Outside The Cage: The Political Campaign To Destroy Mixed Martial Arts

This is an early history of Mixed Martial Arts in America. It focuses primarily on the political campaign to ban the sport in the 1990s and the repercussions that campaign had on MMA itself. Furthermore, it examines the censorship of music and video games in the 1990s. The central argument of this work is that the political campaign to ban Mixed Martial Arts was part of a larger political movement to censor violent entertainment. Connections are shown in the actions and rhetoric of politicians who attacked music, video games and the Ultimate Fighting Championship on the grounds that it glorified violence. The political pressure exerted on the sport is largely responsible for the eventual success and widespread acceptance of MMA. The pressure forced the sport to regulate itself and transformed it into something more acceptable to mainstream Americ

Data Analysis Of Large Angle Beamstrahlung Monitor

The first experimental evidence of large angle beamstrahlung at SuperKEKB is discussed in this Thesis. Beamstrahlung is the tn radiation emitted by particles belonging to one beam when they are accelerated transversely by the electro-magnetic field of the other beam. The properties of the radiation are related to the beam interaction topologyand can be used to optimize the beam-beam collision. This, in turn, makes the machine’s luminosity, and therefore the number of produced events, higher. A device entirely built at WSU, the Large Angle Beamstrahlung Monitor, or LABM, has been deployed in the SuperKEKB accelerator since 2015. A five Institutions collaboration (other members have built the electronics, Data Acquisition, and Beam Pipe fittings) operates it continuously. In this Thesis the device and its operation are described in detail. The observation of large angle beamstrahlung was made possible by a series of data analysis advances, which will ensure continuous data taking for beam monitoring as early as the Fall Run 2020

Electron paramagnetic resonance studies on the ferredoxin from

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Macroinvertebrate fauna and water quality in two irrigation channels in the Shepparton Irrigation Region, Victoria

A large amount of water is diverted from rivers into irrigation channels in northern Victoria. but little is known of the biological communities of irrigation channels. A preliminary survey of macroinvertebrates and water quality was conducted in two irrigation channels southwest of Shepparton, Victoria. The macroinvertebrate fauna was relatively rich when compared to the surveys in disturbed streams in northern Victoria. Macroinvertebrate population and community structure changed with distance downstream in both channels. Taxa richness and abundance decreased and the community become marc depauperate with increasing distance downstream. Similarly, watcr quality deteriorated with distance downstream in both channels. with EC turbidity, N02-N, and P04 increasing downstream in both channels, whilc, N03-N concentration decreased in only one of the two channels. However, the temporal stability of these relationships is unknown. There is scope for considerable biological investigations in irrigation channels, which would have practical and theoretical outcomes

Gone today, here tomorrow - extinct aquatic macroinvertebrates in Victoria

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