A beer a minute in Texas football: Heavy drinking and the heroizing of the antihero in Friday Night Lights

This article applies a qualitative framing analysis to the first three seasons of the television series Friday Night Lights, focusing particularly on its incorporation of heavy drinking into narrative representations of the player whose character is most consistently central to the game of football as fictionally mediated in small-town Texas over the course of those three seasons. The analysis suggests that over the course of that period Friday Night Lights embeds nuanced social meanings in its framing of alcohol use by that player and other characters so as to associate it with multiple potential outcomes. Yet among those outcomes, the most dominant framing works to, in effect, reverse a progression through which media representations historically evolved from a heroic model toward an antihero model, with heavy drinking central to that narrative process of meaning-making in such messages.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

A review of wind turbine noise perception, annoyance and low frequency emission

Current literature concerning the perception, annoyance and emission of low-frequency noise from wind turbines are reviewed. Wind turbine noise has been shown to be annoying to people with annoyance related to noise load. Other factors, such as those related to visual, economic and psychological effects, were also shown to affect a person's annoyance of wind turbine noise. Published infrasound (noise at frequencies less than 20 Hz) measurements show that levels at typical residential set-back distances are too low to be directly audible, but may be perceived via window rattling. On the other hand, low-frequency noise levels, in the frequency range of 20-200 Hz may exceed audibility thresholds and it is postulated they may be correlated with annoyance. A review of general low-frequency noise annoyance studies is presented and highlights the similarities of many wind turbine noise complaints with those due to low-frequency noise. The paper concludes with a suggestion to develop a new methodology that can simultaneously acquire annoyance and noise data at the time a person believes they are annoyed by wind turbine noise.Con Doola

Coupled Multibody-Aerodynamic Simulation of High-Speed Trains Manoeuvres

In this paper the effects of unsteady aerodynamic loads on the driving dynamics of high speed trains during passing manoeuvres in absence of cross wind have been investigated. To this end a co-simulation MBS/CFD was implemented. A linear aerodynamic model, the panel method, was applied to the computation of the unsteady flow around the driving trailers for the examined manoeuvres. The multibody simulation program SIMPACK simulated the dynamic response of the vehicles to the resulting aerodynamics loads

Tratamento cirúrgico da fratura-avulsão da inserção tibial do L.C.P. do joelho: experiência de 21 casos Surgical treatment of avulsion fractures of the knee PCL tibial insertion: experience with 21 cases

Avaliamos 21 pacientes, sendo 16 pacientes do sexo masculino e 5 do feminino, com idade média de 30 anos, foram submetidos à tratamento cirúrgico da fratura-avulsão do LCP. Em 57% dos casos a lesão foi secundária a acidente motociclístico e 19% a acidente automobilístico. Em 72% dos casos foi identificada uma lesão na face anterior do joelho. O tratamento cirúrgico consistiu na abordagem posterior do joelho e fixação do fragmento ósseo com parafuso e arruela em 18 casos; e amarrilhas trans-ósseas em 3 casos, onde o fragmento ósseo era muito pequeno. Em 91% dos casos, a cirurgia foi realizada dentro dos primeiros 15 dias apos a lesão. Os pacientes foram avaliados objetivamente (teste de gaveta posterior) e subjetivamente (Escala de Lysholm), apos um seguimento pós-operatório mínimo de 12 meses. A análise estatística não mostrou diferença significativa, ao nível de 5%, entre as avaliações objetiva e subjetiva. A ausência de lesão ligamentar periférica pode ter contribuído para que os resultados clínicos pós-operatórios tenham avaliação subjetiva satisfatória; entretanto, a presença de uma posteriorização tibial residual sugere que a fratura-avulsão do ligamento cruzado posterior deve ser abordada não como uma lesão óssea pura, mas sim, como uma lesão ósteo-ligamentar.<br>We assessed 21 patients (16 males and 5 females), with mean age of 30 years who underwent surgical treatment for PCL avulsion fracture. In 57% of the cases, injuries were secondary to motorcycle accidents and 19% resulted from car accidents. Injuries on knee's anterior surface were detected in 72% of the cases. The surgical procedure involved posterior approach and bone fragment fixation using nut and screw in 18 cases, the trans-bone suture loop fixation in 3 cases with small bone fragments. In 91% of the cases, surgery was performed within the first two weeks following injury. The patients were objectively (posterior drawer test) and subjectively (Lysholm scale) re-evaluated after a minimum follow-up period of 12 postoperative months. The statistical analysis of objective and subjective assessments did not demonstrate any significant difference (p = 0.05). The satisfactory results of the subjective clinical postoperative evaluation may have been due to the absence of peripheral ligament injury. However, the presence of residual tibial posteriorization suggests that the avulsion fracture of the PCL should be treated as bone-ligament injury, and not just as a bone lesion