI of cervical spine (c) showed destruction of odontoid process surrounding by inflammatory synovitis. CT scan of lung (e and f) showed multiple upper lobeand sub pleural nodules along fibrotic changes in base of right lobe. X-ray of knee and hip (d and g) showed severe osteoarthritis andsite of previouship nailing. The patient was diagnosed with advanced erosive nodular RA, severe secondary osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid lung. Standard treatment was recommended, although he again refused. RA can result in progressive joint destruction, deformity and disability [1]. In the spine, it has a predilection for the cervical area, leads to odontoid erosion, spinal instability, and subluxation. In the era of importance of early treatment, these complications are rarely seen, however despite biologic therapy, it has been shown that 15-30% of RA patients can still have preclinical cervical spine abnormalities [2]. The Osteoporosis (OP) is more frequent in patients with high disease activity, bone erosions, >10 years disease duration, and high titers of anti-CCP and RF positivity [3]. Our patient with multiple poor prognostic factors for erosive RA came with extra articular and complications of this disease due refusing treatment.
Persistent loss of biologically-rich tropical forests in the Indian Eastern Himalaya

Deforestation is a major cause of biodiversity loss in Asia. India’s biologically-diverse state of Arunachal Pradesh has been undergoing forest loss due to multiple drivers. We assessed the change in forest cover in a state-managed Reserved Forest adjoining an important Protected Area (PA), i.e. the Pakke Tiger Reserve using satellite imagery at a fine spatial resolution. A conservation program to protect three species of endangered hornbills and their nesting habitat outside the PA had been set up in 2011-12. We assessed the effectiveness of the conservation programme in protecting forests. We report a loss of 32 km2 of forest cover between 2013 and 2017 with a 5% decline in total forest area in four years. In the habitat around the 29 hornbill nest trees we estimated a loss of 35% of forest cover. This loss occurred despite varied efforts through the conservation program and by individuals in the community/government. We identify illegal logging (despite a ban by the Supreme Court of India) as the main driver that is depleting forest cover within this important area. Our results highlight the ongoing threats to biologically-rich forests and the need for urgent measures to halt this loss. We suggest that this study has general practical implications for the governance of non-PA state-managed forests in Arunachal Pradesh. The ongoing deforestation appears to be due to organized crime, institutional inadequacy from a combination of limited resources, bureaucratic apathy, and/or ambiguity in use and ownership of forest land compared to other community forests which appear to have robust governance systems.
Associations Between Quality of Life, Psychosocial Well-being and Health-Related Behaviors Among Adolescents in Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Thai and the Filipino Populations: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Health-related behaviors during adolescence have lifelong impacts. However, there are unclear areas regarding the associations between health-related quality of life and demographic characteristics, as well as physical and psychosocial indicators. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between quality of life and body weight, sleep outcome, social support by age, and cohabitants, given that income, self-esteem, lifestyle, emotional, social and behavioral problems were taken into account among adolescents in East and Southeast Asia. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Zhengzhou of China, Hong Kong, Kansai region of Japan, Taipei of Taiwan, Bangkok of Thailand and Manila of the Philippines between 2016 and 2017 among 21,359 urban adolescents aged between 9 and 16. The results showed that adolescents who had better self-esteem and control of emotions and behaviors had much higher level of perceived quality of life. Those who were overweight or obese, sleepy in the daytime, and not living with parents had worse quality of life compared with those who were not. In conclusion, psychosocial well-being should have a higher priority in the promotion of quality of life among Asian adolescents. Nevertheless, further studies are required to explore the differences in perceived quality of life between genders and countries.
Framing of Panama Leaks: A Content Analysis of Pakistani and Western Press

This study investigated the emergence of different factors in the framing of Panama leaks by gathering data along with five thematic frames of financial, morality, blame-game, political victimization, and accountability. Altogether 930 news stories were content analyzed to investigate how the issue of Panama leaks was framed in the media since its inception in April 2016. Furthermore, 22 framing items were selected to measure these frames and a principal component analysis resulted in generating a factor solution by clustering of these framing items into eight distinguishable factors of political-econo, governance, justificationssolutions, socio-political responsibility, implications, apathy, responsiveness, and economic instability. This study revealed differences in the use of these factors both in different newspapers and topics of coverage. The Pakistani press used the factor of governance more whereas the western press used the factor of political-econo more as compared to other factors in the framing of Panama leaks.
Transitioning of Care from Pediatric to Adult Providers Among Hemophilia Patients

Background: Individuals with hemophilia require lifelong specialized care. As the lifespan for individuals with hemophilia has increased, patients must transition from pediatric to adult providers. Research has shown that individuals with hemophilia face multiple barriers during this transition of care and have decreased prophylaxis regimen compliance which can have lifelong negative effects. In this study, we seek to determine the impact of transition of care on hemophilia patients who receive treatment at the Hemophilia Center of Western Pennsylvania (HCWP). Methods: The medical records of a cohort of patients at the HCWP, aged 26 to 30, were reviewed from age 15 to their current age. Information was gathered about comprehensive visit compliance, bleeding events, and insurance coverage. Statistical analyses were performed using linear regression and summary statistics. Results: 26 patients with hemophilia who were treated at the HCWP were included in this study. Statistical analysis did not provide evidence to suggest that there is a linear relationship between age and comprehensive visit compliance or age and bleeding events. 42.3% of the participants had at least one confirmed lapse in insurance during the time period studied. Conclusions: The transition from pediatric to adult care providers in patients with hemophilia, treated at the HCWP, did not have an impact on comprehensive visit compliance or bleeding. Lapses in health insurance coverage are a common problem for individuals with hemophilia after age 18. Further research is needed to determine effective interventions to increase comprehensive visit compliance at all ages and interventions to increase health insurance coverage of adults. Public Health Significance: Comprehensive visit compliance is important for monitoring the health and treatment of individuals with hemophilia and helps to reduce healthcare costs.
The Trichadenotecnum corniculum species group from Thailand (Psocodea: Psocidae)

Five new species of the corniculum species group of the psocid genus Trichadenotecnum Enderlein, T. alfonsoi, T. lingens, T. palmula, T. affinifelix and T. separatum were described from Thailand. These species share a couple of male genital apomorphies with the other Oriental species of this species group recorded from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. The Japanese species of the corniculum group are considered to form a different clade placed to the sister of the Oriental species.
Analyzing the Differences of Government Intervention Policies for the Public Housing Systems of Hong Kong and Singapore

Government intervention has different effects on different economies. This paper will introduce the background and development process of government intervention in housing policies in Hong Kong and Singapore. Since the public housing policies in both places are implemented with government intervention, this study mainly analyzes the differences in the development of public housing systems and the role of government intervention in them from the perspective of social development. The conclusion of this paper makes it clear that the market intervention led by the government of Singapore makes the establishment and implementation of the public housing system in Singapore more seamless than that in Hong Kong, but this does not mean that Hong Kong should adopt the implementation strategy of Singapore, and the housing system should be viewed from the broad social development background. The Hong Kong government "positive non-intervention" created by the development of market economy. Which is unable to support the implementation of a public housing program with the same level of coverage as Singapore, resulting in different government interventions and vastly different housing policies.
Environmental release of chemicals and reproductive ecology.

Reproductive ecology is defined as "the study of causes and mechanisms of the effects of environmental risk factors on reproductive health and the methods of their prevention and management. " Major areas of concern, within the purview of this paper, relate to adverse pregnancy outcomes, effects on target tissues in the male and the female, and alterations in the control and regulatory mechanisms of reproductive processes. Teratogenic potential of chemicals, released as a result of accidents and catastrophes, is of critical significance. Congenital Minamata disease is due to transplacental fetal toxicity caused by accidental ingestion of methyl mercury. Generalized disorders of ectodermal tissue following prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls have been reported in Taiwan and Japan. The Bhopal gas disaster, a catastrophic industrial accident, was due to a leak of toxic gas, methyl isocyanate (MIC), in the pesticide manufacturing process. The outcome of pregnancy was studied in female survivors of MIC exposure. The spontaneous abortion rate was nearly four times more common in the affected areas as compared to the control area (24.2% versus 5.6%; p < 0.0001). Furthermore, while stillbirth rate was found to be similar in the affected and control areas, the perinatal and neonatal mortality rates were observed to be higher in the affected area. The rate of congenital malformations in the affected and control areas did not show any significant difference. Chromosomal aberrations and sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequencies were investigated in human survivors of exposure. The observed SCE frequencies in control and exposed groups indicated that mutagenesis has been induced. Strategies for the management, prediction, and preventability of such disasters are outlined.
Deep Learning Model to Estimate Air Pollution Using M-BP to Fill in Missing Proxy Urban Data

Air quality has deteriorated rapidly in Hong Kong and China in the past two decades, with NO2 and PM2.5 levels frequently exceeding WHO safety guidelines. While poor air quality has clear public health impacts, there are very limited air quality monitoring (AQM) stations, severely constraining evidence-based air quality decision-making, leading to severe criticisms about the utility of the current official Air Quality Health Index to the public. Since air pollution is highly location-dependent, a city-wide deployment of traditional, highly sophisticated air quality monitors would be prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we propose a deep learning model to estimate air pollution throughout the city, utilizing the readily available urban data as proxy data. As with many big data driven approaches, the proxy data may be sparse/missing. We propose the M-BP algorithm to recover/fill in such missing data. Our results show that the proposed model gives better estimates compared with existing big data approaches.