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Sex Manuals in Malay Manuscripts as Another Transcript of Gender Relations

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This article interprets the narratives of sex manuals produced within the Malay-Indonesian archipelago before the coming of Western colonialism and the dawn of postcolonial Islamic resurgence.
Maznah Mohamad
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The value of pleasure in Plato's Philebus and Aristotle's Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 Place of Flawed Pleasures in a Good Life. A Discussion of Plato’s Philebus

open access: yesPlato, 2021
The Philebus describes the “good” that enables human eudaimonia as a “mixture” in which cognitive states have to be combined with certain types of pleasure.
Jan Szaif
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Sexual Dysfunction in Chronically Medicated Male Inpatients With Schizophrenia: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Manifestations, and Response to Sexual Arousal

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundSexual dysfunction is a common symptom in patients with schizophrenia, especially in chronically medicated patients. However, the relationship between sexual dysfunction and emotional response to sexual arousal in male patients with ...
Dianying Liu   +15 more
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Curiosity and pleasure

open access: yesThe 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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The pleasure of publishing [PDF]

open access: yeseLife, 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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Pleasure and meaningful discourse: an overview of research issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +4 more
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The Effects of Two Swimming Learning Programs on Children’s Psychophysiological Profile

open access: yesProceedings, 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]

open access: yesJournal 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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Defamiliarizing heavy-contact sports: A critical examination of rugby, discipline, and pleasure [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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