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Scaling pleasure-based sexual and reproductive health: an impact and economic modelling study in 99 low- and middle-income countries [PDF]
BMJ Global HealthIntroduction Pleasure is a key reason why people have sex. Yet many sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes do not consider the fundamental role of pleasure, focusing primarily on the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections ...
Katie Newby +13 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2013 What is the role and value of pleasure in addiction? Foddy and Savulescu (1) have claimed that substance use is just pleasure-oriented behavior. They describe addiction as "strong appetites toward pleasure" and argue that addicts suffer in significant part because of strong social and moral disapproval of lives dominated by pleasure seeking.
Matthews, Stephen +2 more
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The value of pleasure in Plato's Philebus and Aristotle's Ethics [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis is a study of the theories of pleasure as proposed in Plato’s Philebus, Aristotle’s EN VII.11-14 and EN X.1-5, with particular emphasis on the value of pleasure.
Aufderheide, Joachim
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The 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2010 Heuristic decision making received wide attention due to the work of Tversky and Kahneman (1981) and inspired multiple studies of irrationality of the human mind and a fundamental disregard for knowledge. But what is the source of all human knowledge, including heuristics?
Leonid I. Perlovsky +2 more
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Defamiliarizing Heavy-Contact Sports: A Critical Examination of Rugby, Discipline, and Pleasure [PDF]
, 2009 Pleasure can be regarded as a productive force in the constitution of the social sig-nificance of sport and desiring sport subjects. The organization and use of sport plea-sure has been a relatively marginalized topic of examination.
Pringle, Richard
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The pleasure of publishing [PDF]
eLife, 2015 When assessing manuscripts eLife editors look for a combination of rigour and insight, along with results and ideas that make other researchers think differently about their subject.
Vivek Malhotra, Eve Marder
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The Effects of Two Swimming Learning Programs on Children’s Psychophysiological Profile
Proceedings, 2019 AIM: Salivary cortisol has been used in research for studying possible alterations in human mood after different types of exercise. Exercise intensity plays an important role in mood levels and salivary cortisol concentration.
Konstantinos Papadimitriou +4 more
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The Relationship between Pleasure and Happiness from the Point of View of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 From the time human beings are born, they are forever confronted with the phenomena of pleasure and happiness. These two concepts are very close but there are major differences and that is that pleasure is also used in momentary cases, and happiness is ...
Zahra Ganjipour +2 more
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Pleasure and meaningful discourse: an overview of research issues [PDF]
, 2000 The concept of pleasure has emerged as a multi-faceted social and cultural phenomenon in studies of media audiences since the 1980s. In these studies different forms of pleasure have been identified as explaining audience activity and commitment.
O\u27Connor, Barbara +3 more
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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019 This article seeks to demonstrate the vitality of the health dimension in the growth of Skegness as a seaside resort. It shows the way changes in the medical profession, especially the use of seawaters for the treatment of diseases, contributed to the ...
Mohamed Chamekh
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