The design and construction of a high-tension transformer

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The Victorian Newsletter (Spring 1989)

The Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the Victorian Group of Modern Language Association by the Western Kentucky University and is published twice annually.Ruskin's Pied Beauty and the Constitution of a "Homosexual" Code / Linda Dowling -- Why the Ghost of Oscar Wilde Manifests in Finnegans Wake / Grace Eckley -- Darwin's Comedy: The Autobiography as Comic Narrative / Eugene R. August -- A "Root Deeper Than All Change": The Daughter's Longing in the Victorian Novel / Suzy Clarkson Holstein -- The Literary Significance of Edmund Burke to Matthew Arnold / Dan Ritchie -- Books Receive

Concussion and the Severity of Head Impacts in Mixed Martial Arts

Background: Concern about the consequences of head impacts in US football motivated researchers to investigate and develop instrumentation to measure the severity of these impacts. However, the severity of head impacts in unhelmeted sports is largely unknown as miniaturised sensor technology has only recently made it possible to measure these impacts in vivo. Aim: The objective of this study was to measure the linear and angular head accelerations in impacts in mixed martial arts (MMA), and correlate these with concussive injuries. Methods: Thirteen MMA fighters were fitted with the Stanford instrumented mouthguard (MiG2.0). The mouthguard records linear acceleration and angular velocity in 6 degrees of freedom. Angular acceleration was calculated by differentiation. All events were video recorded, time stamped and reported impacts confirmed. Results: 451 verified head impacts above 10g were recorded during 19 sparring events (n=298) and 11 competitive events (n=153). The average resultant linear acceleration was 38.0g ± 24.3g while the average resultant angular acceleration was 2567 ± 1739rad/s2. The competitive bouts resulted in five concussions being diagnosed by a medical doctor. The average resultant acceleration (of the impact with the highest angular acceleration) in these bouts was 86.7 ± 18.7g and 7561 ± 3438rads/s2. The average maximum Head Impact Power (HIP) was 20.6kW in the case of concussion and 7.15kW for the uninjured athletes. Conclusion: The study recorded novel data for sub-concussive and concussive impacts. Events that resulted in a concussion had an average maximum angular acceleration that was 24.7% higher and an average maximum HIP that was 189% higher than events where there was no injury. The findings are significant in understanding the human tolerance to short-duration, high linear and angular accelerations

The Victorian Newsletter (Spring 1990)

The Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the Victorian Group of Modern Language Association by the Western Kentucky University and is published twice annually.Pensée Sauvage at the MLA: Victorian Cultural Imperialism Then and Now / Patrick Brantlinger -- The Power of the Word: Scientific Nomenclature and the Spread of Empire / Harriet Ritvo -- The Anti-Comedy of The Trumpet Major / Richard Nemesvari -- Behind "Golden Barriers": Framing and Taming the Blessed Damozel / Andrew Leng -- Scenes of Marital Life: The Middle March of Extratextual Reading / Monica L. Feinberg -- "The Coronation of the Whirlwind": The Victorian Poetics of Indeterminacy / Lawrence J. Starzyk -- The Dover Switch, Or the New Sexism at "Dover Beach" / Eugene R. August -- Books Receive

The Victorian Newsletter (Fall 1981)

The Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the Victorian Group of Modern Language Association by the Western Kentucky University and is published twice annually.Tennyson and Carlyle: A Source for "The Eagle" / Paul F. Mattheisen -- The Schooling of John Bull: Form and Moral in Talbot Baines Reed's Boys' Stories and in Kipling's Stalky & Co. / Patrick Scott -- How It Struck A Contemporary: Tennyson's "Lancelot and Elaine" and Pre-Raphaelite Art / Catherine Barnes Stevenson -- Amours de Voyage and Matthew Arnold in Love: An Inquiry / Eugene R. August -- Tennyson's "Ulysses" as Rhetorical Monologue / Mary Saunders -- The Mathematical References to the Adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Laurence Dreyer -- Self-Helpers and Self-Seekers: Some Changing Attitudes to Wealth, 1840-1910 / J. L. Winte

Socializing One Health: an innovative strategy to investigate social and behavioral risks of emerging viral threats

In an effort to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and control infectious diseases in animals and people, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) PREDICT project funded development of regional, national, and local One Health capacities for early disease detection, rapid response, disease control, and risk reduction. From the outset, the EPT approach was inclusive of social science research methods designed to understand the contexts and behaviors of communities living and working at human-animal-environment interfaces considered high-risk for virus emergence. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, PREDICT behavioral research aimed to identify and assess a range of socio-cultural behaviors that could be influential in zoonotic disease emergence, amplification, and transmission. This broad approach to behavioral risk characterization enabled us to identify and characterize human activities that could be linked to the transmission dynamics of new and emerging viruses. This paper provides a discussion of implementation of a social science approach within a zoonotic surveillance framework. We conducted in-depth ethnographic interviews and focus groups to better understand the individual- and community-level knowledge, attitudes, and practices that potentially put participants at risk for zoonotic disease transmission from the animals they live and work with, across 6 interface domains. When we asked highly-exposed individuals (ie. bushmeat hunters, wildlife or guano farmers) about the risk they perceived in their occupational activities, most did not perceive it to be risky, whether because it was normalized by years (or generations) of doing such an activity, or due to lack of information about potential risks. Integrating the social sciences allows investigations of the specific human activities that are hypothesized to drive disease emergence, amplification, and transmission, in order to better substantiate behavioral disease drivers, along with the social dimensions of infection and transmission dynamics. Understanding these dynamics is critical to achieving health security--the protection from threats to health-- which requires investments in both collective and individual health security. Involving behavioral sciences into zoonotic disease surveillance allowed us to push toward fuller community integration and engagement and toward dialogue and implementation of recommendations for disease prevention and improved health security

Keynote Address — Our Stories/Our Selves: The American Dream Remembered in John Steinbeck\u27s \u3cem\u3eThe Grapes of Wrath\u3c/em\u3e

Following this pattern, this keynote address explores three related topics: (1) stories, (2) the American Dream and the Great Depression, and (3) John Steinbeck\u27s The Grapes of Wrath, perhaps the most memorable of all Depression-era stories, the story of the Joad family and their odyssey from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California

Men\u27s Studies: Introducing a Special Issue

This special issue of the University of Dayton Review appears at an auspicious moment in the development of men\u27s studies. No longer are men\u27s studies quite the new man on campus they used to be; rather, they are becoming a stimulating and accepted part of the academic scene

Self-Love and Social Are the Same: Reflections on Autonomy, Autobiography, and the Responsible Self

I begin with this question for a specific, local reason. When the Humanities Base theme of autonomy and responsibility is raised in the classroom, students frequently misperceive the terms as opposites: they see autonomy vs. responsibility. As a result, classroom discussions of this theme often go nowhere because the discussants have defined autonomy as one\u27s right to do as one pleases and responsibility as a restriction imposed by those in power. Attempts to explore issues such as abortion, gun control, same-sex marriage, and physician-assisted suicide quickly become mired in the mono-theme of a debate between individual rights and social repression. What is needed to get these discussions off dead center is a different framework for considering the issues, one that includes more complex understandings of autonomy and responsibility