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Censoring the outsider : the theatre of Albert Camus in Francoâs Spain
This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under Grant AH/E007686/1.This article analyses the significance and reception of Albert Camusâs theatre in Spain under the Franco dictatorship (1939â75), which differed from that in France and elsewhere. The state censorship files at the Archivo General de la AdministraciĂłn in AlcalĂĄ de Henares reveal how performances of Camusâs theatre were considered rallying points of opposition to the dictatorship and yet were often tolerated. An analysis of this contradiction helps us not only to fill a gap in Spanish theatre history, which generally focuses little on foreign drama, but also to throw light both on the use of foreign drama as a form of protest and on the transnational legacy of Camusâs theatre.PostprintPeer reviewe
Contested Consecrations and the Pursuit of Ecclesiastical Independence in Scotland and Ireland in the Early 1120s
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Study of gains made through remedial reading instruction
Thesis (Ed. M.)--Boston University, 1940.
N.B.: page 18 appears to be missing from this thesis. We believe this to be a page numbering error on the author's part. No actual content seems to be missing
Erratum to: The in vitro toxicity of venoms from South Asian Hump-nosed pit vipers (Viperidae: Hypnale)
Hump-nosed pit vipers (Genus Hypnale) are venomous snakes from South India and Sri Lanka. Envenoming by Hypnale species may cause significant morbidity and is characterized by local envenoming and less commonly coagulopathy and acute renal failure. Currently there are three nominal species of this genus: H. hypnale, H. zara and H. nepa. This study investigates the biochemical and pharmacological properties of the venoms from the three Hypnale species in Sri Lanka. The three Hypnale venoms had similar chromatographic profiles using reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography and fractions with procoagulant activity were identified. Hypnale venoms had potent cytotoxicity in cultured rat aorta smooth muscle cells with similar IC50 values. The venoms had weak neurotoxic and myotoxic activity in the isolated chick biventer muscle preparation. They had mild procoagulant activity with close MCC5 values and also phospholipase activity. Locally available polyvalent antivenom did not neutralise any venom effects. The study demonstrates that the three Hypnale venoms are similar and cytotoxicity appears to be the most potent effect, although they have mild procoagulant activity. These findings are consistent with clinical reports
Trying to conceive: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of couplesâ experiences of pregnancy after stillbirth
Objective: Stillbirth affects 1:200 pregnancies in high income countries. Most women are pregnant again within 12 months. Little is known about how couples negotiate a subsequent pregnancy. This paper presents findings from a study exploring the experiences of couplesâ in pregnancy after stillbirth. Methods: Qualitative, interpretive phenomenological analysis was used to conduct in-depth interviews with eight heterosexual couples in the immediate pregnancy after stillbirth. Couples were interviewed together to explore their dyadic, lived experiences of stillbirth and the pregnancy that follows. Results: Hoping for a born alive baby was one superordinate theme and Trying to conceive one of its subordinate themes, is presented here. Couples jointly negotiated their decision to get pregnant again, varying upon their individual circumstances, including their experiences of stillbirth. Gender differences were apparent in a coupleâs agreement to pursue a pregnancy after stillbirth and may be explained by the desire of men to fully parent the baby who died before reaching a decision about a subsequent pregnancy. Sexual intercourse often became less about emotional connection and more about a means to achieve a pregnancy. Conclusion: Couples spoke of the need for each partner to be in agreement with the decision for a pregnancy. The experiences of trying to conceive after stillbirth impacted the couple relationships. Couples who were able to discuss their feelings with one another appeared more cohesive than those who experienced communication challenges in the aftermath of loss. New insights into menâs thinking about the decision to get pregnant after stillbirth were revealed
MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey. II. Five New Unbound Stars
We present the discovery of five new unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs) in
the outer Milky Way halo. Using a conservative estimate of Galactic escape
velocity, our targeted spectroscopic survey has now identified 16 unbound HVSs
as well as a comparable number of HVSs ejected on bound trajectories. A
Galactic center origin for the HVSs is supported by their unbound velocities,
the observed number of unbound stars, their stellar nature, their ejection time
distribution, and their Galactic latitude and longitude distribution. Other
proposed origins for the unbound HVSs, such as runaway ejections from the disk
or dwarf galaxy tidal debris, cannot be reconciled with the observations. An
intriguing result is the spatial anisotropy of HVSs on the sky, which possibly
reflects an anisotropic potential in the central 10-100 pc region of the
Galaxy. Further progress requires measurement of the spatial distribution of
HVSs over the southern sky. Our survey also identifies seven B supergiants
associated with known star-forming galaxies; the absence of B supergiants
elsewhere in the survey implies there are no new star-forming galaxies in our
survey footprint to a depth of 1-2 Mpc.Comment: 10 pages, submitted to Ap
Hypervelocity Stars: From the Galactic Center to the Halo
Hypervelocity stars (HVS) traverse the Galaxy from the central black hole to
the outer halo. We show that the Galactic potential within 200 pc acts as a
high pass filter preventing low velocity HVS from reaching the halo. To trace
the orbits of HVS throughout the Galaxy, we construct two forms of the
potential which reasonably represent the observations in the range 5--100,000
pc, a simple spherically symmetric model and a bulge-disk-halo model. We use
the Hills mechanism (disruption of binaries by the tidal field of the central
black hole) to inject HVS into the Galaxy and compute the observable spatial
and velocity distributions of HVS with masses in the range 0.6--4 Msun. These
distributions reflect the mass function in the Galactic Center, properties of
binaries in the Galactic Center, and aspects of stellar evolution and the
injection mechanism. For 0.6--4 Msun main sequence stars, the fraction of
unbound HVS and the asymmetry of the velocity distribution for their bound
counterparts increases with stellar mass. The density profiles for unbound HVS
decline with distance from the Galactic Center approximately as r^{-2} (but are
steeper for the most massive stars which evolve off the main sequence during
their travel time from the Galactic Center); the density profiles for the bound
ejecta decline with distance approximately as r^{-3}. In a survey with a
limiting visual magnitude V of 23, the detectability of HVS (unbound or bound)
increases with stellar mass.Comment: 32 pages of text, 5 tables, 12 figures, ApJ, accepted; revisions:
corrected typos, added references, clarified some aspects of potential model
and physical processes affecting relative frequency of HVS
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