Biological Sex as a Predictor of Competitive Success in Intercollegiate Forensics

This study examines biological sex as a predictor of the level of success in intercollegiate policy debate, impromptu speaking, and extemporaneous speaking. Secondary data analysis of tabulation sheets from NDT, AFA-NIET, and NFA, revealed three findings. First, there are more male than female competitors in policy debate and males significantly experienced more out-round success than females. Second, there are more males than females in impromptu speaking; however, there was no significance between biological sex and success in out-rounds. Third, there are more male than female competitors in extemporaneous speaking and males significantly experienced more out-round success than females

Recalcitrant arguments

On January 26, 2011, Reuters photojournalist Amr Abdallah Dalsh took an image of a unknown veiled woman gesturing at Dalsh and his camera. Using TinEye, a reverse image search engine, I found that 86 circulations and 22 recirculations of the photo were primarily in the United States. US graphic artist Nick Bygon created one of the recirculations, which primarily appeared on US blogs. The photo achieved this level of circulation in the US because it is consistent with, and therefore legible within the symbolic language, of the liberal democratic order. Similar to “Migrant Mother” and “Tank Man”, the photo is evidence of a historical event that displays the lone individual who represents democratic ideals of overcoming struggle. I make two distinct arguments: First, the woman is rendered invisible by the state and therefore the photo challenges the state’s authority through body rhetoric, Manichean symbolism, andbecause the photo represents veiled Muslim women as agents and challenges assumptions that women of the East are helpless, the veil or hijab is oppressive, and that Western influence is needed in West Asia and North Africa to prevent oppression of Muslim women. Ultimately, the photographic strategies of body rhetoric, Manichean symbolism, andre-entrench the Western liberal democratic lens while also challenging it. Therefore, the photo functions as a space for critical analysis because it challenges Western representations and assumptions of veiled Muslim women through the photographic strategies. Second, I critique Western looking patterns and argue that spectators should abandon their liberal democratic lens to embrace Azoulay’s theory of photography as a civil contract. In order to embrace the civil contract of photography, a spectator should accept the four obligations of the civil contract. Ultimately, instead of looking at a photo, one should watch and bear witness to the events documented in the snapshot. By watching, a spectator no longer looks through the lens of liberal democratic citizenship, but through one of a civil contract

Characterisation of the Australian adult population living with asthma : Severe exacerbation frequency, long-term OCS use and adverse effects.

Acknowledgements We wish to acknowledge and thank Sheryl Bradley, Rob Campbell, Andrew Davis, Sophie Jones, Chi Ming Lau, Ying Liu, Ian Miles, Marion Magee, Dominique Novic, John Pakos, Frank Postma, Dr Ondrej Rejda, Josephine Samuel-King, David Smallwood, Shay Soremekun, Majella Soumakiyan, Lisa Sugg, and Bruce Willet of the OPCA Improving Asthma outcomes in Australia Research Group for their valuable contributions in making this publication possible. AstraZeneca was given the opportunity to review the manuscript for medical and scientific accuracy, but the authors retained full editorial control. We wish to acknowledge Clare Ghisla, Amanda Baker, and Robin Whiteley for their academic contribution. Writing, editorial support, and/or formatting assistance in the development of this manuscript was provided by Shilpa Suresh, MSc, of the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore.Peer reviewedPublisher PD