... abject and liminal Rather than fixed, thebody is flexible, the boundaries ofthe ‘natural’ stretching as easily as the skin that encases the corpus Further, thebody is theorised as a landscape, ... Acknowledgments List of abbreviations viii x Introduction: sport, thebodyand performance technology The nature of sport 14 The nature ofthebody 31 The nature of performance 54 The nature of health 71 ... representative ofthe national body, the invasion ofthe nation by undesirable ‘Others’ is evident in fears about the corruption ofthe athletic body by unnatural substances The theme of bodily purity...
... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average ofthe baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI andthe risk of type DM Red meat consumption...
... participation All of these, except for professional services, contributed positively both to the sectoral shift in self-employment andthe class shift At the other end ofthe spectrum, 11 ofthe 12 sectors ... at the decomposition of these effects on self-employment, the picture becomes somewhat more complex In both the 1970s andthe 1980s, the detailed sectors ofthe economy within which there was the ... at the sector-shifts From the 1950s on, there is a steady reduction ofthe effect of declines in the extractive sector (primarily agriculture) on selfemployment Agriculture is the sector of the...
... Territorial law andtheriseofthe state into two stages: at the first stage, the legal issue was identified; andthe second stage concerned proof andthe adjudication ofthe issue In both systems, the second ... overlook the essential kinship, not ofthe Roman andthe English law, but rather ofthe Roman andthe English lawyer’;60 andthe similar constitutional development of European kingdoms61 andthe common ... call himself the King of France (the territory) and not the King ofthe Franks (the people) He then stood ‘in the same relation to the soil of France as the baron to his estate, the tenant to...
... changes in the humananimal relationship andtheriseofthe veterinary regime from the time of animal domestication andthe inception of livestock husbandry up until the present day The book, therefore, ... which involved neither the drudgery of tilling the land nor the harvesting of crops While the spread of agrarianism brought the existence of domesticated animals to the attention ofthe hunting peoples ... knowledge and understanding ofthe behaviour of other animals would have been imperative to the successful hunting of them The recognition of changing seasons, the migration patterns of animal...
... news ofthe massacre of St Bartholomew, ofthe treachery ofthe King of France towards the inhabitants ofthe Netherlands, andofthe horrible cruelties perpetrated upon the inhabitants of Mechlin ... from the ships lying at anchor off the port waiting their turn to come in Were they to run against one of these, the sound ofthe collision, and perhaps the breaking of spars andthe shouts ofthe ... destroyed the altars and carvings, and tore up the vestments, and threw down the Manes andthe saints, and then did the same in the other churches in the town and in the country round, they behaved worse...
... from the sea to the shore is shown in Fig 1b Smallest area of an element is 1250m2 in region of river estuaries such as Day, Ninh Co and BaLat, the largest area is 25km2 in offshore region The ... The domain includes 2879 nodes with the coarse resolution of 5000m for offshore andthe fine resolution of 50m for nearshore areas Figure a) Bathymetry ofthe study area, b) Mesh used Flows from ... medium (B2) andthe highest (A1F1) In this study, sea level rise for Day estuary are taken from the scenarios published in 2012 by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Details of scenarios...
... one hand, the subjectivization ofthe aesthetic object and, on the other, the specialization of aesthetics in issues of aesthetics of art Namely, art, just like the beautiful andthe aesthetic, ... production ofthe aesthetic artifacts Theriseof aesthetic experience can, therefore, be seen through the prism of aestheticization, which is, simply, the process of turning something unaesthetic ... process at the complexity ofthe term “aesthetic experience” To understand the meaning ofthe process of aestheticization, we need to make clear its mechanism and, possibly, the strategy ofthe acceleration...
... the land ofthe living Who was the father ofthe child or who the mother, is neither mentioned by Hennepin nor Charlevoix, andthe office of Prothonotary, or Registrar of Births, Marriages, and ... Hurons, the Algonquins, the Iroquois, the Outagomies, the Mohawks, the Senecas, the Sioux, the Blackfeet, andthe Crowfeet red-faces, were the undisputed possessors ofthe soil They held the mine, the ... Bay, and to the southward into the great lakes andthe St Lawrence, take their riseThe icy breath ofthe distant north and northwest sweeps down such rivers as the Ottawa, the St Maurice, and the...
... Proof of Main Theorems We begin with the proof of Theorem 1: Proof of Theorem Assume m3 = 1, M = m1 + m2 + Let F (m1 , m2 ), G(m1 , m2 ) be as in (5), (6) Suppose F (m1 , m2 ) > G(m1 , m2 ) Then ... m1 + m2 + m3 is the total mass The homotopy class ofthe ˜ ˜ projection αφ of αφ in V \ Δ over t ∈ [0, 1] is one ofthe two generators for ˜ \ Δ) The left side of Figure depicts the path α over ... turns out that the actions of these orbits over one period depend only on the masses andthe period, not on eccentricity From this point of view the collision-ejection orbits and other elliptical...
... provide lots of room for families and their gear Their size gives them an image of safety The popularity of SUVs has revived the economy ofthe upper Midwest and has helped power the American ... corners in the design and manufacturing ofthe Explorer andthe tires, and for doing little for several years as some of their employees learned of problems with the tires Yet terrible as the tire-related ... force of impacts Their extra height made them prone to tipping over The combination of their height, stiffness and lack of crumple zones made them unusually deadly to their own occupants and to the...
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... the coverage of events In the words of Theodor Wolff, within two weeks ofthe battle Hindenburg, on the other hand, had become Germany’s ‘new hero’.³⁶ The ‘Victor of Tannenberg’ was another of ... worthy of touching the sole ofthe feet ofthe genius it depicts: it’s blasphemy.’⁸³ The mayor of Berlin, on the other hand, remained entirely unmoved by such allegations Despite the fact that the ... elements of other historical narratives His myth was closely entwined with the notion of German ‘innocence’ for the outbreak of war in 1914, the saviour theme, the ‘stab-in -the- back’ legend, and the...
... evaluation ofthe significance ofthe difference between these concerns and practices and those ofthe prophetic religions of Judaism and Christianity; if only because ofthe psychological theory of ... each of which takes up the question ofthe category of mission as part ofthe standard vocabulary of scholarly discourse about Christian origins andthe history of other religious groups in the ... point ofthe loss of autonomy and, hence, the beginning ofthe end ofthe polis, is placed either at the battle of Chaironeia in 338 BCEechoing Lykurgoss statement that, With the bodies of [those...
... within the tattoo shop are essentially the same as I first described them The impact ofthe tattoo on the recipient’s personal and social identity andthe symbolic meaning ofthe tattoo for the ... Customizing theBody is to provide an account ofthe changes that have occurred within the artistic and cultural world of tattooing andthe larger world ofbody alteration in the past decade and a ... Peter P J., Flo andthe rest ofthe folks at the National Tattoo Association Butch, Dana, Ed, and ·all ofthe other colorful members ofthe tattoo community I have had the pleasure of knowing I...
... terms of throughput) for the leaves, the relays, andthe sink In the Configuration A (Figure 9a) the throughputs ofthe leaves, relays, and sink are increasing functions of q for small values of ... around the 94 cm ofthe waist of a man (1m87, 83 kg) whose body is in a standing position, arms hanging along the side The transmit antenna is placed around thebody at a distance d from the receive ... where, in the last passage, we have used the fact that the RVs {Λi, Λj, Penv, Xi} are independent The term in the third line ofthe expression at the right-hand side of (13) can be further expressed...
... about it; and on the Continent there are still some to be found who have never even heard ofthe disease" [2] The origins ofthe disease are vague [3] The first formal description of hay fever ... rural parts ofthe south of Great Britain than in those ofthe north ( ) In Norway and Denmark it has a subordinate place in the statistics of sickness relating to the earliest year of life Its ... principal seats are Germany, England, Holland, Belgium, France and Northern Italy while southern Italy, the southern provinces of Spain, and still more Turkey and Greece, enjoy a notable immunity...
... protein binding of three compounds and their glucuronides, the unbound fraction ofthe glucuronide increased by factors of 2.2, 1.3 and 2.6 [39] For the purposes ofthe present study, the fraction ... 4:13 the prediction ofthe effect of ITZ and OH-ITZ CYP3A inhibition in the pharmacokinetics of MDZ and its metabolites The coupling was done such that the clearance of MDZ was affected by the ... into the conceptual design ofthe study and helped to draft the manuscript, IJ provided experimental data and data interpretation for the study, and ANE conceived ofthe study and designed and...