Aerospace Medicine and Biology. A continuing bibliography with indexes

This bibliography lists 286 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in March 1983

An assessment of cortical function in expert and novice surgeons

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Hair Trigger 38

An anthology, edited by students, featuring the fiction, prose and creative non-fiction work of students, alumni, and staff. Editors: Jennifer Clare Bostrom, Karina Corona, Claire Doty, Elizabeth Gerard, Emma LaSaine, Kate Rothgaber. Cover photograph: Daniel Mrotek. 304 pages.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/hairtrigger/1035/thumbnail.jp

Multi-hazard resilience assessment of river-crossing bridges

Title from PDF of title page viewed December 7, 2020Dissertation advisors: ZhiQiang Chen and Majid Bani-YaghoubVitaIncludes bibliographical references (pages 216-233)Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Computing and Engineering and Department of Mathematics and Statistics. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2020Bridge structures are required to possess high reliability and robustness against the concurrent effect of extreme loads and environmental attacks. To achieve such interrelated goals, it is necessary to assess the system performance and resilience subjected to multi-hazard impacts and the beneficial effects of any retrofitting or hazard-countermeasure in a lifecycle context. The damaged bridge needs to be restored rapidly over its service life due to the significant economic losses and disruption to transportation networks. For river-crossing bridges, one of the essential hazard mitigation strategies is scour countermeasures. However, a quantitative understanding of the effects of SCs on bridge system resilience is not found. This dissertation presents a critical synthesis of the existing literature that provides relevant knowledge and a profound understanding of probabilistic multi-hazard assessment for bridge structures. Then, a finite element-based probabilistic framework is designed to assess the lifecycle resilience of reinforced concrete river-crossing bridges under seismic, flood-induced scour, and chloride-induced corrosion impacts, including the consideration of a typical scour countermeasure at variable service times. Based on the general performance-based approach, two probabilistic models are formulated, termed the mean-scour fragility analysis (MS-FA) model and the total-scour demand hazard analysis (TS-DHA) model, which produce straightforward functional curves and can be readily used to evaluate the seismic-scour multi-hazard effects. An integrated damage index is defined based on both local and system-level ductility demands to develop a demand hazard model and to estimate the damage-based residual functionality and recovery duration to quantify the lifecycle bridge resilience. Notably, the exceeding probability approach is designed to reveal how progressive and sudden hazards interact and result in resilience degradation and how scour countermeasures contribute to resilience enhancement. The outcomes of the numerical experiment reveal the positive and distinct effects of implementing SCs at different lifecycle intervals. More importantly, resilience time-series demonstrate arbitrary multi-modes and nonparametric patterns. Accordingly, a robust statistical distance-based approach is presented to determine the sequential evolution of time-varying multi-hazard resilience. The proposed framework would assist stakeholders and decision-makers in resilience patterns recognition, assessing the effectiveness of hazard mitigation strategies, and taking short- and long-term proactive intervention actions by specifying resilience thresholds.Introduction -- Probabilistic multi-hazard performance assessment and damage effects on bridges -- Lifecycle resilience quantification of bridges under multiple hazards -- Effect of scour countermeasure on resilience of river -crossing bridges -- Time-varying resilience quantification using nonparametric distance -- Conclusions and future work -- Appendice

Secretary of praise : the poetic vocation of George Herbert

Includes bibliographical references (pages 7-451) and indexes.The purpose of this study is to elucidate Herbert's poetry by reference to grace and charity as two of the major themes of The Temple. These doctrines lay the foundation for an understanding of Herbert's poetic vocation, his typical didactic strategies, the dramatic and emotional situation on which his book builds, and his spiritual autobiography--a poetic sequence that is a comprehensive exposition of the empirical reality, as Herbert saw it, of grace and charity.The poet and his religion -- The temple and the typical Christian -- Self-observation and constant creation -- "All things are busie" -- The "blest order" -- The priest and the poetry.Digitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2012. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale

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“I Am One of Those Women:” Exploring Testimonial Performances of Stillbirth in/as Intervention, Support and Advocacy

abstract: The stillbirth of a wanted baby is a devastating and life altering experience that happens more than 26,000 times each year in the United States, but the impacts and implications of this loss on families is rarely discussed in public spaces. While another kind of pregnancy ending, abortion, dominates political discourse about reproduction, the absence of talk about stillbirth prevention or support in those same contexts is worthy of further investigation. This project explores stillbirth as a communication phenomenon and draws upon narrative, performance and rhetorical articulations of testimony to extend our understanding of how narratives of stillbirth circulate in current conditions of discourse. A model for viewing how dominant and counter narratives circulate is explained (Narrative Loop Model) and a new model for illuminating the unique functions of testimony is given (Testimonial Loop Model). This dissertation employs performance and rhetorical methods to explore testimonies of stillbirth, both naturally occurring and solicited through interviews, in order to create several performance texts that put pregnancy-ending narratives in conversation with each other on stage. Analysis of the performance text and choices, as well as reflection on the embodied performance experience and member checking, yielded several findings. The discovery of somatic sentience and its influence on performance ethnography is discussed. Themes of relationality and temporality were found in the performance of testimonies of stillbirth. The implications of these findings add to the communication discipline’s understanding of how and why stillbirth testimony may circulate, its impact on conditions of discourse for pregnancy ending and its potential use as/in intervention, support, and advocacy. Ethical considerations and limitations are addressed.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Communication Studies 201