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The effect of 12-wk ω-3 fatty acid supplementation on in vivo thalamus glutathione concentration in patients "at risk" for major depression.
Duffy SL1, Lagopoulos J2, Cockayne N3, Lewis SJ3, Hickie IB3, Hermens DF2, Naismith SL3.
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Healthy Brain Ageing Program, Clinical Research Unit, Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Clinical Research Unit, Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
As life expectancy increases, the need to prevent major health disorders is clear. Depressive symptoms are common in older adults and are associated with cognitive decline and greater risk for transitioning to major depression. Oxidative stress may be implicated in the pathophysiology of major depression and can be measured in vivo using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy via the neurometabolite glutathione (GSH). Evidence suggests ω-3 fatty acid (FA) supplementation may prevent depression and directly affect GSH concentration. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of ω-3 FA supplementation on in vivo GSH concentration in older adults at risk for depression.
Fifty-one older adults at risk for depression were randomized to receive either four 1000-mg ω-3 FA supplements daily (containing eicosapentaenoic acid 1200 mg plus docosahexaenoic acid 800 mg) or placebo (four 1000-mg paraffin oil placebo capsules daily) for 12 wk. Participants underwent magnetic resonance spectroscopy, as well as medical, neuropsychological, and self-report assessments at baseline and after 12 wk of supplementation. GSH was measured in the thalamus and calculated as a ratio to creatine. Depressive symptoms were measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire.
Compared with the group given the ω-3 FA supplements, the placebo group had greater change in the GSH-to-creatine ratio in the thalamus (t = 2.00; P = 0.049) after the 12 wk intervention. This increase was in turn associated with a worsening of depressive symptoms (r = 0.43; P = 0.043).
Depressive symptom severity in older adults appears to be associated with increased brain levels of GSH, a key marker of oxidative stress. Importantly, ω-3 FA supplementation may attenuate oxidative stress mechanisms, thereby offering benefits for depression prevention.


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Intercompany sales is very useful in optimizing shipping processes also in case we have a customer that is from another region where we have another company from which we can deliver the items, but the customer doesn't need to know about that he can order from any entity – company and will still be billed from that company, but the delivery will be made through the company code which is the nearest to the customer.
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At Interbike next week, three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond will be getting back into the bike business by introducing a limited-edition line of carbon road bikes produced by Time.
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For the bikes, LeMond is again working with Jean Marc Gueugneaud of Time Sport International. The pair go back to 1985, when Gueugneaud — then at Look — built carbon bikes for LeMond and his La Vie Claire teammate Bernard Hinault. Gueugneaud left Look to launch TVT, a custom carbon manufacturer, which built bikes for likes of LeMond, Pedro Delgado and Miguel Indurain, and in fact LeMond won his three Tours on TVT frames.
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LeMond had his own name-brand bikes for several years. He began LeMond Cycles in the early 1990s, then licensed the brand to Trek in 1995. In 2008, Trek announced it would stop making LeMond bikes and a two-year legal battle ensued. LeMond argued in court that Trek was pushed to drop LeMond by Lance Armstrong. For its part, Trek argued that LeMond's well-known and public allegations that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing substances caused a decline in the LeMond Bicycle brand sales.
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David Cameron was Prime Minister from May 2010 until July 2016, leading a Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government from 2010 until 2015 and then continuing as Prime Minister from May 2015 leading a Conservative government. Most likely remembered for taking Britons to the polls to vote on the future of EU membership, the former Etonian was also the youngest prime minister for nearly 200 years. A conservative to the tips of his toes, his taste in cars is more, shall we say, eclectic. From the Nissan Micra through to the Honda CR-V, MINI (see below) and the Lexus GS450h hybrid this former PM has taken many cars for a spin over the years. His Prime Ministerial car was a Jaguar XJ Sentinel - an armoured version of the elegant Big Cat.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Jessie Govan scored 13 points, freshman Josh LeBlanc had 11 points and 11 rebounds and Georgetown beat Maryland Eastern Shore 68-53 on Tuesday night.
Patrick Ewing begins his second year as the Georgetown coach, looking to build off a 15-15 season a year ago.
Jamorko Pickett made three 3-pointers and scored 11 points for Georgetown, which has won all nine games in the series. James Akinjo had seven assists in 26 minutes and Trey Mourning made the first start of his career.
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It means they're likely going to start exploiting disparate markets more aggressively.
No it doesn't, all it means is that games take upwards of 6 months (if they're ever "Localised") to be released over here even when they are already in English and we can't rectify someone not being arsed to release the game we want locally by buying import.
So you bought it early from another market. That meant one fewer sale in the local market, decreasing the value of the local market to the seller. They'd rather you buy it in the local market at the local market price than on the global market. Or, they wouldonlycater to the global market and ignore regionalization beyond the big two (English and Japanese).
When I bought it is of no consequence, there is the game, it's in English, I speak English, here's my £30, let's be playing some Golden Sun. If they honestly cared for me (or any PAL gamer) to buy it in my local area, they'd cater and release games day and date (or as close as humanly possible). It's not an impossible feat (even by Nintendo, Plenty of documented cases of them doing it with relative ease) and failure to do so is just laziness. Besides all this, if your talk is to believed, I might as well have bought a GBA Flash cart and downloaded the game as my and any other person's purchase of this or any other game didn't matter diddly-damn-squat.
In business? Most definitely.
And that's why we're in a recession. The economy can't move when money doesn't exchange hands and exchanges can only happen on mutual agreement.
Segmented media markets are so far removed from the root causes of the economic downturn as to be completely unrelated. The amounts of money "not exchanging hands" due to region locking effectively rounds down to zero compared to the amounts of money involved in the rest of the economy.
Region Locking is a massive billboard marked "pirate this product". Hell, it's been all but advocated here and whilst it's not as bad as "One instance of Pirating this product is a lost sale" as many companies bemoan, it's still a sizable impact on the product.
It would be one thing if the products in question were just being delayed a half year, if every game released for the Nintendo DS was delayed half a year but it was guaranteed to get a PAL release, that would be one thing I would just about live with.
But it's the fact that some games are never released here, good games at that, that is the problem.
And maybe there's no solution to this problem but "Quit getting mad at video games" but dammit I'll be as mad as I can before I get my eye knocked out.
I wouldn't have thought that imports were significant enough to justify region locking in the first place, but I guess they are, or at least region locking is simply so trivial that it takes very little justification.
In any case, in the face of a region lock, your options are fairly simple:
1) Buy local hardware, and continue to complain ineffectually about how shafted your region gets
2) Import everything, including the hardware itself
3) Pirate
If they might shaft you for having imported hardware (e.g. screwing you in online features), then just go for number 3) and you're set.
It's a massive billboard, but it's hidden in a corner where comparatively few people actually see it. Quite simply, not enough people currently know or care how much they're getting shafted, and many who do aren't able or willing to take action (2) or 3) above).
Post edited by lackofcheese on October 2010
Region Locking is a massive billboard marked "pirate this product".
For some, but not most! The majority of people who purchase these products do not have the wherewithal to perform such piracy! Yes, most of the people you know might, but thing broader to the really young, the really old, or the really dumb (and there are a lot of dumb people). Companies can either make a modest profit off of everybody, or leave you to your piracy and make maximum profit off of the rest. They're simply going to choose whichever comes out to be a higher stack of cash. The goal here is to swim around in a big fucking coin-filled bank vault like Scrooge McDuck at the end of the day, and you don't fit into that formula!
P.S. I almost had an aneurysm when my mind contemplated the thought "cause of recession = inability to purchase video games". If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college...
Why is it region-locked. Why?! I buy so many Japanese games at Bookoff!
According to a quick Google search, there isn't really a consensus as to whether or not it is region locked. Nintendo has not said anything either way.
I was actually wondering that myself. We've had this 3-page debate but I don't ever remember anything definitively stating it would be region locked. With Nintendo not having region-locked their handhelds in a while, I feel like they probably won't with this next one.
Okay. They way you guys were going at it, I assumed there was some sort of announcement about it. I looked it up and I couldn't find anything conclusive.
Nope, just arguing for the sake of arguing : )
There's been more than enough of that in this thread.
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No there hasn't! :-p
According to a quick Google search, there isn't really a consensus as to whether or not it is region locked.
The DSi is already region lock capable (Pokemon B/W are region locked on it.) so the 3DS is going to be region lock capable most likely. It's whether or not game makers choose to use it that's up for discussion.
I'm not sure how Nintendo's going to try fighting flashcarts or jailbreaks this time round. Hackers have been doing this kind of thing for years and Nintendo has a lot of catching up to do.
Post edited by Omnutia on October 2010
The short answer: the hackers will always be one step ahead, aside from some very brief moments where a platform is brand new.
InvaderREN
While I agree that the 3DS will eventually be cracked, there are some rumours going around that suggest it will be *much* harder to do this time around.
Random quote from the nets:
"Illegal downloaders beware -- the new Nintendo 3DS is equipped to combat piracy. That's the word coming from THQ's executive VP of global publishing Ian Curran, according to the Computer and Video Games website.
Curran told CVG that the new anti-piracy technology equipped on the newest version of the system is hard to crack. "Nintendo believes that the all-new anti-piracy tech in 3DS will be foolproof to cracks from illegal downloaders, " said Curran. He adds that the technology is so highly advanced that isn't easy to describe. "
Given how long it took the PS3 to be hacked, there is a good chance the 3DS could enjoy many years of piracy free use.
Or it could get hacked to pieces within the first 6 months
Just don't rely *too* much in getting an R4 quickly this time.
Post edited by InvaderREN on October 2010
I doubt that statement, considering where it's coming from. The number of people with an investment in having the 3DS cracked will make it pretty certain to be cracked ASAP. I'd expect something within the first two or three months at best and that's if Nintendo is lucky.
Also, saying this again, Nintendo is very late to the anti-piracy party.
Nintendo is very late to the anti-piracy party
Not true, they've been anti-piracy since the NES (not the Famicom).
The current anti-piracy party. Or at least they are a long way behind.
Their hardware gets cracked like all the other hardware. Was the only one attending this party the PS3?
Wat. Try that again.
They've been doing "anti-piracy" like everyone else. The only console that went uncracked for any length of time was the PS3. 360 anti-piracy only works if the pirates are stupid and play online. The PSP's a joke and high profile DS games take about a week to be be playable on flash cards. Nintendo's the oldest school hating pirates and tend to be the most litigious about it.
Well, time to switch it into verbose mode for the metaphorically challenged:
Nintendo has lagged a long way behind effective anti-piracy solutions (Pretty much just Steam and Online Xbox games.) and will have it's work cut out for it given the sheer number of people interested in a piracy option.
With the recent announcements of having high priced games, an SD slot, region coding and relatively small game file sizes, the 3DS is beginning to look like the perfect storm of piracy.
I wonder if it will have enough power to emulate N64 games, or if anyone will have the expertise to do so. Maybe they'll do what they did with PSX on the PSP where they hacked the emulation code out of official PSN releases.
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I'm not sure about this, but I remember hearing that PSP has some kind of build in emulator for PSX games, so if 3DS doesn't have anything like that for N64 games that won't be so easy.
When you download the PSX games from the PSN, they come wrapped in the emulator so people worked out how to take the emulator out and put it around other games, or so I heard.
Apreche
Well, it's going to be $250. I was going to pre-order one, but at that price I'm not so sure. The only game exclusive to 3DS that I'm looking at is Kid Icarus, and that probably isn't worth it.
Much as it is strange to say, I'm going to wait and see what Sony's move is. That or get a PSP1 cheap.
Cremlian
What did you think it was going to cost?
A mild improvement on some bad news: You will have one friend code for you whole 3DS.
In other thoughts, I'm definitely holding off until Nintendo can show they're going to be stronger with the games.


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Posted by Graham Stewart 10pt on February 12, 2019
Back Heathrow campaigners have reacted with anger to Hillingdon Council's astonishing decision to ban post from residents to councillors on Heathrow expansion. Over 1,200 residents signed campaign cards which they delivered to the reception desk of the Civic Centre on January 31. The cards were addressed to named councillors by individual residents who live in their wards.
The cards should have been passed on to Hillingdon's councillors. Instead, council leader Ray Puddifoot intervened unilaterally to block circulation to the borough's 65 councillors. He then instructed officials to despatch them, at taxpayers' expense, to the Back Heathrow office. Councillor Puddifoot instructed his staff to enclose a letter stating that materials from Back Heathrow supporters must not be passed on to councillors.
Local resident Ali Berry said: "I am furious. I handed in response slips to represent my views and the views of other residents from Harefield. I want to tell Councillor Puddifoot in no uncertain terms that this is an affront to local democracy. He should apologise to us at once."
Hayes resident Keith Hendry said: "What right does Councillor Puddifoot have to steal mail from me to my local councillor? He is desperate to quash all debate on Heathrow expansion. He is out on a limb and out of touch with Hillingdon's residents. Councillors shouldn't be banned from receiving correspondence just because it goes against the grain of the leader's thinking."
Back Heathrow's executive director, Parmjit Dhanda said: "Councillor Puddifoot has every right to oppose Heathrow expansion, but this is rather eccentric behaviour. It effectively means that locally elected councillors are banned by the council leader from receiving correspondence from their residents – correspondence that residents have signed, addressed and dated. Mr Puddifoot has just unilaterally disenfranchised over 1,200 Hillingdon residents and blocked constituents' correspondence to local councillors. It doesn't show local democracy in a London borough in a good light."
The campaign cards were all signed individually by residents and span all 22 wards, including 31 in the Leader's own ward. They declare support for a new runway and urge councillors to end the spending of taxpayers' money to oppose the project. The spending has now exceeded £1.2m over ten years.
Residents have expressed their concern that the council has wasted taxpayers' money on a legal challenge whilst resourcing local anti-expansion campaign groups. The council is also looking to raise council tax by 2.4% per cent this year, the first rise for ten years.
Hillingdon council has funded anti-expansion campaign groups 'Stop Heathrow Expansion', (£100,800), and 'No Third Runway Coalition', (£174,000). Between January 2007 and August 2016, Hillingdon spent £827,000 on legal services, campaigning and community engagement. Since then the council has spent £620,000, with £275,000 going towards funding anti-Heathrow campaign groups. It has received £330,000 in contributions towards these funds from other boroughs.
On January 17 in Hillingdon's council chamber, Councillor Puddifoot pledged a further £413,000 in 2019 for anti-expansion campaigning.
Independent polling by Populus shows that more people in the 12 constituencies adjacent to Heathrow, including Hillingdon support Heathrow expansion than oppose it.
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Q: How to Add a Where Not Equals condition in Linq query I use this code to cast my DataGridView and then display results in another DataGridView.
Basically, I'm getting some int values and calculating their sum, while also grouping these values with GroupBy.
I display the results in another DataGridView like so:
datagridview2.DataSource= Su.ToList();

My problem is that the query seems to stop if the cell has a string value.
I've tried adding a 'where not' condition to exclude rows  that contain string values in several different ways but did not succeed.
Here an example of the condition I've tried:
.Where(row => !row.Cells[2].Value.ToString().Equals("example"))

This code is in the datagridview_cellvaluechanged method:
    try
{
    var Su = dataGridView1.Rows.Cast<DataGridViewRow>()
    .Where(row => row.Cells[8].Value != null)
    .Where(row => row.Cells[2].Value != null)
    .GroupBy(row => row.Cells[8].Value.ToString())
    .Select(g => new
    {
        Gruppo = g.Key,
        Serie = g.Sum(row => Convert.ToInt32(row.Cells[2].Value)),
        Reps = g.Sum(row => Convert.ToInt32(row.Cells[3].Value) * Convert.ToInt32(row.Cells[2].Value)),
        Percent = (g.Sum(row => Convert.ToDecimal(row.Cells[2].Value)) / Convert.ToDecimal(label15.Text)) * 100
    });
}
catch (FormatException)
{
    //MessageBox.Show("Formato non corretto");
}

This is what the DataGridView should look like, if it suceeds; dgv1:
column 1 | column 2 |column 3
  2          3        group1
  3          5        group1
  4          6        group2
  3          4        group3

And I see this in the result on dgv2:
    column 1 | column 2 |column 3
      5          8        group1
      4          6        group2
      3          4        group3

But if I add a string value in column2 like this:
column 1 | column 2 |column 3
  2          3        group1
  3          5        group1
  4        string     group2
  3          4        group3

Then I see this in the result on dgv2:
column 1 | column 2 |column 3
  5          8        group1

A: While I'm still not entirely sure what the issue is, I will attempt to answer your question.
First off, if you are not 100% sure that a specific cell contains an Int value, you should not just blindly convert it.
There are ways to check if it is an int before converting it. One way is this:

    try
{
    var Su = dataGridView1.Rows.Cast<DataGridViewRow>()
    .Where(row => row.Cells[8].Value != null)
    .Where(row => row.Cells[2].Value != null)
    .GroupBy(row => row.Cells[8].Value.ToString())
    .Select(g => new
    {
        Gruppo = g.Key,
        Serie = g.Sum(row => {
            if(row.Cells[2].Value is int rowInteger)
                return rowInteger;

            // if it is not an integer then try to convert
            // return a default value (in this case -1) if it can't be converted
            else
            {
                try
                {
                    return Convert.ToInt32(row)
                }
                catch(Exception)
                {
                    return -1;
                }
            }
        },
        Reps = g.Sum(row => Convert.ToInt32(row.Cells[3].Value) * Convert.ToInt32(row.Cells[2].Value)),
        Percent = (g.Sum(row => Convert.ToDecimal(row.Cells[2].Value)) / Convert.ToDecimal(label15.Text)) * 100
    });
}
catch (FormatException)
{
    //MessageBox.Show("Formato non corretto");
}

This will make sure that all rows are kept but only the rows that are valid are calculated on.
A simpler approach, that won't keep the original number of rows is to check whether the value of the cell is an int or can be converted into an int is to add the following Where statement:
Where(row => row.Cells[2].Value is int || int.TryParse((row.Cells[2].Value as string), out var result))

Note that you are actually parsing the value in each iteration and discarding the result, this is of course far from being optimized but will get you the wished result.

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Badagry boat mishap: nine-year-old girl recovered
By Precious Igbonwelundu On Feb 8, 2016
•Her relation still missing
The body of a nine-year-old victim of Saturday's boat accident in Badagry was yesterday recovered by rescuers.
But the search for another victim, described as a sibling of the deceased, is still on.
The Nation gathered that the ill-fated craft, initially thought to be a commercial boat, belongs to a traditional ruler in Badagry.
It was learnt that the boat was conveying an entire family to an outing from Ebute Iworo to Daddy Luwi, when it hit a log and capsized.
The boat driver fled to evade arrest for alleged failure to enforce safety procedure. The police were said to have invited the Chairman of Badagry Boat Operators Association, who name was given as Meshileya for questioning, and was released.
A police source said the monarch was also invited for questioning and was released.
He said: "They were invited for questioning to assist us in our investigation. We did not arrest them.
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"The issue was that the boat driver ran away and we needed some certain questions answered. We invited the operator's chairman because we wanted to know why they allowed such a boat to operate.
"What we discovered was that it was a private boat, which was not supposed to be used as a commercial boat. This necessitated us to invite the traditional ruler.
"We invited the traditional ruler because we discovered that the boat is his. We also wanted to know why his boat has no life jackets."
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesperson in the South-west, Ibrahim Farinloye said the search for the other missing child was ongoing.
"The boat was a fibre boat but it so happened that the open canoe hit a log while sailing and upturned the passengers into the lagoon.
"The log fellers usually transport logs through the waterways and probably one of the logs fell off without them knowing. It was this log the boat ran into.
"We are having issues with verification because the figure we came up with was nine while the figure being touted is 10.
"But from what we know, it was eight passengers onboard, including the driver, making it nine. The problem is that there was no manifest and so we don't even know whether he picked up people at sea," said Farinloye.
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"After the Apocalypse…Maybe You Try to Make a Wedding Dress": Marine Serre Discusses Her Spring 2020 Collection
By Steff Yotka
Marine Serre does not mince words. The designer called her Spring 2020 collection "Marée Noire"—French for oil spill—and set her show on a wild hillside near the Hippodrome de Paris in the drizzling rain. A cast of real-world models walked over a swamp on a runway wrapped in black to look like oil. The internet went wild for the second dude out, a middle-aged man with hollowed-out cheekbones and a grimace that could put Willem Dafoe out of business. Days later, in her studio on the outskirts of Paris's 19th arrondissement, Serre reflected on the potency of her set: "If it had been roses," she said of the brush around the runway, "I wouldn't have had the show there."
Serre's willingness to add a little aggression, maybe even viciousness, to her runway presentations is part of what catapulted her to the international stage as one of fashion's more provocative young designers. Her intensity is matched by a deep thoughtfulness: Serre is a passionate and knowledgable environmentalist and has, since launching her brand in 2016, worked dutifully to upcycle 50% of her garments, each year working to increase that number. That all wouldn't matter, of course, if she wasn't a deft tailor and draper, working out the problems of how to turn used neoprene wetsuits into Grecian-tinged dresses or hotel towels into miniskirt suits. What materials Serre and her atelier have, they use, and when they run out, production is over. "That's the thing about upcycling, we don't have to make too much. And when the [resources] stop, you don't force it," she said.
It's not just the corseted dresses made from bed sheets, the granny scarves draped into bridal-worthy finery, and the metal jewelry strung together from seashells and ocean-weathered soda cans that Serre and co. have recycled either. In the studio, nearly every object and every surface comes from somewhere else. The shoes and bags are displayed in a meat case spliced with a vintage dresser. The pipes guests sat on during the runway show have since become plinths for jewelry. Chairs and tables scattered throughout are Frankenstein'd; motorcycle wheels combine with mid-century tabletops, and hand trucks serve as the back to dinette chairs. Just before the Vogue team arrived, A$AP Rocky had passed through, trying to buy up every piece of furniture while picking out a Marée Noire trench to wear out in Paris that night.
Maybe the furniture will go up for sale soon. Maybe Serre will launch a program to buy back her previous season garments. Maybe she'll even let customers send in their unwanted wares for her to transform into something new. The potential of what Serre can rebuild, recycle, and recreate seems endless. But for now, she'd like to reveal a little bit of her process and some of the story of her Spring 2020 collection. "After the apocalypse…maybe you try to make a wedding dress," she said, nodding at pieces mashed up from scarves, blankets, wetsuits, and tablecloths.
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How Human Reproduction Works
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So far we've talked about sex cells and sex organs, and you might be wondering when we'd get around to the act of sex itself. Well, here we go -- the moment when the male and female sex organs and sex cells get together. While there are many ways in which a man and a woman can engage in sexual behavior together, vaginal intercourse, in which a man's penis is inserted into a woman's vagina, is the method by which sperm meets egg.
As we've discussed, the male and the female reproductive system are designed to work together for this purpose -- the penis becomes erect to facilitate entrance to the vagina, for example, and both men and women excrete fluids that make that passage easier. These steps are part of the sexual response cycle. Both men and women experience the various phases of the cycle, from excitement to plateau to orgasm to resolution.
During the first two phases, both men and women's bodies are undergoing physical changes which include increased blood flow to the genitals as well as an increase in pulse, blood pressure and body temperature. As intercourse continues, the man reaches a point at which muscle contractions in the epididymis, prostate and seminal vesicles propel semen from the penis into the woman's vagina. The man's orgasm almost always happens at the same time as this ejaculation, and after that, the man begins to enter the resolution phase. Men and women experience the sexual response cycle at different speeds, so a woman may not experience an orgasm at the same time as a man, which has led to speculation that the female orgasm is a "happy accident," as it's not necessary for fertilization. Some researchers, however, believe that if a woman orgasms when a man does, the muscle contractions in her body will cause the cervix to dip and contract, making it easier for the sperm in the semen to begin their journey.
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