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Basketball related injuries
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the various types of injuries that befall basketball players
Patellar tendinopathy
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of patellar tendinopathy
To Hold as T\u27were the Mirror Up to Hate: Terrence McNally\u27s Response to the Christian Right in Corpus Christi
In 1998, the Manhattan Theatre Club’s staging of Terrence McNally’s play Corpus Christi ignited protest and virulent condemnation from various religious and politically conservative groups which eventually led to the cancellation of the play’s production. This led to a barrage of criticism from the national theatre, gay, and civil rights communities and free speech advocates, including the ACLU and PEN, which issued a press releases about the cancellation that decried censorship and acquiescence by the theatre to neo-conservative religiously political groups. As swiftly as the cancellation, the Manhattan Theatre Club reversed its decision and the show resumed its rehearsal schedule. Although the critical reception of the play was mostly negative, the political controversy surrounding its production testifies to the fact that a contemporary play in America dealing with both religious and gay themes is still economically risky, radical politically, and worthy of critical rhetorical analysis. This work aims to fill that gap by providing an in-depth investigation of the tangled rhetorical history of Corpus Christi. First providing an account of the controversy surrounding the 1998 production of Corpus Christi, this work then gives a historical and cultural analysis of McNally’s career and corpus of work leading up to the play’s contentious staging. Second, a full account of the play’s critical reception is given through a close analysis of the rhetorical responses to the work from the Christian Right and the more secular community that supported the play’s production. Third, the American Christian Right’s vitriolic rhetorical response to the play is indicted as homophobic hate speech. Fourth, how McNally’s play repudiates the rhetorical violence perpetrated by the Right against gays is revealed. Finally, the last two chapters examine how the rhetoric of the play speaks directly to its queer audience. Chapter five reveals the rhetorical and meta-theatrical conversion strategies employed by McNally in Corpus Christi to proselytize his expansive message of Christ to his gay audience. Ending the work, chapter six examines McNally’s rhetorical reclamation of the Christ figure from the Right as a means of sacralizing homosexuality as a religious identity and homosexual love and sex as a spiritual act
Greed and Disposability in The Octopus and The Pit
This thesis deals with greed and the disposability of the individual in Frank Norris\u27s literary portrayal of capitalism in The Octopus and The Pit. Even though McTeague is Norris\u27s most notable naturalistic work, the first two volumes of his intended wheat trilogy are also significant contributions to American naturalism because of Norris\u27s portrayal of the omnipotence of capitalism on the individual. This thesis focuses on The Octopus and The Pit. In both novels, Norris portrays capitalism as a powerful force on the individual. He shows that capitalism draws out and nourishes people\u27s greed. He also shows that people are expendable under capitalism because there is an endless supply of human replacements
In-Flight Performance of the Water Vapor Monitor Onboard the Sofia Observatory
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) airborne observatory flies in a modified B747-SP aircraft in the lower stratosphere above more than 99.9% of the Earth's water vapor. As low as this residual water vapor is, it will still affect SOFIA's infrared and sub-millimeter astronomical observations. As a result, a heterodyne instrument has been developed to observe the strength and shape of the 1830Hz rotational line of water, allowing measurements of the integrated water vapor overburden in flight. In order to be useful in correcting the astronomical signals, the required measured precipitable water vapor accuracy must be 2 microns or better, 3 sigma, and measured at least once a minute. The Water Vapor Monitor has flown 22 times during the SOFIA Early Science shared-risk period. The instrument water vapor overburden data obtained were then compared with concurrent data from GOES-V satellites to perform a preliminary calibration of the measurements. This presentation will cover the.results of these flights. The final flight calibration necessary to reach the required accuracy will await subsequent flights following the SOFIA observatory upgrade that is taking place during the spring and summer of 2012
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A new method for the calculation of momentum, heat and mass transfer in laminar boundary layer flow
Merk's series solution to the momentum equation for steady
two-dimensional or axisymmetrical constant-property laminar
boundary layer flow was examined. Solutions were obtained to the
differential equations associated with the second term in the series.
Calculations using this series were made, and it was found to be unsatisfactory
because the second term diverges near the point where
the first term becomes imaginary. This phenomenon occurs significantly
earlier than the actual separation point in every case studied.
A new, formally exact series solution for momentum, heat
and mass transfer in steady two- dimensional or axisymmetrical
constant-property laminar boundary layers was developed. An approximation
was introduced to simplify momentum transfer calculations,
and an additional approximation was used for heat and mass
transfer. Calculations using this method for momentum transfer
with several different external velocity distributions and with both low and high rates of injection at the surface compared well with
exact solutions. In every case studied, the present method was significantly
more accurate than other approximate methods. Heat and
mass transfer calculations compared well with experimental data
taken from several investigations. Extensive tables of functions associated
with the present method have been compiled
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