I Want to Know What I\u27m Looking at : Surveilling Gender as a Response to Cultural Anxieties in \u3ci\u3eHalloween\u3c/i\u3e, \u3ci\u3eSleepaway Camp\u3c/i\u3e, and \u3ci\u3eScream\u3c/i\u3e

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate slasher films and how they use gendered tropes to respond to and perpetuate cultural anxieties. The methodology primarily uses textual analysis that includes close attention to content, context, and discourse. The study reveals structural patterns and problems that emerge within slasher films, specifically within the Final Girl trope and the behaviors that govern it. In surveilling the Final Girl’s gender performativity, it is apparent that abjection, or a gut reaction to something that exists between two distinct boundaries or categories, is provoked when the Final Girl crosses a socially established gender boundary. Her behaviors are closely monitored by herself and others. In reading the ways that these behaviors are exhibited through the body of the female lead, the thesis focuses on how panopticism, or bodily self-regulation in response to biopolitical power, is primarily expressed through these characters. Michel Foucault’s concept of internal surveillance proves to be a salient concept for examining the character development within slasher films, speaking to the power of self-regulation within gendered power relations. Cultural anxieties around gender are mobilized within American horror films, in ways that speak to both gender performativity and the desire to shore up gender categories as incontrovertible truths

Where Will You Go When the Well Runs Dry? Local Government Ownership and Water Allocation in North Carolina

It is no simple task to determine who owns-or rather who does not own-the water in North Carolina\u27s lakes, streams, and ponds. Those seeking to resolve conflicts involving water use invariably risk entanglement in a web of common law riparian rights and public trust assets loosely bound together by centuries-old court decisions and complex state and federal laws. The question of who owns water, particularly with regard to local governments, is clearly an area of increasing importance as North Carolina now sees an end to what once seemed its inexhaustible water bounty

L\u27imagination - une triade - dans A la recherche du temps perdu

Tant que vouse detournerez votre espirit de ses reves, il ne les connaitra pas; vous serez le jouet de mille apparences parce que vous en aurez pais compris la nature. Si un peu de reve est dangereux, ce qui en guerit ce n\u27est pas moins de reve, mais plus de reve, mais tout le reve. Tel est l\u27admirable conseil donne par le peintre Elstir au jeune Marcel. C\u27est en le suivant et apres maints tatonnements que celui-ci decouvrira la veritable realite, la beaute et l\u27art. Si dans l\u27optique de Blanchot l\u27imaginaire est seulement le domaine du mensonge, de l\u27irrealite et de l\u27absence, pour Proust cette illusion d\u27optique a bien des aspects positifs; l\u27imagination nous peint les etres et les licux comme la premiere illusion du regard nous les fait apparaitre en dedans de nous. Dans cet essai, trois sortes d\u27imagination seront etudiees, de la plus ismple a la plus complexe, du point de vue de leur relation avec la realite, pour aboutir au trompe-l\u27oeil final

Secondary Electron Emission Yields from Fast Fluorine Ions on Copper and Amorphous Solid Water Foils

The biological outcomes from charged particle radiation exposure are heavily influenced by the spatial patterns of energy distributed within the biological system. Monte Carlo track structure codes can be used to model these patterns of energy deposition event-by-event provided that cross sections for interactions are accurately known. Interaction cross sections in condensed phase materials cannot be directly measured and are therefore often estimated from theory. In order to test the accuracy of Monte Carlo electron transport codes double-differential electron emission yields, differential in energy and emission angle, have been measured from condensed phase targets following impact by fast Fluorine ions. Secondary electron emission spectra were measured using electron time-of-flight energy analysis for emission angles from 15° to 155° with respect to the incident beam. Copper foil targets were studied independently and later used as a substrate for amorphous solid water targets which best simulate the liquid water medium commonly used in track structure codes. The electron emission yields collected will serve in the future as a benchmark for comparison with simulated yields from Monte Carlo transport codes to assess the modeling accuracy of the production and transport of secondary electrons in condensed phase materials.  Ph.D

Inhalation Injury Is Associated With Endotheliopathy and Abnormal Fibrinolytic Phenotypes in Burn Patients: A Cohort Study

Burn injury is associated with endothelial dysfunction and coagulopathy and concomitant inhalation injury (IHI) increases morbidity and mortality. The aim of this work is to identify associations between IHI, coagulation homeostasis, vascular endothelium, and clinical outcomes in burn patients. One hundred and twelve patients presenting to a regional burn center were included in this retrospective cohort study. Whole blood was collected at set intervals from admission through 24 hours and underwent viscoelastic assay with rapid thromboelastography (rTEG). Syndecan-1 (SDC-1) on admission was quantified by ELISA. Patients were grouped by the presence (n = 28) or absence (n = 84) of concomitant IHI and rTEG parameters, fibrinolytic phenotypes, SDC-1, and clinical outcomes were compared. Of the 112 thermally injured patients, 28 (25%) had IHI. Most patients were male (68.8%) with a median age of 40 (interquartile range, 29–57) years. Patients with IHI had higher overall mortality (42.68% vs 8.3%; P \u3c .0001). rTEG LY30 was lower in patients with IHI at hours 4 and 12 (P \u3c .05). There was a pattern of increased abnormal fibrinolytic phenotypes among IHI patients. There was a greater proportion of IHI patients with endotheliopathy (SDC-1 \u3e 34 ng/ml) (64.7% vs 26.4%; P = .008). There was a pattern of increased mortality among patients with IHI and endotheliopathy (0% vs 72.7%; P = .004). Significant differences between patients with and without IHI were found in measures assessing fibrinolytic potential and endotheliopathy. Mortality was associated with abnormal fibrinolysis, endotheliopathy, and IHI. However, the extent to which IHI-associated dysfunction is independent of TBSA burn size remains to be elucidated

Limb Angular Deformity Correction Using Dyna-ATC: Surgical Technique, Calculation Method, and Clinical Outcome

PURPOSE: Dyna-ATC is a unilateral external fixator with angulator, lengthener, and translator, which allows for angular correction and compensation of the secondary displacement during angular correction. The purpose of this study is to introduce surgical technique and calculation methods and to evaluate the clinical outcome of angular deformity correction using Dyna-ATC. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The amounts of secondary displacement were calculated with the distances between axis of correction of angulation, Center of Rotational Angulation, and osteotomy and the amount of angular deformity. The rate of angular correction was determined to distract the corticotomy at 1 mm/day. Clinical and radiographic evaluation was performed on 13 patients who underwent deformity correction using Dyna-ATC. There were 8 proximal tibia vara, 1 tibia valga, 2 varus and 4 valgus deformities on distal femur. One patient underwent pelvic support femoral reconstruction. Concomitant lengthening was combined in all femur cases. Mean age at surgery was 17.5 years (7 to 64). RESULTS: All but one achieved bony healing and normal alignment with the index procedure. Mean mechanical axis deviation improved from 31.9 mm to 3.0 mm. The average amount of angular correction was 11.0° on tibiae and 10.0° on femora. The average length gain on femora was 6.4 cm, and the healing index averaged to 1.1 mo/cm. One patient underwent quadricepsplasty and one patient had three augmentation surgeries due to poor new bone formation. CONCLUSION: We believe that Dyna-ATC is a useful alternative to bulky ring fixators for selective patients with angular deformity less than 30 degrees in the coronal plane around the knee joint.ope