A Flight Investigation of the STOL Characteristics of an Augmented Jet Flap STOL Research Aircraft

The flight test program objectives are: (1) To determine the in-flight aerodynamic, performance, and handling qualities of a jet STOL aircraft incorporating the augmented jet flap concept; (2) to compare the results obtained in flight with characteristics predicted from wind tunnel and simulator test results; (3) to contribute to the development of criteria for design and operation of jet STOL transport aircraft; and (4) to provide a jet STOL transport aircraft for STOL systems research and development. Results obtained during the first 8 months of proof-of-concept flight testing of the aircraft in STOL configurations are reported. Included are a brief description of the aircraft, fan-jet engines, and systems; a discussion of the aerodynamic, stability and control, and STOL performance; and pilot opinion of the handling qualities and operational characteristics

Coquin de Printemps : March Song

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Trauma and the art of healing: examining pathways of coping and healing for women experiencing poverty and homelessness

This study sought to examine pathways of coping and healing for women experiencing homelessness and poverty in the Boston area. Data was collected through participant observations of shelter dynamics, semi-structured interviews with shelter clients (referred to as “guests”), card-sorting activities in which participants were asked to rank self-generated cards for support groups, coping mechanisms, and internal selves across a range of situations, and a free association task, which involved having participants submit whatever self-generated cards of the above groups they associated with the terms “health,” “safety,” “shame,” and “pride,” respectively. Results were subsequently organized into three analytical chapters representative of the three levels of physiological response to threat. The first level of analysis looks at social engagement in the form of receiving and giving care. The second level examines expressions of rage and how these contribute into cycles of isolation, violence, and suffering. The third level further explores these dynamics within the realm of grief and erasure. The final chapter of this thesis then discusses the implications of these areas, as well as some suggestions for how to improve or potentially intervene in the perpetuation of these cycles, with a focus on how to emphasize healing while decreasing the need for coping

The reliability and validity of manual examination procedures for the detection of musculoskeletal dysfunction in people with bronchial asthma

SECTION 1 Contains the literature review which is divided into three chapters. The literature review includes an introduction into the impact of asthma on the New Zealand population, the fundamental osteopathic principles in relation to lung ventilation, the types of musculoskelatal dysfunction that are hypothesized in osteopathic literature to occur in people with asthma, manual treatment approaches that aim to increase lung function in asthmatics and the reliability and validity of manual palpatory procedures currently used in osteopathic practice to detect musculoskelatal dysfunctions. SECTION 2 Contains the experimental investigation which is divided into six chapters. The experimental investigation includes an introduction, methods, results, recommendations, conclusion. SECTION 3 Contains the appendices. The appendices include the ethics approval letter, participant and examiner information sheet and consent form, participant medical history form, physical examination record form and the advertising poster used to attract participants

Other states of being: Nabokov's two-world metaphysic

Nabokov's fiction is informed by a two-world vision: implicit throughout his writing is a distinction between the world of the senses and another, supersensory realm intuited to lie beyond. Not­withstanding his avowed antipathy to Plato, the metaphysic reflected in his work is in all essential respects Platonic or Neoplatonic, an unhappy dualism constantly striving towards an ideal monism. In different ways -- through art, chess, love, madness, suicide -- all his major characters are trying to leave the Platonic cave and make their way into the sunshine, into those "other states of being where art .•. is the norm." His novels may be read as the story of these attempts. The thesis is divided into three main sections. Part One ("Thematism") attempts a broad conspectus of Nabokov's metaphysical and epistemological attitudes, concentrating on the themes of time and death in his fiction. Part Two ("Figuration") then focusses on a number of characteristic Nabokovian motifs or image-complexes under the three headings of transparency, reflectivity and circu­larity/spirality. In each of these figures, or pairs of figures, one member is typically associated with the world of phenomenal reality (opaque, reflected, circular), the other with an intuited noumenal realm (transparent, specular, helical). Part Three ("Inter­textuality") concludes with intertextual readings in two novels: Invitation to a Beheading is seen to develop its idealist metaphysic through an elaborate gnostic-Neoplatonic subtext, while Ch. 14 of Bend Sinister is read as in part a meditation on, and reaction against, the materialistic monism of ancient and modern atomism. Nabokov's metaphysical code, it is concluded, belongs broadly within the tradition of the philosophia perennis, though his ambi­valent attitude towards the self, and the idea of loss of self, guards against any naively optimistic mysticism. Nonetheless, and despite his reputation for formal radicalism and technical inno­vation, the values embodied in Nabokov's work remain deeply tradi­tionalist